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A Semi-Lazy Saturday
Jan. 3rd, 2026 11:45 pm"Semi" because I did spent much of the day cleaning, and I'm currently catching up on some other stuff now. But I did spend a good chunk of the day just lazing around and looking at stuff on the web. I just needed the quiet time! But I got pretty much everything I wanted to get done, done, so...
Cleaning: Yeah, it took most of the day, who is surprised. Though, granted, I was expecting it to take a pretty long time, just because the new socks I got for Christmas have been leaving little pieces of fluff EVERYWHERE, and it all ended up on rug. Like, seriously, I’m surprised there’s any of either sock LEFT given all the little bits of blue and white and red fluff I have had to pick off of clothes and blankets and whatnot. (They were washed today along with my pajamas and sheets, so HOPEFULLY all the loose bits were finally knocked off in the washer/dryer and I won’t have this problem going forward.) Anyway, bottom line is I started dusting a little after 10:40 AM and finished up just before lunch at a little after 1:15 PM; then, once lunch was consumed and laundry gotten out of the dryer, I Swiffered and vacuumed from 2 PM to 2:40 PM. *shrug* Would have liked to have finished up at least a BIT earlier, but again – fluffs. All over my rug. At least this means my first Saturday after work resumes won’t be a Cleaning one!
Fallout: New Vegas: I got most of the way through setting up this today – following the guide over on the “Viva New Vegas” site, I –
A) Updated all my VC++ Redistributables (to make sure everything runs correctly)
B) Actually installed the game through Steam (which took a little bit to download)
C) Opened up the game launcher and let the game detect my video hardware settings (so it knew what settings to pick)
D) Downloaded Wabbajack and got that all set up (so it could get the mod list all sorted for me)
E) Downloaded the mod list and clicked through all the files on NexusMods (because I don’t have a premium account and thus had to manually approve each one – which was a bit of a slog, I confess, but the alternative is paying for bullshit “fast downloads” and no ads (which are already blocked by my ad blockers), so…) before letting Wabbajack download everything and dump it all where it should be
F) ...proceeded to stall out at the “exclusions” section because apparently Mod Organizer 2 (the mod manager that Wabbajack got for me to hold all these mods) sometimes doesn’t play nice with Windows Security and other antivirus programs (something about how its “virtualized filesystem” works), so you’re supposed to tell them to exclude it from scans...except I’m not seeing the option in Windows Security, and McAfee seems to only let you exclude individual files, not whole folders, which is what the guide is telling me to do.
So, uh, yeah. We have a bit of a conundrum there. *shakehead* I ended up leaving it there, because it was getting late and I had other things to do – tomorrow, we’ll see if I can finally finish this set-up and get the game rolling! ...well, rolling as far as I dare roll it on a Sunday, given I try not to do any “strenuous” gaming on that day so I have plenty of time for the F:NV YOLO Remastered write-ups...
Writing: As I previously said I would, I wrote a little bit of self-indulgent fic tonight to reward myself for all my hard work on getting Chapter 2 of “The Van Dort Vacancy” done and making sure to get a rough draft of Moose’s gift fic done on time – specifically, the start of an alternate version of the Forgotten Vows Verse version of Alice and Bumby’s confrontation at Moorgate Station! This version is one of those “Smiler in Forgotten Vows” variants (where Smiler and Victor had a thing before Smiler got sent to rural Lithuania by Kelman to keep them away from Victor) and has as its backstory Smiler getting back to London in time to meet Alice BEFORE she confronts Bumby (around the time she does the Dollhouse in fact), and them tagging along as she goes to yell at the asshole – only to be horrified when Thirteenified Victor shows up, and Bumby tries to get him to kill Alice. Cue poor Victor’s brain being pulled temporarily in three different directions by Smiler trying to get “pet” to stop and come to them, a confused and angry Bumby insisting “Thirteen” do as he’s told, and a desperate Alice telling Victor not to listen to Bumby because he’s not a goddamn number. I left off with Smiler kicking Bumby in the shin, and they and Alice managing to snap Victor out of his Thirteen state a bit, to the point where Victor at least somewhat recognizes Smiler and goes in for a hug. :) Might continue with this tomorrow – I’m enjoying the scene, and it would be nice to work on something that doesn’t necessarily need to be polished during the final day of my time off. “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” can wait until I start work again. *nods*
Tumblr: Interestingly, while I didn’t get to the stuff I was half-intended to get to on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) (got caught up in reading my Polyship Week 2025 fics), I did end up doing something on The Valice Multiverse – specifically, I answered an ask from an anon who said that, when a guy at their high school started a rumor that they’d had sex, they just told everyone it was bad sex and that he’d yelled out his mom’s name at one point. XD Inevitable High School!Alice approved of this way of handling things, saying she hoped the jerk now thought twice before spreading rumors, while Smiler commented they especially liked the “shouted out his mom’s name” detail – it was a good extra gross touch. XD Nice to get a decent ask over here after such a long drought!
