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Warm As Hell End To March
Mar. 31st, 2026 11:51 pmToday was SUPPOSED to be in the low-to-mid 60s, but according to my car, it was 75 F when I left the office today! Practically summer weather! I opened my windows for a bit when I got home. :) And tomorrow was already supposed to be warmer than today, so -- I guess we'll see what happens! Would be nice to get some good weather after all the bullshit we had this winter. *sigh* Anyway, here's the daily write-up:
Work – It was a somewhat stressful but also rather productive day at work today:
A) I managed to finish off the QC file for the latest round of thank-yous from yesterday...though I finished it later than I wanted to because of interruptions (like helping my coworker research a potential duplicate, and telling our database person to delete some extra pledges out of a credit card batch she was trying to post as the donor had made multiple ones by accident trying to get their card to go through), and I found a few more gifts that should have gone to the newspaper office in the process
B) I managed to track down a guy’s missing check for him by calling the parish and learning they still had it – cue him calling me a miracle-worker for getting back to him so quickly while I thought “dude, trust me, this was sheer luck” XD
C) I wrote an e-mail to a couple who had both a pledge and a recurring gift...and an EXTRA gift that I am PRETTY sure was intended for the wife’s mother (as it had a different name on the Give Central account I found the gift on, but the wife’s name on the credit card) to ask which they wanted to keep, and to confirm that the extra gift was for said other person
D) I went through the next bundle of exceptions after my supervisor had looked at it and made sure all the failed credit cards were properly blacked out and such (so many people this year have forgotten to include their expiration date with their main credit card number! Bit annoying, honestly)
E) I also told said supervisor about the credit card issue I’d discovered with our processors yesterday – turns out she’d missed my original e-mail, so I’m glad I spoke up! She called the affected donors while I issued a refund (fortunately, the affected payment had been uploaded in one of the batches that day)
F) And I did a bunch of reversals at the end of the day to clear up some other mistakes I’d found during my review of the QC file (mostly having to apply payments to pledges)
Whew! Busy day, with some definite annoying moments, but at least I got some shit done and some important problems cleared up. Now we just have to see what Wednesday brings – it is April Fool’s Day, after all...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” Today’s little-over-a-half-hour session covered –
A) Everyone exploring the secret virus lab underneath the mansion:
I. Andy was in total “squee” mode, talking about how cool it was that they’d gone so hard on this particular mission and basking in the Resident Evil-ness of it all. He particularly liked listening to the audio logs around the place – which consisted of one in an old lab of a scientist talking to Zachary about the virus and how, once they fixed the rat exploding problem, it could be reengineered into being cure for so many diseases (going on about how he hoped the virus had a badass name like the ones in the RE series), and one in the next hallway along, surrounded by dead bodies, that featured (I think, I’m not 100% sure) that same scientist cursing Zachary out for telling H.E.R.B. they were moving the virus AND giving the AI control of the lasers to stop them, before dying on-tape (yes, it DID mean that H.E.R.B. was the murdery sort of artificial intelligence, which could be problematic later, but it just had SUCH excellent RE vibes!). Seriously, it’s like this whole thing was tailor-made for Andy, given his delighted reactions. XD
II. Jane, by contrast, was all “oh, that’s what they always say!” about the scientist talking about how the virus could do so much good for mankind, grumbling about how they were always like “it’ll either cure everyone or turn them into zombies – we have to take that risk!” in these situations. Which, you know, is a fair reaction to have to things. She also continued taking snaps of things that interested her – namely, the face of one of the dead scientists in the hall, so she had evidence of H.E.R.B. being a little bit murdery (and probably that the woman was infected with something bad).
