Bad Mood Friday
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crossover_chickYeah, I was in a not-great state of mind for much of it, I'm afraid. Some of it was annoyance at the weather (which never did get as nice as they said it was -- it was actually pretty humid and cloudy for most of the day!), and the rest -- well, you'll see the reason in the "Work" section below:
Work – Rather quiet end to the work week – mostly because we weren’t processing anything thanks to it being the day they ran the reports for the end-of-fiscal-year audit. I thus did the GL for the last few gifts that were posted yesterday, then spent most of the rest of the day working on obituaries and cleaning up duplicates and other deceased people I found on the system. And fighting with our new online time card system, because apparently our internet protocols were blocking the actual “time card” page. *sigh* Got it working in the end, but it was a bit of a pain in the ass! And then we got a phone call right near the end of the day from a guy saying that he’d just gotten an e-mail that another payment on his pledge had failed, but that he’d already updated the card. And that he didn’t like that our website had forced him to set up another pledge instead of just letting him update the card normally. I told him that I could see the new pledge, paused the old one, and said we’d look into the issue – I think the problem is that he went to our main giving page, when he SHOULD have logged into our online provider’s page. Which, you know what, I don’t know if the giving page or the “hey your payment didn’t go through” e-mails make that clear. *sigh* Gotta talk with the credit card people and my boss about that next week, I think – see if we can make it more obvious where people are supposed to go to make those corrections! But it was a pretty okay day, all things considered –
And then I LEFT work, and things kinda turned to shit as I ran all my errands for the day. To put it simply:
-->getting gas was fine (and I was relieved to see the price at the pump had dropped a little by the time I pulled in to refill)
-->hitting the bank was mostly fine (the teller I was working with got hung up in the middle of one of my transactions by some computer stuff for a bit, and we both had to wait for the OTHER teller to stop yakking with a customer so she could come help, but I transferred the money I needed to transfer from one account to the other in the end, and got some walking-around cash for myself)
-->going to AAA to get an EZ-Pass transponder for any toll roads we encounter when we head out for our vacation in August? Not fully shit, but definitely not fun (Mom ended up taking the long way there because GOD FORBID we brave the main drag, which wasn’t even that busy today; I had to wait longer than I expected to actually get the transponder because it took longer than THEY thought to activate it (apparently a lot of people were in the “activation queue,” so to speak; and there was an issue with my registration that I had to fix when I got home – car IS registered, just some stuff was out of date).
So yeah – that’s why there’s no video game section here at all today – by the time we got home, and I’d spent some time combing through my personal papers and all that jazz, there was simply no time to play anything. Even a level of Superliminal would have taken too long. *sigh* Just – it’s frustrating, you know? Both the “hey there’s surprise shit you have to deal with” and the “no you don’t get any time to play video games on your first half-day Friday.” First world problems, I know, and I can do naught but deal with it, but – still. I was hoping for a much more relaxing Friday. :(
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my final night on the bike saw me return to The Sims 4 one more time as I pedaled my way through “I Created The Ultimate Supervillain | Super Sim Series 20” by Petey Plays It! The latest entry in the adventures of Tina, Super Sim Extraordinaire, this episode saw her fully embrace being a truly terrible person in her quest to overthrow vampire leader Rhiannon of the Underworld club! (I mean, she straight-up murdered Marley, Rhiannon’s right-hand vampire minion last time, so you wouldn’t think there was much more she could do, but…) Accordingly, this video saw Tina:
A) Give up her villainous “Triple Agent” lifestyle in favor of going back to the Criminal career and making her way up the “Boss” career path to become The Boss (and I gotta say, she rocked the old-timey mobster outfits that career path gave her)
B) Fill up the ranks of the Underworld club with her Grand Master vampire friend Sione (after Rhiannon tasked her with finding a powerful vampire to welcome into the club), her bestie from (some of) her college years Darryl, and – with the help of her mom Sally (more on this in a bit) – Evil spellcaster Dario, thus ensuring she had a solid base of members who were loyal to HER over Rhiannon when it came time to make her move
C) Finish upgrading her Servo Wheelio to Enhancement Level 10 – then tell her that she no longer needed a robot bodyguard, so she wanted to find her a nice apartment to live in (assuring her that she still wanted to be friends, and that if she had a need for her services, she’d call her back in); Wheelio was keen, and after a bit of apartment hunting, she found the perfect place for her and moved in with the help of $60,000 donated simoleons from Tina (proving that Tina CAN still be nice to some people)
D) While apartment hunting with Wheelio, breaking up two more marriages with her powerfully flirtatious ways, finally completing the Villainous Valentine aspiration (Petey was SO happy to be done with that one, given how hard it is to complete!)
