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This Is Turning Into "A Week" Tuesday
Feb. 10th, 2026 11:51 pmYeah, things at work were again kind of frustrating -- though for a different reason than yesterday -- and while Dad apparently started out having a good day, by the time I got home he was struggling with pain again and had a really hard time eating his supper. :( So that wasn't encouraging. At least the snow that we were supposed to get on the drive home ended up getting delayed until much later in the day -- just looked outside, and it's falling now. Hopefully it stays at the predicted one-to-two inches and doesn't turn into anything worse... Anyway, let me give you the write-up:
Work – As stated, it was a bit of a frustrating day at work today – not because of more credit card bullshit, but because the servers went down in the office! Yeah, there was apparently an issue during routine maintenance/updates overnight, and it took down all access to the shared drives (where we keep all our stuff) and the printers. So we couldn’t print anything, nor do anything that required us to open a file on the shared drive. Which, uh, didn’t leave a whole lot left to do, given how many of our various projects live on the shared drive and/or require us to print stuff...fortunately, roster maintenance is always a thing, and I was able to spend most of the day working through some of the older newspaper obituaries in our pile. We also had an issue with our credit card computer where I couldn’t get into it because it would NOT respond to the mouse or the keyboard for some reason – fortunately, after rebooting it twice, it finally allowed me to log in right before lunch, and I was able to do some credit card stuff for various callers in the afternoon. *shrug* Small victories! Still, though, it wasn’t exactly a great day – I’m hoping the damn servers are back up tomorrow! The GLs in particular are gonna pile up if we can’t get to them...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – tonight’s pedal session on the bike saw me get through –
A) The end of “Fallout: New Vegas - The Worst Courier - Grand Finale - How Useless Steve 'Saved' The World!” The last chunk of which featured –
I. Useless Steve getting himself an extremely rare piece of headgear – Eulogy Jones’s hat! Eulogy Jones, for the uninitiated, is a pimp that appears in Fallout 3 and NOT Fallout: New Vegas – but while he isn’t in the game, his hat IS. Specifically, his hat is in the possession of a vagrant ghoul named Rotface who lives in Freeside. You can give him caps in exchange for information on Freeside (which can help you with stuff like “Kings’ Gambit”), and once you’ve given him enough caps (and given him a moment to get changed by going through a load zone), he puts on the hat. He does not offer the hat to the Courier as thanks for giving him all that money, though – so how did Steve get it?
By shooting Rotface’s head off, because – very unfortunately for Rotface – he’s one of three NPCs you can kill in Freeside and NOT gain any infamy for doing so. (The other are Dixon, a rotten drug dealer with rotten highly-addictive drugs, and a random unnamed vagrant.) So yeah, Steve killed him and claimed the +1 Charisma hat for himself!
II. Useless Steve then returning to Goodsprings to get the final item he needed to talk down Legate Lanius at the end – a bottle of moonshine! Reason being, for some reason, moonshine doesn’t work like other alcohol in the game, in that it is NOT affected by your Survival skill when it comes to its effectiveness. Instead, it gives you a flat bonus of +2 Charisma (along with +2 Strength but -2 Intelligence), no matter what. Given Useless Steve did not have the Survival skill to boost the effectiveness of regular booze (like Whiskey, which had +1 Charisma), and the game wouldn’t let him stack different types of booze for more bonuses, getting a bottle of moonshine was critical to getting him the last few points of Speech he needed for the final chat. And, fortunately, while it appeared that poor Trudy was one of those who had fallen to the Reign Of The Radscorpions near the beginning of the series (though I was gratified to see at least Sunny was still alive), meaning Steve couldn’t buy any off her, there was still a bottle of the stuff tucked away in her old private office/storage room that he’d missed on an earlier raid. One careful steal later, and he was good to go!
III. Useless Steve then returning to Hoover Dam and kicking off the final battle by reporting to Colonel Moore, then hearing about the invasion of the Legion via a cutscene of a maintenance worker reporting to General Oliver! Oliver gave Steve his orders – get to the Legion camp on the eastern bank of the river and take out the Legate – and Steve set off!