III. And Mike was just amused by the first log talking about the exploding rats (it IS an interesting problem to have during clinical trials). Though, to his credit, he was also the first one to spot through a little internal window where exactly Lilith had got to – a big old scary chamber deeper in the facility! He promptly went and chased her, pausing just momentarily over the body of the first scientist to toss a baseball in her general direction, much like he had with Alexa. And then retrieve it because, honestly, he might need that. :p
( My write-ups remain long )
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – in fact, I actually wrote up a whole page’s worth of new content tonight! Which was inspired by all the comments on the last chapter that told me “hey, LaCroix’s Dominate command to ‘not speak of this to the Anarchs’ regarding him deciding whether or not to call a Blood Hunt on Nines was too specific and Alice could have totally loopholed it by writing a note.” As I decided I didn’t want to change the original command (I considered it, but – I dunno, I liked it as it was), I instead wrote a new bit to explain why Alice didn’t go with the loophole, which consisted of –
A) Jack asking Alice to stick around for a moment when she bade him adieu, asking exactly what command LaCroix gave her when he Dominated her...and upon hearing it, telling her “for future reference, you can totally loophole that bullshit.” Cue Alice going very still as Jack explained that the whole “speak” part of the command meant that she probably could have gotten away with writing a note and slipping it under the door or something, before telling her that she shouldn’t worry about it, Nines knew some sort of bullshit like this was coming, and she’s so new to being a vampire, it’s not surprising she didn’t think of this. He just wanted her to know for the future!
B) And Alice, still unnaturally calm on the outside, thanking him for being helpful, leaving the bar, and proceeding into an alley...where she promptly screamed “YOU MOTHERFUCKERS” and turned on the Wonderlanders in full Hysteria mode, demanding to know why they hadn’t pointed out the loophole last night. Carpenter and Hatter both attempted to claim that they weren’t “omniknowing” and that, as figments of her imagination, they were kind of limited by the information she had, but Alice immediately called bullshit on that, pointing out that they warned her all the time about shit she shouldn’t logically know about, and wondering openly if they were trying to get her killed by not letting her warn Nines (The Queen Of Hearts: “Well–” Alice: “NOT YOU”) She then accused them of doing nothing but getting in her way and making her life harder –
Leading Hatter to angrily protest that they were plenty useful to her, and had warned her about all kinds of things in the past! In fact, she wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for Cheshire getting her out of Grout’s mansion! And Cheshire to appear on the scene and ask her to answer him one question before she continued trying to get violent – namely, if she really thought she would have been in a fit state to talk to anyone about Grout’s last night. (I mean, she managed to talk to Victor about it, but admittedly that was after a shower and him making a blanket nest for her…)
And that’s where I left it for the moment! Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up this new scene and start working our way toward finishing off the chapter proper. Would be nice to get it done this week so I can start the final editing pass next week...we will see!
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check again, unsurprisingly – the damn Workout Video Write-Up took too long once again. I have really got to reign in the amount of detail I go into with those things, especially when it gets to the point of me rewatching parts of the video to properly sum it up...
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Double check tonight, surprisingly –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got the next three days of my queue sorted with:
A) A mini-thread featuring a post by langernameohnebedeutung with a screenshot of a “how big is your English vocabulary” test asking what word was a synonym for “companion” – fool, mirror, entrapment, partner – and saying it had dropped some new ship dynamics, followed by a post by polyamorousmood featuring a meme picture of a hand preparing to smack a button labeled “all four” with the caption “(This is a poly meme all four are different people)” for Wednesday – I added some tags saying how the whole thing made me think of my “Four Victorians Riding a Roller Coaster” fivesome, with Victor as the original “companion,” Smiler as the “fool” (silliest one), Victoria as the “mirror” (most like Victor), Emily as the “entrapment” (trapped Victor in the Land of the Dead when she thought they were married), and Alice as the “partner” (only one left/Alice is the original other half of the OTP that this ship is built off of). :p It’s just fun, you know!
B) That post from lysimachias about how it doesn’t matter if a ship is supported by canon or even reasonable; what matters is if the thought of the characters being near each other makes you want to chew concrete for Thursday (because, again, Valice/Valicer mood)
C) And my post of “Valicer Not-Incorrect Quotes, Easter Edition” for Friday!
So that’s all nice – we’ll figure out Saturday tomorrow, hopefully!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I finally had an anon ask that I actually wanted to answer – a very silly one featuring an octopus facing off against a cat with a gun in each “hand,” and the cat taunting them that “You’re still one short, buddy!” After a bit of thought, I had the Inevitable High School!Alice reply that perhaps leaving the cat with a single life was actually the octopus’s aim – because as cruel as it would be to kill the cat, it would be crueler still to leave it with one life left, knowing that the next screw-up would be its last…
Followed by Smiler going “...I feel like you're taking this ridiculous hypothetical way too seriously.” XD Look, it just amused me – and hopefully it will amused the anon too!
