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Okay, Period Actually Started TODAY
Apr. 3rd, 2023 11:50 pmTurns out the bit of pink I saw yesterday after my workout was like an "early alert" or something -- the actual period started this afternoon when I got home from work. On the one hand, at least I didn't have to deal with the period tired today; on the other, now I get to deal with it tomorrow, which is a full day with a staff meeting. *grumbles* At least I just have to get through that and I'm DONE and can spend a couple of days just getting over the red curse (since it's supposed to be kinda icky Wednesday and Thursday).
Anyway -- here's how the rest of my day went:
Work – It was an – okay day. Not THAT much going on, but we had three very annoying phone calls – two people who called back with questions after I thought I’d already settled their issues (one with a missing e-mail, one with a question about designating gifts), and a third that called in RIGHT as I was preparing to shut up shop because of the early release with a credit card update. Which I then couldn’t even do because the credit card people’s site wasn’t responding. >.< Fortunately the guy was understanding, but I still got out a few minutes behind schedule, and then traffic was irritating and – yeah. I mean, I know some of my mood was because of my period properly starting near the end of the day, but still. Meeeh. At least now I just have to get through tomorrow and I’m done for a bit!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, starting the next of the Oxventures – “Dine Harder!” The last episode the gang did on the regular OXBox channel before moving everything over to the Official Oxventure Channel, and the precursor to the “Legacy of Dragons” story arc (it’s labeled as “Episode 0” in the playlist). The scene opened with the gang all in Honeymoon Village, where – due to the fact that Dob did not get married, but also could not get a refund on his deposit – the whole gang was taking advantage of the all-inclusive resort’s various perks, since, well, they paid for it. Andy made a joke about tumblr going wild over the fact that they were all packed into the same honeymoon suite, and this somehow evolved into Corazon getting a full 24-hour massage from a guy named Tumblr as part of the experience. XD Anyway, the group was dining in the “A. A. Tompkin” restaurant, a large revolving restaurant near the top of a tower owned by a famous celebrity chef, talking about the “honeymoon” and how much they were enjoying themselves, when their specialty dessert showed up! Chocolate writing on a – pile of rags. Dob, without even thinking about it, dove straight in, but Egbert knew what was up and asked if it was Bismuth. And indeed it was, who unfolded herself after Dob got about eleven mouthfuls in. (No, she is not vegetarian to eat – except for some of the mushroom-like growths. Dob discreetly began spitting out as much as he could.) She greeted the group warmly, glad that they liked her recommendation (she chose this place for Dob and his intended on the strength of how easily it was to bribe someone to sneak you to a person’s table as a dessert), but then announced she had grave news – and no, not news about graves, as in her newsletter. No, this was news about the dragon up on the mountain near Necropolis-On-Sea! The one they’d accidentally woken up during their adventure against the asshole trapper who’d turned Merilwen’s wildcat friend Simon into a hat (and then very deliberately set on said trapper by claiming he was the noisy one), and that they’d recently used as a distraction to get Liliana out of the house during the original “Dine Hard” (where they were trying to defeat both her and Vocatus, the villain of the Orbpocalypse Saga, at the same time via simultaneous trick dinners). Apparently setting the dragon and Liliana against each other had had some very unforeseen consequences that Bismuth had to tell them about –
And then a giant ballista bolt punched through the ceiling, and – well. While the original “Dine Hard” was about simultaneous trick dinners, the sequel is in fact a play on the movie Die Hard. XD Yes, this world’s Hans Gruber, here named Bush Ranger, had shown up with some giantkin friends and a gaggle of other miscellaneous henchmen to take over the restaurant, looking for the man himself, A. A. Tompkin. Bismuth rolled away like a tumbleweed, Corazon promptly hid under the table with Tumblr massaging his ankles (he might not have managed it on a 12, but then Johnny rolled a crit 1), and Dob sneakily swept anything that might look like adventuring gear off the table, into his lap, and out of sight (he got an 18 to Johnny’s SECOND crit 1, meaning Bush didn’t even rank them as threats). Bush did his speech about how they did not wish to detain the group any longer than necessary, they only wanted Tompkin –
Cue Prudence asking if they were looking for a pumpkin, and Dob stating that if they were looking for the chef, then coming into the main restaurant was probably a bad idea, they should check the kitchen. XD Bush was annoyed but sent one of his giantkin friends to check the kitchen as he had his henchpeople herd everyone into the middle of the room to keep an eye on them. Prudence, Dob, Merilwen, and Egbert all proceeded to join the other cowering hostages while Corazon peeped out from under the table to get an idea of where all the exits and air ducts and such were for later. As it turns out, this revolving restaurant is set on the SIDE of the tower, instead of being stuck in the middle (think a big dinner plate rubbing up against a stick), meaning the only exit is a pair of double doors on the side of the tower that might only be accessible from a balcony that wraps around the whole restaurant. There’s also shops on the lower level of the tower, and some stuff under construction/being renovated in the upper levels. I don’t know if this will be relevant, but it’s good information to have nonetheless!
