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Period Distracted Wednesday
Sep. 11th, 2024 11:55 pmYup, I was right to suspect PMS as the culprit behind some of my recent malaise -- I am officially On The Rag as of today. Bleeeeh. >( Stupid biology...fortunately, dealing with the red curse has not kept me from completing my to-do list, though the day WAS a little rough for other reasons, as you will see below --
Work – Welp – commute was NOT the same as yesterday. Instead, it was much worse! Specifically, my commute IN was garbage, because the main drag was backed up for ages, and THEN, when I got on the highway, there was an accident just past one of the exits that was holding up traffic for MILES. Meaning we were all just CRAWLING along as the police and fire departments got the mess cleaned up. I got in about 45 minutes late, at about 9:15 – meaning it wasn’t QUITE my worst commute in (that honor still goes to when there was a tractor trailer tipped over right in front of my exit), but it was fucking close. *sigh* At least I was able to call my boss through my car radio (it can sync with my phone) and warn him I was coming in late!
As for the actual day, I spent most of it cataloging reversals I had to do, to fix a bunch of payments that should have been posted on pledges instead of as new gifts. And then redoing the whole thing in a spreadsheet for my boss so he could show it to our processing company. In between that, I did some credit card and bank account updates; had the not-quite-so-useless call with the credit card people (because my contact actually helped fix a thing while I was on the phone with her); and looked up some payroll stuff with my coworkers (as we’re on a new system and everyone is getting confused). Oh, and I learned I’d gotten my period in the middle of the morning when I went to the bathroom and found I’d started bleeding. *heavy sigh* Fortunately the damage to my clothing was minimal, and I always carry pads with me, so… Anyway, I got through it all, and the ride home, fortunately, was completely standard. I am fucking glad. *shakehead* Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the GrayStillPlays compilation “Horror games to keep you up at night!” Which involved me completing the “Gray mods The Baby In Yellow” video (where Gray discovered that the annoyance of trying to shove a giant baby through too-small doors in the house was far outweighed by the delight of making the baby bigger than the skybox and then cloning him so dozens of his giant creepy eyes gazed at you from the darkness), and then watching the One Legit Horror Game video in the bunch, Gray playing Voyager 19 (where you travel through space in a personal ship the size of a shoebox, taking pictures of planets and destroyed spacecraft for your overlords until you get eaten by a planet-creature – Gray was begging for death by the end because he couldn’t stand the horribly pixelated monitor of the computer he was forced to use to do his job). A very enjoyable little trip down memory lane, that. :) Now I just have to figure out what I’m watching for the final two nights of working out this week...
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter 3: Check – Alice has managed to get an audience with Boris after surprising his primary minion Dima, which consisted mostly of Boris being surly and belligerent and taunting her for working for Venus. At least, until she pointed out that she’d managed to sneak pretty much all the way to his office without raising an alarm, at which point he gave her a job offer – kill Venus for him for one thousand smackers. And Alice has happily accepted said job – mostly because, as will be made clear tomorrow, she’s already planning how best to trick him into thinking Venus is dead so she can get the money AND murder his ass...
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video tonight – “Every Truck vs Reverse Speed Bumps in GTA 5!” Well, almost every truck – Alex and his minions set up the course so that a plane would smash into the side of the “truck pick” area and wipe one out. XD But yes, it was time to find out which truck was best at handling both dips and bumps, in a Patented Torture Course that featured –
I. Uneven Pyramid Reverse Speedbumps – exactly what it said on the tin – a lumpy pyramid-shaped pit, followed by a lumpy pyramid for Gray to get over. Easy for most cars, downright impossible for a select few.
II. Growing Wet Reverse Speedbumps – a bunch of half-pipe pits with a little bit of water in the bottom of them that grew both in size and frequency (that is, there were two “fields” of reverse speedbumps Gray had to traverse) as Gray went on, along with a pair of pipe speedbumps – one small, one large. And let me tell you, that large pipe was very very good at ending runs for Gray...
III. Giant LEGO Reverse Speedbumps – again, exactly what it said on the tin – a bunch of speedbumps and reverse speedbumps made out of LEGO! Featuring such things as a pit with a little LEGO stud teleporting all around the lip, trying to get you to smash into it; a large upside-down LEGO that you had to climb, then get over the top of; a pair of round pillar LEGOs sticking out of the bottom of some upside-down LEGOs that Gray had to maneuver around; and a large rounded edge LEGO whose sides were NOT easy to climb. We may all love LEGO, but car suspensions sure don’t!
IV. Boomerang Reverse Speedbumps – a pit made of a bunch of boomerangs lined up next to each other, followed by a hill made of a bunch of a boomerangs lined up next to each other, meaning both functioned as essentially either very cruel tightrope challenges, or very cruel chassis slide challenges. Fortunately not too difficult for Gray to conquer once he learned to come in at an angle!
