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Kinda Chill Monday
Jan. 12th, 2026 11:51 pmNothing particularly special, as days go -- here, look at my write-up and see what you think:
Work – Fortunately for my sanity, it wasn’t too bad a start to the work week – I ended up spending my Monday:
A) Doing the GL for Friday, which took most of the morning because our various processors uploaded a bunch of gifts that day
B) Calling the parishes that hadn’t said if they’d approved the second letter going out yet or not and talking to people/leaving messages (got a couple of approvals, at least)
C) Taking a few credit card calls – including one from a rather deaf lady that started taxing my patience by the end when she asked for the transaction ID (not her fault, I know, but there’s only so many times one can say “capital C for cat” into a telephone)
D) And, at the end of the day, doing a quick reversal and starting to take a look at the failed credit cards
Nothing too taxing, which I appreciated. Hopefully tomorrow will be more of the same, but we’ll find out!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with Jon AND Claire of Many A True Nerd, as I started “Fallout 3: Jon & Claire Are Still Sick So We're Speedrunning Fallout Live Special!” Yeah, this is the emergency “we’re sick and thus Jon can’t record a YOLO episode” livestream I stumbled upon the Sunday before last and watched a bit of – I decided yesterday that I was going to spend this week watching the whole thing. Partly because I genuinely did want to watch it – I was sure it was going to be funny – and partly because, while I love Oxventure, I didn’t feel like dealing with anything with a plot this week. The weekend with all its attendant bad news was too stressful, and my brain is getting mushy from PMS times, so – yeah. Putting off catching up on all the one-shots and Season 2s I’ve missed over there for a little while! They’re not going anywhere, I’m sure I’ll be able to get through them eventually. *nods* In the meantime, the first half-hour of the J & C FO3 Sickness Speedrun featured:
A) Jon explaining the reason for the emergency livestream – basically, he and Claire got sick over the holidays, and while they’d managed to recover from the worst of it by the time of the livestream, they both still sounded terrible, being prone to coughing and sniffling. Which made Jon unable to record his usual YOLO episode, because trying to cut out all his coughing and sniffling would completely desync the audio and the video, and he’s very fussy about his YOLO episodes being as good as they can be. So instead, he decided that a fun alternate activity would be a livestream where he tried out speedrunning Fallout 3, because he knew the game really well and thus how to skip large swathes of it (without glitching – well, without INTENTIONALLY glitching, this is a Bethesda game). He wasn’t trying to beat any world records or anything, he just wanted to have a good time with his fans and Claire while they continued recovering.
B) Jon setting the game’s difficulty at “Very Easy,” getting Claire to set up a timer (not on-screen, just on her phone in their house), and diving into creating his character, giving birth to (fairly literally, as the game starts with your character being born) the wonderful Player Name (who shall be known as P. N. for short)! The world’s most average-looking young man (as obviously Jon spent no time designing him), who has Strength 1, Perception 1, Endurance 10, Charisma 10, Intelligence 10, Agility 7, and Luck 1 as his stats (because Jon only cared about being able to take a hit, talk his way out of fights, and get many skill points). Perfectly balanced! XD
C) Jon doing his best to get the tutorial “living in the vault” section done as fast as possible, which included –
I. Totally ignoring his father’s ramblings about his mother and her favorite bible verse in the “One Year Old” section in favor of showing off how you move faster if you bunny hop and use diagonal moment instead of going in a straight line
II. Speeding around during the “Ten Years Old” section trying to figure out what he had to do to trigger his father to call Jonas downstairs and let him out of his own birthday party – which included desperately attempting (and failing) to avoid his friend Amata, and giving Butch a sweet roll that he’d spit on to gross him out; eventually he did the right thing and was released to complete the shooting tutorial
III. And completely ignoring Amata getting bullied by Butch and his Tunnel Snakes in the “Sixteen Years Old” section in favor of talking the teacher administering the G.O.A.T. test into letting him see the results page and just pick his own tagged skills (Speech – for talking his way out of trouble; Medicine – to make sure stimpacks worked better, and Guns – in case he did need to shoot someone)
D) Jon then escaping the vault after speeding through Amata’s dialogue at the beginning of that sequence...only to take a moment to kill Butch when he begged for help and steal his Tunnel Snakes outfit. XD He was almost deliriously happy about that, even if it dinged his time a bit. XD He also described the hacking mini-game as like Wordle when trying to explain it to Claire, which I found amusing. :P
E) Jon getting out of Vault 101 in fourteen minutes and proceeding west along the landscape, getting menaced by various enemies (mostly dogs and mole rats, though a super mutant or two took an interest – as they kept attacking P. N.’s back, Jon described the situation as gathering a conga line of enemies who kept getting distracted by each other) and leveling up to Level 2 (dumping all his skill points in Speech and taking the “Educated” perk to get even more skill points per level up, to get that sucker maxed as soon as possible).