And, uh, promptly started dying because the Legion are no joke (especially if they start picking up guns) and Steve forgot to bring enough ammo for the Q-35 and Pew Pew, meaning he burned through it all pretty fast. ...honestly, that feels pretty damn appropriate for Useless Steve. XD He did eventually fight his way through the lower levels of the Dam and up to the top, though, and fortunately that’s when his back-up started coming in – a contingent of Great Khans, some Boomers flying over and dropping bombs from their salvaged plane, NCR Ranger Alpha Squad, and of course the Enclave Remnants. With them providing extra firepower and more targets for the enemies to shoot at, Steve MOSTLY managed to survive traversing the top of the dam (he did die at least once more) – and even got up to Level 20! He chose to bring Energy Weapons up to 90 (as that meant it was maxed out in his power armor), Medicine to 26 (because he didn’t need the skill points anywhere else, might as well improve the efficiency of stimpacks) and take Fight The Power! as his perk (as it gave him +2 DT and +5% Critical Chance against anyone in the armor of the NCR, the Brotherhood, or – importantly – the Legion). He also nearly got one really badass moment where – having finally exhausted his supplies of ammo for everything but his BB gun – he attempted to use the power of ARCHIMEDES II on the Legion using his rangefinder –
Only for the damn orbital superweapon to bug out and just constantly send out its targeting lasers, without actually killing anyone. *shakehead* Again, feels very appropriate for Useless Steve, I must admit.
IV. Useless Steve then finally making it to the Legion camp on the eastern bank, accompanied by Cannibal Johnson from the Enclave Remnants (as the NCR won’t go through the door, but he will) – he promptly left Cannibal to fight the remaining Legionnaires inside while he used a Stealth Boy to sneak past everyone to where Legate Lanius was –
Where he proceeded to slap on his pajamas and pimp hat, take some Mentats, down an entire bottle of moonshine, and read a magazine about how to meet people, and use their powers combine to talk down Lanius by explaining that if he continued the fight at Hoover Dam and claimed the west for the Legion, it would be taken down by being spread too thin, and he’d lose control of the eastern territory he’d just conquered. A very well-reasoned argument from a drunk, high idiot in pajamas and a hat from FO3. XD Lanius was in fact so impressed by it that he forgot to murder the two NCR rangers he was supposed to kill in a scripted event and just ran off to secure his eastern holdings, leaving the two sacrificial lambs to mill around in confusion. Much like Useless Steve himself, honestly. XD
V. And Useless Steve heading back to the gate...and only to miss seeing it blow up to let in the NCR because the explosion was a bit delayed and he’d turned his back. XD Cue General Lee thanking him for his service, Useless Steve declaring it had been his duty –
And the game showing the ending slides! Which were mostly “the NCR gave Steve lots of accolades and successfully annexed the Strip, Freeside, and a good portion of the Mojave – and while they provided protection and helped improve trade in the area, they also levied VERY high taxes on the locals in places like Goodsprings and Primm, drove the Great Khans out of Red Rock Canyon, and drove the Followers of the Apocalypse out of Freeside. Also Veronica was very sad to discover the Brotherhood had been blown up; Arcade was sad that Freeside ended up part of the NCR, but got over it enough to eventually become a teacher in NCR territory; Rex adapted pretty well to having Rey’s brain in his skull; and the NCR managed to take back control of their jail because hilariously if you complete the quest associated with that you actually get the ‘bad’ ending slide but if you ignore it you get the ‘good’ ending slide. Because New Vegas.”
