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This Freaking Wednesday
Nov. 2nd, 2022 11:56 pmAs you can tell, the time management was NOT with me today -- partly because I ended up spending a not insignificant part of my afternoon and evening trying to track down the first mention of me shipping Victor and Alice in my old imported LiveJournal entries from 2008.
. . . June 22, 2008. I'm well aware that entry is almost incomprehensible if you don't know what I was like back then, but -- yeah. First mention of me thinking about Victor and Alice as a couple, even if my first reaction was "wtf why are you even considering that?!" And now, damn near 15 years later. . .
I can't dwell on that stuff right now, though - I am running SUPER late and thus must throw this at you and get to bed:
Work – UGH. Commute in proved to be a nightmare, mostly because everything was backed up everywhere AND the bridge I need to take to actually get to my job was being REPAVED in the middle of morning RUSH HOUR; I had a bunch of credit card stuff to take care of right off the bat; had to help my coworker through the GL because it was annoyingly complicated thanks to ACH payments and such and how they display on the reconciliation report; had a staff meeting to discuss where the next Appeal is going and all that; had to do the big monthly reports for Fiscal; and then the ride HOME was more awful traffic. . . Yeah, it really doesn’t take much to undo – okay, let’s say three good days off, as I think we can all agree I was a mess on Saturday. Meeeh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the third “Oxventure in Space” episode! Corazon E managed a successful Feelings roll to get the staff at Port Featherfall to let them dock, but the guy said that they had to submit to an inspection, as was law – all cupboards must be open! Also he’d like a nice frozen margarita while he was inspecting, thanks much. Egbot started up the margarita machine to make the inspector a double while Corazon E hastily flushed all his Rigellian ultra-testicles. XD He managed to get all the testicles safely flushed, but the margarita machine was working too slowly, so he directed some of the shield’s power to the machine – this worked to speed things up, but it also got the inspector’s attention, and he told them that such power fluctuations meant that he had to take some armed guards with him to this inspection, so they’d better be prepared! The gang scurried around to make the ship and themselves look unassuming – Egbot retracting his eye back into his face and Corazon E covering the wonky panel with a pin-up of himself showing just a bit of skin, for example – and girded themselves to face the inspection!
Which went – very well! They greeted the inspector (Norman) and his guards with a conga line and leis, gave Norman his drink, and let him and his guards get on with the business of inspecting the ship. The cupboards and Corazon E’s bunk were inspected and determined to be free of contraband, while the guards knocked on the walls and floor to look for hollow spots. Only for Egbot to start very loudly playing the Macarena when they came up to the wonky panel and its pin-up. The guards were only too happy to abandon their jobs to dance, honestly. XD And on Norman’s side, the double margarita and a refill on same from the replicator in Corazon E’s room rendered him SUPER drunk (even with the second one coming out with a coconut shrimp breaded rim). He basically fell asleep on his feet, surrounded by hovering platters of coconut shrimp, courtesy of L1L14N4. XD The gang got him to drunkenly sign off on things by holding up his clipboard for him, promised him a spot on the ship if he wanted it (Norman was only too happy to consider it, as he hated his job), and then sent him and the dancing guards off with the help of some coconut shrimp platters repurposed as a stretcher. XD (Plus Merilwen took the opportunity to load both guards down with as much coconut shrimp as they could carry.) With THAT all sorted, the gang turned to the problem of offloading the eggs. Obviously they had a contact, but nobody knew who that was.