E) Use the power of Ghastly Rituals to become a ghost and gain enough experience making messes (that poor Wheelio did her best to clean up, given this was before she moved out) to buy the final remaining evil ghost powers and thus become the Ultimate Evil Ghost, able to curse Sims with the Otherworldly Curse
F) Take a moment to buy more of Trashley’s boxes and complete their counterfeit art collection, because she is a Super Sim and she DOES have to complete every collection
G) Visit her mother Sally mid-episode with a request for Sally to learn and then brew a ton of Potions of Emotional Stability because Tina needed them to be able to steal more often and thus complete the Sticky Fingers aspiration quicker (she was currently limited by an eight-hour cooldown imposed upon her by an exhilarated moodlet she got every time she swiped something); Sally agreed, and we got to follow her adventures as the world’s most erratic spellcaster as she learned the recipe (Caster’s Alley had the tome she needed, fortunately, as experimenting on the cauldron did not work out), got the ingredients, and brewed up a storm! This is also when she met Dario the Evil spellcaster (having been sent to his Chestnut Ridge cottage by one of her colleagues) and pretty much immediately fell in lust. XD The whole reason she invited him into the Underworld club was to spend more time with him and try to convince him to become her husband. XD We’ll see how THAT storyline plays out later! Anyway, she ended up making 33 potions, and gifted them all to her daughter before passing out
H) Use those 33 potions to go on a stealing spree (after picking up the “Shameless” reward trait to avoid getting Embarrassed if she was caught), hitting up a bunch of museums and various mansions around the worlds to snag as many suits of armor and priceless works of art as she could get her hands on! Plus the occasional big-screen TV. Unfortunately, due to her need to drink a potion after every theft, Tina ran out of potions before stealing enough items to get up to the $250,000 necessary to complete the Sticky Fingers aspiration – but she got pretty damn close! Would have taken her a lot longer to get to that point WITHOUT the potions, that’s for sure!
I) Have her final confrontation with Rhiannon – which involved her heading over in ghost form and using her spectral powers to break into her house; stealing a painting right in front of her (finally completing the Sticky Fingers aspiration, yay!); confronting her with a secret she found on an earlier break-in and blackmailing her (which, combined with her sneaking into the Tiger Sanctuary at the start of the episode and finding a Tiger Inspector badge before being escorted out by security, completed the Seeker of Secrets aspiration); hitting her with the Otherworldly Curse; inviting the rest of the club over for a gathering so they’d start breaking Rhiannon’s appliances; challenging Rhiannon to a fight in front of everyone; losing that fight (vampires be tough, yo) and quickly switching tactics to butter Rhiannon up instead; and finally convincing Rhiannon to surrender leadership of the Underworld (completing the Leader Of The Pack aspiration)
J) Flush with victory, and not willing to give up the villain lifestyle yet (despite having completed EVERY “Deviance” aspiration), gather up all her most important items, sell the fruits of her thieving labor, and leave her secret villain bunker behind in favor of a lovely painter’s cabin (well, more of a rustic mansion) on the Crumbling Isle in Windenburg! The reason? She had thirteen Sims (ranging from Bella Goth and Bob Pancakes to Angela Pleasant and Lou Howell) that she wanted to lure to the lot by promising them a relaxing getaway, then take something specific from each of them. What was not revealed, but I suspect that this all has something to do with the Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack…
So yes – very productive, very evil episode for Tina! I am very much looking forward to the next one and the chaos it will inevitably bring. :D
2. Write WeirdKev’s Gift Fic: Check – I wrote up the first draft this afternoon, before my workout! Because I figured, well, if I didn’t have time for video games today, I could at least get a jump on my writing, and I intended to write the damn thing this weekend anyway (given their birthday is the 22nd and I need time for a second draft). WeirdKev requested a sequel to his Christmas fic (where LaCroix faced off against ghoul Zan Owlson, representing the new ghoul union), where LaCroix brought in Owlson’s old boss and nemesis Glomgold to come up with a plan on how to get rid of her and cripple the United Ghouls Of The Camarilla once and for all!
