Thursday Which Feels Like A Friday
Aug. 28th, 2025 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickBecause, well, I have tomorrow off, meaning Friday is going to feel like Saturday. :p Meaning it's going to be pretty hard to keep track of time over the long weekend -- my parents were already getting a little confused over dinner. XD Ahh well, small price to pay for having four whole days off. :) And it wasn't too bad a day, all things considered...
Work – Another mostly-quiet day at work – I spent almost the entire day looking through the spreadsheet of new 2025 Appeal donors and checking people to see if they were duplicates of existing donors or not (mostly not, which is good) – but there was some more “fun” with our credit card processor and getting things to work properly:
A) First, though, some good news – midway through the morning, I got an e-mail saying they’d set up a new pledge for that guy whose pledge disappeared the other day while I was trying to update his card, and that they were actively investigating how it happened. I went on their site and confirmed that the pledge was there and had the right ID number and everything. Hooray, it didn’t take them the better part of a month to fix this!
B) As for the fuckery – I had another credit card update today from someone who’d just gotten an e-mail warning her that her payment had failed, and while I was able to successfully update the card, the process proved to be rather glitchy, and ended up charging her an extra fee (to cover the processing fees on the card) for some reason. Fortunately the credit card people got back to me quickly when I e-mailed them, so she should get a refund. Still, though, the fuck?
C) I also was going to do a refund on someone’s overpayment today, but when I tried to initiate it through a reversal batch, the screen that popped up to confirm the refund didn’t actually have the button TO confirm the refund on it. *facepalm* So yeah. Another thing to bother them about!
*grumbles* I so hate our credit card processors...but yeah, other than that, it was pretty much dead around the office. Very glad to get out of there this afternoon, let me tell you! And now I don’t have to worry about any of this bullshit for four whole days, yay~
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Alien The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition | Oxventure One-Shot ft. Natural Six!” Our foursome of Singleton (Jane), Hirsch (Doug), MacWhirr (Aoife), and Holroyd (Andy) fought their way through the majority of Act 3 tonight, which included:
A) The four fighting the Xenomorph drone in the casino while Komiskey cowered upstairs! (I mean, let’s be fair, the woman had no weapons, so...) Which involved –
I. The alien grabbing MacWhirr to try and chomp her...only to ABSOLUTELY FLUB its attack roll and just do that thing where it extends out the tiny alien head like a spooky tongue. MacWhirr even managed to slip free of its grasp, it failed so bad! Unfortunately, it immediately got another go, and THIS time successfully grabbed her and fucked her up, Incapacitating her (so she would have to fight for her life with a Stamina Death Roll every turn) and dragging her behind the bar
II. Hirsch taking a moment to revel in the boss-woman’s misery before running down the stairs and attempting to shoot the alien with his pulse rifle – he only got a single success, so he ended up spraying the ammo in a wide arc, and only a few shots hit the Xenomorph. Was enough to get its attention, though!
III. Holroyd walking straight up to the alien, garbling the “get away from her you BITCH” line, and then burying the fire axe in its head! This time, he did take some acid to the face, but he clearly considered it worth it. The Xenomorph tried to attack back with its tail, but a poor roll plus Holroyd defending meant that it only waved its tail above Holroyd’s head, allowing him to hit with the axe again and really put the hurt on it. The Xenomorph straight-up collapsed after the second attack, in fact…
But, unfortunately, it got a second wind, and managed to get back up. Damn perfected killing machines from another world, always ready for another round…
IV. Hirsch deigning to go over and stabilize MacWhirr while Holroyd fought the Xenomorph – only for Aoife’s dice to be cruel again and force her to make another stress roll as she fought to recover. Which resulted in her injuring herself. It was decided that she started to get up, then promptly knocked her head on the underside of the bar and passed out again. Hirsch laughed, and Aoife had to admit that was fair. XD
V. Singleton attempting to shoot the Xenomorph from behind cover, but getting a bad stress roll that resulted in her shooting Holroyd instead, leading to him losing his (admittedly-already-melting) fire axe. Whoops! This is what you get for refusing to move from cover, Singleton!