Nobody – except L1L14N4! Who fortunately retained enough brainpower to tell them that it was a guy named Chauncey, who would be waiting in the local bar for his “football” delivery. Though she did insist they take a complimentary platter of coconut shrimp to give him. They also got out how many eggs were in the walls from her – 240 coconuts’ worth, which they figured added up to 80. As they obviously couldn’t take THAT many over to the bar, it was decided they would take one as a sample and hide it inside Egbot’s unusually large chest cavity, and just box up the rest for later delivery. Pru also made sure that everyone had a pulse rifle, in case of trouble – fortunate Featherfall is an open carry port! Which did not make any of them feel safer. XD
And thus armed and ready to commit crimes, the gang headed to The Bird With Feathers, a rough bar where even the bartender would glass you if you did something he didn’t approve of. The gang sat down at a table and ordered some drinks, and Corazon E used his smuggler’s instincts to try and locate their contact. A lucky Laser Feelings roll had him pinpoint it as the cloaked dude in the corner (and allowed him to ask Johnny if leather was still in for the furnishings – after some discussion, he decided to go with vegan leather and called up the yacht people, who immediately sent him some samples. Johnny isn’t saying they’re the most powerful faction this side of known space. . . XD), and he sent Mer over to initiate contact. Which Mer did, by asking Cloaked Dude if he was a football fan.
Yup, it was Chauncey – as one could tell by his thin, weedy, cracking voice. XD Yeah, that Chauncey, the one from Egbert’s old order in “Out of Order.” He was quite cross with the Laserventurers for being late and suspicious of Egbot, as the old crew didn’t have an android on their ship. Corazon E claimed they’d gone through an anomaly which changed him, it was all very sci-fi. Chauncey insisted on talking to L1L14N4, though, so Egbot reluctantly patched her through. She did vouch for the gang being her crew and having the goods, though Chauncey was baffled by her new love of coconut shrimp. Corazon E claimed they flew through a shrimp anomaly, it was all very sci-fi. XD Chauncey eventually decided he just wanted the goods, but wanted to see the sample they’d brought – with the help of Pru and Mer forming a shield to hide him from prying eyes and Corazon getting up and putting the Macarena on the jukebox to make everyone dance (upsetting the bartender a LOT), Egbot just managed to show off the egg without attracting undue attention (aka Mike just BARELY made his Feelings roll). Chauncey decided that was good and airdropped the file containing the meeting place’s location into Egbot’s brain, but said that because they were late, he was taking 10% off the price, since that screwed up his plans for moving them on. Everyone accepted that, and I left it with the gang leaving Chauncey to drink while they got the remaining eggs. We’ll be wrapping this up tomorrow, where I am quite certain those eggs are going to hatch at the worst possible moment. . .
2. Write up the first draft of this month’s gift fic: Check – wanted to get a head start on that for my friend Mary (whose birthday is next Friday), and I had an idea while at work – her character Lily (Victor and Victoria’s daughter) asking her godmother Emily (who can visit her in dreams and such) when she first started falling in love with Victor (since Mary said that something with Victor/Victoria/Emily would be nice too). First draft is kinda rough, but that’s the point of a first draft – important thing is that it’s written. I’ll let it sit for a few days, then probably revise it Sunday or Monday for next week.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Eh, partial check – I got so caught up in reviewing my old LiveJournal entries for hints of Victor and Alice stuff that I only had time to watch the latest GrayStillPlays upload after my writing: “UPGRADING from NOOB HUMAN to GOD in DNA Evolution!” DNA Evolution being another mobile game of “run this course and pick up enough of this particular thing to make yourself cool and beat the boss at the end.” In this case, the things were elements – ranging from traditional fire and ice and stone to more exotic ones like space and money and radiation. And Groot. Seriously. XD You chose which one or two elements to pick up at the beginning of your run, and had to get as much of them as possible to have enough power to defeat the monster waiting at the end for you. Along the way, you unlocked other elements and other characters – Gray started out with generic Chaddicus and a shark dude, but got such powerhouses as Thanos, Harley Quinn, and John Wick along the way. XD As usual, the game was pretty simple and dumb, but Gray’s commentary really made it work. I know his “strange mobile games” videos aren’t his most popular (that’s GOTTA be his GTA V stuff), but I still love them. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – went simple with Victor Luvs Alice this week with a VTMB Beckett-based gifset; a Diamond City FO4 photo set; and that VTMB remix I mentioned earlier this weekend. That’ll carry me through Saturday well enough!