XD A very Useless Steve ending indeed! Except it wasn’t quite the end – because, while Useless Steve had beaten the main game, Jon wanted to take him into his favorite DLC for a game ever, “Old World Blues.” But not as he was – no no, Useless Steve had somehow managed to become a little too competent for his liking. Instead, he wanted not only to reset him, but ALSO to layer all sorts of OTHER restrictions on him. Leading into –
B) The first five minutes of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run!” Where Useless Steve was reset to total uselessness after getting into a scrap with some dangerous wildlife, going swimming when he couldn’t actually swim, and suffering some sort of incident with a cactus, putting him right back where he started at Doc Mitchell’s place (AKA Jon started a new save file with him), and then sent out to poke at a mysterious crashed satellite over at the Mojave Drive-In while Jon went over the rules as per the title:
Level 1 – Steve had to enter “Old World Blues” at exactly Level 1, with no experience under his belt. Unfortunately, discovering locations automatically gives you 10 XP per location, so he actually arrived at the Drive-In with 40 XP under his belt – fortunately, Jon was able to use console commands to wipe that away.
Naked – Steve was not allowed to bring anything into “Old World Blues” with him beyond the stuff the game wouldn’t let him discard – namely, his underwear (an old t-shirt and boxers) and his Pip-Boy. No other clothes, no weapons, no aid items, NADA. Empty inventory or nothing!
Useless – Steve had to enter “Old World Blues” at his most useless – hence the reset back to all SPECIAL at 1 and all skills at 5. He was not allowed even the slightest whiff of being competent yet!
Survival – Steve had to play under the modified “Hardcore” rules from his main series, where he didn’t have to worry about eating, drinking, or sleeping, but he did have to worry about ammo weight and stimpacks and Rad-Away healing gradually over time instead of all at once.
So yeah – this is going to be an interesting journey for old Steve. XD I left off with Steve touching the satellite and getting teleported into the Big MT – tomorrow, we see how he handles meeting the Think Tank and getting used to his new home The Sink! Should be lots of fun. :D
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through another just-over-a-page’s worth of edits tonight, covering –
A) Alice heading back to the T-junction in the ducts and deciding to investigate what was down the other branch of the T, getting slightly surprised when she found herself over the security camera room – and then rather more surprised when she put her hand on the grate and it swung open, nearly sending her toppling out of the hole. Fortunately, she managed to catch herself and haul herself and the grate back up, but it was a bit of a close call! Alice was suddenly very grateful the Insane Children had directed her down the other path before – after all, it would have been extremely bad if that had happened while the guard was still in the room! Alice could have straight-up landed on his head!
B) Alice discovering that this branch of the ventilation system ended right above what she presumed was another break room of sorts – at least, it had nice green walls, and some comfy green armchairs – occupied by the camera guard and his friend Caroline, still giggling over the joke he’d just told. Caroline then launched into a story about the drama between some mutual acquaintances that apparently keep breaking up and getting back together, only this time the male half had gotten involved with a DIFFERENT woman on one of the breaks – and while Alice found the whole thing rather entertaining, she also recognized that it meant Caroline and the camera guard wouldn’t be leaving the room anytime soon, meaning she had no chance of dropping in without getting caught. Meaning she had no choice but to head back to the bathroom and regroup. Ah well.
C) And Alice making her way back to the bathroom, straightening up the supply closet and preparing to leave after listening at the door to make sure no one was inside – only for someone to start coming inside. A startled Alice quickly darted inside a stall to hide, and moments later found herself next to another guard having a pee. She wasn’t exactly pleased. XD But she made the best of it, flushing a few toilet paper squares down the toilet and washing her hands (because she had just been crawling around in some dirty ductwork) before getting out the door and back into the shadows before anyone else could see her. Whew!
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with that. :) Every little step forward counts – even if some sections end up being longer than originally anticipated. *shakehead* One day I will actually finish this chapter...anyway, I left it with Alice tucked away in a corner, thinking about how that was a close call and how she wanted to avoid hurting anyone if she could help it – tomorrow, hopefully I can get her into the basement! Or at least a lot closer to it.
