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Less-Than-Productive Friday
Jan. 9th, 2026 11:52 pmPartly because I had a good chunk of my evening taken up by Game Night (a round of LIFE -- which I ended up winning thanks to a few lucky salary swaps and gaining a ton of LIFE tiles -- followed by three rounds of Sorry Revenge -- I won the first two, and Dad the third), and partly because Dad's side was playing up again, and -- yeah. Worrying about that is not conducive to getting much done! *sigh* But I managed to get a couple of things accomplished, as per the below write-up:
Work – I am pleased to report that, fortunately, the end of the work week was quieter than the day before – yes, we still had some credit card calls, but they weren’t coming in on top of each other, and my coworker actually took a few, so there was less pressure on me to keep on top of them. (Though, admittedly, since she does them so infrequently, I kind of had to double-check her work, but still.) The main activities of my day other than the calls were:
A) Doing the GL, which was pretty short and thus completed quickly
B) Talking to my supervisor about soft-credited gifts not showing up on one lady’s billing statement, and e-mailing our database people about it
C) Talking a few phone calls and receiving a few e-mails about the overpayments (most people were fine with moving them to the current appeal)
D) Working on that spreadsheet of new parishioners from one of the parishes
Nothing particularly exciting! Day may have dragged a little in spots, but I will always prefer “bored” to “stressed.” And besides, the quiet allowed me to catch up on all the calendar puzzle pages I hadn’t been able to do. :P We’ll see what things are like when I go back on Monday!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my final night on the bike this week saw me head over to Proxy Gate Tactician’s channel to pedal my way through another one of his ridiculous challenge videos: “Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 Using A Companion Cube?” (Which I admit, I ended up rewatching after Game Night because I’d had some problems concentrating/keeping up with his explanations while on the bike (damn PMS brain) and thus didn’t actually finish it during my workout. Bit embarrassing, that, but it was a very fun video, so I didn’t mind watching it again.) Now, you may be thinking that what he meant by that title is that he had to somehow use a crate that he decided to lug around to beat the game, as I initially assumed. After all – it’s not like he could actually get the Portal Companion Cube into the game, right?
WRONG! Because modders exist, and specifically mod creator Skirbie exists, and more importantly, mod creator Skirbie takes frankly ridiculous requests from YouTubers. XD Cue Proxy commissioning Skirbie to create for him a custom Companion Cube summon that weighs 80 pounds, does nothing, and is completely indestructible (except to falling into bottomless pits). He then picked up the magical equivalent of a portal gun (aka a modded version of the Arcane Gate spell available to Level 1 players and jazzed up with the appropriate orange and blue Portal glows), created a goofy-looking gnome named Wheatley to haul the affectionately-nicknamed “Cubert” around (little surprised he didn’t create a Chell, but maybe he couldn’t find a good face for her), and set out to beat the game using only the power of portals and the Improvised Melee Weapon action to swing Cubert into his enemies! Did he succeed?
( This is another long one, and well, contains spoilers )
2. Write something: No check – though I also wasn’t sure what I was going to work on tonight, as per the list item, so… Still, hopefully I can figure out something to noodle with tomorrow before trying to get back to a proper “three days of ‘Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland’ and three days of ‘The Van Dort Vacancy’” schedule again!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: ...well, as stated above, I ended up rewatching the video I (mostly) watched for my workout, so – check? Kind of? We’ll call it a half-check as it was a rewatch. At least I didn’t have anything else waiting!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while there was, as usual, nothing happening on Valice Multiverse, I actually added a couple of posts to my drafts to reblog later on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) this morning before work:
A) A post by sarakipin featuring some of her very pretty medieval fantasy artwork – I especially loved the picture of a hunter and their hounds above a bunny burrow...that happened to have a dragon sleeping in the main chamber at the bottom XD Someone’s about to get a nasty surprise…
B) And a post by upright-fool featuring the comic “Rings” by ND Stevenson, animator on She-Ra: Princess of Power among other things, which was about how he and his husband have changed over the course of their marriage – largely by transitioning from women to a transmasc nonbinary person and a trans man; ND had completed his transition by the time of the comic, and his hubby Lee was starting his – and how they’ve changed their rings to match (reforging each other’s bands to fit their new hands while keeping the same stones they love), and how, no matter how in flux they are, how ND knows that it will always be them for each other. :) It was just very sweet and I wanted to save it for later!
So yeah – glad I got that done this morning, because I don’t think I would have had the time tonight!