Okay, so, that's all right then. Off to bed I go. Night all!
. . . June 22, 2008. I'm well aware that entry is almost incomprehensible if you don't know what I was like back then, but -- yeah. First mention of me thinking about Victor and Alice as a couple, even if my first reaction was "wtf why are you even considering that?!" And now, damn near 15 years later. . .
I can't dwell on that stuff right now, though - I am running SUPER late and thus must throw this at you and get to bed:
Work – UGH. Commute in proved to be a nightmare, mostly because everything was backed up everywhere AND the bridge I need to take to actually get to my job was being REPAVED in the middle of morning RUSH HOUR; I had a bunch of credit card stuff to take care of right off the bat; had to help my coworker through the GL because it was annoyingly complicated thanks to ACH payments and such and how they display on the reconciliation report; had a staff meeting to discuss where the next Appeal is going and all that; had to do the big monthly reports for Fiscal; and then the ride HOME was more awful traffic. . . Yeah, it really doesn’t take much to undo – okay, let’s say three good days off, as I think we can all agree I was a mess on Saturday. Meeeh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the third “Oxventure in Space” episode! Corazon E managed a successful Feelings roll to get the staff at Port Featherfall to let them dock, but the guy said that they had to submit to an inspection, as was law – all cupboards must be open! Also he’d like a nice frozen margarita while he was inspecting, thanks much. Egbot started up the margarita machine to make the inspector a double while Corazon E hastily flushed all his Rigellian ultra-testicles. XD He managed to get all the testicles safely flushed, but the margarita machine was working too slowly, so he directed some of the shield’s power to the machine – this worked to speed things up, but it also got the inspector’s attention, and he told them that such power fluctuations meant that he had to take some armed guards with him to this inspection, so they’d better be prepared! The gang scurried around to make the ship and themselves look unassuming – Egbot retracting his eye back into his face and Corazon E covering the wonky panel with a pin-up of himself showing just a bit of skin, for example – and girded themselves to face the inspection!
Which went – very well! They greeted the inspector (Norman) and his guards with a conga line and leis, gave Norman his drink, and let him and his guards get on with the business of inspecting the ship. The cupboards and Corazon E’s bunk were inspected and determined to be free of contraband, while the guards knocked on the walls and floor to look for hollow spots. Only for Egbot to start very loudly playing the Macarena when they came up to the wonky panel and its pin-up. The guards were only too happy to abandon their jobs to dance, honestly. XD And on Norman’s side, the double margarita and a refill on same from the replicator in Corazon E’s room rendered him SUPER drunk (even with the second one coming out with a coconut shrimp breaded rim). He basically fell asleep on his feet, surrounded by hovering platters of coconut shrimp, courtesy of L1L14N4. XD The gang got him to drunkenly sign off on things by holding up his clipboard for him, promised him a spot on the ship if he wanted it (Norman was only too happy to consider it, as he hated his job), and then sent him and the dancing guards off with the help of some coconut shrimp platters repurposed as a stretcher. XD (Plus Merilwen took the opportunity to load both guards down with as much coconut shrimp as they could carry.) With THAT all sorted, the gang turned to the problem of offloading the eggs. Obviously they had a contact, but nobody knew who that was.