VI. And finally, Holroyd deciding he didn’t need the fire axe and using his massive android strength to rip the Xenomorph’s head in half. That makes two of these things he’s killed! O.O However, this kill came with a price – a massive acid splash that he was unable to dodge or soak, and that completely fucked up his legs, leading to them being inoperable. Andy was absolutely thrilled, as he’d wanted Holroyd to get cut in half like Ash or Bishop, and promptly had Holroyd snap off the now-useless limbs with a comment about how they were holding him back. XD
B) The gang stabilizing MacWhirr again, who managed a fantastic Medicine roll to patch herself up with alcohol (sterilizing her wounds, not drinking it) and bar mats – and finding Wes after he called out to them from the nearby kitchen! After a bit of “who’s on first”-style banter regarding who was best friends with who (as Holroyd tried to claim he was Hirsch’s best friend when Wes asked who was outside, and then Hirsch misinterpreted Wes’s response to mean that Wes thought he was Holroyd’s best friend), the man finally came out, revealing he was very drunk in the process. Hirsch gave him a big old manly bear hug, then reminded him he still owed him money. XD What being the “best friend” means to Hirsch, everyone! Also, the injured Holroyd kept vomiting his “milk” over everyone, to their (especially Singleton’s) annoyance and disgust. XD
C) The gang leaving the casino with Komiskey in two and making a run for it across the landing pad to the shuttle that would be unlocked by Komiskey’s keycard! Holroyd ended up clinging to Hirsch’s back like a backpack (because, you know, no legs), while Singleton ended up getting SIX fucking successes on her roll for the second half of the journey and just POWERED her way toward the shuttle. Though she had to wait for the others to catch up before she could get in, because MacWhirr had the keycard. Eventually they arrived, though, and while MacWhirr jammed the card into the scanner so hard she hurt herself thanks to a stress roll (catching her nail and pulling it back, OUCH), she did get the clamps unlocked and the door open! Everyone thus rushed inside, with Hirsch pausing just outside the door to open fire on the Xenomorph horde coming toward them –
And that’s when Singleton closed the door behind her, trapping him and Holroyd outside. Doug argued that he’d thought he was just INSIDE the door when he started firing (though he was willing to do a heroic last stand) – Mike had him and Jane do an opposed roll to see if he got inside or not, and Jane managed to win with four successes. Andy then tried to argue that Holroyd could then serve as a jack of sorts to hold the door open, but Mike was like “sorry, you are canonically a backpack.” Andy was quite annoyed – “I’m involved in this and I didn’t even get to roll!” XD Oh, and during all this, everyone finally realized they’d forgotten to include Wes escaping with them, and decided he was probably still in the casino (I like to think he was too drunk to keep up). So much for Hirsch trying to save his buddy!
ANYWAY – after successfully locking Holroyd and Hirsch out (with Holroyd yelling “is this about all the milk?” Singleton: “It’s not not about the milk!”), Singleton trained her revolver on MacWhirr and explained what was going on: mainly, she was sick of this fucking colony and of working so hard for such shitty pay, so she was heading off with Komiskey to get a big payday from the suits for delivering them the creature she knew was inside the scientist. She was fine with MacWhirr coming, but she was not bringing “the asshole and the android asshole.” MacWhirr coldly reminded her that 154 people died in the colony, and Singleton was like, “And I’m very sorry about that, but I am going!”
Causing MacWhirr to decide the time for talking was over and draw her gun. I left it off with Singleton and MacWhirr preparing to fight each other, revolver versus bolt gun, while outside Holroyd started desperately trying to hack the door to get him and Hirsch inside. Tomorrow, we see how this all ends up and who triumphs in this final conflict! (Hint: It’s probably going to be the aliens – both because of the swarm heading for the ship, and because I do not think it takes that long for a chestburster to incubate...)
2. Continue writing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – I happily dove back into the adventures of my beloved crime trio tonight, getting a good page on – well, ironically, Chapter 5. XD Which featured:
A) Alice, Victor, and Smiler crawling around on the floor of the hallway to the vault looking for that second tripwire – and Alice finding it, courtesy of Caterpillar helpfully landing on it
B) Everyone getting over the tripwire, and Kasimir stating that his knee isn’t playing up any more than usual, though he will need to rub the usual stuff into it – Barnaby was like “don’t expect me to help, I’m going to be enjoying my gin, or perhaps that wine we stole,” but Kasimir talked him into at least sitting with him to share the wine, saying he could share stories of his friend Squiffy’s latest escapades (aka me setting up how they’re going to handle their downtime after the score :P Johnny was always very keen on having people sit with Kasimir as he tended his leg so they could benefit from that “Functional Vice” of his!)
