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After a false alarm when I first got up, it came this morning probably on the ride in to work -- I say this because, for the first time in a while, I didn't catch it in time to prevent some damage to my underwear. >( Very annoying when that happens! Fortunately I was able to cover it with the pad's wing and wash it out when I got home, but -- still. I don't like it when that happens. My period's annoying enough without potentially ruining my clothes in the bargain. Hmph. At least it's here now and thus should be mostly over by the time Valentine's Day rolls around on Saturday...
As for the rest of my day:
Work – Well, it was a long and hard battle, but our IT guys did manage to restore our access to the shared drive by lunchtime, and get our printers working by the end of the day. So hopefully tomorrow will be a normal day when it comes to work activities! As it was, today’s activities included:
A) Working a bit more on the obituaries, though it was admittedly hard to concentrate given my recently-arrived period
B) Taking a couple of credit card calls from people – one gift nearly didn’t go through, but fortunately actually charged when I retried it
C) Catching up on the usual morning reports when access to the shared drive was restored
D) Talking to my contact at the credit card company and telling her about some of the woes we’ve been having (including various errors and missing payments) – I don’t expect anything to come of it, but I’ve done my part
E) And researching more of the missing payments just to get an idea of what we’re dealing with
...you know, I didn’t feel particularly productive today because of my period, but that’s actually a decent amount of stuff I got done. I like it. *nods* We’ll see how tomorrow goes!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – got back on the bike tonight, pedaling my way to about the halfway point of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run!” Today’s chunklet featured:
A) Useless Steve waking up in The Sink after the intro slides, sporting a terrible patient’s gown to go with his terrible haircut, and looting whatever he could find around the place (which included a surprising amount of Sunset Sarsaparilla, some mad scientist scrubs – yes, genuinely what they were called – and a bunch of mentats, which should come in VERY handy) while Jon explained why he thought Steve actually might have a chance of completing the DLC! Namely, because “Old World Blues” is both designed for fairly experienced Couriers (Level 15+) bringing in their own weapons, AND the third DLC to come out, the weapons it offers to the player have to be pretty darn powerful to be worth their while. He fully expected Steve to die and die often, of course – Steve is useless and the enemies powerful – but once Steve got his hands on some proper weaponry, the odds would be evened a bit. A tiny, tiny bit. XD
( Long )
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – another night, another page of edits on this, covering:
A) Hatter asking Alice since when did she care about not cutting down everyone and everything in her path (prompted by her mental comment about how she’d like to avoid hurting any of the guards if she could from the end of yesterday’s session), and Alice retorting since she started dealing with corpses that don’t always dissolve into dust (the “always” being added because the vampires Alice has killed do dissolve like so) and people who can’t be brought back to life with just a thought, before reminding him and the others that the only reason she seems so bloodthirsty to THEM is because most of them tried to murder her at one point or another. Carpenter attempted to claim he hadn’t, but Alice immediately pointed out that what he’d done was simply farm out the job to the drowned sailors, which hadn’t worked out for him. And that he should be grateful that he did try to protect her from the Infernal Train when it rampaged through his theater, and was willing to change his diet when she brought him back, because otherwise...well, she didn’t specify, but it was pretty clear. :P
B) Alice then putting the kibosh on that conversation so she could figure out her next move – namely, finding the door to the basement, since she now had the key and it was still the most likely place to find the sarcophagus. She knew it wasn’t in the security area thanks to her little trip through the vents – and given the Wonderlanders had all encouraged her to go upstairs and snatch Stanley’s office keys, she figured it had to be in there. Fortunately, Rabbit was able to quickly find the office door for her –
Unfortunately, it was on the other side of the room – and unlike him, Alice was unwilling to hop, jump, and skip her way over. Mostly because she’d be noticed. She did tell him to park his butt by the door, though, so she’d know exactly which one to head toward once she got over there.
C)
3. Watch something on FreeTube: Check – as it turns out, OXtra ended up forgoing a list video this week, opting instead to talk about an upcoming game Ellen was eager to promote in “Pokémon Pokopia is a Dystopian Nightmare and I Love It!” Apparently back in January, Ellen was invited to Nintendo headquarters to preview some of the games coming out on the Switch in 2026, and Pokémon Pokopia was the one she ended up the most excited about. Mostly because it’s a cutesy, cozy game that is best described as “Animal Crossing mixed with Minecraft in the Pokémon universe” –
That has, as its plot, “You are a Ditto imitating its human trainer after all the humans mysteriously disappeared and their buildings fell to ruin, and now it’s up to you to take your trainer’s old Pokédex and help out all your struggling fellow Pokémon by building them nice habitats.” Yes, like any good Pokémon game, Pokémon Pokopia has some disturbing bones under all the cutesy meat, and those bones appear to be “congrats, you’re cleaning up the place after an apocalypse and learning just how helpless a lot of Pokémon are without their trainers.” And Ellen loves it as she loves some creepy vibes in her cozy games. XD Apart from the hints at the dystopian setting, though, the game does look very cute – I mean, it’s CLEARLY a reskin of an Animal Crossing game with Charmanders and Bulbasaurs and a slight bit of Minecraft aesthetic to the landscape, it has no choice but to be cute. And Ellen found the gameplay loop of “fixing up habitats for Pokémon, enticing them to move in, learning special moves from them, and using those moves to fix up more and better habitats” to be pleasantly engaging, so it seems like a solid title there too. I guess we’ll see if anyone agrees with her when the game releases in March – at any rate, I expect to see some of Ellen’s post-human Pokémon utopia on the channel once it’s on shelves and in Switch 2s! Should be very fun.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – mostly. I only had Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) to worry about tonight, and I finally came up with a couple of new Not-Incorrect Quote scenes to append to my old Valentine’s Day set – but due to having to scramble to finish all the rest of my write-ups, I was only able to get one done.
