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Cranky Wednesday
Jun. 5th, 2024 11:55 pmBeen in bit of a mood today, I'm sorry to say -- not entirely sure WHY, other than just the regular stress of the week (and coming off my period) building up. But I'm doing my best to stay on top of it! *nods* Anyway, here's how my day went --
Work – Another “meh” day – it wasn’t very busy work-wise (spent most of the day doing obituaries and roster maintenance, stopping briefly to have another useless call with the credit card people), but my coworkers were very VERY chatty with each other, and the shit they discuss. . .well, it’s not fun to listen to, basically. *heavy sigh* At least the ride in and the ride home wasn’t nearly so bad, though there was some unexpected crowds getting into and out of the parking lot. . . Two more days!
Beanbags Update: I sucked very slightly less today, managing to get a few good throws and getting an eight in the final game to actually get a second today. Otherwise, though, it was pretty much just like yesterday – final scores were me 3-3-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 2-2-W. *shrug* Honestly, I’ll take it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike got me through the following –
A) The very end of the GrayStillPlays compilation “100 Dangerous Pranks That Went TOO FAR!” Which was basically just the last five minutes of the Get Expelled! video, featuring the kid doing things like electrocuting the principal and taking the lugnuts off his car tires so they fell off when he tried to leave; mooning over a girl and then using her as an excuse to get in trouble; and competing against another school’s basketball team in the world’s weirdest intra-school championship. :p You know, the typical things that a kid does when they’re trying to get expelled. XD
B) The start of “I have absolute no problems in the Every Occult Challenge - Part 5” by James Turner! The next episode of his “gather all the Sims 4 occults together in one household” challenge, this saw the quartet of Semaj (human), Nalani (mermaid), Vlad (vampire), and Bailey (spellcaster) experiencing the following –
I. Semaj getting into Crystal Creations by cutting a Plumbite crystal into a fancy needs-boosting gem, and turning another into a pair of needs-boosting earrings – and Bailey Copypastoing the HELL out of the Plumbite, the gem, and the earrings. The first round of Copypasto was so that James would have the money to buy a fresh robotics bench for Nalani (as she’d accidentally left her original one at Semaj’s work); the second round was so the quartet would have lots and lots of crystals and jewelry to charge on the crystal grid up on Bailey’s tower to keep everyone’s needs high; and the third round (which James was working on when I paused the video) was to get her to keep overcharging in an attempt to get her cursed with the Curse Of The Night Wraith! No luck yet, though James is willing to keep pushing it as long as he needs. . . On the plus side, all of this meant that keeping everyone’s needs high AND keeping the household flush with cash was NOT a problem. XD
II. The appearance of Patchy! Yes, everyone’s favorite scarecrow gardener finally appeared as a proper NPC (despite some of the comments telling James that he wouldn’t activate in winter – seems like that was wrong)! James quickly had Bailey summon a Tragic Clown to the lot so Patchy could be properly checked off the “visitors” list and had them all make snow pals together. XD He would have LIKED to have paired Patchy up with the Night Wraith, but given Patchy shows up during the daytime and the Night Wraith at, you guessed it, night, James didn’t think it was possible – plus he didn’t want to wait around for however long it took Bailey to get the right curse. So yeah, Patchy is officially off the list!
III. Dealing with Semaj’s mental burnout, which proved worryingly hard to shake, even with him taking a day off work – obviously mental tasks did not do anything to help Semaj’s mental state, but weirdly enough painting (which should have done something given it was a creative task) didn’t either. The only things that seemed to work were making Semaj take lots of baths and sending him out on jogs – to the point where he had an epiphany and gained the “Active” trait. *shrugs* Whatever works and allows James to continue pursuing those aliens!
IV. Vlad being forced into studying archaeology (so Semaj can become a skeleton on a Jungle Adventure later), Nalani getting up to level 7 in robotics (she’s almost to the point of being able to make a Servo!), and everyone trying to weed that one particular bugged plant in the garden (James was very annoyed by this, not in the least because Gardening is supposed to Semaj’s thing XD).
