Rainy Miserable Monday
May. 5th, 2025 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYeah, the weather was not great today -- it rained for most of the day, and was cloudy and wet and surprisingly cold for the rest of it. We've gone from it feeling like summer to feeling like late autumn. :( At least the lack of sun is good for letting my sunburns heal up, I suppose... Anyway -- here's how my day went:
Work – A quiet day to start the week off – mostly because one of my coworkers was late (I think a doctor’s appointment) and the other one never showed up at all. Meaning there was no yak-yak behind me. *shrugs* Suits me fine! I just did the GL, did some roster maintenance, took a few phone calls, did some credit card stuff (setting up a one-time gift and updating some pledges), and quickly checked over the exceptions when they arrived at the end of the day (in the world’s biggest envelope for some reason). We’ll see if tomorrow is more of the same or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Another night on the bike, pedaling my way through the end of “When work consumes your soul,” aka Gray plays Order 13! And as I guessed, Gray’s streak of staying alive despite the horrors ended when he got his basement certification – though not because the entities in the basement were worse, but because he decided to fuck around and find out what the monsters were attracted to (flashlight beam and the sound of him running, basically) and got beat up by a weird creature with an oversized bandaged head. Despite this, though, he stayed the course – picking his orders (which more and more often involved him grabbing human body parts along with the more usual items), packing said orders, shipping them out, and then spending his hard-earned pay on cool stuff for his cat and useful items for himself (including a nice big backpack for toting around things and another level of basement certification). And yes, he did get smacked around by the horrible monsters a few times along the way, but the only time he didn’t make quota was the day he chose to deliberately fail – and the minute he saw that he ended up OWING the company money, he stopped that shit real quick. XD Eventually, though, he earned enough to buy himself HR Certification, which got him into the Human Resources room –
Which, in this case, meant “humans AS resources” as it was essentially a giant combination lab/morgue. Complete with deformed bodies and yet another monstrous creature (this one with a butcher’s apron) wandering about. I don’t think any of us were actually surprised by this. XD However, it also had the code Gray needed to get through door 13 (or I3, Gray wasn’t sure) – so once he managed to work his way out of the basement, he sprinted over there and opened it up, escaping the warehouse after twelve days of horror! And, happily, the comments assured us that the game does not make you leave your cat behind when you escape. :) Fun stuff – I do like when Gray indulges in a horror game. He’s always so blasé about the horrors. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got through Alice arriving at Grout’s sprawling mansion tonight, with her asking the cabbie to stay in the area before heading for the front door – only to encounter Nines Rodriguez coming out of it. A Nines who was acting rather strange, in Alice’s opinion – as if he didn’t remember her telling him that she was coming up here to pester Grout into contacting his fellow primogen. Hmmmm. He sped off before she could get a clear answer out of what he was doing there, though, leading her to wonder if LaCroix had somehow gotten to him with his bullshit Dominate powers. As the March Hare said, it’s a good supposition! Wrong, but good! :P At any rate, she knows that whatever was going on with Nines, it’s related to what’s going on in the mansion. And as she has to go inside said mansion anyway, she might as well investigate. Tomorrow, we pick up with her getting introduced to Grout’s abode, and seeing what she thinks of the place! Hint – she isn’t going to like it much!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check – I got to the YouTubes late as always, so I only had time for one video. And, as usual, I prioritized the one from GrayStillPlays: “Slowest to Fastest Uber in GTA 5!” This torture board featured two challenges revolving around the transport of people through dangerous terrain:
I. In the first challenge, Gray was the one being transported through danger – to beat the board, he had to hire a cab, use it to get to the desert landing strip, then set up a waypoint atop a nearby elevated platform with the teleporter he needed to access before directing the cabbie to take him there. The goal was to get the cabbie to drive over the nearby field of yeeters in order to get flung high enough in the air that either the car landed on the platform, or Gray could fling himself out and parachute onto the platform. And no, Gray was not allowed to either hijack his own car (the game deleted it if he did) or just try to yeet himself on foot (he got teleported away to a far-away rock if he tried) – this was all about seeing if he could get the NPC to do the challenge for him while he was just along for the ride. As you might imagine, a couple of cabbies got their livelihoods crushed before Gray was able to find one that drove ONTO the yeeters instead of UNDER them – and even that guy’s car got pretty well smashed up as he drove around looking for the waypoint. It seriously resembled a banana more than a car by the end. But he eventually got flung high enough to get Gray to where he was going. And then promptly exploded. After spontaneously generating another passenger. Gray was rather confused by that. :p