V. Rapid Fire LEGO Reverse Speedbumps – more LEGO fun for Gray to sob over! This time, we had a long tightrope of sorts made of constantly transforming LEGO “grabber” pieces (you know, the ones with the little claw on them) that was littered with slow-down sticks to make sure Gray couldn’t get across just using speed, followed by a bunch of traditional growing speedbumps made out of LEGO pillar pieces lying on their sides, which got closer and closer together the farther Gray went along. Because sometimes you just can’t improve on classic pain. :p
VI. Sharpening Arrows Reverse Speedbumps With Scoopers – the big finale featured two VERY deep, VERY triangular pits with arrows slowly rotating through them, ready to push out anyone who couldn’t immediately climb out of the pit, followed by two VERY steep, VERY triangular mountains that had to be climbed. Gray quickly learned out to cheat the pits (basically, jump on the arrowhead part of the arrows and ride them to victory), but there was no way around finding the right car that could climb those sheer walls…
So – which of the trucks on offer made it? Well, the rustbucket tetanus truck couldn’t even make it past the initial pyramids – meaning it actually did worse than the damn DUMP TRUCK, which did indeed get stuck ATOP the pyramid, but was able to breakdance its way free before getting stuck in one of the Growing Wet Reverse Speedbumps. The chromed-out six-wheel got the giant pipe before admitting defeat, while the monster truck got through most of the initial set of LEGOs before having to admit defeat on that one blue curved one. And a very regular, very standard truck got ALMOST all the way through the second set of LEGOs and their big speedbumps before getting stuck – but I think you all know where this is going. “WASTELANDER SUPREMA–
“...WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT CAN’T CLIMB THE FINAL MOUNTAIN??”
Yes, in a shocking turn of events, the Wastelander got ALMOST all the way to end, but that final TRON-style pointy thing proved to be JUST too sheer for it. Meaning the challenge was actually won by the DRAGUR – and even THEN, Gray had to reset twice before it made it up there. I was half expecting him to have to get out and climb it on foot. XD But he eventually found the pro strat and made it up and over, and to the win – where his game promptly crashed, having had enough of his antics for the day. XD Oh, man, top tier GTA V content there, even if my fave vehicle did not win. Dragur’s good too, I’ll allow it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Song Saturday post for Victor Luvs Alice lined up by reblogging my previous post on “The Unlucky Ones” by Admiral Twin! Because I associate that song with the Valicer In The Dark universe now, and Thursday and Friday’s queued posts are all about either Blades In The Dark or VITD, so I figured I might as well keep the theme going for Saturday. :) So I’m all set there, yay~
So yeah -- work was a bit shitty, but at least my afternoon was all right. *sigh* Now if only my parents would test negative for COVID already...nothing we can do but wait, though. I'm off to bed -- night all!
Work – Welp – commute was NOT the same as yesterday. Instead, it was much worse! Specifically, my commute IN was garbage, because the main drag was backed up for ages, and THEN, when I got on the highway, there was an accident just past one of the exits that was holding up traffic for MILES. Meaning we were all just CRAWLING along as the police and fire departments got the mess cleaned up. I got in about 45 minutes late, at about 9:15 – meaning it wasn’t QUITE my worst commute in (that honor still goes to when there was a tractor trailer tipped over right in front of my exit), but it was fucking close. *sigh* At least I was able to call my boss through my car radio (it can sync with my phone) and warn him I was coming in late!
As for the actual day, I spent most of it cataloging reversals I had to do, to fix a bunch of payments that should have been posted on pledges instead of as new gifts. And then redoing the whole thing in a spreadsheet for my boss so he could show it to our processing company. In between that, I did some credit card and bank account updates; had the not-quite-so-useless call with the credit card people (because my contact actually helped fix a thing while I was on the phone with her); and looked up some payroll stuff with my coworkers (as we’re on a new system and everyone is getting confused). Oh, and I learned I’d gotten my period in the middle of the morning when I went to the bathroom and found I’d started bleeding. *heavy sigh* Fortunately the damage to my clothing was minimal, and I always carry pads with me, so… Anyway, I got through it all, and the ride home, fortunately, was completely standard. I am fucking glad. *shakehead* Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the GrayStillPlays compilation “Horror games to keep you up at night!” Which involved me completing the “Gray mods The Baby In Yellow” video (where Gray discovered that the annoyance of trying to shove a giant baby through too-small doors in the house was far outweighed by the delight of making the baby bigger than the skybox and then cloning him so dozens of his giant creepy eyes gazed at you from the darkness), and then watching the One Legit Horror Game video in the bunch, Gray playing Voyager 19 (where you travel through space in a personal ship the size of a shoebox, taking pictures of planets and destroyed spacecraft for your overlords until you get eaten by a planet-creature – Gray was begging for death by the end because he couldn’t stand the horribly pixelated monitor of the computer he was forced to use to do his job). A very enjoyable little trip down memory lane, that. :) Now I just have to figure out what I’m watching for the final two nights of working out this week...