And there we have it! And there I must leave you, because I absolutely have to get my ass to bed. *shakehead* Night all!
Work – It was a somewhat stressful but also rather productive day at work today:
A) I managed to finish off the QC file for the latest round of thank-yous from yesterday...though I finished it later than I wanted to because of interruptions (like helping my coworker research a potential duplicate, and telling our database person to delete some extra pledges out of a credit card batch she was trying to post as the donor had made multiple ones by accident trying to get their card to go through), and I found a few more gifts that should have gone to the newspaper office in the process
B) I managed to track down a guy’s missing check for him by calling the parish and learning they still had it – cue him calling me a miracle-worker for getting back to him so quickly while I thought “dude, trust me, this was sheer luck” XD
C) I wrote an e-mail to a couple who had both a pledge and a recurring gift...and an EXTRA gift that I am PRETTY sure was intended for the wife’s mother (as it had a different name on the Give Central account I found the gift on, but the wife’s name on the credit card) to ask which they wanted to keep, and to confirm that the extra gift was for said other person
D) I went through the next bundle of exceptions after my supervisor had looked at it and made sure all the failed credit cards were properly blacked out and such (so many people this year have forgotten to include their expiration date with their main credit card number! Bit annoying, honestly)
E) I also told said supervisor about the credit card issue I’d discovered with our processors yesterday – turns out she’d missed my original e-mail, so I’m glad I spoke up! She called the affected donors while I issued a refund (fortunately, the affected payment had been uploaded in one of the batches that day)
F) And I did a bunch of reversals at the end of the day to clear up some other mistakes I’d found during my review of the QC file (mostly having to apply payments to pledges)
Whew! Busy day, with some definite annoying moments, but at least I got some shit done and some important problems cleared up. Now we just have to see what Wednesday brings – it is April Fool’s Day, after all...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” Today’s little-over-a-half-hour session covered –
A) Everyone exploring the secret virus lab underneath the mansion:
I. Andy was in total “squee” mode, talking about how cool it was that they’d gone so hard on this particular mission and basking in the Resident Evil-ness of it all. He particularly liked listening to the audio logs around the place – which consisted of one in an old lab of a scientist talking to Zachary about the virus and how, once they fixed the rat exploding problem, it could be reengineered into being cure for so many diseases (going on about how he hoped the virus had a badass name like the ones in the RE series), and one in the next hallway along, surrounded by dead bodies, that featured (I think, I’m not 100% sure) that same scientist cursing Zachary out for telling H.E.R.B. they were moving the virus AND giving the AI control of the lasers to stop them, before dying on-tape (yes, it DID mean that H.E.R.B. was the murdery sort of artificial intelligence, which could be problematic later, but it just had SUCH excellent RE vibes!). Seriously, it’s like this whole thing was tailor-made for Andy, given his delighted reactions. XD
II. Jane, by contrast, was all “oh, that’s what they always say!” about the scientist talking about how the virus could do so much good for mankind, grumbling about how they were always like “it’ll either cure everyone or turn them into zombies – we have to take that risk!” in these situations. Which, you know, is a fair reaction to have to things. She also continued taking snaps of things that interested her – namely, the face of one of the dead scientists in the hall, so she had evidence of H.E.R.B. being a little bit murdery (and probably that the woman was infected with something bad).
III. And Mike was just amused by the first log talking about the exploding rats (it IS an interesting problem to have during clinical trials). Though, to his credit, he was also the first one to spot through a little internal window where exactly Lilith had got to – a big old scary chamber deeper in the facility! He promptly went and chased her, pausing just momentarily over the body of the first scientist to toss a baseball in her general direction, much like he had with Alexa. And then retrieve it because, honestly, he might need that. :p
( My write-ups remain long )
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – in fact, I actually wrote up a whole page’s worth of new content tonight! Which was inspired by all the comments on the last chapter that told me “hey, LaCroix’s Dominate command to ‘not speak of this to the Anarchs’ regarding him deciding whether or not to call a Blood Hunt on Nines was too specific and Alice could have totally loopholed it by writing a note.” As I decided I didn’t want to change the original command (I considered it, but – I dunno, I liked it as it was), I instead wrote a new bit to explain why Alice didn’t go with the loophole, which consisted of –
A) Jack asking Alice to stick around for a moment when she bade him adieu, asking exactly what command LaCroix gave her when he Dominated her...and upon hearing it, telling her “for future reference, you can totally loophole that bullshit.” Cue Alice going very still as Jack explained that the whole “speak” part of the command meant that she probably could have gotten away with writing a note and slipping it under the door or something, before telling her that she shouldn’t worry about it, Nines knew some sort of bullshit like this was coming, and she’s so new to being a vampire, it’s not surprising she didn’t think of this. He just wanted her to know for the future!