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – not because I didn’t have time to watch anything (though I really didn’t), but because there wasn’t anything to watch – OXtra didn’t upload a list video today. O.o Weird… I suppose I could have tried to watch Andy talking about Resident Evil: Requiem, but, as stated, I also didn’t really have time to watch anything tonight between the Useless Steve write-up and my LB:DQ editing. *shrug* We’ll see what pops up tomorrow!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – While I didn’t manage to come up with any new Not-Incorrect Quote scenes for the Valentine’s Day collection (come ON, brain, work with me here), I did at least get a couple of things put into the queue over here:
A) A reblog of a post by satyriconmp3 simply stating “utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people” for Wednesday (because mood)
B) And a reblog of a post by roodypatooti jokingly going “congratulations! your Polycule evolved into Polycruel!” (like it was a Pokemon), with polyamorousmood adding “When I return from the Family Function and am complaining about how it went and everyone I love is pulling out weapons” for Thursday (because the latter is a Valicer mood – Smiler and Alice are always down to fight Nell and William Van Dort)
So that’s the next two days sorted, at least! Though I gotta get my Friday and Saturday posts done sooner rather than later, that’s for sure...
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had one anon ask to chuck into the queue – one asking what happens on Galentine’s Day if you’re a queer woman? Are you expected to leave your wife or girlfriend at home while you celebrate with your friends, or can they come along? The Technicolor Phase ladies had no idea, being very new to the concept of Galentine’s Day in general, though Alice noted it was a question that very much needed answering, given their own situation (as Alice is romantically involved with Victoria and Emily in the Technicolor Phase verse). Emily was like “I was so looking forward to the picnic – the original person said it was all about ‘ladies celebrating ladies,’ so surely it’s acceptable to bring ladies you are romantically involved with,” but Alice countered that it sounded to her like Galentine’s Day was meant as an “antidote” to Valentine’s Day and thus it was a “no romance allowed” day, even if that romance was with other women. Victoria replied that the original anon specifically noted her and her friends leaving their “husbands and boyfriends” behind...but then ended on the hope that she came back and clarified things, because yeah – it was confusing. We’ll see what happens, I suppose!
Other: One explicitly-nice thing happened today – my aunt dropped off my very belated Christmas and birthday presents! The former proved to be just $50 in cash stuffed in a box; the latter a bumper sticker asking people to honk if they’d rather be watching Back to The Future and Michael J. Fox’s book Future Boy, about the filming of the original BTTF (what Michael remembers of it anyway, given he was pulling double duty as Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly through most of it). Nice stuff – I shot her a thank-you e-mail this afternoon, and will do a proper thank-you card soon. :)
And once again, I am getting to bed later than I should, but at least the entire damn entry is DONE this time. *shakehead* Again, small victories...night all!
Work – As stated, it was a bit of a frustrating day at work today – not because of more credit card bullshit, but because the servers went down in the office! Yeah, there was apparently an issue during routine maintenance/updates overnight, and it took down all access to the shared drives (where we keep all our stuff) and the printers. So we couldn’t print anything, nor do anything that required us to open a file on the shared drive. Which, uh, didn’t leave a whole lot left to do, given how many of our various projects live on the shared drive and/or require us to print stuff...fortunately, roster maintenance is always a thing, and I was able to spend most of the day working through some of the older newspaper obituaries in our pile. We also had an issue with our credit card computer where I couldn’t get into it because it would NOT respond to the mouse or the keyboard for some reason – fortunately, after rebooting it twice, it finally allowed me to log in right before lunch, and I was able to do some credit card stuff for various callers in the afternoon. *shrug* Small victories! Still, though, it wasn’t exactly a great day – I’m hoping the damn servers are back up tomorrow! The GLs in particular are gonna pile up if we can’t get to them...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – tonight’s pedal session on the bike saw me get through –
A) The end of “Fallout: New Vegas - The Worst Courier - Grand Finale - How Useless Steve 'Saved' The World!” The last chunk of which featured –
I. Useless Steve getting himself an extremely rare piece of headgear – Eulogy Jones’s hat! Eulogy Jones, for the uninitiated, is a pimp that appears in Fallout 3 and NOT Fallout: New Vegas – but while he isn’t in the game, his hat IS. Specifically, his hat is in the possession of a vagrant ghoul named Rotface who lives in Freeside. You can give him caps in exchange for information on Freeside (which can help you with stuff like “Kings’ Gambit”), and once you’ve given him enough caps (and given him a moment to get changed by going through a load zone), he puts on the hat. He does not offer the hat to the Courier as thanks for giving him all that money, though – so how did Steve get it?