Anyway, the giantkin guy came back with a cowering chef, who kept insisting he wasn’t Tompkin. Dob decided now would be a good time to get up and start making a rambling speech about how he was a good friend of Tompkin and knew exactly where he was, but oh dear, he’s just remembered this funny story. . .apparently this was an impression of a character from the film, Ellis, though I didn’t pick up on that – I’ve never actually SEEN Die Hard, I just know some of the beats. XD Anyway, Dob’s intent was to allow someone else to try and do something while he filibustered – and Egbert saw an opportunity and quickly asked one of the giantkin guys if he could go to the bathroom, pretending to do a potty dance to sell it. Fortunately, Dob rolled quite poorly on his Charisma/Performance check, and thus Bush was too busy loading a crossbow bolt into his hand-crossbow to shoot at Dob to really pay attention to Egbert, letting the giantkin take him to the little dragon’s room. :p UNFORTUNATELY, as Dob had rolled so poorly, Bush was fully prepared to shoot him in the head unless he gave relevant information in the next five seconds.
RE-fortunately, Merilwen had the power of Druidcraft to make Bush smell nothing but skunk! Dob promptly started acting like he was high and offering Bush some of his skunk, and Bush dismissed him as a stupid stoner. He did still shoot Dob, but it was in the foot, which was somewhat more survivable. Unfortunately, Dob had decided to go barefoot in the Honeymoon Village, and thus took five points of damage and ended up with the bolt pinning him to the floor through said foot. Bush told him to just pull it out, it’s what he got for not wearing shoes to a nice restaurant. XD I’m looking forward to seeing how much of the movie the gang manages to recreate during this little adventure! Even if I’ll have to check a plot synopsis of Die Hard to truly appreciate it. XD
2. Continue writing my Valicer Polyship Week Prompts: Check – though I’ll be honest with you, tonight’s writing was the definition of a rough draft. I finally tackled Day Six of Polyship Week, taking the “Drabble(s)” prompt as I wanted to do another fic set in my “Soulmates” verse and couldn’t figure out how to fit any of the others in there. Granted, I wasn’t sure how to fit “Drabble(s)” into that verse either. . .until I came upon the idea of using three drabbles to describe the dreams that Victor, Smiler, and Alice all had on their sixteenth birthdays, the day their soulmate bonds formed! I already knew what the dreams were, after all –
But man oh man, it was TOUGH to get them down into words! I’m blaming this half on trying to stick to a strict 100 words, half on doing this on the first night of my period – I’m just not on my A game. :( But I got some rough sketches of each dream down (a glowing tree with multicolored leaves and spiral branches for Victor; chasing piano music across a path of dominoes for Smiler; and sailing an ink sea in a paper boat under a purple sky with yellow spiral clouds for Alice), so that’s SOMETHING. I might end up doing 200 words for each just to have a little more breathing room in each story – I guess we’ll find out when I come back to this to whip it all into shape!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just one today, GrayStillPlays and “When a restaurant literally serves the plague,” aka Gray plays One-Armed Cook! It is a game where you are a cook who is just one arm, and you have to make food for people with that one arm. You start out in a terrestrial burger joint and can work your way up to making tentacle meals in a zero-g space station. Oh, and if you pile enough burgers and buns onto your griddle top, you can make a six-alarm fire. XD Yes, Gray brought the chaos in this video, trying to figure out what he was allowed to do and what he wasn’t allowed to do – stab customers with a knife? Yes, technically – they didn’t actually react or bleed, but their heads did jiggle around as he swiped the knife through them. Serve customers plates of buns and burgers piled up in weird