And that about sums it up! Seriously, so much of the video was spent on Bailey being forced to Copypasto stuff because James either wanted loads of needs-boosting crystals or wanted to get her cursed. . . XD Also, James is still keeping an eye on his self-Sim and hoping he develops an alien pregnancy, but I’m pretty sure he’s going to be disappointed. We’ll see how the rest of the episode goes tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we have officially exited Exposition Land, with Alice wrapping up her section with her Embrace and a reiteration of how she came to be in her nice new snazzy apartment with Victor. Which means it’s time to get back to the plague-bearer stuff, hooray! XD Starting with Alice warning Victor about the disease and the CDC being around – though, as Victor pointed out, the latter are not particularly obvious in their hazmat suits, what with the fashions on display in 2004 alt-scene LA. XD But yes, next time the duo will take their first step in solving the mystery of the monsters trying to infect all of Downtown. Something something insert how this whole plotline hits a LOT different after fucking COVID. >(
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video tonight, “Testing cars vs orbeez in GTA 5!” AKA Gray plays three Delivery Driver Torture Boards designed to make him cry –
I. Guess Which Boxes To Deliver – The “appetizer round” as Gray put it, this one saw him having to drive a Reginald carriage (with an invisible forklift on the front near Reginald’s beak) and carry one of two pallets of boxes through a twisty-turny course made up of Spleens emojis – a pallet of Sprunk or a pallet of beach balls. Gray quickly discovered that all the boxes on the Sprunk pallet were dynamic, but the bottom layer of boxes on the beach ball pallet were static, so the beach balls were the correct thing to deliver, and proceeded to make his way through the course, bouncing his way up and down surprise stairs, navigating hairpin turns, trying to avoid the YEET tile giving him a bad day, and squeezing past purple tiles linked to ladies he could shoot if he wanted to. Oh, and the whole thing was timed, of course, with Gray having to beat the wall that popped up right before the end. XD Gray eventually made it past it in time, only to find that what awaited him on the other side was the world’s creepiest clown. Which fortunately moved the wall blocking the checkpoint out of the way as they followed Gray around, but still – yeesh. Alex and team, you weird. XD
II. Orbeez Delivery – To keep up with the food theme, we’ll call this one the “main course” round! In this one, Gray had to take a custom souped-up dump truck with a bed full of Orbeez (those balls that expand in water and can be used as filler in vases and stuff; represented as a large glob of a static image of lots of little colorful balls) through an obstacle course featuring exactly one prop – a hydraulic Yeeter platform. There were Yeeters embedded into the road, Yeeters going around on a carousel, sideways Yeeters trying to shove Gray off the road, and of course a Yeeter at the end that Gray NEEDED to get yeeted by to make a jump onto the final platform. And as Gray navigated these Yeeters, and inevitably got yeeted, if he did flips or otherwise spun out, he would lose Orbeez, represented by a spray of tiny balls and the size of the graphic in the back going down. If he didn’t have enough, the checkpoint at the end of the course would disappear, so he had to make it to the end with a majority of Orbeez in the back. Not an easy task when you’re driving a truck whose wheels technically don’t even turn. XD This board was all about Gray learning the timing and making sure he had enough speed to get past every Yeeter – a difficult challenge for him, considering he is famously allergic to patience. XD But he got there in the end, and with a sufficient load of Orbeez to make it through the checkpoint!
III. Deliver At Least One Happy Wheels Dad – And finally, the “dessert course” round – Gray had 69 seconds to deliver at least one of four Happy Wheels Bike Dads (represented by Mr. Cleans in green shirts and bike helmets) to the end of a “layers” course filled with various barriers that he had to smash through. Gray also had his choice of cars to do this with – a big truck with a large empty bed and a license plate reading “BIG LOAD,” and our beloved Wastelander! Gray tried out BIG LOAD first, but while it did okay on most of the barriers (like the filing cabinets, the cardboard boxes, the pallets, and the fire hydrants), it got stopped by some weird dark matter boxes and couldn’t get through them in time. So Gray fired up our favorite rustbucket and just PLOWED through everything in his way. It still took a couple of tries for him to reach the end in the time limit (mostly because the Wastelander had a tendency to ramp certain obstacles off the side and into the sea, and because the plywood barrier near the end needed to be hit a certain way if Gray wanted to get through it in one shot), but he did it, with all four dads clinging to the sides –
To face a final jump through a windmill, and a note saying that he didn’t have to actually deliver any of the dads at all. Gray just sighed heavily before declaring that he’d gotten the dads this far, so they were all coming with him to victory, damn it. And so they did, with Gray JUST BARELY making his windmill jump before careening through the win and into the sea. XD Good stuff! Always love seeing my favorite GTA vehicle making an appearance.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – mostly because I somehow found the time to actually start drafting out the next Chill Valicer Save update this evening on Victor Luvs Alice! The now-usual five posts covering their trip to Galloping Gulch in Chestnut Ridge for SimCity Founding, to be precise. :) So that’s all set for me to fiddle around with and clean up on Saturday – good to be a little ahead of the game!