So far, so fun! Jon’s being extremely goofy in this particular livestream video, and I am here for it. XD I left off with him realizing that he wasn’t 100% sure where the garage he was aiming for (which I presume leads to the vault his father is trapped in) actually WAS – tomorrow, we’ll see how long it takes him to find the garage, find his dad, and break said dad out of the Tranquility Lane simulation he’s trapped in!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter 6: Check – got a pretty solid chunk edited too, featuring:
A) Alice wandering around Simon Milligan’s apartment looking for him, and confirming he wasn’t in the downstairs bathroom, the laundry nook adjacent to the kitchen, the vent under the stairs, or the sitting area upstairs – which did have a TV in it (I’d actually genuinely forgotten he had one for a moment); Alice noted that was a weird place to put it, but said she wasn’t Simon’s interior decorator, causing Rabbit to point out that the place would be covered in marbles, jacks, and dominoes if she was XD
B) Alice entering Simon’s bedroom (which was very purple thanks to his beloved neon signs) and examining his desk set-up, which included a computer with two monitors (Hatter approved, saying it allowed you to at least feel like you were getting more done and thus break earlier to enjoy your tea), a pile of newspaper clippings with sensational headlines to mine for material (including one mentioning a creature being spotted in Griffith Park...and the other mentioning a haunted hotel, which I did not intend as a reference to the Ocean View Hotel, but probably is anyway) –
Aaand a blurry picture of a Nosferatu woman attacking a man. Alice quickly pocketed that, as you might imagine! No sense saving the man from one Masquerade violation, only to have him walk right into another!
C) And Alice finding Simon cowering in his closet, clearly not doing very well in the wake of discovering the supernatural is real and wants to eat him. Which is understandable, really. Alice did her best to keep him calm, telling him that yes, his crew is unfortunately dead, and if he doesn’t want to join them he’d better leave the city tonight and never tell a soul what he saw –
But then she made the mistake of weakly joking that she’d suggest the moon as a potential escape point if it was closer...and Simon’s mind, already rattled, snapped in that moment, causing him to start going on about how he had to catch and embrace the moon and tell her how much he loved her glow, before barreling out of his apartment to try and do just that. Whoops.
So yeah – Alice’s attempt to save Simon’s life didn’t exactly turn out how she expected! I ended on her frantically telling the Wonderlanders that that wasn’t her (and indeed it wasn’t – in this timeline anyway; in the game, if you’re playing a Malk, you do have to drive Simon mad via dialogue options to get his moon speech and keep him alive) – tomorrow, the Wonderlanders assure her they know it wasn’t and tell her that she’s done all she can – and thus, now it’s time to deal with Pisha...
3. Watch something on FreeTube: Check – the CaFae Latte behind-the-scenes video that was uploaded today was unfortunately an hour long, so I couldn’t watch that (I might see if I can fit it in later this week during my workouts after finishing the J & C FO3 Sickness Speedrun), but fortunately I had another, much shorter option for my entertainment – “Fun With Shorts: The Eagle and the Moon!” Josh snarking on a crudely-animated short depicting a Native American legend where the prince of a tribe went out with the Eagle to seek adventure; captured the sun and the moon with the help of his magic bow and brought them back to his village; then had to go looking for them after the Raven saw the sun and moon in the central building through the smokehole and stole them for his cave, leaving the world in eternal darkness. Fortunately the Eagle was willing to bail the prince’s ass out, find Raven’s cave, beat him up, and release the sun and moon from the boxes he’d stuffed them in – along with a bunch of bits of the sun that got broken off when the raven was trying to store it, which became the stars. It was an interesting little folktale, if not presented in the best way – and I did like Josh’s riffs pointing out that the Native American prince started this whole mess and technically got off scot-free. XD Just a bit of fun before bed!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A, as usual for my Mondays – no trip over to Valice Multiverse, and nothing I had to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler). We’ll see what I can cobble together for this week’s queue tomorrow!
*shrug* Nothing particularly exciting, as you can see -- but I'm happy I started that livestream, and happy that I got plenty of writing done. Slowly but surely getting back into the groove -- at least for the moment. Dad's got a doctor appointment tomorrow, so we'll see how THAT throws things off...for now, though, I should head to bed. Night all!