By shooting Rotface’s head off, because – very unfortunately for Rotface – he’s one of three NPCs you can kill in Freeside and NOT gain any infamy for doing so. (The other are Dixon, a rotten drug dealer with rotten highly-addictive drugs, and a random unnamed vagrant.) So yeah, Steve killed him and claimed the +1 Charisma hat for himself!
II. Useless Steve then returning to Goodsprings to get the final item he needed to talk down Legate Lanius at the end – a bottle of moonshine! Reason being, for some reason, moonshine doesn’t work like other alcohol in the game, in that it is NOT affected by your Survival skill when it comes to its effectiveness. Instead, it gives you a flat bonus of +2 Charisma (along with +2 Strength but -2 Intelligence), no matter what. Given Useless Steve did not have the Survival skill to boost the effectiveness of regular booze (like Whiskey, which had +1 Charisma), and the game wouldn’t let him stack different types of booze for more bonuses, getting a bottle of moonshine was critical to getting him the last few points of Speech he needed for the final chat. And, fortunately, while it appeared that poor Trudy was one of those who had fallen to the Reign Of The Radscorpions near the beginning of the series (though I was gratified to see at least Sunny was still alive), meaning Steve couldn’t buy any off her, there was still a bottle of the stuff tucked away in her old private office/storage room that he’d missed on an earlier raid. One careful steal later, and he was good to go!
III. Useless Steve then returning to Hoover Dam and kicking off the final battle by reporting to Colonel Moore, then hearing about the invasion of the Legion via a cutscene of a maintenance worker reporting to General Oliver! Oliver gave Steve his orders – get to the Legion camp on the eastern bank of the river and take out the Legate – and Steve set off!
And, uh, promptly started dying because the Legion are no joke (especially if they start picking up guns) and Steve forgot to bring enough ammo for the Q-35 and Pew Pew, meaning he burned through it all pretty fast. ...honestly, that feels pretty damn appropriate for Useless Steve. XD He did eventually fight his way through the lower levels of the Dam and up to the top, though, and fortunately that’s when his back-up started coming in – a contingent of Great Khans, some Boomers flying over and dropping bombs from their salvaged plane, NCR Ranger Alpha Squad, and of course the Enclave Remnants. With them providing extra firepower and more targets for the enemies to shoot at, Steve MOSTLY managed to survive traversing the top of the dam (he did die at least once more) – and even got up to Level 20! He chose to bring Energy Weapons up to 90 (as that meant it was maxed out in his power armor), Medicine to 26 (because he didn’t need the skill points anywhere else, might as well improve the efficiency of stimpacks) and take Fight The Power! as his perk (as it gave him +2 DT and +5% Critical Chance against anyone in the armor of the NCR, the Brotherhood, or – importantly – the Legion). He also nearly got one really badass moment where – having finally exhausted his supplies of ammo for everything but his BB gun – he attempted to use the power of ARCHIMEDES II on the Legion using his rangefinder –
Only for the damn orbital superweapon to bug out and just constantly send out its targeting lasers, without actually killing anyone. *shakehead* Again, feels very appropriate for Useless Steve, I must admit.