C) Victor going to open the door into the vault itself – only to discover that it was locked. Because yes, of course it would be. XD Fortunately Smiler came in clutch with the lockpicks they still had on them – they were planning on returning them to Elder Gutknecht once they dropped Alice off. Only polite, after all, they’re not really Smiler’s property...but hey, means that they’re ready to take on busting another lock!
D) And the trio revealing to Barnaby and Kasimir their escapades in the last story, “A Murder Shared Is A Murder Thirded” – specifically, stealing Bumby’s ledger and then killing the man. Barnaby declared that they were now a little closer to Zillah in the ranks of people who terrify him (because he canonically is frightened of her – she may be nice, but she is very muscled and pulls no punches in a fight!). XD
And that’s where I left things off! Tomorrow, we pick up with Smiler getting that lock picked, and finally get into the vault! Hooray! :D Ah, it feels good to be back with them – I missed them. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: No check – though tonight, that was largely because I was too busy answering comments on Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland.” People have been chatty on this one! From giving me praise (and saying they’ve been recommending the fic on the Discord channels they’re on, damn), to talking about ways Alice could get more carry capacity (so far, it’s all via Discplines that she’s very unlikely to learn – though I did learn that the World of Darkness once had explicitly Japanese vampires who had a “pocket dimension” power called Rift, so that’s cool), to saying that I might want to consider rewording LaCroix’s command to Alice to not speak of the fact that he’s considering a blood hunt on Nines for the crime of “appearing at Grout’s house when Grout had been mysteriously murdered” because there are all sorts of loophole ways around that (writing stuff down, charades, etc – I said originally that Alice was unlikely to think of any of that in the moment, because ow the trauma, but after sharing in some bitching with one of the commenters about how the game rather railroads the fledgling into being unable to help Nines (I don’t think you can warn him before going to LaCroix, and after you talk to the Prince, Nines somehow already knows he’s in trouble even if LaCroix hasn’t called the Blood Hunt yes and runs away, leaving the other Anarchs to yell at you), I conceded that Wonderland probably WOULD let her know about the loopholes once she had her head together a bit more. So I might be making a tiny tweak to that bit!) It can be kind of a lot, but it’s gratifying to know people like the story, I suppose!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, I’m happy to report –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got my Song Saturday sorted and in the queue – “Simmer” by Hayley Williams! The song I was originally looking for last week before stumbling across “Late Night Talking” by Harry Styles and deciding “huh – this does kind of weirdly fit the upcoming Chapter 5. Let’s put it up.” :P “Simmer” also fits Chapter 5, but whereas “Late Night Talking” fit Victor wanting to make Alice happier after her miserable night at Grout’s, “Simmer” fits Alice’s initial mood after her miserable night at Grout’s – namely, that she’s just BARELY keeping her rage contained, poor thing. It’s a good song and I’m happy to feature it again!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, with once again a dearth of asks or thread replies to answer, I just queued up the link post to Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland!” Because I pretty much reblog all of my fanfic stuff over there – it keeps the blog a bit active during those quieter periods.
Other: Another nice day meant another round of beanbags...and today’s game was rather annoying, as I think every round involved at least two of us having to break a tie. Hell, the first round saw us ALL end up with 26 points at one point, and didn’t end until we were all past 30! Which meant it took longer than usual, and – yeah. I like the game, but by the end, I was grumpy because I was expecting to have a lot more time on the computer pre-workout than I actually got. ...plus I didn’t manage to win a single game, which was also frustrating. Final scores were me 2-3-3; Dad W-2-2; Mom 3-W-W. The odds were definitely in her favor tonight, that’s for damn sure! We’ll see what happens the next time we play...hopefully fewer goddamn ties!
...okay, there's a fair amount of complaining in that write-up, but I promise it was mostly a good day. :p Getting to play with my VITD verse really helped in that regard! But now it is time for me to head to bed, for it is late and I am tired. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy with potential thunderstorms, so I may not get as much computer time as I hope -- however, if I can, I'd like to work some more on my Victor Loves Alice (N Smiler) tumblr drafts (be nice to get that darn Tav!Smiler post done); write some more on "The Van Dort Vacancy" (get back into the swing of my crime trio); play some Baldur's Gate III (time to fight some intellect devourers and collect Astarion and Gale again!); and figure out the YouTube Situation (namely, if I want FreeTube or not). We'll see what happens! Night all!