Work – Fortunately for my sanity, it wasn’t too bad a start to the work week – I ended up spending my Monday:
A) Doing the GL for Friday, which took most of the morning because our various processors uploaded a bunch of gifts that day
B) Calling the parishes that hadn’t said if they’d approved the second letter going out yet or not and talking to people/leaving messages (got a couple of approvals, at least)
C) Taking a few credit card calls – including one from a rather deaf lady that started taxing my patience by the end when she asked for the transaction ID (not her fault, I know, but there’s only so many times one can say “capital C for cat” into a telephone)
D) And, at the end of the day, doing a quick reversal and starting to take a look at the failed credit cards
Nothing too taxing, which I appreciated. Hopefully tomorrow will be more of the same, but we’ll find out!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with Jon AND Claire of Many A True Nerd, as I started “Fallout 3: Jon & Claire Are Still Sick So We're Speedrunning Fallout Live Special!” Yeah, this is the emergency “we’re sick and thus Jon can’t record a YOLO episode” livestream I stumbled upon the Sunday before last and watched a bit of – I decided yesterday that I was going to spend this week watching the whole thing. Partly because I genuinely did want to watch it – I was sure it was going to be funny – and partly because, while I love Oxventure, I didn’t feel like dealing with anything with a plot this week. The weekend with all its attendant bad news was too stressful, and my brain is getting mushy from PMS times, so – yeah. Putting off catching up on all the one-shots and Season 2s I’ve missed over there for a little while! They’re not going anywhere, I’m sure I’ll be able to get through them eventually. *nods* In the meantime, the first half-hour of the J & C FO3 Sickness Speedrun featured:
A) Jon explaining the reason for the emergency livestream – basically, he and Claire got sick over the holidays, and while they’d managed to recover from the worst of it by the time of the livestream, they both still sounded terrible, being prone to coughing and sniffling. Which made Jon unable to record his usual YOLO episode, because trying to cut out all his coughing and sniffling would completely desync the audio and the video, and he’s very fussy about his YOLO episodes being as good as they can be. So instead, he decided that a fun alternate activity would be a livestream where he tried out speedrunning Fallout 3, because he knew the game really well and thus how to skip large swathes of it (without glitching – well, without INTENTIONALLY glitching, this is a Bethesda game). He wasn’t trying to beat any world records or anything, he just wanted to have a good time with his fans and Claire while they continued recovering.
B) Jon setting the game’s difficulty at “Very Easy,” getting Claire to set up a timer (not on-screen, just on her phone in their house), and diving into creating his character, giving birth to (fairly literally, as the game starts with your character being born) the wonderful Player Name (who shall be known as P. N. for short)! The world’s most average-looking young man (as obviously Jon spent no time designing him), who has Strength 1, Perception 1, Endurance 10, Charisma 10, Intelligence 10, Agility 7, and Luck 1 as his stats (because Jon only cared about being able to take a hit, talk his way out of fights, and get many skill points). Perfectly balanced! XD
C) Jon doing his best to get the tutorial “living in the vault” section done as fast as possible, which included –
I. Totally ignoring his father’s ramblings about his mother and her favorite bible verse in the “One Year Old” section in favor of showing off how you move faster if you bunny hop and use diagonal moment instead of going in a straight line
II. Speeding around during the “Ten Years Old” section trying to figure out what he had to do to trigger his father to call Jonas downstairs and let him out of his own birthday party – which included desperately attempting (and failing) to avoid his friend Amata, and giving Butch a sweet roll that he’d spit on to gross him out; eventually he did the right thing and was released to complete the shooting tutorial
III. And completely ignoring Amata getting bullied by Butch and his Tunnel Snakes in the “Sixteen Years Old” section in favor of talking the teacher administering the G.O.A.T. test into letting him see the results page and just pick his own tagged skills (Speech – for talking his way out of trouble; Medicine – to make sure stimpacks worked better, and Guns – in case he did need to shoot someone)
D) Jon then escaping the vault after speeding through Amata’s dialogue at the beginning of that sequence...only to take a moment to kill Butch when he begged for help and steal his Tunnel Snakes outfit. XD He was almost deliriously happy about that, even if it dinged his time a bit. XD He also described the hacking mini-game as like Wordle when trying to explain it to Claire, which I found amusing. :P
E) Jon getting out of Vault 101 in fourteen minutes and proceeding west along the landscape, getting menaced by various enemies (mostly dogs and mole rats, though a super mutant or two took an interest – as they kept attacking P. N.’s back, Jon described the situation as gathering a conga line of enemies who kept getting distracted by each other) and leveling up to Level 2 (dumping all his skill points in Speech and taking the “Educated” perk to get even more skill points per level up, to get that sucker maxed as soon as possible).