combinations? Sure thing, they might even proclaim it a great meal! Put a box full of burgers and buns on the plate and serve it? The customer won’t eat anything while it’s still in the box, but if you glitch the plate through the box while picking it up. . . Serve a fire extinguisher on a plate? No, sadly, they won’t eat that. Cook the rats in the kitchen on the griddle top? Nope, the game won’t let you – but you CAN trap them in the fridge and soak them in the sink. Cook the “cold dogs” on the laser stove in space? You CAN, but it just evaporates them. Serve someone burned tentacle sushi on a dirty plate? They’ll eat it, though they will complain about the plate. :p Basically there is a lot of opportunity for nonsense in this game, and Gray was happy to exploit that to hell and back. XD It’s always fun when he plays these silly indie titles!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – despite the work bullshit and the traffic meaning I got home a little later than I really wanted, I WAS able to use my extra free hour productively, catching up on various tumblr stuff and drafting out more of the Chill Valicer Save update posts for this week! Finished off the text for roughly three-and-a-half of the posts before my workout. :) Then I managed to finish off the text for that half-post this evening – the final one will have to wait until tomorrow, as the period tired is REALLY hitting me about now. Meeeh.
So yes, time to hit the sack. And then, as stated, just gotta get through tomorrow, and then the Easter Vacation begins, yaaaay. Hopefully it'll be an okay day overall, even with the period bullshit. Night all!
Anyway -- here's how the rest of my day went:
Work – It was an – okay day. Not THAT much going on, but we had three very annoying phone calls – two people who called back with questions after I thought I’d already settled their issues (one with a missing e-mail, one with a question about designating gifts), and a third that called in RIGHT as I was preparing to shut up shop because of the early release with a credit card update. Which I then couldn’t even do because the credit card people’s site wasn’t responding. >.< Fortunately the guy was understanding, but I still got out a few minutes behind schedule, and then traffic was irritating and – yeah. I mean, I know some of my mood was because of my period properly starting near the end of the day, but still. Meeeh. At least now I just have to get through tomorrow and I’m done for a bit!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, starting the next of the Oxventures – “Dine Harder!” The last episode the gang did on the regular OXBox channel before moving everything over to the Official Oxventure Channel, and the precursor to the “Legacy of Dragons” story arc (it’s labeled as “Episode 0” in the playlist). The scene opened with the gang all in Honeymoon Village, where – due to the fact that Dob did not get married, but also could not get a refund on his deposit – the whole gang was taking advantage of the all-inclusive resort’s various perks, since, well, they paid for it. Andy made a joke about tumblr going wild over the fact that they were all packed into the same honeymoon suite, and this somehow evolved into Corazon getting a full 24-hour massage from a guy named Tumblr as part of the experience. XD Anyway, the group was dining in the “A. A. Tompkin” restaurant, a large revolving restaurant near the top of a tower owned by a famous celebrity chef, talking about the “honeymoon” and how much they were enjoying themselves, when their specialty dessert showed up! Chocolate writing on a – pile of rags. Dob, without even thinking about it, dove straight in, but Egbert knew what was up and asked if it was Bismuth. And indeed it was, who unfolded herself after Dob got about eleven mouthfuls in. (No, she is not vegetarian to eat – except for some of the mushroom-like growths. Dob discreetly began spitting out as much as he could.) She greeted the group warmly, glad that they liked her recommendation (she chose this place for Dob and his