IV. Useless Steve then finally making it to the Legion camp on the eastern bank, accompanied by Cannibal Johnson from the Enclave Remnants (as the NCR won’t go through the door, but he will) – he promptly left Cannibal to fight the remaining Legionnaires inside while he used a Stealth Boy to sneak past everyone to where Legate Lanius was –
Where he proceeded to slap on his pajamas and pimp hat, take some Mentats, down an entire bottle of moonshine, and read a magazine about how to meet people, and use their powers combine to talk down Lanius by explaining that if he continued the fight at Hoover Dam and claimed the west for the Legion, it would be taken down by being spread too thin, and he’d lose control of the eastern territory he’d just conquered. A very well-reasoned argument from a drunk, high idiot in pajamas and a hat from FO3. XD Lanius was in fact so impressed by it that he forgot to murder the two NCR rangers he was supposed to kill in a scripted event and just ran off to secure his eastern holdings, leaving the two sacrificial lambs to mill around in confusion. Much like Useless Steve himself, honestly. XD
V. And Useless Steve heading back to the gate...and only to miss seeing it blow up to let in the NCR because the explosion was a bit delayed and he’d turned his back. XD Cue General Lee thanking him for his service, Useless Steve declaring it had been his duty –
And the game showing the ending slides! Which were mostly “the NCR gave Steve lots of accolades and successfully annexed the Strip, Freeside, and a good portion of the Mojave – and while they provided protection and helped improve trade in the area, they also levied VERY high taxes on the locals in places like Goodsprings and Primm, drove the Great Khans out of Red Rock Canyon, and drove the Followers of the Apocalypse out of Freeside. Also Veronica was very sad to discover the Brotherhood had been blown up; Arcade was sad that Freeside ended up part of the NCR, but got over it enough to eventually become a teacher in NCR territory; Rex adapted pretty well to having Rey’s brain in his skull; and the NCR managed to take back control of their jail because hilariously if you complete the quest associated with that you actually get the ‘bad’ ending slide but if you ignore it you get the ‘good’ ending slide. Because New Vegas.”
XD A very Useless Steve ending indeed! Except it wasn’t quite the end – because, while Useless Steve had beaten the main game, Jon wanted to take him into his favorite DLC for a game ever, “Old World Blues.” But not as he was – no no, Useless Steve had somehow managed to become a little too competent for his liking. Instead, he wanted not only to reset him, but ALSO to layer all sorts of OTHER restrictions on him. Leading into –
B) The first five minutes of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run!” Where Useless Steve was reset to total uselessness after getting into a scrap with some dangerous wildlife, going swimming when he couldn’t actually swim, and suffering some sort of incident with a cactus, putting him right back where he started at Doc Mitchell’s place (AKA Jon started a new save file with him), and then sent out to poke at a mysterious crashed satellite over at the Mojave Drive-In while Jon went over the rules as per the title:
Level 1 – Steve had to enter “Old World Blues” at exactly Level 1, with no experience under his belt. Unfortunately, discovering locations automatically gives you 10 XP per location, so he actually arrived at the Drive-In with 40 XP under his belt – fortunately, Jon was able to use console commands to wipe that away.
Naked – Steve was not allowed to bring anything into “Old World Blues” with him beyond the stuff the game wouldn’t let him discard – namely, his underwear (an old t-shirt and boxers) and his Pip-Boy. No other clothes, no weapons, no aid items, NADA. Empty inventory or nothing!
Useless – Steve had to enter “Old World Blues” at his most useless – hence the reset back to all SPECIAL at 1 and all skills at 5. He was not allowed even the slightest whiff of being competent yet!
Survival – Steve had to play under the modified “Hardcore” rules from his main series, where he didn’t have to worry about eating, drinking, or sleeping, but he did have to worry about ammo weight and stimpacks and Rad-Away healing gradually over time instead of all at once.
So yeah – this is going to be an interesting journey for old Steve. XD I left off with Steve touching the satellite and getting teleported into the Big MT – tomorrow, we see how he handles meeting the Think Tank and getting used to his new home The Sink! Should be lots of fun. :D
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through another just-over-a-page’s worth of edits tonight, covering –
A) Alice heading back to the T-junction in the ducts and deciding to investigate what was down the other branch of the T, getting slightly surprised when she found herself over the security camera room – and then rather more surprised when she put her hand on the grate and it swung open, nearly sending her toppling out of the hole. Fortunately, she managed to catch herself and haul herself and the grate back up, but it was a bit of a close call! Alice was suddenly very grateful the Insane Children had directed her down the other path before – after all, it would have been extremely bad if that had happened while the guard was still in the room! Alice could have straight-up landed on his head!