...given Glomgold is the one from the new version of Ducktales (Owlson too), the plan he came up with involved luring Owlson to Anarch headquarters; building a giant Trojan Butt for her to be tempted by; filling it with ghouled sharks (complete with a sprinkler system to keep them wet) to attack her when she opened it up; him and LaCroix standing on a nearby rooftop dressed as Santa Clauses throwing homemade chum down to get the sharks to attack the Anarchs; and then the Sheriff using a giant slingshot to catapult the Ankaran Sarcophagus into the middle of the mess and let the Antediluvian inside clear up the stragglers. With all of this secretly being to demoralize Owlson’s “greatest enemy” Phillianne Tropy (Kev’s OC and Owlson’s girlfriend), take over her holdings, and become the richest man around and finally show up Scrooge McDuck. XD (And I didn’t come up with any of that myself – it was all Kev! Dude knows what he wants.) LaCroix was at first merely perplexed by all this, but the minute Glomgold started talking about launching the Ankaran Sarcophagus off Venture Tower, he nearly got stabby with his letter opener. XD And eventually just ordered the Sheriff to get Glomgold out of his office. Glomgold BRIEFLY tempted him with the idea of using Alice to deliver the Trojan Butt so she too would be eaten by sharks, but LaCroix managed to resist the siren call of the nonsense. XD Fun one to write, I gotta say – hopefully Kev likes the final version!
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – got another OXBox list video out of the Watch Later tonight with “7 Baffling Game Concepts You Won't Believe Are Real!” Andy, Mike, and Jane going through some of the, uh, confusing games out there that got made despite their batshit concepts. Like Gender Wars, a halfway decent isometric shooter with a plot about men and women going to war against each other and all the sexism that implied (in both directions, actually – women were depicted as vapid losers obsessed with shopping, while men were depicted as vapid losers obsessed with beer). Or Forbes Corporate Warrior, a game where you supposedly learn about the stock market while roaming a vast expanse of rusted metal flooring, shooting cash at badly-made polygons that represent your competitors and making sure your reserves don’t run low (yes, for some reason the actual Forbes signed off on this nonsense). Or *deep breath* If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Had Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum?, a *gasps for air* a puzzle game where you have to find words on a randomized grid of letters to dig into the dirt and locate artifacts for a museum you’re setting up (ranging from crushed soda cans to dinosaur jaws), and every time you complete a level, you are allowed to give some of your letters pants that help increase your combos in some way (this is patently ridiculous and yet it clearly seemed like the most genuinely fun game of the bunch – Jane certainly liked it!) Basically, this whole list was proof that there are some very bizarre games out there – and not all of them are terrible tie-in games for food products! (I mean, some of them are – let’s not get started on the terrible point-and-click adventure game Animal with the old UK mascot for Peperami...)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – another day with nothing on to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), but I did have one anon ask to put into the queue over on Valice Multiverse – someone talking about the most eldritch creature in their D&D setting: an impossibly wide ape. Like, an ape that is somehow wider than anything else, while all its other proportions remain the same. It is known as – “Wide Ape.” XD I had the Cuddlepile!Valicer trio comment, with Alice saying “I guess that is the most descriptive name – and I name my Wonderlanders things like ‘Hatter’ and ‘Duchess,’ so who am I to judge;” Victor going “I think the wide ape is called whatever it wants to be called;” and Smiler wondering “so is it only impossibly wide from the front view? Or does it change as the viewing angle changes?” (A question I was wondering myself!) We’ll see if we get any more Wide Ape lore after this posts tomorrow!
Other: Just wanted to brag that I managed to win one of the games of Scrabble we played tonight (Mom won the other one, unsurprisingly – she’s quite good at this game). I simply got really lucky with a few of my words, in particularly managing to set up putting “ZEN” on one of the corner triple-world-score places. :) So that was nice, at least!
So yeah -- had some annoying stuff happen earlier in the day, but at least the evening was pretty nice. And now I should really go to bed, as I am QUITE tired. Non-cleaning Saturday tomorrow, woo -- goals include working on my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) drafts (want to get that post on the Teen Valicer Save done); figuring out what I want to do for video games (play Fallout 4 like I'd originally intended today? Do another level of Superliminal? Risk patching The Sims 4 and do some more building?); either update the FO4 Playthrough Progression or start Chapter 4 of "The Van Dort Vacancy;" and maybe see if I can get the two remaining OXBoxtra lists out of my Watch Later. We'll see what happens. Night all!