intended on the strength of how easily it was to bribe someone to sneak you to a person’s table as a dessert), but then announced she had grave news – and no, not news about graves, as in her newsletter. No, this was news about the dragon up on the mountain near Necropolis-On-Sea! The one they’d accidentally woken up during their adventure against the asshole trapper who’d turned Merilwen’s wildcat friend Simon into a hat (and then very deliberately set on said trapper by claiming he was the noisy one), and that they’d recently used as a distraction to get Liliana out of the house during the original “Dine Hard” (where they were trying to defeat both her and Vocatus, the villain of the Orbpocalypse Saga, at the same time via simultaneous trick dinners). Apparently setting the dragon and Liliana against each other had had some very unforeseen consequences that Bismuth had to tell them about –
And then a giant ballista bolt punched through the ceiling, and – well. While the original “Dine Hard” was about simultaneous trick dinners, the sequel is in fact a play on the movie Die Hard. XD Yes, this world’s Hans Gruber, here named Bush Ranger, had shown up with some giantkin friends and a gaggle of other miscellaneous henchmen to take over the restaurant, looking for the man himself, A. A. Tompkin. Bismuth rolled away like a tumbleweed, Corazon promptly hid under the table with Tumblr massaging his ankles (he might not have managed it on a 12, but then Johnny rolled a crit 1), and Dob sneakily swept anything that might look like adventuring gear off the table, into his lap, and out of sight (he got an 18 to Johnny’s SECOND crit 1, meaning Bush didn’t even rank them as threats). Bush did his speech about how they did not wish to detain the group any longer than necessary, they only wanted Tompkin –
Cue Prudence asking if they were looking for a pumpkin, and Dob stating that if they were looking for the chef, then coming into the main restaurant was probably a bad idea, they should check the kitchen. XD Bush was annoyed but sent one of his giantkin friends to check the kitchen as he had his henchpeople herd everyone into the middle of the room to keep an eye on them. Prudence, Dob, Merilwen, and Egbert all proceeded to join the other cowering hostages while Corazon peeped out from under the table to get an idea of where all the exits and air ducts and such were for later. As it turns out, this revolving restaurant is set on the SIDE of the tower, instead of being stuck in the middle (think a big dinner plate rubbing up against a stick), meaning the only exit is a pair of double doors on the side of the tower that might only be accessible from a balcony that wraps around the whole restaurant. There’s also shops on the lower level of the tower, and some stuff under construction/being renovated in the upper levels. I don’t know if this will be relevant, but it’s good information to have nonetheless!
Anyway, the giantkin guy came back with a cowering chef, who kept insisting he wasn’t Tompkin. Dob decided now would be a good time to get up and start making a rambling speech about how he was a good friend of Tompkin and knew exactly where he was, but oh dear, he’s just remembered this funny story. . .apparently this was an impression of a character from the film, Ellis, though I didn’t pick up on that – I’ve never actually SEEN Die Hard, I just know some of the beats. XD Anyway, Dob’s intent was to allow someone else to try and do something while he filibustered – and Egbert saw an opportunity and quickly asked one of the giantkin guys if he could go to the bathroom, pretending to do a potty dance to sell it. Fortunately, Dob rolled quite poorly on his Charisma/Performance check, and thus Bush was too busy loading a crossbow bolt into his hand-crossbow to shoot at Dob to really pay attention to Egbert, letting the giantkin take him to the little dragon’s room. :p UNFORTUNATELY, as Dob had rolled so poorly, Bush was fully prepared to shoot him in the head unless he gave relevant information in the next five seconds.