FreeTube: Saturday is back to being CaFae Latte Compilation Day, so tonight’s video was the latest round-up – “CaFae Latte Season 81 - TikTok Compilation!” This was the “holiday special” compilation, and featured:
A) Drek doing another work-out session (aka waving a laser pointer around for her to chase) with the Sphinx in her woods on a snowy night, talking about holiday plans (the Sphinx didn’t have any, and was like “eh, not a party person, and cats are solitary creatures” when Drek said she could join his family’s Christmas dinner – Drek, under his breath: “lie”), Drek raising his rates for winter (because it’s cold and HE doesn’t have fur), Drek’s plans to go to trade school next year to become maybe a welder or electrician (and how learning about trade schools was one of two good things to come out of the whole mess with that asshole Conner accusing him of being a predator – the other being meeting Abby) – only for the Sphinx to suddenly smell something and hit Drek with a riddle: “Who feeds cannibals and is in my territory?” Drek guessed a bear, but apparently it was “the fucking Yule Cat!”
( This gets long, so behind a cut it goes! )
Not too bad -- I'm a little annoyed about not being able to get farther on my F:NV Modlist install, but hopefully I can figure out what I need to do tomorrow. And it was nice to just take a good chunk of the afternoon off to reread my own fic and chill out. :) And now I should consider heading to bed -- tomorrow, plans include posting my Fic Resolutions for the year on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) (should probably also reblog a Poets Of The Fall song, since I forgot to reblog one before the end of the year); seeing if I can finish the F:NV Modlist install and maybe get through character creation in the game if possible; continue working on my self-indulgent fic; and getting in a workout and watching the next episode of Jon's F:NV YOLO Remastered series. :) Hopefully all achievable goals, but we shall see. *nods* Night all!
Cleaning: Yeah, it took most of the day, who is surprised. Though, granted, I was expecting it to take a pretty long time, just because the new socks I got for Christmas have been leaving little pieces of fluff EVERYWHERE, and it all ended up on rug. Like, seriously, I’m surprised there’s any of either sock LEFT given all the little bits of blue and white and red fluff I have had to pick off of clothes and blankets and whatnot. (They were washed today along with my pajamas and sheets, so HOPEFULLY all the loose bits were finally knocked off in the washer/dryer and I won’t have this problem going forward.) Anyway, bottom line is I started dusting a little after 10:40 AM and finished up just before lunch at a little after 1:15 PM; then, once lunch was consumed and laundry gotten out of the dryer, I Swiffered and vacuumed from 2 PM to 2:40 PM. *shrug* Would have liked to have finished up at least a BIT earlier, but again – fluffs. All over my rug. At least this means my first Saturday after work resumes won’t be a Cleaning one!
Fallout: New Vegas: I got most of the way through setting up this today – following the guide over on the “Viva New Vegas” site, I –
A) Updated all my VC++ Redistributables (to make sure everything runs correctly)
B) Actually installed the game through Steam (which took a little bit to download)
C) Opened up the game launcher and let the game detect my video hardware settings (so it knew what settings to pick)
D) Downloaded Wabbajack and got that all set up (so it could get the mod list all sorted for me)
E) Downloaded the mod list and clicked through all the files on NexusMods (because I don’t have a premium account and thus had to manually approve each one – which was a bit of a slog, I confess, but the alternative is paying for bullshit “fast downloads” and no ads (which are already blocked by my ad blockers), so…) before letting Wabbajack download everything and dump it all where it should be
F) ...proceeded to stall out at the “exclusions” section because apparently Mod Organizer 2 (the mod manager that Wabbajack got for me to hold all these mods) sometimes doesn’t play nice with Windows Security and other antivirus programs (something about how its “virtualized filesystem” works), so you’re supposed to tell them to exclude it from scans...except I’m not seeing the option in Windows Security, and McAfee seems to only let you exclude individual files, not whole folders, which is what the guide is telling me to do.