Work – Rather quiet end to the work week – mostly because we weren’t processing anything thanks to it being the day they ran the reports for the end-of-fiscal-year audit. I thus did the GL for the last few gifts that were posted yesterday, then spent most of the rest of the day working on obituaries and cleaning up duplicates and other deceased people I found on the system. And fighting with our new online time card system, because apparently our internet protocols were blocking the actual “time card” page. *sigh* Got it working in the end, but it was a bit of a pain in the ass! And then we got a phone call right near the end of the day from a guy saying that he’d just gotten an e-mail that another payment on his pledge had failed, but that he’d already updated the card. And that he didn’t like that our website had forced him to set up another pledge instead of just letting him update the card normally. I told him that I could see the new pledge, paused the old one, and said we’d look into the issue – I think the problem is that he went to our main giving page, when he SHOULD have logged into our online provider’s page. Which, you know what, I don’t know if the giving page or the “hey your payment didn’t go through” e-mails make that clear. *sigh* Gotta talk with the credit card people and my boss about that next week, I think – see if we can make it more obvious where people are supposed to go to make those corrections! But it was a pretty okay day, all things considered –
And then I LEFT work, and things kinda turned to shit as I ran all my errands for the day. To put it simply:
-->getting gas was fine (and I was relieved to see the price at the pump had dropped a little by the time I pulled in to refill)
-->hitting the bank was mostly fine (the teller I was working with got hung up in the middle of one of my transactions by some computer stuff for a bit, and we both had to wait for the OTHER teller to stop yakking with a customer so she could come help, but I transferred the money I needed to transfer from one account to the other in the end, and got some walking-around cash for myself)
-->going to AAA to get an EZ-Pass transponder for any toll roads we encounter when we head out for our vacation in August? Not fully shit, but definitely not fun (Mom ended up taking the long way there because GOD FORBID we brave the main drag, which wasn’t even that busy today; I had to wait longer than I expected to actually get the transponder because it took longer than THEY thought to activate it (apparently a lot of people were in the “activation queue,” so to speak; and there was an issue with my registration that I had to fix when I got home – car IS registered, just some stuff was out of date).
So yeah – that’s why there’s no video game section here at all today – by the time we got home, and I’d spent some time combing through my personal papers and all that jazz, there was simply no time to play anything. Even a level of Superliminal would have taken too long. *sigh* Just – it’s frustrating, you know? Both the “hey there’s surprise shit you have to deal with” and the “no you don’t get any time to play video games on your first half-day Friday.” First world problems, I know, and I can do naught but deal with it, but – still. I was hoping for a much more relaxing Friday. :(
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – my final night on the bike saw me return to The Sims 4 one more time as I pedaled my way through “I Created The Ultimate Supervillain | Super Sim Series 20” by Petey Plays It! The latest entry in the adventures of Tina, Super Sim Extraordinaire, this episode saw her fully embrace being a truly terrible person in her quest to overthrow vampire leader Rhiannon of the Underworld club! (I mean, she straight-up murdered Marley, Rhiannon’s right-hand vampire minion last time, so you wouldn’t think there was much more she could do, but…) Accordingly, this video saw Tina:
A) Give up her villainous “Triple Agent” lifestyle in favor of going back to the Criminal career and making her way up the “Boss” career path to become The Boss (and I gotta say, she rocked the old-timey mobster outfits that career path gave her)
B) Fill up the ranks of the Underworld club with her Grand Master vampire friend Sione (after Rhiannon tasked her with finding a powerful vampire to welcome into the club), her bestie from (some of) her college years Darryl, and – with the help of her mom Sally (more on this in a bit) – Evil spellcaster Dario, thus ensuring she had a solid base of members who were loyal to HER over Rhiannon when it came time to make her move
C) Finish upgrading her Servo Wheelio to Enhancement Level 10 – then tell her that she no longer needed a robot bodyguard, so she wanted to find her a nice apartment to live in (assuring her that she still wanted to be friends, and that if she had a need for her services, she’d call her back in); Wheelio was keen, and after a bit of apartment hunting, she found the perfect place for her and moved in with the help of $60,000 donated simoleons from Tina (proving that Tina CAN still be nice to some people)
D) While apartment hunting with Wheelio, breaking up two more marriages with her powerfully flirtatious ways, finally completing the Villainous Valentine aspiration (Petey was SO happy to be done with that one, given how hard it is to complete!)
