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Another Chilly Day
Apr. 21st, 2026 11:47 pmThough I think this one ended up a bit warmer than they originally predicted -- maybe mid 50s instead of low 50s. I could go outside without a hat in the afternoon, I know that much! And having the sun out all day helped too. *nods* Tomorrow's supposed to be a lot rainier and more miserable, sadly...meh. I really hope they're right about the end of the week being at least a bit nicer!
Anyway -- proper workday write-up of what I did today follows:
Work – My Tuesday in the office started out kind of busy, but quickly got quieter as the day went on (hooray). Main accomplishments of the day were:
A) Getting the morning credit card reports done and the checks scanned, as per usual – also ran a second set of Appeal reports for a day last week for Fiscal, since they wanted to double-check some charges
B) Helping the guy who came to fix our printer by printing some stuff as he fiddled with the settings (some of our reports and such have been coming out REALLY smudged lately) – seems like the problem was the printer was set to print on a mix of different types of paper. Not sure how that happened, but okay
C) Listening to a voicemail from a lady who said she’d gotten a thank-you letter for a one-time gift but had thought she’d made a pledge; determining that she’d forgotten to indicate on her card that she wanted to set up a pledge; and calling her back and setting up the pledge she wanted for her
D) Getting a credit card call from a woman who asked why her payments hadn’t been coming out for her pledge – turned out SHE hadn’t indicated she wanted automatic payments and thus I had to set that up for her
E) Finally getting in contact with two of the four people who had recurring gifts and pledges, explaining the situation, and learning they wanted to keep the recurring gifts, along with determining the third had meant to set up a pledge and had picked the wrong option, and doing a bunch of reversals to fix this
F) Doing some other reversals to fix some other stuff
G) And looking at some returned mail and discovering one lady whose tax letter was returned had passed, so obviously she wasn’t going to need it
Nothing particularly exciting, but I’m glad to have those recurring gift/pledge people mostly cleared up now! We’ll see how it is tomorrow – especially since my coworker today had to leave early as she didn’t feel good, so there’s a non-zero chance I’ll be on my own in the office...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – I returned to the OXBox channel for today’s pedal session to start something I’ve been meaning to watch for a while: “Let's Play Resident Evil Requiem: GRACE'S BOSS IS THE WORST | Episode 1!” AKA the first part of the Official OXBox LP of Resident Evil Requiem! Mostly because I saw they uploaded the FINAL episode today and was like “oh yeah, I wanted to watch that!” So now I can watch it all in one go. :) Managed to pedal my way through the first half-hour of Andy, Mike, and Jane’s adventures in RE9, which featured –
A) Andy being startled by the “FBI Midwest Field Office” text dramatically splashing itself across the image of an office building, then welcoming everyone back to the very first episode of the LP – Mike allowed that it was at the very least a “welcome back” to Resident Evil in general
B) Andy geeking out over Oswald Spencer (one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation and thus The Guy Responsible For All This Shit) being featured in one of the newspapers Grace Ashcroft, one of our two protagonists, was looking at in her introduction
C) Jane wondering what the hell the FBI actually INVESTIGATES because, being English, she’s only familiar with it from stuff like The X-Files and The Silence Of The Lambs; Mike and Andy hypothesized that, being a federal agency, they mostly did murders over state lines, and Jane welcomed any FBI agents in the chat to explain things further. XD Oh, and this was all done over the scene where Grace’s boss coerces her into going and investigating the Wrenwood Hotel as they found another mysterious body matching the MO of four others they were investigating there, essentially saying “I know that’s where your mother was murdered, but do it for me, please?” – Jane and the others had to clarify that yes, they knew that Grace was being sent to the Trauma Hotel and that they did consider her boss a dick because of it
( Long sum-up is long, who is surprised )
2. Continue edits on Chapter 5 of “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Partial check – thanks to the above write-up taking so long, me needing to answer all the reviews left on Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland,” and me wanting to take a moment to get back into the flow of things, I spent today’s writing time going over the beginning of Chapter 5 and making just a couple of tweaks here and there. Not many, but I was able to correct a typo or two and reword a couple of awkward sentences. Tomorrow, hopefully, I will be able to pick up where I left off before taking The Long Break To Edit Chapter 6 Of LB:DQ! We’ll see!
3. Watch something on YouTube: Well, WeirdKev did link me to a YouTube Short this evening, so I guess that counts… Said short was by PunkeyDoodles8, with audio by _videojames_, didn’t have a proper name, and was I presume an animated version of a tumblr shitpost, where someone talked about how, if they had a time machine, they’d go forward in time to dig up their own bones. With an onlooker being like “...why?” and the original poster just going “They’re mine.” XD Very odd, as you might agree! WeirdKev wanted to know what I thought Doc would think of that – I said he and Marty would be like “...well, it doesn’t cause a paradox, but it is disturbing.” Which is a legit way to feel, I think.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there was nothing over on Valice Multiverse apart from WeirdKev’s direct message, but I managed to get something into the queue over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – the traditional “here’s a link to the start of the story now that I’ve posted the last chapter so you can read it over from the beginning if you want” post for “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland.” Just a nice way to wrap things up for that story, I feel.
Not too shabby -- though I once again despair over my inability to keep the damn workout video write-ups short. There's always just too much I want to talk about there! *sigh* I gotta figure out something...as it stands, though, I gotta get to bed, as my parents need my car tomorrow to get to one of Dad's appointments (the truck died on them today while they were out and about), and because of the timing, we have to leave way earlier than I usually do and drop me off at work earlier. Which sucks, but... So yeah, gotta get to bed now. Night all!