Yeah, definitely not my most productive night -- but what can you do? Especially with burgeoning PMS brain...anyway, I really need to get to bed. Tomorrow's plans include posting Moose's gift fic and answering her messages; returning to the Mojave to finish making Courier!Victor in Fallout: New Vegas; doing some form of writing (even if it's just making a "master doc" for my F:NV stuff); and keeping up with the latest from CaFae Latte. *nods* We'll see how all that goes - night all!
Work – I am pleased to report that, fortunately, the end of the work week was quieter than the day before – yes, we still had some credit card calls, but they weren’t coming in on top of each other, and my coworker actually took a few, so there was less pressure on me to keep on top of them. (Though, admittedly, since she does them so infrequently, I kind of had to double-check her work, but still.) The main activities of my day other than the calls were:
A) Doing the GL, which was pretty short and thus completed quickly
B) Talking to my supervisor about soft-credited gifts not showing up on one lady’s billing statement, and e-mailing our database people about it
C) Talking a few phone calls and receiving a few e-mails about the overpayments (most people were fine with moving them to the current appeal)
D) Working on that spreadsheet of new parishioners from one of the parishes
Nothing particularly exciting! Day may have dragged a little in spots, but I will always prefer “bored” to “stressed.” And besides, the quiet allowed me to catch up on all the calendar puzzle pages I hadn’t been able to do. :P We’ll see what things are like when I go back on Monday!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my final night on the bike this week saw me head over to Proxy Gate Tactician’s channel to pedal my way through another one of his ridiculous challenge videos: “Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 Using A Companion Cube?” (Which I admit, I ended up rewatching after Game Night because I’d had some problems concentrating/keeping up with his explanations while on the bike (damn PMS brain) and thus didn’t actually finish it during my workout. Bit embarrassing, that, but it was a very fun video, so I didn’t mind watching it again.) Now, you may be thinking that what he meant by that title is that he had to somehow use a crate that he decided to lug around to beat the game, as I initially assumed. After all – it’s not like he could actually get the Portal Companion Cube into the game, right?
WRONG! Because modders exist, and specifically mod creator Skirbie exists, and more importantly, mod creator Skirbie takes frankly ridiculous requests from YouTubers. XD Cue Proxy commissioning Skirbie to create for him a custom Companion Cube summon that weighs 80 pounds, does nothing, and is completely indestructible (except to falling into bottomless pits). He then picked up the magical equivalent of a portal gun (aka a modded version of the Arcane Gate spell available to Level 1 players and jazzed up with the appropriate orange and blue Portal glows), created a goofy-looking gnome named Wheatley to haul the affectionately-nicknamed “Cubert” around (little surprised he didn’t create a Chell, but maybe he couldn’t find a good face for her), and set out to beat the game using only the power of portals and the Improvised Melee Weapon action to swing Cubert into his enemies! Did he succeed?
( This is another long one, and well, contains spoilers )
2. Write something: No check – though I also wasn’t sure what I was going to work on tonight, as per the list item, so… Still, hopefully I can figure out something to noodle with tomorrow before trying to get back to a proper “three days of ‘Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland’ and three days of ‘The Van Dort Vacancy’” schedule again!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: ...well, as stated above, I ended up rewatching the video I (mostly) watched for my workout, so – check? Kind of? We’ll call it a half-check as it was a rewatch. At least I didn’t have anything else waiting!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while there was, as usual, nothing happening on Valice Multiverse, I actually added a couple of posts to my drafts to reblog later on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) this morning before work:
A) A post by sarakipin featuring some of her very pretty medieval fantasy artwork – I especially loved the picture of a hunter and their hounds above a bunny burrow...that happened to have a dragon sleeping in the main chamber at the bottom XD Someone’s about to get a nasty surprise…
B) And a post by upright-fool featuring the comic “Rings” by ND Stevenson, animator on She-Ra: Princess of Power among other things, which was about how he and his husband have changed over the course of their marriage – largely by transitioning from women to a transmasc nonbinary person and a trans man; ND had completed his transition by the time of the comic, and his hubby Lee was starting his – and how they’ve changed their rings to match (reforging each other’s bands to fit their new hands while keeping the same stones they love), and how, no matter how in flux they are, how ND knows that it will always be them for each other. :) It was just very sweet and I wanted to save it for later!
So yeah – glad I got that done this morning, because I don’t think I would have had the time tonight!
Yeah, definitely not my most productive night -- but what can you do? Especially with burgeoning PMS brain...anyway, I really need to get to bed. Tomorrow's plans include posting Moose's gift fic and answering her messages; returning to the Mojave to finish making Courier!Victor in Fallout: New Vegas; doing some form of writing (even if it's just making a "master doc" for my F:NV stuff); and keeping up with the latest from CaFae Latte. *nods* We'll see how all that goes - night all!