II. And in the second challenge, Gray was the one doing the transporting through danger, picking up passengers in his banana-yellow truck and driving them across extremely chaotic landscapes full of ramps and rocks and jumps and dips to get them to their destination! Specifically, he had three passengers to pick up, one after the other, and he had to bring them to their respective drop-off circles before they gave up on him and got out of the truck bed – because if they did that, the car would end up despawning after a few seconds. On the PLUS side, Gray’s car picked up some upgrades as the challenge went on to help him become a five-star-rated driver – a big old battery in the front to soup up his engine, and afterburners in the back to give him the occasional boost. On the MINUS side, the time limit for getting everyone to their respective destinations was pretty damn tight, and the GTA V torture team did not make things easy for him. There were ramps! They were CANTED ramps! There were leaps across broken bridges and through giant tires and past windmills (which really loved to fuck up Gray’s run)! There was a section where Gray had to drive on the regular roads, only all the drivers had it out for him thanks to a tiny bit of “chaos mod” shenanigans! Basically, this was a board where Gray really had to concentrate on demonstrating those parkour skills – and while he did get every passenger to their destination in the end, it took some doing, let me tell you. Poor man struggled and struggled muchly. Which was very entertaining to watch. XD Always nice when they do something new with the GTA V challenges – while I am continually amazed at how much they can change up stair challenges, a little variety sometimes does not go amiss!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A – as usual for a Monday, I just didn’t find the time or energy to work on any of my drafts on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler). *sigh* We’ll see what happens tomorrow, when I actually have to get something in the queue!
*yawns* Not the greatest start to the work week, but not the worst either. Just wish I'd had some more mental energy to do something over on my tumblr other than read other people's posts...but then again, I have not been getting a great amount of sleep lately, so... Speaking of which, I'd better hit the sack -- night all!
Work – A quiet day to start the week off – mostly because one of my coworkers was late (I think a doctor’s appointment) and the other one never showed up at all. Meaning there was no yak-yak behind me. *shrugs* Suits me fine! I just did the GL, did some roster maintenance, took a few phone calls, did some credit card stuff (setting up a one-time gift and updating some pledges), and quickly checked over the exceptions when they arrived at the end of the day (in the world’s biggest envelope for some reason). We’ll see if tomorrow is more of the same or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Another night on the bike, pedaling my way through the end of “When work consumes your soul,” aka Gray plays Order 13! And as I guessed, Gray’s streak of staying alive despite the horrors ended when he got his basement certification – though not because the entities in the basement were worse, but because he decided to fuck around and find out what the monsters were attracted to (flashlight beam and the sound of him running, basically) and got beat up by a weird creature with an oversized bandaged head. Despite this, though, he stayed the course – picking his orders (which more and more often involved him grabbing human body parts along with the more usual items), packing said orders, shipping them out, and then spending his hard-earned pay on cool stuff for his cat and useful items for himself (including a nice big backpack for toting around things and another level of basement certification). And yes, he did get smacked around by the horrible monsters a few times along the way, but the only time he didn’t make quota was the day he chose to deliberately fail – and the minute he saw that he ended up OWING the company money, he stopped that shit real quick. XD Eventually, though, he earned enough to buy himself HR Certification, which got him into the Human Resources room –