B) And Alice, still unnaturally calm on the outside, thanking him for being helpful, leaving the bar, and proceeding into an alley...where she promptly screamed “YOU MOTHERFUCKERS” and turned on the Wonderlanders in full Hysteria mode, demanding to know why they hadn’t pointed out the loophole last night. Carpenter and Hatter both attempted to claim that they weren’t “omniknowing” and that, as figments of her imagination, they were kind of limited by the information she had, but Alice immediately called bullshit on that, pointing out that they warned her all the time about shit she shouldn’t logically know about, and wondering openly if they were trying to get her killed by not letting her warn Nines (The Queen Of Hearts: “Well–” Alice: “NOT YOU”) She then accused them of doing nothing but getting in her way and making her life harder –
Leading Hatter to angrily protest that they were plenty useful to her, and had warned her about all kinds of things in the past! In fact, she wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for Cheshire getting her out of Grout’s mansion! And Cheshire to appear on the scene and ask her to answer him one question before she continued trying to get violent – namely, if she really thought she would have been in a fit state to talk to anyone about Grout’s last night. (I mean, she managed to talk to Victor about it, but admittedly that was after a shower and him making a blanket nest for her…)
And that’s where I left it for the moment! Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up this new scene and start working our way toward finishing off the chapter proper. Would be nice to get it done this week so I can start the final editing pass next week...we will see!
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check again, unsurprisingly – the damn Workout Video Write-Up took too long once again. I have really got to reign in the amount of detail I go into with those things, especially when it gets to the point of me rewatching parts of the video to properly sum it up...
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Double check tonight, surprisingly –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got the next three days of my queue sorted with:
A) A mini-thread featuring a post by langernameohnebedeutung with a screenshot of a “how big is your English vocabulary” test asking what word was a synonym for “companion” – fool, mirror, entrapment, partner – and saying it had dropped some new ship dynamics, followed by a post by polyamorousmood featuring a meme picture of a hand preparing to smack a button labeled “all four” with the caption “(This is a poly meme all four are different people)” for Wednesday – I added some tags saying how the whole thing made me think of my “Four Victorians Riding a Roller Coaster” fivesome, with Victor as the original “companion,” Smiler as the “fool” (silliest one), Victoria as the “mirror” (most like Victor), Emily as the “entrapment” (trapped Victor in the Land of the Dead when she thought they were married), and Alice as the “partner” (only one left/Alice is the original other half of the OTP that this ship is built off of). :p It’s just fun, you know!
B) That post from lysimachias about how it doesn’t matter if a ship is supported by canon or even reasonable; what matters is if the thought of the characters being near each other makes you want to chew concrete for Thursday (because, again, Valice/Valicer mood)
C) And my post of “Valicer Not-Incorrect Quotes, Easter Edition” for Friday!
So that’s all nice – we’ll figure out Saturday tomorrow, hopefully!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I finally had an anon ask that I actually wanted to answer – a very silly one featuring an octopus facing off against a cat with a gun in each “hand,” and the cat taunting them that “You’re still one short, buddy!” After a bit of thought, I had the Inevitable High School!Alice reply that perhaps leaving the cat with a single life was actually the octopus’s aim – because as cruel as it would be to kill the cat, it would be crueler still to leave it with one life left, knowing that the next screw-up would be its last…
Followed by Smiler going “...I feel like you're taking this ridiculous hypothetical way too seriously.” XD Look, it just amused me – and hopefully it will amused the anon too!
And there we have it! And there I must leave you, because I absolutely have to get my ass to bed. *shakehead* Night all!