So, uh, yeah. We have a bit of a conundrum there. *shakehead* I ended up leaving it there, because it was getting late and I had other things to do – tomorrow, we’ll see if I can finally finish this set-up and get the game rolling! ...well, rolling as far as I dare roll it on a Sunday, given I try not to do any “strenuous” gaming on that day so I have plenty of time for the F:NV YOLO Remastered write-ups...
Writing: As I previously said I would, I wrote a little bit of self-indulgent fic tonight to reward myself for all my hard work on getting Chapter 2 of “The Van Dort Vacancy” done and making sure to get a rough draft of Moose’s gift fic done on time – specifically, the start of an alternate version of the Forgotten Vows Verse version of Alice and Bumby’s confrontation at Moorgate Station! This version is one of those “Smiler in Forgotten Vows” variants (where Smiler and Victor had a thing before Smiler got sent to rural Lithuania by Kelman to keep them away from Victor) and has as its backstory Smiler getting back to London in time to meet Alice BEFORE she confronts Bumby (around the time she does the Dollhouse in fact), and them tagging along as she goes to yell at the asshole – only to be horrified when Thirteenified Victor shows up, and Bumby tries to get him to kill Alice. Cue poor Victor’s brain being pulled temporarily in three different directions by Smiler trying to get “pet” to stop and come to them, a confused and angry Bumby insisting “Thirteen” do as he’s told, and a desperate Alice telling Victor not to listen to Bumby because he’s not a goddamn number. I left off with Smiler kicking Bumby in the shin, and they and Alice managing to snap Victor out of his Thirteen state a bit, to the point where Victor at least somewhat recognizes Smiler and goes in for a hug. :) Might continue with this tomorrow – I’m enjoying the scene, and it would be nice to work on something that doesn’t necessarily need to be polished during the final day of my time off. “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” can wait until I start work again. *nods*
Tumblr: Interestingly, while I didn’t get to the stuff I was half-intended to get to on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) (got caught up in reading my Polyship Week 2025 fics), I did end up doing something on The Valice Multiverse – specifically, I answered an ask from an anon who said that, when a guy at their high school started a rumor that they’d had sex, they just told everyone it was bad sex and that he’d yelled out his mom’s name at one point. XD Inevitable High School!Alice approved of this way of handling things, saying she hoped the jerk now thought twice before spreading rumors, while Smiler commented they especially liked the “shouted out his mom’s name” detail – it was a good extra gross touch. XD Nice to get a decent ask over here after such a long drought!
FreeTube: Saturday is back to being CaFae Latte Compilation Day, so tonight’s video was the latest round-up – “CaFae Latte Season 81 - TikTok Compilation!” This was the “holiday special” compilation, and featured:
A) Drek doing another work-out session (aka waving a laser pointer around for her to chase) with the Sphinx in her woods on a snowy night, talking about holiday plans (the Sphinx didn’t have any, and was like “eh, not a party person, and cats are solitary creatures” when Drek said she could join his family’s Christmas dinner – Drek, under his breath: “lie”), Drek raising his rates for winter (because it’s cold and HE doesn’t have fur), Drek’s plans to go to trade school next year to become maybe a welder or electrician (and how learning about trade schools was one of two good things to come out of the whole mess with that asshole Conner accusing him of being a predator – the other being meeting Abby) – only for the Sphinx to suddenly smell something and hit Drek with a riddle: “Who feeds cannibals and is in my territory?” Drek guessed a bear, but apparently it was “the fucking Yule Cat!”
( This gets long, so behind a cut it goes! )
Not too bad -- I'm a little annoyed about not being able to get farther on my F:NV Modlist install, but hopefully I can figure out what I need to do tomorrow. And it was nice to just take a good chunk of the afternoon off to reread my own fic and chill out. :) And now I should consider heading to bed -- tomorrow, plans include posting my Fic Resolutions for the year on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) (should probably also reblog a Poets Of The Fall song, since I forgot to reblog one before the end of the year); seeing if I can finish the F:NV Modlist install and maybe get through character creation in the game if possible; continue working on my self-indulgent fic; and getting in a workout and watching the next episode of Jon's F:NV YOLO Remastered series. :) Hopefully all achievable goals, but we shall see. *nods* Night all!