Work – Another mostly-quiet day at work – I spent almost the entire day looking through the spreadsheet of new 2025 Appeal donors and checking people to see if they were duplicates of existing donors or not (mostly not, which is good) – but there was some more “fun” with our credit card processor and getting things to work properly:
A) First, though, some good news – midway through the morning, I got an e-mail saying they’d set up a new pledge for that guy whose pledge disappeared the other day while I was trying to update his card, and that they were actively investigating how it happened. I went on their site and confirmed that the pledge was there and had the right ID number and everything. Hooray, it didn’t take them the better part of a month to fix this!
B) As for the fuckery – I had another credit card update today from someone who’d just gotten an e-mail warning her that her payment had failed, and while I was able to successfully update the card, the process proved to be rather glitchy, and ended up charging her an extra fee (to cover the processing fees on the card) for some reason. Fortunately the credit card people got back to me quickly when I e-mailed them, so she should get a refund. Still, though, the fuck?
C) I also was going to do a refund on someone’s overpayment today, but when I tried to initiate it through a reversal batch, the screen that popped up to confirm the refund didn’t actually have the button TO confirm the refund on it. *facepalm* So yeah. Another thing to bother them about!
*grumbles* I so hate our credit card processors...but yeah, other than that, it was pretty much dead around the office. Very glad to get out of there this afternoon, let me tell you! And now I don’t have to worry about any of this bullshit for four whole days, yay~
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Alien The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition | Oxventure One-Shot ft. Natural Six!” Our foursome of Singleton (Jane), Hirsch (Doug), MacWhirr (Aoife), and Holroyd (Andy) fought their way through the majority of Act 3 tonight, which included:
A) The four fighting the Xenomorph drone in the casino while Komiskey cowered upstairs! (I mean, let’s be fair, the woman had no weapons, so...) Which involved –
I. The alien grabbing MacWhirr to try and chomp her...only to ABSOLUTELY FLUB its attack roll and just do that thing where it extends out the tiny alien head like a spooky tongue. MacWhirr even managed to slip free of its grasp, it failed so bad! Unfortunately, it immediately got another go, and THIS time successfully grabbed her and fucked her up, Incapacitating her (so she would have to fight for her life with a Stamina Death Roll every turn) and dragging her behind the bar
II. Hirsch taking a moment to revel in the boss-woman’s misery before running down the stairs and attempting to shoot the alien with his pulse rifle – he only got a single success, so he ended up spraying the ammo in a wide arc, and only a few shots hit the Xenomorph. Was enough to get its attention, though!
III. Holroyd walking straight up to the alien, garbling the “get away from her you BITCH” line, and then burying the fire axe in its head! This time, he did take some acid to the face, but he clearly considered it worth it. The Xenomorph tried to attack back with its tail, but a poor roll plus Holroyd defending meant that it only waved its tail above Holroyd’s head, allowing him to hit with the axe again and really put the hurt on it. The Xenomorph straight-up collapsed after the second attack, in fact…
But, unfortunately, it got a second wind, and managed to get back up. Damn perfected killing machines from another world, always ready for another round…
IV. Hirsch deigning to go over and stabilize MacWhirr while Holroyd fought the Xenomorph – only for Aoife’s dice to be cruel again and force her to make another stress roll as she fought to recover. Which resulted in her injuring herself. It was decided that she started to get up, then promptly knocked her head on the underside of the bar and passed out again. Hirsch laughed, and Aoife had to admit that was fair. XD
V. Singleton attempting to shoot the Xenomorph from behind cover, but getting a bad stress roll that resulted in her shooting Holroyd instead, leading to him losing his (admittedly-already-melting) fire axe. Whoops! This is what you get for refusing to move from cover, Singleton!