Anyway -- proper workday write-up of what I did today follows:
Work – My Tuesday in the office started out kind of busy, but quickly got quieter as the day went on (hooray). Main accomplishments of the day were:
A) Getting the morning credit card reports done and the checks scanned, as per usual – also ran a second set of Appeal reports for a day last week for Fiscal, since they wanted to double-check some charges
B) Helping the guy who came to fix our printer by printing some stuff as he fiddled with the settings (some of our reports and such have been coming out REALLY smudged lately) – seems like the problem was the printer was set to print on a mix of different types of paper. Not sure how that happened, but okay
C) Listening to a voicemail from a lady who said she’d gotten a thank-you letter for a one-time gift but had thought she’d made a pledge; determining that she’d forgotten to indicate on her card that she wanted to set up a pledge; and calling her back and setting up the pledge she wanted for her
D) Getting a credit card call from a woman who asked why her payments hadn’t been coming out for her pledge – turned out SHE hadn’t indicated she wanted automatic payments and thus I had to set that up for her
E) Finally getting in contact with two of the four people who had recurring gifts and pledges, explaining the situation, and learning they wanted to keep the recurring gifts, along with determining the third had meant to set up a pledge and had picked the wrong option, and doing a bunch of reversals to fix this
F) Doing some other reversals to fix some other stuff
G) And looking at some returned mail and discovering one lady whose tax letter was returned had passed, so obviously she wasn’t going to need it
Nothing particularly exciting, but I’m glad to have those recurring gift/pledge people mostly cleared up now! We’ll see how it is tomorrow – especially since my coworker today had to leave early as she didn’t feel good, so there’s a non-zero chance I’ll be on my own in the office...
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – I returned to the OXBox channel for today’s pedal session to start something I’ve been meaning to watch for a while: “Let's Play Resident Evil Requiem: GRACE'S BOSS IS THE WORST | Episode 1!” AKA the first part of the Official OXBox LP of Resident Evil Requiem! Mostly because I saw they uploaded the FINAL episode today and was like “oh yeah, I wanted to watch that!” So now I can watch it all in one go. :) Managed to pedal my way through the first half-hour of Andy, Mike, and Jane’s adventures in RE9, which featured –
A) Andy being startled by the “FBI Midwest Field Office” text dramatically splashing itself across the image of an office building, then welcoming everyone back to the very first episode of the LP – Mike allowed that it was at the very least a “welcome back” to Resident Evil in general
B) Andy geeking out over Oswald Spencer (one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation and thus The Guy Responsible For All This Shit) being featured in one of the newspapers Grace Ashcroft, one of our two protagonists, was looking at in her introduction
C) Jane wondering what the hell the FBI actually INVESTIGATES because, being English, she’s only familiar with it from stuff like The X-Files and The Silence Of The Lambs; Mike and Andy hypothesized that, being a federal agency, they mostly did murders over state lines, and Jane welcomed any FBI agents in the chat to explain things further. XD Oh, and this was all done over the scene where Grace’s boss coerces her into going and investigating the Wrenwood Hotel as they found another mysterious body matching the MO of four others they were investigating there, essentially saying “I know that’s where your mother was murdered, but do it for me, please?” – Jane and the others had to clarify that yes, they knew that Grace was being sent to the Trauma Hotel and that they did consider her boss a dick because of it
( Long sum-up is long, who is surprised )
2. Continue edits on Chapter 5 of “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Partial check – thanks to the above write-up taking so long, me needing to answer all the reviews left on Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland,” and me wanting to take a moment to get back into the flow of things, I spent today’s writing time going over the beginning of Chapter 5 and making just a couple of tweaks here and there. Not many, but I was able to correct a typo or two and reword a couple of awkward sentences. Tomorrow, hopefully, I will be able to pick up where I left off before taking The Long Break To Edit Chapter 6 Of LB:DQ! We’ll see!
3. Watch something on YouTube: Well, WeirdKev did link me to a YouTube Short this evening, so I guess that counts… Said short was by PunkeyDoodles8, with audio by _videojames_, didn’t have a proper name, and was I presume an animated version of a tumblr shitpost, where someone talked about how, if they had a time machine, they’d go forward in time to dig up their own bones. With an onlooker being like “...why?” and the original poster just going “They’re mine.” XD Very odd, as you might agree! WeirdKev wanted to know what I thought Doc would think of that – I said he and Marty would be like “...well, it doesn’t cause a paradox, but it is disturbing.” Which is a legit way to feel, I think.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there was nothing over on Valice Multiverse apart from WeirdKev’s direct message, but I managed to get something into the queue over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – the traditional “here’s a link to the start of the story now that I’ve posted the last chapter so you can read it over from the beginning if you want” post for “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland.” Just a nice way to wrap things up for that story, I feel.
Not too shabby -- though I once again despair over my inability to keep the damn workout video write-ups short. There's always just too much I want to talk about there! *sigh* I gotta figure out something...as it stands, though, I gotta get to bed, as my parents need my car tomorrow to get to one of Dad's appointments (the truck died on them today while they were out and about), and because of the timing, we have to leave way earlier than I usually do and drop me off at work earlier. Which sucks, but... So yeah, gotta get to bed now. Night all!
