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No Game Night Friday
Feb. 6th, 2026 11:52 pmYeah, Dad had another doctor's appointment today to get more pain meds/pain patches, and he was pretty wore out by the whole experience, so the decision was made to delay Game Night to Saturday. *shrug* Fine by me -- gave me a little more time this evening to finish my write-up of the day:
Work – Well, it wasn’t the worst workday to end the work week on:
A) My commute in wasn’t too bad – a little slow in spots, but there were no assholes trying to pull into the side of me, and I was able to park without backing up and driving back in TOO many times, so that was all right
B) I spent a good chunk of the morning doing the GL, then managed to get the credit card people to respond to my “hey, you didn’t turn the thing that you said you were going to turn off, off” e-mail by letting them know we’d gotten another returned card with a “validation failed” error – got a very terse “we’ll shut it off on Monday” reply, but I’ll take it
C) I then worked some on that spreadsheet of people who had balances on last year’s pledges, noting who’d actually paid off their pledge since the report was run, who had never paid anything, who was just one payment down...until running across a guy who had a credit card pledge and discovering that his payment from the first of January, while having successfully gone through, was straight-up not on the database. *heavy sigh* Cue me pivoting to checking out all the payments from the end of December straight through today to see which ones had been missed, because our credit card company is staffed by incompetent idiots
D) After a lunch break, I continued with my investigation, getting interrupted a few times to look up things for my coworker, respond to some more e-mails from the people I’d e-mailed about their overpayments (still all “just keep the money”), and take a couple of credit card calls from people I’d contacted about their failed credit card gifts
E) Then, to end out the day, I did a bunch of reversals to move overpayments onto new pledges, move old one-time gifts onto old pledges, and move one pledge payment onto the CORRECT pledge as it always ends up on the wrong one (two online pledges by the same person – fucking credit card people)
F) And my commute home after that was fine! Yes, the main drag was horribly trafficky again, and it was snowing (lightly, fortunately), but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it was yesterday, and I made it home a little earlier than normal for this week. Yay. :)
So yeah – lot of annoyance with the credit card stuff, but overall a decent enough Friday. We’ll see what happens on Monday, though – I suspect the GL is going to be a MONSTER given all the stuff that was posted by our processors today...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my last ride on the bike this week took me through the rest of “Fallout: New Vegas - The Worst Courier - Part 7 - Taking Out The Trash!” Which included:
A) Useless Steve visiting The Kings (hoping to get them to call a truce with the NCR) and agreeing to look into what’s going on with Orris, and completing it in the most chaotic way possible:
I. First, he hired Orris and watched him do his “let me kill all these fake thugs so you’ll be impressed and keep hiring me” routine...and because he had neither the Intelligence to notice that Orris only fired three shots at four guys, nor the Medicine to figure out that the thugs were playing dead, he thought the guy was totally legit
II. Then, he used his rangefinder to set the ARCHIMEDES II orbital superweapon on the “dead” thugs, causing them to spring up alive (if, uh, horrendously injured – the space laser may be a surprisingly weak weapon, all things considered, but it is not NOTHING either) – he quickly ran for the nearby gate to the Strip and let the Securitrons there handle them
III. Then, after reporting to The King that “Orris seems totally legit” and being told to hire him again because no he’s not, he hired Orris again, as requested, and followed him through the town –
Before watching in baffled horror as Orris just started shooting all the Kings on the street! For – reasons! Jon couldn’t figure it out either, beyond “maybe he somehow blames the Kings for the deaths of his friends?” At any rate, it was a slaughter, as Orris had proper metal armor and a good firearm, and the Kings – didn’t. Sorry Kings – this was not part of Useless Steve’s plan!
IV. Then, finally, Steve followed Orris to a certain spot, where Orris berated him for believing he’d be stupid enough to fall for that again and tried to set up an ambush –
But, uh, because his friends were already very dead, all that happened is that the game teleported the corpses of said friends behind Steve, and Orris was left to face Steve alone. And while Steve doesn’t have smarts, he does have power armor and a decent plasma weapon, so – Orris didn’t last too long. No need to figure out the con if the conman is no longer there, that’s what Steve says!