...and again, I will have to completely finish this tomorrow, because it is far too late and I HAVE to go to bed. I really have to reign in the level of detail I put into some of these write-ups...night all!
As for the rest of my day:
Work – Well, it was a long and hard battle, but our IT guys did manage to restore our access to the shared drive by lunchtime, and get our printers working by the end of the day. So hopefully tomorrow will be a normal day when it comes to work activities! As it was, today’s activities included:
A) Working a bit more on the obituaries, though it was admittedly hard to concentrate given my recently-arrived period
B) Taking a couple of credit card calls from people – one gift nearly didn’t go through, but fortunately actually charged when I retried it
C) Catching up on the usual morning reports when access to the shared drive was restored
D) Talking to my contact at the credit card company and telling her about some of the woes we’ve been having (including various errors and missing payments) – I don’t expect anything to come of it, but I’ve done my part
E) And researching more of the missing payments just to get an idea of what we’re dealing with
...you know, I didn’t feel particularly productive today because of my period, but that’s actually a decent amount of stuff I got done. I like it. *nods* We’ll see how tomorrow goes!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – got back on the bike tonight, pedaling my way to about the halfway point of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run!” Today’s chunklet featured:
A) Useless Steve waking up in The Sink after the intro slides, sporting a terrible patient’s gown to go with his terrible haircut, and looting whatever he could find around the place (which included a surprising amount of Sunset Sarsaparilla, some mad scientist scrubs – yes, genuinely what they were called – and a bunch of mentats, which should come in VERY handy) while Jon explained why he thought Steve actually might have a chance of completing the DLC! Namely, because “Old World Blues” is both designed for fairly experienced Couriers (Level 15+) bringing in their own weapons, AND the third DLC to come out, the weapons it offers to the player have to be pretty darn powerful to be worth their while. He fully expected Steve to die and die often, of course – Steve is useless and the enemies powerful – but once Steve got his hands on some proper weaponry, the odds would be evened a bit. A tiny, tiny bit. XD
( Long )
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – another night, another page of edits on this, covering:
A) Hatter asking Alice since when did she care about not cutting down everyone and everything in her path (prompted by her mental comment about how she’d like to avoid hurting any of the guards if she could from the end of yesterday’s session), and Alice retorting since she started dealing with corpses that don’t always dissolve into dust (the “always” being added because the vampires Alice has killed do dissolve like so) and people who can’t be brought back to life with just a thought, before reminding him and the others that the only reason she seems so bloodthirsty to THEM is because most of them tried to murder her at one point or another. Carpenter attempted to claim he hadn’t, but Alice immediately pointed out that what he’d done was simply farm out the job to the drowned sailors, which hadn’t worked out for him. And that he should be grateful that he did try to protect her from the Infernal Train when it rampaged through his theater, and was willing to change his diet when she brought him back, because otherwise...well, she didn’t specify, but it was pretty clear. :P
B) Alice then putting the kibosh on that conversation so she could figure out her next move – namely, finding the door to the basement, since she now had the key and it was still the most likely place to find the sarcophagus. She knew it wasn’t in the security area thanks to her little trip through the vents – and given the Wonderlanders had all encouraged her to go upstairs and snatch Stanley’s office keys, she figured it had to be in there. Fortunately, Rabbit was able to quickly find the office door for her –
Unfortunately, it was on the other side of the room – and unlike him, Alice was unwilling to hop, jump, and skip her way over. Mostly because she’d be noticed. She did tell him to park his butt by the door, though, so she’d know exactly which one to head toward once she got over there.
C)
3. Watch something on FreeTube: Check – as it turns out, OXtra ended up forgoing a list video this week, opting instead to talk about an upcoming game Ellen was eager to promote in “Pokémon Pokopia is a Dystopian Nightmare and I Love It!” Apparently back in January, Ellen was invited to Nintendo headquarters to preview some of the games coming out on the Switch in 2026, and Pokémon Pokopia was the one she ended up the most excited about. Mostly because it’s a cutesy, cozy game that is best described as “Animal Crossing mixed with Minecraft in the Pokémon universe” –
That has, as its plot, “You are a Ditto imitating its human trainer after all the humans mysteriously disappeared and their buildings fell to ruin, and now it’s up to you to take your trainer’s old Pokédex and help out all your struggling fellow Pokémon by building them nice habitats.” Yes, like any good Pokémon game, Pokémon Pokopia has some disturbing bones under all the cutesy meat, and those bones appear to be “congrats, you’re cleaning up the place after an apocalypse and learning just how helpless a lot of Pokémon are without their trainers.” And Ellen loves it as she loves some creepy vibes in her cozy games. XD Apart from the hints at the dystopian setting, though, the game does look very cute – I mean, it’s CLEARLY a reskin of an Animal Crossing game with Charmanders and Bulbasaurs and a slight bit of Minecraft aesthetic to the landscape, it has no choice but to be cute. And Ellen found the gameplay loop of “fixing up habitats for Pokémon, enticing them to move in, learning special moves from them, and using those moves to fix up more and better habitats” to be pleasantly engaging, so it seems like a solid title there too. I guess we’ll see if anyone agrees with her when the game releases in March – at any rate, I expect to see some of Ellen’s post-human Pokémon utopia on the channel once it’s on shelves and in Switch 2s! Should be very fun.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – mostly. I only had Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) to worry about tonight, and I finally came up with a couple of new Not-Incorrect Quote scenes to append to my old Valentine’s Day set – but due to having to scramble to finish all the rest of my write-ups, I was only able to get one done.
...and again, I will have to completely finish this tomorrow, because it is far too late and I HAVE to go to bed. I really have to reign in the level of detail I put into some of these write-ups...night all!