So far, so fun! Jon’s being extremely goofy in this particular livestream video, and I am here for it. XD I left off with him realizing that he wasn’t 100% sure where the garage he was aiming for (which I presume leads to the vault his father is trapped in) actually WAS – tomorrow, we’ll see how long it takes him to find the garage, find his dad, and break said dad out of the Tranquility Lane simulation he’s trapped in!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter 6: Check – got a pretty solid chunk edited too, featuring:
A) Alice wandering around Simon Milligan’s apartment looking for him, and confirming he wasn’t in the downstairs bathroom, the laundry nook adjacent to the kitchen, the vent under the stairs, or the sitting area upstairs – which did have a TV in it (I’d actually genuinely forgotten he had one for a moment); Alice noted that was a weird place to put it, but said she wasn’t Simon’s interior decorator, causing Rabbit to point out that the place would be covered in marbles, jacks, and dominoes if she was XD
B) Alice entering Simon’s bedroom (which was very purple thanks to his beloved neon signs) and examining his desk set-up, which included a computer with two monitors (Hatter approved, saying it allowed you to at least feel like you were getting more done and thus break earlier to enjoy your tea), a pile of newspaper clippings with sensational headlines to mine for material (including one mentioning a creature being spotted in Griffith Park...and the other mentioning a haunted hotel, which I did not intend as a reference to the Ocean View Hotel, but probably is anyway) –
Aaand a blurry picture of a Nosferatu woman attacking a man. Alice quickly pocketed that, as you might imagine! No sense saving the man from one Masquerade violation, only to have him walk right into another!
C) And Alice finding Simon cowering in his closet, clearly not doing very well in the wake of discovering the supernatural is real and wants to eat him. Which is understandable, really. Alice did her best to keep him calm, telling him that yes, his crew is unfortunately dead, and if he doesn’t want to join them he’d better leave the city tonight and never tell a soul what he saw –
But then she made the mistake of weakly joking that she’d suggest the moon as a potential escape point if it was closer...and Simon’s mind, already rattled, snapped in that moment, causing him to start going on about how he had to catch and embrace the moon and tell her how much he loved her glow, before barreling out of his apartment to try and do just that. Whoops.
So yeah – Alice’s attempt to save Simon’s life didn’t exactly turn out how she expected! I ended on her frantically telling the Wonderlanders that that wasn’t her (and indeed it wasn’t – in this timeline anyway; in the game, if you’re playing a Malk, you do have to drive Simon mad via dialogue options to get his moon speech and keep him alive) – tomorrow, the Wonderlanders assure her they know it wasn’t and tell her that she’s done all she can – and thus, now it’s time to deal with Pisha...
3. Watch something on FreeTube: Check – the CaFae Latte behind-the-scenes video that was uploaded today was unfortunately an hour long, so I couldn’t watch that (I might see if I can fit it in later this week during my workouts after finishing the J & C FO3 Sickness Speedrun), but fortunately I had another, much shorter option for my entertainment – “Fun With Shorts: The Eagle and the Moon!” Josh snarking on a crudely-animated short depicting a Native American legend where the prince of a tribe went out with the Eagle to seek adventure; captured the sun and the moon with the help of his magic bow and brought them back to his village; then had to go looking for them after the Raven saw the sun and moon in the central building through the smokehole and stole them for his cave, leaving the world in eternal darkness. Fortunately the Eagle was willing to bail the prince’s ass out, find Raven’s cave, beat him up, and release the sun and moon from the boxes he’d stuffed them in – along with a bunch of bits of the sun that got broken off when the raven was trying to store it, which became the stars. It was an interesting little folktale, if not presented in the best way – and I did like Josh’s riffs pointing out that the Native American prince started this whole mess and technically got off scot-free. XD Just a bit of fun before bed!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A, as usual for my Mondays – no trip over to Valice Multiverse, and nothing I had to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler). We’ll see what I can cobble together for this week’s queue tomorrow!
*shrug* Nothing particularly exciting, as you can see -- but I'm happy I started that livestream, and happy that I got plenty of writing done. Slowly but surely getting back into the groove -- at least for the moment. Dad's got a doctor appointment tomorrow, so we'll see how THAT throws things off...for now, though, I should head to bed. Night all!