E) Use the power of Ghastly Rituals to become a ghost and gain enough experience making messes (that poor Wheelio did her best to clean up, given this was before she moved out) to buy the final remaining evil ghost powers and thus become the Ultimate Evil Ghost, able to curse Sims with the Otherworldly Curse
F) Take a moment to buy more of Trashley’s boxes and complete their counterfeit art collection, because she is a Super Sim and she DOES have to complete every collection
G) Visit her mother Sally mid-episode with a request for Sally to learn and then brew a ton of Potions of Emotional Stability because Tina needed them to be able to steal more often and thus complete the Sticky Fingers aspiration quicker (she was currently limited by an eight-hour cooldown imposed upon her by an exhilarated moodlet she got every time she swiped something); Sally agreed, and we got to follow her adventures as the world’s most erratic spellcaster as she learned the recipe (Caster’s Alley had the tome she needed, fortunately, as experimenting on the cauldron did not work out), got the ingredients, and brewed up a storm! This is also when she met Dario the Evil spellcaster (having been sent to his Chestnut Ridge cottage by one of her colleagues) and pretty much immediately fell in lust. XD The whole reason she invited him into the Underworld club was to spend more time with him and try to convince him to become her husband. XD We’ll see how THAT storyline plays out later! Anyway, she ended up making 33 potions, and gifted them all to her daughter before passing out
H) Use those 33 potions to go on a stealing spree (after picking up the “Shameless” reward trait to avoid getting Embarrassed if she was caught), hitting up a bunch of museums and various mansions around the worlds to snag as many suits of armor and priceless works of art as she could get her hands on! Plus the occasional big-screen TV. Unfortunately, due to her need to drink a potion after every theft, Tina ran out of potions before stealing enough items to get up to the $250,000 necessary to complete the Sticky Fingers aspiration – but she got pretty damn close! Would have taken her a lot longer to get to that point WITHOUT the potions, that’s for sure!
I) Have her final confrontation with Rhiannon – which involved her heading over in ghost form and using her spectral powers to break into her house; stealing a painting right in front of her (finally completing the Sticky Fingers aspiration, yay!); confronting her with a secret she found on an earlier break-in and blackmailing her (which, combined with her sneaking into the Tiger Sanctuary at the start of the episode and finding a Tiger Inspector badge before being escorted out by security, completed the Seeker of Secrets aspiration); hitting her with the Otherworldly Curse; inviting the rest of the club over for a gathering so they’d start breaking Rhiannon’s appliances; challenging Rhiannon to a fight in front of everyone; losing that fight (vampires be tough, yo) and quickly switching tactics to butter Rhiannon up instead; and finally convincing Rhiannon to surrender leadership of the Underworld (completing the Leader Of The Pack aspiration)
J) Flush with victory, and not willing to give up the villain lifestyle yet (despite having completed EVERY “Deviance” aspiration), gather up all her most important items, sell the fruits of her thieving labor, and leave her secret villain bunker behind in favor of a lovely painter’s cabin (well, more of a rustic mansion) on the Crumbling Isle in Windenburg! The reason? She had thirteen Sims (ranging from Bella Goth and Bob Pancakes to Angela Pleasant and Lou Howell) that she wanted to lure to the lot by promising them a relaxing getaway, then take something specific from each of them. What was not revealed, but I suspect that this all has something to do with the Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack…
So yes – very productive, very evil episode for Tina! I am very much looking forward to the next one and the chaos it will inevitably bring. :D
2. Write WeirdKev’s Gift Fic: Check – I wrote up the first draft this afternoon, before my workout! Because I figured, well, if I didn’t have time for video games today, I could at least get a jump on my writing, and I intended to write the damn thing this weekend anyway (given their birthday is the 22nd and I need time for a second draft). WeirdKev requested a sequel to his Christmas fic (where LaCroix faced off against ghoul Zan Owlson, representing the new ghoul union), where LaCroix brought in Owlson’s old boss and nemesis Glomgold to come up with a plan on how to get rid of her and cripple the United Ghouls Of The Camarilla once and for all!