( Will spare your reading pages tonight )
2. Continue final edits on Chapter 3 of “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – in fact, I got on a roll and actually finished the final edits! Straight from Alice and Smiler discussing how they didn’t feel great about leaving Victor at the Van Dort mansion to the trio being reunited in the greenhouse and preparing to go to Victor’s room to pack up his things! Took me about an hour, which is longer than I meant to spend on it, but I was enjoying myself, so I kept at it until it was done. :) So this is now ready to post up – tomorrow, we’ll see about getting it on AO3 for the rest of you to enjoy!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – between summing up The Adventures Of Useless Steve (they’re so chaotic and thus take ages!) and the amount of time I spent on finishing final edits on Chapter 3 of “The Van Dort Vacancy” (well worth though), I just didn’t have the time. Catching up on the latest episode of “CaFae Tales” is going to have to wait until tomorrow, after Delayed Game Night!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while I didn’t have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I ended up with two anon asks to chuck into my queue on Valice Multiverse –
A) A sequel to yesterday’s “watch out, Galentine’s Day is on Friday the 13th this year” ask that I answered with the Technicolor Phase versions of Alice, Victoria, and Emily, which explained what Galentine’s Day was (as the Victorian women obviously had no idea). As per the anon, it’s basically a chance for women to go out, leaving their boyfriends and husbands at home, and “come and kick it breakfast style” – “It's like Lilith Fair minus the angst. Plus frittatas.” Technicolor!Alice didn’t know what a “Lilith Fair” or a “frittata” was, but considered the base idea – hanging out with your fellow ladies – sound, while Victoria also liked the sound of it, but noted that it would be harder for them to pull off (because, you know, Emily’s dead and all). Fortunately, Emily suggested that the two living ladies pack a picnic and instead visit her in the Land of the Dead for the occasion, and even added that if they didn’t want to leave Victor Upstairs all by his lonesome, they could bring him along for the initial trip and then leave him to hang out with Bonejangles and the Bone Boys while they did their thing. Alice agreed this was a good plan, and reiterated that she was pretty sure they could take anyone or anything that tried to fuck with them due to the date. :p So I guess the Technicolor Phase ladies are celebrating Galentine’s now! Good for them. :P
B) And a memey ask consisting of: “when a child goes to Build-A-Bear and constructs a teddy from the parts available no one bats an eye, but when I, Victor Frankenstein,” XD The Inevitable High School versions of Alice and Smiler answered this one, with Alice noting that the parts in Build-A-Bear aren’t active rotting or stolen from graveyards...before admitting the ask had her picturing Victor Frankenstein building his creation in Build-A-Bear to the horror of all those around him. Smiler promptly joked that it would take a lot of stuffing to fill up a creature that size. :P Just a bit of light-hearted fun!
*nods* I guess that's not too bad a Friday overall. And now it is time for me to go to bed -- tomorrow is supposed to be a snowy mess, so I will definitely be hanging out inside (apart from possibly having to help Mom shovel). Goals include seeing if I can finish off my Valicertine's stuff for Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler); posting Chapter 3 of "The Van Dort Vacancy;" playing some Baldur's Gate III; and watching the latest CaFae Tales. We'll see if I get anything else done or not. :P Night all!
Work – Well, it wasn’t the worst workday to end the work week on:
A) My commute in wasn’t too bad – a little slow in spots, but there were no assholes trying to pull into the side of me, and I was able to park without backing up and driving back in TOO many times, so that was all right
B) I spent a good chunk of the morning doing the GL, then managed to get the credit card people to respond to my “hey, you didn’t turn the thing that you said you were going to turn off, off” e-mail by letting them know we’d gotten another returned card with a “validation failed” error – got a very terse “we’ll shut it off on Monday” reply, but I’ll take it
C) I then worked some on that spreadsheet of people who had balances on last year’s pledges, noting who’d actually paid off their pledge since the report was run, who had never paid anything, who was just one payment down...until running across a guy who had a credit card pledge and discovering that his payment from the first of January, while having successfully gone through, was straight-up not on the database. *heavy sigh* Cue me pivoting to checking out all the payments from the end of December straight through today to see which ones had been missed, because our credit card company is staffed by incompetent idiots
D) After a lunch break, I continued with my investigation, getting interrupted a few times to look up things for my coworker, respond to some more e-mails from the people I’d e-mailed about their overpayments (still all “just keep the money”), and take a couple of credit card calls from people I’d contacted about their failed credit card gifts
E) Then, to end out the day, I did a bunch of reversals to move overpayments onto new pledges, move old one-time gifts onto old pledges, and move one pledge payment onto the CORRECT pledge as it always ends up on the wrong one (two online pledges by the same person – fucking credit card people)
F) And my commute home after that was fine! Yes, the main drag was horribly trafficky again, and it was snowing (lightly, fortunately), but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it was yesterday, and I made it home a little earlier than normal for this week. Yay. :)
So yeah – lot of annoyance with the credit card stuff, but overall a decent enough Friday. We’ll see what happens on Monday, though – I suspect the GL is going to be a MONSTER given all the stuff that was posted by our processors today...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my last ride on the bike this week took me through the rest of “Fallout: New Vegas - The Worst Courier - Part 7 - Taking Out The Trash!” Which included:
A) Useless Steve visiting The Kings (hoping to get them to call a truce with the NCR) and agreeing to look into what’s going on with Orris, and completing it in the most chaotic way possible:
I. First, he hired Orris and watched him do his “let me kill all these fake thugs so you’ll be impressed and keep hiring me” routine...and because he had neither the Intelligence to notice that Orris only fired three shots at four guys, nor the Medicine to figure out that the thugs were playing dead, he thought the guy was totally legit
II. Then, he used his rangefinder to set the ARCHIMEDES II orbital superweapon on the “dead” thugs, causing them to spring up alive (if, uh, horrendously injured – the space laser may be a surprisingly weak weapon, all things considered, but it is not NOTHING either) – he quickly ran for the nearby gate to the Strip and let the Securitrons there handle them
III. Then, after reporting to The King that “Orris seems totally legit” and being told to hire him again because no he’s not, he hired Orris again, as requested, and followed him through the town –
Before watching in baffled horror as Orris just started shooting all the Kings on the street! For – reasons! Jon couldn’t figure it out either, beyond “maybe he somehow blames the Kings for the deaths of his friends?” At any rate, it was a slaughter, as Orris had proper metal armor and a good firearm, and the Kings – didn’t. Sorry Kings – this was not part of Useless Steve’s plan!
