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A Fairly Meeeeh Tuesday
Apr. 7th, 2026 11:49 pmThe weather was fairly crappy -- cold and partly cloudy, with wind and the occasional passing rain shower; the traffic to and from work was not great (with the ride in being especially annoying right at the end thanks to some badly-synced lights at the intersection I have to turn at leading to a lot of gridlock); and my Mom had to take an Uber to my work to borrow my car after the battery in the truck died (as she needed to bring Dad to the hospital for an MRI today to figure out why he's having a lot of neck pain these days). This AFTER arguing with the billing department at the hospital over a procedure we prepaid for but was never done (because of the aforementioned neck pain). So yeah, bit of a frustrating, annoying day overall. :( Though I have to say, my portion of it wasn't TOO bad:
Work – Well, my return to the office was happily not OVERLY busy, but I did have plenty to do –
A) After doing the usual morning reports, I spent a decent chunk of the morning going through our voicemails and calling a couple of people back – one who wanted a new billing statement for her pledge to replace her incorrect one (her last payment was processed after it went out), and one who wanted to remove himself, his parents, and his mother-in-law from the mailings (with further research revealing his mother-in-law and father were both dead, so I updated the records accordingly)
B) I also took a call from a guy looking to see if we had received his gift yet – we had not, which was worrying, as he apparently sent it out in January. As it was an IRA check, he said he’d call his broker to see if it had been cashed or not after my coworker and I confirmed we most definitely didn’t have it – we’ll see what happens and if he calls us back!
C) After lunch, I set about getting rid of some of the gifts that were on our system but were meant for the newspaper office – ironically, just as I was writing up the memo to Fiscal to get them to issue a check to the newspaper office, a guy called in to let me know that he too had sent in a gift intended for the newspaper that had been wrongly credited to the Appeal, so I had to update it to include that one (glad the guy called, but sheesh)
D) And then I spent most of the rest of the day doing some roster maintenance by going through some of the old obituaries I still had hanging around and cleaning up some people with similar names
And that and taking care of some exceptions we recently received was basically my day! No great shakes, but I was expecting it to be a LOT busier, so I will take that level of activity. We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – and I chose to stay the Hitman course this week by starting “HITMANNIVERSARY! Hitman 10th Anniversary Stream | The BEST Maps and Our NEVER-BEFORE-TRIED Missions” by OXBox during tonight’s stationary bike ride! And yes, Hitman (No Subtitle), the original in what became the World of Assassination trilogy, did in fact come out ten years ago – it was released in 2016. You may feel old now – the OXBoxers sure do! XD Anyway, the first half-hour of the stream featured:
A) Mike doing a quick community contract in Sapienza (their favorite map from the original game) to snipe a politician making a speech on the beach from the church’s clock tower, which involved:
I. Mike discovering that you can go into the butcher’s shop next to the apartment building where the ICA safehouse is (and that it has a big old freezer behind it)
II. Mike confirming that he has genuinely learned nothing over ten years of playing this game and its sequels (despite later claiming that this is his favorite game of all time, as he loves how interconnected everything is and how you can cause such lovely chaos; plus, Miami is just one of his favorite video game levels in general) by being unable to initially find the briefcase his sniper rifle was stashed in when he entered his safehouse (Andy had to point it out to him on the mini-map)
III. Mike executing the sniping mission quite easily, and everyone admitting that sniping targets is the most boring way to kill them
IV. And everyone wondering if Mike was going to end up with an unheard of “Silent Assassin, 5 Stars” rating on the hit, because he did it so quickly and professionally...only for him to somehow end up compromised while running up the street with his briefcase and only end up with “Marksman Sniper Assassin, 2 Stars.” Mike was rather annoyed. XD (To be fair, it probably never would have been a perfect score, as everyone immediately saw the guy die…)
( You know this got longer than I meant it to be )
2. Start final edits on Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I dropped Chapter 6 into the Document Manager over on fanfiction.net this eve, and spent roughly fifty minutes making my way through it again from the start! So far I’ve gotten through:
A) Victor giving Alice his museum maps (including an official one he updated with notes and scribbles indicating cameras, guard patrols, and other points of interest, and a homemade one he made of the restoration area down in the basement) and Alice being like “I’m grateful but damn Victor you really didn’t need to do this”
B) Victor and Alice talking a bit about how depressing it is that Victor is certain that his parents were never glad to see him when they came home, and how glad he is that he moved an ocean and the better part of a country away from them so he could figure out who HE is
C) Victor offering to let Alice feed on him before she left, and Alice’s first attempt to drink from his neck revealing that he, well, has a vamp-kink that he did not expect to make an appearance there
D) Alice successfully feeding from Victor’s arm, and discovering that he tastes utterly divine...and then somehow seeing one of his memories (his father bringing home Scraps), which utterly confused them both when she told him about it
E)And Alice prepping for her night out, getting her jacket, knife, pistol, and some ammo, and exchanging goodbyes with Victor before leaving
*nods* And there we have it! Not bad, I suppose! It got me all the way to the start of page 8, at least!