Which, in this case, meant “humans AS resources” as it was essentially a giant combination lab/morgue. Complete with deformed bodies and yet another monstrous creature (this one with a butcher’s apron) wandering about. I don’t think any of us were actually surprised by this. XD However, it also had the code Gray needed to get through door 13 (or I3, Gray wasn’t sure) – so once he managed to work his way out of the basement, he sprinted over there and opened it up, escaping the warehouse after twelve days of horror! And, happily, the comments assured us that the game does not make you leave your cat behind when you escape. :) Fun stuff – I do like when Gray indulges in a horror game. He’s always so blasé about the horrors. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got through Alice arriving at Grout’s sprawling mansion tonight, with her asking the cabbie to stay in the area before heading for the front door – only to encounter Nines Rodriguez coming out of it. A Nines who was acting rather strange, in Alice’s opinion – as if he didn’t remember her telling him that she was coming up here to pester Grout into contacting his fellow primogen. Hmmmm. He sped off before she could get a clear answer out of what he was doing there, though, leading her to wonder if LaCroix had somehow gotten to him with his bullshit Dominate powers. As the March Hare said, it’s a good supposition! Wrong, but good! :P At any rate, she knows that whatever was going on with Nines, it’s related to what’s going on in the mansion. And as she has to go inside said mansion anyway, she might as well investigate. Tomorrow, we pick up with her getting introduced to Grout’s abode, and seeing what she thinks of the place! Hint – she isn’t going to like it much!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check – I got to the YouTubes late as always, so I only had time for one video. And, as usual, I prioritized the one from GrayStillPlays: “Slowest to Fastest Uber in GTA 5!” This torture board featured two challenges revolving around the transport of people through dangerous terrain:
I. In the first challenge, Gray was the one being transported through danger – to beat the board, he had to hire a cab, use it to get to the desert landing strip, then set up a waypoint atop a nearby elevated platform with the teleporter he needed to access before directing the cabbie to take him there. The goal was to get the cabbie to drive over the nearby field of yeeters in order to get flung high enough in the air that either the car landed on the platform, or Gray could fling himself out and parachute onto the platform. And no, Gray was not allowed to either hijack his own car (the game deleted it if he did) or just try to yeet himself on foot (he got teleported away to a far-away rock if he tried) – this was all about seeing if he could get the NPC to do the challenge for him while he was just along for the ride. As you might imagine, a couple of cabbies got their livelihoods crushed before Gray was able to find one that drove ONTO the yeeters instead of UNDER them – and even that guy’s car got pretty well smashed up as he drove around looking for the waypoint. It seriously resembled a banana more than a car by the end. But he eventually got flung high enough to get Gray to where he was going. And then promptly exploded. After spontaneously generating another passenger. Gray was rather confused by that. :p
II. And in the second challenge, Gray was the one doing the transporting through danger, picking up passengers in his banana-yellow truck and driving them across extremely chaotic landscapes full of ramps and rocks and jumps and dips to get them to their destination! Specifically, he had three passengers to pick up, one after the other, and he had to bring them to their respective drop-off circles before they gave up on him and got out of the truck bed – because if they did that, the car would end up despawning after a few seconds. On the PLUS side, Gray’s car picked up some upgrades as the challenge went on to help him become a five-star-rated driver – a big old battery in the front to soup up his engine, and afterburners in the back to give him the occasional boost. On the MINUS side, the time limit for getting everyone to their respective destinations was pretty damn tight, and the GTA V torture team did not make things easy for him. There were ramps! They were CANTED ramps! There were leaps across broken bridges and through giant tires and past windmills (which really loved to fuck up Gray’s run)! There was a section where Gray had to drive on the regular roads, only all the drivers had it out for him thanks to a tiny bit of “chaos mod” shenanigans! Basically, this was a board where Gray really had to concentrate on demonstrating those parkour skills – and while he did get every passenger to their destination in the end, it took some doing, let me tell you. Poor man struggled and struggled muchly. Which was very entertaining to watch. XD Always nice when they do something new with the GTA V challenges – while I am continually amazed at how much they can change up stair challenges, a little variety sometimes does not go amiss!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A – as usual for a Monday, I just didn’t find the time or energy to work on any of my drafts on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler). *sigh* We’ll see what happens tomorrow, when I actually have to get something in the queue!
*yawns* Not the greatest start to the work week, but not the worst either. Just wish I'd had some more mental energy to do something over on my tumblr other than read other people's posts...but then again, I have not been getting a great amount of sleep lately, so... Speaking of which, I'd better hit the sack -- night all!