B) Alice discovering that this branch of the ventilation system ended right above what she presumed was another break room of sorts – at least, it had nice green walls, and some comfy green armchairs – occupied by the camera guard and his friend Caroline, still giggling over the joke he’d just told. Caroline then launched into a story about the drama between some mutual acquaintances that apparently keep breaking up and getting back together, only this time the male half had gotten involved with a DIFFERENT woman on one of the breaks – and while Alice found the whole thing rather entertaining, she also recognized that it meant Caroline and the camera guard wouldn’t be leaving the room anytime soon, meaning she had no chance of dropping in without getting caught. Meaning she had no choice but to head back to the bathroom and regroup. Ah well.
C) And Alice making her way back to the bathroom, straightening up the supply closet and preparing to leave after listening at the door to make sure no one was inside – only for someone to start coming inside. A startled Alice quickly darted inside a stall to hide, and moments later found herself next to another guard having a pee. She wasn’t exactly pleased. XD But she made the best of it, flushing a few toilet paper squares down the toilet and washing her hands (because she had just been crawling around in some dirty ductwork) before getting out the door and back into the shadows before anyone else could see her. Whew!
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with that. :) Every little step forward counts – even if some sections end up being longer than originally anticipated. *shakehead* One day I will actually finish this chapter...anyway, I left it with Alice tucked away in a corner, thinking about how that was a close call and how she wanted to avoid hurting anyone if she could help it – tomorrow, hopefully I can get her into the basement! Or at least a lot closer to it.
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – not because I didn’t have time to watch anything (though I really didn’t), but because there wasn’t anything to watch – OXtra didn’t upload a list video today. O.o Weird… I suppose I could have tried to watch Andy talking about Resident Evil: Requiem, but, as stated, I also didn’t really have time to watch anything tonight between the Useless Steve write-up and my LB:DQ editing. *shrug* We’ll see what pops up tomorrow!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – While I didn’t manage to come up with any new Not-Incorrect Quote scenes for the Valentine’s Day collection (come ON, brain, work with me here), I did at least get a couple of things put into the queue over here:
A) A reblog of a post by satyriconmp3 simply stating “utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people” for Wednesday (because mood)
B) And a reblog of a post by roodypatooti jokingly going “congratulations! your Polycule evolved into Polycruel!” (like it was a Pokemon), with polyamorousmood adding “When I return from the Family Function and am complaining about how it went and everyone I love is pulling out weapons” for Thursday (because the latter is a Valicer mood – Smiler and Alice are always down to fight Nell and William Van Dort)
So that’s the next two days sorted, at least! Though I gotta get my Friday and Saturday posts done sooner rather than later, that’s for sure...
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had one anon ask to chuck into the queue – one asking what happens on Galentine’s Day if you’re a queer woman? Are you expected to leave your wife or girlfriend at home while you celebrate with your friends, or can they come along? The Technicolor Phase ladies had no idea, being very new to the concept of Galentine’s Day in general, though Alice noted it was a question that very much needed answering, given their own situation (as Alice is romantically involved with Victoria and Emily in the Technicolor Phase verse). Emily was like “I was so looking forward to the picnic – the original person said it was all about ‘ladies celebrating ladies,’ so surely it’s acceptable to bring ladies you are romantically involved with,” but Alice countered that it sounded to her like Galentine’s Day was meant as an “antidote” to Valentine’s Day and thus it was a “no romance allowed” day, even if that romance was with other women. Victoria replied that the original anon specifically noted her and her friends leaving their “husbands and boyfriends” behind...but then ended on the hope that she came back and clarified things, because yeah – it was confusing. We’ll see what happens, I suppose!
Other: One explicitly-nice thing happened today – my aunt dropped off my very belated Christmas and birthday presents! The former proved to be just $50 in cash stuffed in a box; the latter a bumper sticker asking people to honk if they’d rather be watching Back to The Future and Michael J. Fox’s book Future Boy, about the filming of the original BTTF (what Michael remembers of it anyway, given he was pulling double duty as Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly through most of it). Nice stuff – I shot her a thank-you e-mail this afternoon, and will do a proper thank-you card soon. :)
And once again, I am getting to bed later than I should, but at least the entire damn entry is DONE this time. *shakehead* Again, small victories...night all!