...of 67.
...fuck, I’m going to be at this for the rest of the month, aren’t I?
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check, but that’s no surprise these days – starting to think I should just remove this as a list item and just note if I manage to watch something in the “Other” section instead at this point. Meeeh.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check this Tuesday eve –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I slotted three things from my drafts into my queue for the week:
A) A gif of the original American McGee’s Alice version of Alice rocking on her heels in front of Cheshire by pixiecorpse (with my tags noting that I’ve always liked that as a go-to fidget for her) for Wednesday
B) A set of Smiler-themed virtual stamps (some animated, some not) by m0-th for Thursday
C) And a short video of some Victor and Emily moments from Corpse Bride (including them watching the butterfly in the woods, Emily returning his ring, and Emily dissolving into butterflies at the front of the church) for Friday!
So that’s all right! Still have to figure out Song Saturday, but that can be done tomorrow.
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had two asks to answer and pop into the queue:
A) One from an anon going “Behold! A thousand cereals! I collect cereals. It took me nine yeareals to collect the cereals. Yom Yom cereals good!” Which is probably another reference to something I haven’t seen...anyway, I had the Cuddlepile Valicer trio answer, with Smiler declaring the collection impressive and saying they liked the “yeareals” pun; Alice admitting she didn’t know they made this many types of cereal; Victor agreeing and saying this was genuinely impressive; and Smiler coming back in to say that the anon should open a cereal museum. Because that is the sort of thing they would suggest.
B) And one from mysterious-cat-official, earned during a game of Tumblr Snek, inquiring, “What video game has the best opening scene or level?” I replied OOC to this one, stating that the best opening scene belonged to Fallout: New Vegas, as I was genuinely wowed by the starting cinematic – and of course Benny’s speech right before he shoots you is a classic – but the best opening level belonged to Alice: Madness Returns, as the London stuff really hammered home Alice’s shitty situation, while the Vale of Tears stuff introduced you to the mechanics well and was very pretty to look at. *nods*
So that was nice too! Always good to get a little action over here.
*nods* Not too shabby, I suppose. And now I have to go to bed. We'll see what Wednesday brings -- night all!
Work – Well, my return to the office was happily not OVERLY busy, but I did have plenty to do –
A) After doing the usual morning reports, I spent a decent chunk of the morning going through our voicemails and calling a couple of people back – one who wanted a new billing statement for her pledge to replace her incorrect one (her last payment was processed after it went out), and one who wanted to remove himself, his parents, and his mother-in-law from the mailings (with further research revealing his mother-in-law and father were both dead, so I updated the records accordingly)
B) I also took a call from a guy looking to see if we had received his gift yet – we had not, which was worrying, as he apparently sent it out in January. As it was an IRA check, he said he’d call his broker to see if it had been cashed or not after my coworker and I confirmed we most definitely didn’t have it – we’ll see what happens and if he calls us back!