...given Glomgold is the one from the new version of Ducktales (Owlson too), the plan he came up with involved luring Owlson to Anarch headquarters; building a giant Trojan Butt for her to be tempted by; filling it with ghouled sharks (complete with a sprinkler system to keep them wet) to attack her when she opened it up; him and LaCroix standing on a nearby rooftop dressed as Santa Clauses throwing homemade chum down to get the sharks to attack the Anarchs; and then the Sheriff using a giant slingshot to catapult the Ankaran Sarcophagus into the middle of the mess and let the Antediluvian inside clear up the stragglers. With all of this secretly being to demoralize Owlson’s “greatest enemy” Phillianne Tropy (Kev’s OC and Owlson’s girlfriend), take over her holdings, and become the richest man around and finally show up Scrooge McDuck. XD (And I didn’t come up with any of that myself – it was all Kev! Dude knows what he wants.) LaCroix was at first merely perplexed by all this, but the minute Glomgold started talking about launching the Ankaran Sarcophagus off Venture Tower, he nearly got stabby with his letter opener. XD And eventually just ordered the Sheriff to get Glomgold out of his office. Glomgold BRIEFLY tempted him with the idea of using Alice to deliver the Trojan Butt so she too would be eaten by sharks, but LaCroix managed to resist the siren call of the nonsense. XD Fun one to write, I gotta say – hopefully Kev likes the final version!
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – got another OXBox list video out of the Watch Later tonight with “7 Baffling Game Concepts You Won't Believe Are Real!” Andy, Mike, and Jane going through some of the, uh, confusing games out there that got made despite their batshit concepts. Like Gender Wars, a halfway decent isometric shooter with a plot about men and women going to war against each other and all the sexism that implied (in both directions, actually – women were depicted as vapid losers obsessed with shopping, while men were depicted as vapid losers obsessed with beer). Or Forbes Corporate Warrior, a game where you supposedly learn about the stock market while roaming a vast expanse of rusted metal flooring, shooting cash at badly-made polygons that represent your competitors and making sure your reserves don’t run low (yes, for some reason the actual Forbes signed off on this nonsense). Or *deep breath* If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Had Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum?, a *gasps for air* a puzzle game where you have to find words on a randomized grid of letters to dig into the dirt and locate artifacts for a museum you’re setting up (ranging from crushed soda cans to dinosaur jaws), and every time you complete a level, you are allowed to give some of your letters pants that help increase your combos in some way (this is patently ridiculous and yet it clearly seemed like the most genuinely fun game of the bunch – Jane certainly liked it!) Basically, this whole list was proof that there are some very bizarre games out there – and not all of them are terrible tie-in games for food products! (I mean, some of them are – let’s not get started on the terrible point-and-click adventure game Animal with the old UK mascot for Peperami...)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – another day with nothing on to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), but I did have one anon ask to put into the queue over on Valice Multiverse – someone talking about the most eldritch creature in their D&D setting: an impossibly wide ape. Like, an ape that is somehow wider than anything else, while all its other proportions remain the same. It is known as – “Wide Ape.” XD I had the Cuddlepile!Valicer trio comment, with Alice saying “I guess that is the most descriptive name – and I name my Wonderlanders things like ‘Hatter’ and ‘Duchess,’ so who am I to judge;” Victor going “I think the wide ape is called whatever it wants to be called;” and Smiler wondering “so is it only impossibly wide from the front view? Or does it change as the viewing angle changes?” (A question I was wondering myself!) We’ll see if we get any more Wide Ape lore after this posts tomorrow!
Other: Just wanted to brag that I managed to win one of the games of Scrabble we played tonight (Mom won the other one, unsurprisingly – she’s quite good at this game). I simply got really lucky with a few of my words, in particularly managing to set up putting “ZEN” on one of the corner triple-world-score places. :) So that was nice, at least!
So yeah -- had some annoying stuff happen earlier in the day, but at least the evening was pretty nice. And now I should really go to bed, as I am QUITE tired. Non-cleaning Saturday tomorrow, woo -- goals include working on my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) drafts (want to get that post on the Teen Valicer Save done); figuring out what I want to do for video games (play Fallout 4 like I'd originally intended today? Do another level of Superliminal? Risk patching The Sims 4 and do some more building?); either update the FO4 Playthrough Progression or start Chapter 4 of "The Van Dort Vacancy;" and maybe see if I can get the two remaining OXBoxtra lists out of my Watch Later. We'll see what happens. Night all!
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