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter 3: Check – Alice has managed to get an audience with Boris after surprising his primary minion Dima, which consisted mostly of Boris being surly and belligerent and taunting her for working for Venus. At least, until she pointed out that she’d managed to sneak pretty much all the way to his office without raising an alarm, at which point he gave her a job offer – kill Venus for him for one thousand smackers. And Alice has happily accepted said job – mostly because, as will be made clear tomorrow, she’s already planning how best to trick him into thinking Venus is dead so she can get the money AND murder his ass...
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video tonight – “Every Truck vs Reverse Speed Bumps in GTA 5!” Well, almost every truck – Alex and his minions set up the course so that a plane would smash into the side of the “truck pick” area and wipe one out. XD But yes, it was time to find out which truck was best at handling both dips and bumps, in a Patented Torture Course that featured –
I. Uneven Pyramid Reverse Speedbumps – exactly what it said on the tin – a lumpy pyramid-shaped pit, followed by a lumpy pyramid for Gray to get over. Easy for most cars, downright impossible for a select few.
II. Growing Wet Reverse Speedbumps – a bunch of half-pipe pits with a little bit of water in the bottom of them that grew both in size and frequency (that is, there were two “fields” of reverse speedbumps Gray had to traverse) as Gray went on, along with a pair of pipe speedbumps – one small, one large. And let me tell you, that large pipe was very very good at ending runs for Gray...
III. Giant LEGO Reverse Speedbumps – again, exactly what it said on the tin – a bunch of speedbumps and reverse speedbumps made out of LEGO! Featuring such things as a pit with a little LEGO stud teleporting all around the lip, trying to get you to smash into it; a large upside-down LEGO that you had to climb, then get over the top of; a pair of round pillar LEGOs sticking out of the bottom of some upside-down LEGOs that Gray had to maneuver around; and a large rounded edge LEGO whose sides were NOT easy to climb. We may all love LEGO, but car suspensions sure don’t!
IV. Boomerang Reverse Speedbumps – a pit made of a bunch of boomerangs lined up next to each other, followed by a hill made of a bunch of a boomerangs lined up next to each other, meaning both functioned as essentially either very cruel tightrope challenges, or very cruel chassis slide challenges. Fortunately not too difficult for Gray to conquer once he learned to come in at an angle!
V. Rapid Fire LEGO Reverse Speedbumps – more LEGO fun for Gray to sob over! This time, we had a long tightrope of sorts made of constantly transforming LEGO “grabber” pieces (you know, the ones with the little claw on them) that was littered with slow-down sticks to make sure Gray couldn’t get across just using speed, followed by a bunch of traditional growing speedbumps made out of LEGO pillar pieces lying on their sides, which got closer and closer together the farther Gray went along. Because sometimes you just can’t improve on classic pain. :p
VI. Sharpening Arrows Reverse Speedbumps With Scoopers – the big finale featured two VERY deep, VERY triangular pits with arrows slowly rotating through them, ready to push out anyone who couldn’t immediately climb out of the pit, followed by two VERY steep, VERY triangular mountains that had to be climbed. Gray quickly learned out to cheat the pits (basically, jump on the arrowhead part of the arrows and ride them to victory), but there was no way around finding the right car that could climb those sheer walls…
So – which of the trucks on offer made it? Well, the rustbucket tetanus truck couldn’t even make it past the initial pyramids – meaning it actually did worse than the damn DUMP TRUCK, which did indeed get stuck ATOP the pyramid, but was able to breakdance its way free before getting stuck in one of the Growing Wet Reverse Speedbumps. The chromed-out six-wheel got the giant pipe before admitting defeat, while the monster truck got through most of the initial set of LEGOs before having to admit defeat on that one blue curved one. And a very regular, very standard truck got ALMOST all the way through the second set of LEGOs and their big speedbumps before getting stuck – but I think you all know where this is going. “WASTELANDER SUPREMA–
“...WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT CAN’T CLIMB THE FINAL MOUNTAIN??”
Yes, in a shocking turn of events, the Wastelander got ALMOST all the way to end, but that final TRON-style pointy thing proved to be JUST too sheer for it. Meaning the challenge was actually won by the DRAGUR – and even THEN, Gray had to reset twice before it made it up there. I was half expecting him to have to get out and climb it on foot. XD But he eventually found the pro strat and made it up and over, and to the win – where his game promptly crashed, having had enough of his antics for the day. XD Oh, man, top tier GTA V content there, even if my fave vehicle did not win. Dragur’s good too, I’ll allow it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Song Saturday post for Victor Luvs Alice lined up by reblogging my previous post on “The Unlucky Ones” by Admiral Twin! Because I associate that song with the Valicer In The Dark universe now, and Thursday and Friday’s queued posts are all about either Blades In The Dark or VITD, so I figured I might as well keep the theme going for Saturday. :) So I’m all set there, yay~
So yeah -- work was a bit shitty, but at least my afternoon was all right. *sigh* Now if only my parents would test negative for COVID already...nothing we can do but wait, though. I'm off to bed -- night all!