C) After lunch, I set about getting rid of some of the gifts that were on our system but were meant for the newspaper office – ironically, just as I was writing up the memo to Fiscal to get them to issue a check to the newspaper office, a guy called in to let me know that he too had sent in a gift intended for the newspaper that had been wrongly credited to the Appeal, so I had to update it to include that one (glad the guy called, but sheesh)
D) And then I spent most of the rest of the day doing some roster maintenance by going through some of the old obituaries I still had hanging around and cleaning up some people with similar names
And that and taking care of some exceptions we recently received was basically my day! No great shakes, but I was expecting it to be a LOT busier, so I will take that level of activity. We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – and I chose to stay the Hitman course this week by starting “HITMANNIVERSARY! Hitman 10th Anniversary Stream | The BEST Maps and Our NEVER-BEFORE-TRIED Missions” by OXBox during tonight’s stationary bike ride! And yes, Hitman (No Subtitle), the original in what became the World of Assassination trilogy, did in fact come out ten years ago – it was released in 2016. You may feel old now – the OXBoxers sure do! XD Anyway, the first half-hour of the stream featured:
A) Mike doing a quick community contract in Sapienza (their favorite map from the original game) to snipe a politician making a speech on the beach from the church’s clock tower, which involved:
I. Mike discovering that you can go into the butcher’s shop next to the apartment building where the ICA safehouse is (and that it has a big old freezer behind it)
II. Mike confirming that he has genuinely learned nothing over ten years of playing this game and its sequels (despite later claiming that this is his favorite game of all time, as he loves how interconnected everything is and how you can cause such lovely chaos; plus, Miami is just one of his favorite video game levels in general) by being unable to initially find the briefcase his sniper rifle was stashed in when he entered his safehouse (Andy had to point it out to him on the mini-map)
III. Mike executing the sniping mission quite easily, and everyone admitting that sniping targets is the most boring way to kill them
IV. And everyone wondering if Mike was going to end up with an unheard of “Silent Assassin, 5 Stars” rating on the hit, because he did it so quickly and professionally...only for him to somehow end up compromised while running up the street with his briefcase and only end up with “Marksman Sniper Assassin, 2 Stars.” Mike was rather annoyed. XD (To be fair, it probably never would have been a perfect score, as everyone immediately saw the guy die…)
( You know this got longer than I meant it to be )
2. Start final edits on Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I dropped Chapter 6 into the Document Manager over on fanfiction.net this eve, and spent roughly fifty minutes making my way through it again from the start! So far I’ve gotten through:
A) Victor giving Alice his museum maps (including an official one he updated with notes and scribbles indicating cameras, guard patrols, and other points of interest, and a homemade one he made of the restoration area down in the basement) and Alice being like “I’m grateful but damn Victor you really didn’t need to do this”
B) Victor and Alice talking a bit about how depressing it is that Victor is certain that his parents were never glad to see him when they came home, and how glad he is that he moved an ocean and the better part of a country away from them so he could figure out who HE is
C) Victor offering to let Alice feed on him before she left, and Alice’s first attempt to drink from his neck revealing that he, well, has a vamp-kink that he did not expect to make an appearance there
D) Alice successfully feeding from Victor’s arm, and discovering that he tastes utterly divine...and then somehow seeing one of his memories (his father bringing home Scraps), which utterly confused them both when she told him about it
E)And Alice prepping for her night out, getting her jacket, knife, pistol, and some ammo, and exchanging goodbyes with Victor before leaving
*nods* And there we have it! Not bad, I suppose! It got me all the way to the start of page 8, at least!
...of 67.
...fuck, I’m going to be at this for the rest of the month, aren’t I?
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check, but that’s no surprise these days – starting to think I should just remove this as a list item and just note if I manage to watch something in the “Other” section instead at this point. Meeeh.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check this Tuesday eve –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I slotted three things from my drafts into my queue for the week:
A) A gif of the original American McGee’s Alice version of Alice rocking on her heels in front of Cheshire by pixiecorpse (with my tags noting that I’ve always liked that as a go-to fidget for her) for Wednesday
B) A set of Smiler-themed virtual stamps (some animated, some not) by m0-th for Thursday
C) And a short video of some Victor and Emily moments from Corpse Bride (including them watching the butterfly in the woods, Emily returning his ring, and Emily dissolving into butterflies at the front of the church) for Friday!
So that’s all right! Still have to figure out Song Saturday, but that can be done tomorrow.
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had two asks to answer and pop into the queue:
A) One from an anon going “Behold! A thousand cereals! I collect cereals. It took me nine yeareals to collect the cereals. Yom Yom cereals good!” Which is probably another reference to something I haven’t seen...anyway, I had the Cuddlepile Valicer trio answer, with Smiler declaring the collection impressive and saying they liked the “yeareals” pun; Alice admitting she didn’t know they made this many types of cereal; Victor agreeing and saying this was genuinely impressive; and Smiler coming back in to say that the anon should open a cereal museum. Because that is the sort of thing they would suggest.
B) And one from mysterious-cat-official, earned during a game of Tumblr Snek, inquiring, “What video game has the best opening scene or level?” I replied OOC to this one, stating that the best opening scene belonged to Fallout: New Vegas, as I was genuinely wowed by the starting cinematic – and of course Benny’s speech right before he shoots you is a classic – but the best opening level belonged to Alice: Madness Returns, as the London stuff really hammered home Alice’s shitty situation, while the Vale of Tears stuff introduced you to the mechanics well and was very pretty to look at. *nods*
So that was nice too! Always good to get a little action over here.
*nods* Not too shabby, I suppose. And now I have to go to bed. We'll see what Wednesday brings -- night all!