Nobody – except L1L14N4! Who fortunately retained enough brainpower to tell them that it was a guy named Chauncey, who would be waiting in the local bar for his “football” delivery. Though she did insist they take a complimentary platter of coconut shrimp to give him. They also got out how many eggs were in the walls from her – 240 coconuts’ worth, which they figured added up to 80. As they obviously couldn’t take THAT many over to the bar, it was decided they would take one as a sample and hide it inside Egbot’s unusually large chest cavity, and just box up the rest for later delivery. Pru also made sure that everyone had a pulse rifle, in case of trouble – fortunate Featherfall is an open carry port! Which did not make any of them feel safer. XD
And thus armed and ready to commit crimes, the gang headed to The Bird With Feathers, a rough bar where even the bartender would glass you if you did something he didn’t approve of. The gang sat down at a table and ordered some drinks, and Corazon E used his smuggler’s instincts to try and locate their contact. A lucky Laser Feelings roll had him pinpoint it as the cloaked dude in the corner (and allowed him to ask Johnny if leather was still in for the furnishings – after some discussion, he decided to go with vegan leather and called up the yacht people, who immediately sent him some samples. Johnny isn’t saying they’re the most powerful faction this side of known space. . . XD), and he sent Mer over to initiate contact. Which Mer did, by asking Cloaked Dude if he was a football fan.
Yup, it was Chauncey – as one could tell by his thin, weedy, cracking voice. XD Yeah, that Chauncey, the one from Egbert’s old order in “Out of Order.” He was quite cross with the Laserventurers for being late and suspicious of Egbot, as the old crew didn’t have an android on their ship. Corazon E claimed they’d gone through an anomaly which changed him, it was all very sci-fi. Chauncey insisted on talking to L1L14N4, though, so Egbot reluctantly patched her through. She did vouch for the gang being her crew and having the goods, though Chauncey was baffled by her new love of coconut shrimp. Corazon E claimed they flew through a shrimp anomaly, it was all very sci-fi. XD Chauncey eventually decided he just wanted the goods, but wanted to see the sample they’d brought – with the help of Pru and Mer forming a shield to hide him from prying eyes and Corazon getting up and putting the Macarena on the jukebox to make everyone dance (upsetting the bartender a LOT), Egbot just managed to show off the egg without attracting undue attention (aka Mike just BARELY made his Feelings roll). Chauncey decided that was good and airdropped the file containing the meeting place’s location into Egbot’s brain, but said that because they were late, he was taking 10% off the price, since that screwed up his plans for moving them on. Everyone accepted that, and I left it with the gang leaving Chauncey to drink while they got the remaining eggs. We’ll be wrapping this up tomorrow, where I am quite certain those eggs are going to hatch at the worst possible moment. . .
2. Write up the first draft of this month’s gift fic: Check – wanted to get a head start on that for my friend Mary (whose birthday is next Friday), and I had an idea while at work – her character Lily (Victor and Victoria’s daughter) asking her godmother Emily (who can visit her in dreams and such) when she first started falling in love with Victor (since Mary said that something with Victor/Victoria/Emily would be nice too). First draft is kinda rough, but that’s the point of a first draft – important thing is that it’s written. I’ll let it sit for a few days, then probably revise it Sunday or Monday for next week.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Eh, partial check – I got so caught up in reviewing my old LiveJournal entries for hints of Victor and Alice stuff that I only had time to watch the latest GrayStillPlays upload after my writing: “UPGRADING from NOOB HUMAN to GOD in DNA Evolution!” DNA Evolution being another mobile game of “run this course and pick up enough of this particular thing to make yourself cool and beat the boss at the end.” In this case, the things were elements – ranging from traditional fire and ice and stone to more exotic ones like space and money and radiation. And Groot. Seriously. XD You chose which one or two elements to pick up at the beginning of your run, and had to get as much of them as possible to have enough power to defeat the monster waiting at the end for you. Along the way, you unlocked other elements and other characters – Gray started out with generic Chaddicus and a shark dude, but got such powerhouses as Thanos, Harley Quinn, and John Wick along the way. XD As usual, the game was pretty simple and dumb, but Gray’s commentary really made it work. I know his “strange mobile games” videos aren’t his most popular (that’s GOTTA be his GTA V stuff), but I still love them. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – went simple with Victor Luvs Alice this week with a VTMB Beckett-based gifset; a Diamond City FO4 photo set; and that VTMB remix I mentioned earlier this weekend. That’ll carry me through Saturday well enough!
Okay, so, that's all right then. Off to bed I go. Night all!