IV. Then, finally, Steve followed Orris to a certain spot, where Orris berated him for believing he’d be stupid enough to fall for that again and tried to set up an ambush –
But, uh, because his friends were already very dead, all that happened is that the game teleported the corpses of said friends behind Steve, and Orris was left to face Steve alone. And while Steve doesn’t have smarts, he does have power armor and a decent plasma weapon, so – Orris didn’t last too long. No need to figure out the con if the conman is no longer there, that’s what Steve says!
( Will spare your reading pages tonight )
2. Continue final edits on Chapter 3 of “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – in fact, I got on a roll and actually finished the final edits! Straight from Alice and Smiler discussing how they didn’t feel great about leaving Victor at the Van Dort mansion to the trio being reunited in the greenhouse and preparing to go to Victor’s room to pack up his things! Took me about an hour, which is longer than I meant to spend on it, but I was enjoying myself, so I kept at it until it was done. :) So this is now ready to post up – tomorrow, we’ll see about getting it on AO3 for the rest of you to enjoy!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – between summing up The Adventures Of Useless Steve (they’re so chaotic and thus take ages!) and the amount of time I spent on finishing final edits on Chapter 3 of “The Van Dort Vacancy” (well worth though), I just didn’t have the time. Catching up on the latest episode of “CaFae Tales” is going to have to wait until tomorrow, after Delayed Game Night!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while I didn’t have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I ended up with two anon asks to chuck into my queue on Valice Multiverse –
A) A sequel to yesterday’s “watch out, Galentine’s Day is on Friday the 13th this year” ask that I answered with the Technicolor Phase versions of Alice, Victoria, and Emily, which explained what Galentine’s Day was (as the Victorian women obviously had no idea). As per the anon, it’s basically a chance for women to go out, leaving their boyfriends and husbands at home, and “come and kick it breakfast style” – “It's like Lilith Fair minus the angst. Plus frittatas.” Technicolor!Alice didn’t know what a “Lilith Fair” or a “frittata” was, but considered the base idea – hanging out with your fellow ladies – sound, while Victoria also liked the sound of it, but noted that it would be harder for them to pull off (because, you know, Emily’s dead and all). Fortunately, Emily suggested that the two living ladies pack a picnic and instead visit her in the Land of the Dead for the occasion, and even added that if they didn’t want to leave Victor Upstairs all by his lonesome, they could bring him along for the initial trip and then leave him to hang out with Bonejangles and the Bone Boys while they did their thing. Alice agreed this was a good plan, and reiterated that she was pretty sure they could take anyone or anything that tried to fuck with them due to the date. :p So I guess the Technicolor Phase ladies are celebrating Galentine’s now! Good for them. :P
B) And a memey ask consisting of: “when a child goes to Build-A-Bear and constructs a teddy from the parts available no one bats an eye, but when I, Victor Frankenstein,” XD The Inevitable High School versions of Alice and Smiler answered this one, with Alice noting that the parts in Build-A-Bear aren’t active rotting or stolen from graveyards...before admitting the ask had her picturing Victor Frankenstein building his creation in Build-A-Bear to the horror of all those around him. Smiler promptly joked that it would take a lot of stuffing to fill up a creature that size. :P Just a bit of light-hearted fun!
*nods* I guess that's not too bad a Friday overall. And now it is time for me to go to bed -- tomorrow is supposed to be a snowy mess, so I will definitely be hanging out inside (apart from possibly having to help Mom shovel). Goals include seeing if I can finish off my Valicertine's stuff for Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler); posting Chapter 3 of "The Van Dort Vacancy;" playing some Baldur's Gate III; and watching the latest CaFae Tales. We'll see if I get anything else done or not. :P Night all!