RE-fortunately, Merilwen had the power of Druidcraft to make Bush smell nothing but skunk! Dob promptly started acting like he was high and offering Bush some of his skunk, and Bush dismissed him as a stupid stoner. He did still shoot Dob, but it was in the foot, which was somewhat more survivable. Unfortunately, Dob had decided to go barefoot in the Honeymoon Village, and thus took five points of damage and ended up with the bolt pinning him to the floor through said foot. Bush told him to just pull it out, it’s what he got for not wearing shoes to a nice restaurant. XD I’m looking forward to seeing how much of the movie the gang manages to recreate during this little adventure! Even if I’ll have to check a plot synopsis of Die Hard to truly appreciate it. XD
2. Continue writing my Valicer Polyship Week Prompts: Check – though I’ll be honest with you, tonight’s writing was the definition of a rough draft. I finally tackled Day Six of Polyship Week, taking the “Drabble(s)” prompt as I wanted to do another fic set in my “Soulmates” verse and couldn’t figure out how to fit any of the others in there. Granted, I wasn’t sure how to fit “Drabble(s)” into that verse either. . .until I came upon the idea of using three drabbles to describe the dreams that Victor, Smiler, and Alice all had on their sixteenth birthdays, the day their soulmate bonds formed! I already knew what the dreams were, after all –
But man oh man, it was TOUGH to get them down into words! I’m blaming this half on trying to stick to a strict 100 words, half on doing this on the first night of my period – I’m just not on my A game. :( But I got some rough sketches of each dream down (a glowing tree with multicolored leaves and spiral branches for Victor; chasing piano music across a path of dominoes for Smiler; and sailing an ink sea in a paper boat under a purple sky with yellow spiral clouds for Alice), so that’s SOMETHING. I might end up doing 200 words for each just to have a little more breathing room in each story – I guess we’ll find out when I come back to this to whip it all into shape!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just one today, GrayStillPlays and “When a restaurant literally serves the plague,” aka Gray plays One-Armed Cook! It is a game where you are a cook who is just one arm, and you have to make food for people with that one arm. You start out in a terrestrial burger joint and can work your way up to making tentacle meals in a zero-g space station. Oh, and if you pile enough burgers and buns onto your griddle top, you can make a six-alarm fire. XD Yes, Gray brought the chaos in this video, trying to figure out what he was allowed to do and what he wasn’t allowed to do – stab customers with a knife? Yes, technically – they didn’t actually react or bleed, but their heads did jiggle around as he swiped the knife through them. Serve customers plates of buns and burgers piled up in weird combinations? Sure thing, they might even proclaim it a great meal! Put a box full of burgers and buns on the plate and serve it? The customer won’t eat anything while it’s still in the box, but if you glitch the plate through the box while picking it up. . . Serve a fire extinguisher on a plate? No, sadly, they won’t eat that. Cook the rats in the kitchen on the griddle top? Nope, the game won’t let you – but you CAN trap them in the fridge and soak them in the sink. Cook the “cold dogs” on the laser stove in space? You CAN, but it just evaporates them. Serve someone burned tentacle sushi on a dirty plate? They’ll eat it, though they will complain about the plate. :p Basically there is a lot of opportunity for nonsense in this game, and Gray was happy to exploit that to hell and back. XD It’s always fun when he plays these silly indie titles!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – despite the work bullshit and the traffic meaning I got home a little later than I really wanted, I WAS able to use my extra free hour productively, catching up on various tumblr stuff and drafting out more of the Chill Valicer Save update posts for this week! Finished off the text for roughly three-and-a-half of the posts before my workout. :) Then I managed to finish off the text for that half-post this evening – the final one will have to wait until tomorrow, as the period tired is REALLY hitting me about now. Meeeh.
So yes, time to hit the sack. And then, as stated, just gotta get through tomorrow, and then the Easter Vacation begins, yaaaay. Hopefully it'll be an okay day overall, even with the period bullshit. Night all!