*nods* Not bad -- I may have been cranky, but at least I was also productive. And now I need to get to bed and get some sleep. Supposed to be a miserably rainy day tomorrow -- hopefully it won't be TOO bad, but we will see. Night all!
Work – Another “meh” day – it wasn’t very busy work-wise (spent most of the day doing obituaries and roster maintenance, stopping briefly to have another useless call with the credit card people), but my coworkers were very VERY chatty with each other, and the shit they discuss. . .well, it’s not fun to listen to, basically. *heavy sigh* At least the ride in and the ride home wasn’t nearly so bad, though there was some unexpected crowds getting into and out of the parking lot. . . Two more days!
Beanbags Update: I sucked very slightly less today, managing to get a few good throws and getting an eight in the final game to actually get a second today. Otherwise, though, it was pretty much just like yesterday – final scores were me 3-3-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 2-2-W. *shrug* Honestly, I’ll take it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike got me through the following –
A) The very end of the GrayStillPlays compilation “100 Dangerous Pranks That Went TOO FAR!” Which was basically just the last five minutes of the Get Expelled! video, featuring the kid doing things like electrocuting the principal and taking the lugnuts off his car tires so they fell off when he tried to leave; mooning over a girl and then using her as an excuse to get in trouble; and competing against another school’s basketball team in the world’s weirdest intra-school championship. :p You know, the typical things that a kid does when they’re trying to get expelled. XD
B) The start of “I have absolute no problems in the Every Occult Challenge - Part 5” by James Turner! The next episode of his “gather all the Sims 4 occults together in one household” challenge, this saw the quartet of Semaj (human), Nalani (mermaid), Vlad (vampire), and Bailey (spellcaster) experiencing the following –
I. Semaj getting into Crystal Creations by cutting a Plumbite crystal into a fancy needs-boosting gem, and turning another into a pair of needs-boosting earrings – and Bailey Copypastoing the HELL out of the Plumbite, the gem, and the earrings. The first round of Copypasto was so that James would have the money to buy a fresh robotics bench for Nalani (as she’d accidentally left her original one at Semaj’s work); the second round was so the quartet would have lots and lots of crystals and jewelry to charge on the crystal grid up on Bailey’s tower to keep everyone’s needs high; and the third round (which James was working on when I paused the video) was to get her to keep overcharging in an attempt to get her cursed with the Curse Of The Night Wraith! No luck yet, though James is willing to keep pushing it as long as he needs. . . On the plus side, all of this meant that keeping everyone’s needs high AND keeping the household flush with cash was NOT a problem. XD
II. The appearance of Patchy! Yes, everyone’s favorite scarecrow gardener finally appeared as a proper NPC (despite some of the comments telling James that he wouldn’t activate in winter – seems like that was wrong)! James quickly had Bailey summon a Tragic Clown to the lot so Patchy could be properly checked off the “visitors” list and had them all make snow pals together. XD He would have LIKED to have paired Patchy up with the Night Wraith, but given Patchy shows up during the daytime and the Night Wraith at, you guessed it, night, James didn’t think it was possible – plus he didn’t want to wait around for however long it took Bailey to get the right curse. So yeah, Patchy is officially off the list!
III. Dealing with Semaj’s mental burnout, which proved worryingly hard to shake, even with him taking a day off work – obviously mental tasks did not do anything to help Semaj’s mental state, but weirdly enough painting (which should have done something given it was a creative task) didn’t either. The only things that seemed to work were making Semaj take lots of baths and sending him out on jogs – to the point where he had an epiphany and gained the “Active” trait. *shrugs* Whatever works and allows James to continue pursuing those aliens!
IV. Vlad being forced into studying archaeology (so Semaj can become a skeleton on a Jungle Adventure later), Nalani getting up to level 7 in robotics (she’s almost to the point of being able to make a Servo!), and everyone trying to weed that one particular bugged plant in the garden (James was very annoyed by this, not in the least because Gardening is supposed to Semaj’s thing XD).
And that about sums it up! Seriously, so much of the video was spent on Bailey being forced to Copypasto stuff because James either wanted loads of needs-boosting crystals or wanted to get her cursed. . . XD Also, James is still keeping an eye on his self-Sim and hoping he develops an alien pregnancy, but I’m pretty sure he’s going to be disappointed. We’ll see how the rest of the episode goes tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we have officially exited Exposition Land, with Alice wrapping up her section with her Embrace and a reiteration of how she came to be in her nice new snazzy apartment with Victor. Which means it’s time to get back to the plague-bearer stuff, hooray! XD Starting with Alice warning Victor about the disease and the CDC being around – though, as Victor pointed out, the latter are not particularly obvious in their hazmat suits, what with the fashions on display in 2004 alt-scene LA. XD But yes, next time the duo will take their first step in solving the mystery of the monsters trying to infect all of Downtown. Something something insert how this whole plotline hits a LOT different after fucking COVID. >(
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video tonight, “Testing cars vs orbeez in GTA 5!” AKA Gray plays three Delivery Driver Torture Boards designed to make him cry –
I. Guess Which Boxes To Deliver – The “appetizer round” as Gray put it, this one saw him having to drive a Reginald carriage (with an invisible forklift on the front near Reginald’s beak) and carry one of two pallets of boxes through a twisty-turny course made up of Spleens emojis – a pallet of Sprunk or a pallet of beach balls. Gray quickly discovered that all the boxes on the Sprunk pallet were dynamic, but the bottom layer of boxes on the beach ball pallet were static, so the beach balls were the correct thing to deliver, and proceeded to make his way through the course, bouncing his way up and down surprise stairs, navigating hairpin turns, trying to avoid the YEET tile giving him a bad day, and squeezing past purple tiles linked to ladies he could shoot if he wanted to. Oh, and the whole thing was timed, of course, with Gray having to beat the wall that popped up right before the end. XD Gray eventually made it past it in time, only to find that what awaited him on the other side was the world’s creepiest clown. Which fortunately moved the wall blocking the checkpoint out of the way as they followed Gray around, but still – yeesh. Alex and team, you weird. XD
II. Orbeez Delivery – To keep up with the food theme, we’ll call this one the “main course” round! In this one, Gray had to take a custom souped-up dump truck with a bed full of Orbeez (those balls that expand in water and can be used as filler in vases and stuff; represented as a large glob of a static image of lots of little colorful balls) through an obstacle course featuring exactly one prop – a hydraulic Yeeter platform. There were Yeeters embedded into the road, Yeeters going around on a carousel, sideways Yeeters trying to shove Gray off the road, and of course a Yeeter at the end that Gray NEEDED to get yeeted by to make a jump onto the final platform. And as Gray navigated these Yeeters, and inevitably got yeeted, if he did flips or otherwise spun out, he would lose Orbeez, represented by a spray of tiny balls and the size of the graphic in the back going down. If he didn’t have enough, the checkpoint at the end of the course would disappear, so he had to make it to the end with a majority of Orbeez in the back. Not an easy task when you’re driving a truck whose wheels technically don’t even turn. XD This board was all about Gray learning the timing and making sure he had enough speed to get past every Yeeter – a difficult challenge for him, considering he is famously allergic to patience. XD But he got there in the end, and with a sufficient load of Orbeez to make it through the checkpoint!
III. Deliver At Least One Happy Wheels Dad – And finally, the “dessert course” round – Gray had 69 seconds to deliver at least one of four Happy Wheels Bike Dads (represented by Mr. Cleans in green shirts and bike helmets) to the end of a “layers” course filled with various barriers that he had to smash through. Gray also had his choice of cars to do this with – a big truck with a large empty bed and a license plate reading “BIG LOAD,” and our beloved Wastelander! Gray tried out BIG LOAD first, but while it did okay on most of the barriers (like the filing cabinets, the cardboard boxes, the pallets, and the fire hydrants), it got stopped by some weird dark matter boxes and couldn’t get through them in time. So Gray fired up our favorite rustbucket and just PLOWED through everything in his way. It still took a couple of tries for him to reach the end in the time limit (mostly because the Wastelander had a tendency to ramp certain obstacles off the side and into the sea, and because the plywood barrier near the end needed to be hit a certain way if Gray wanted to get through it in one shot), but he did it, with all four dads clinging to the sides –
To face a final jump through a windmill, and a note saying that he didn’t have to actually deliver any of the dads at all. Gray just sighed heavily before declaring that he’d gotten the dads this far, so they were all coming with him to victory, damn it. And so they did, with Gray JUST BARELY making his windmill jump before careening through the win and into the sea. XD Good stuff! Always love seeing my favorite GTA vehicle making an appearance.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – mostly because I somehow found the time to actually start drafting out the next Chill Valicer Save update this evening on Victor Luvs Alice! The now-usual five posts covering their trip to Galloping Gulch in Chestnut Ridge for SimCity Founding, to be precise. :) So that’s all set for me to fiddle around with and clean up on Saturday – good to be a little ahead of the game!
*nods* Not bad -- I may have been cranky, but at least I was also productive. And now I need to get to bed and get some sleep. Supposed to be a miserably rainy day tomorrow -- hopefully it won't be TOO bad, but we will see. Night all!