VI. And finally, Holroyd deciding he didn’t need the fire axe and using his massive android strength to rip the Xenomorph’s head in half. That makes two of these things he’s killed! O.O However, this kill came with a price – a massive acid splash that he was unable to dodge or soak, and that completely fucked up his legs, leading to them being inoperable. Andy was absolutely thrilled, as he’d wanted Holroyd to get cut in half like Ash or Bishop, and promptly had Holroyd snap off the now-useless limbs with a comment about how they were holding him back. XD
B) The gang stabilizing MacWhirr again, who managed a fantastic Medicine roll to patch herself up with alcohol (sterilizing her wounds, not drinking it) and bar mats – and finding Wes after he called out to them from the nearby kitchen! After a bit of “who’s on first”-style banter regarding who was best friends with who (as Holroyd tried to claim he was Hirsch’s best friend when Wes asked who was outside, and then Hirsch misinterpreted Wes’s response to mean that Wes thought he was Holroyd’s best friend), the man finally came out, revealing he was very drunk in the process. Hirsch gave him a big old manly bear hug, then reminded him he still owed him money. XD What being the “best friend” means to Hirsch, everyone! Also, the injured Holroyd kept vomiting his “milk” over everyone, to their (especially Singleton’s) annoyance and disgust. XD
C) The gang leaving the casino with Komiskey in two and making a run for it across the landing pad to the shuttle that would be unlocked by Komiskey’s keycard! Holroyd ended up clinging to Hirsch’s back like a backpack (because, you know, no legs), while Singleton ended up getting SIX fucking successes on her roll for the second half of the journey and just POWERED her way toward the shuttle. Though she had to wait for the others to catch up before she could get in, because MacWhirr had the keycard. Eventually they arrived, though, and while MacWhirr jammed the card into the scanner so hard she hurt herself thanks to a stress roll (catching her nail and pulling it back, OUCH), she did get the clamps unlocked and the door open! Everyone thus rushed inside, with Hirsch pausing just outside the door to open fire on the Xenomorph horde coming toward them –
And that’s when Singleton closed the door behind her, trapping him and Holroyd outside. Doug argued that he’d thought he was just INSIDE the door when he started firing (though he was willing to do a heroic last stand) – Mike had him and Jane do an opposed roll to see if he got inside or not, and Jane managed to win with four successes. Andy then tried to argue that Holroyd could then serve as a jack of sorts to hold the door open, but Mike was like “sorry, you are canonically a backpack.” Andy was quite annoyed – “I’m involved in this and I didn’t even get to roll!” XD Oh, and during all this, everyone finally realized they’d forgotten to include Wes escaping with them, and decided he was probably still in the casino (I like to think he was too drunk to keep up). So much for Hirsch trying to save his buddy!
ANYWAY – after successfully locking Holroyd and Hirsch out (with Holroyd yelling “is this about all the milk?” Singleton: “It’s not not about the milk!”), Singleton trained her revolver on MacWhirr and explained what was going on: mainly, she was sick of this fucking colony and of working so hard for such shitty pay, so she was heading off with Komiskey to get a big payday from the suits for delivering them the creature she knew was inside the scientist. She was fine with MacWhirr coming, but she was not bringing “the asshole and the android asshole.” MacWhirr coldly reminded her that 154 people died in the colony, and Singleton was like, “And I’m very sorry about that, but I am going!”
Causing MacWhirr to decide the time for talking was over and draw her gun. I left it off with Singleton and MacWhirr preparing to fight each other, revolver versus bolt gun, while outside Holroyd started desperately trying to hack the door to get him and Hirsch inside. Tomorrow, we see how this all ends up and who triumphs in this final conflict! (Hint: It’s probably going to be the aliens – both because of the swarm heading for the ship, and because I do not think it takes that long for a chestburster to incubate...)
2. Continue writing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – I happily dove back into the adventures of my beloved crime trio tonight, getting a good page on – well, ironically, Chapter 5. XD Which featured:
A) Alice, Victor, and Smiler crawling around on the floor of the hallway to the vault looking for that second tripwire – and Alice finding it, courtesy of Caterpillar helpfully landing on it
B) Everyone getting over the tripwire, and Kasimir stating that his knee isn’t playing up any more than usual, though he will need to rub the usual stuff into it – Barnaby was like “don’t expect me to help, I’m going to be enjoying my gin, or perhaps that wine we stole,” but Kasimir talked him into at least sitting with him to share the wine, saying he could share stories of his friend Squiffy’s latest escapades (aka me setting up how they’re going to handle their downtime after the score :P Johnny was always very keen on having people sit with Kasimir as he tended his leg so they could benefit from that “Functional Vice” of his!)
C) Victor going to open the door into the vault itself – only to discover that it was locked. Because yes, of course it would be. XD Fortunately Smiler came in clutch with the lockpicks they still had on them – they were planning on returning them to Elder Gutknecht once they dropped Alice off. Only polite, after all, they’re not really Smiler’s property...but hey, means that they’re ready to take on busting another lock!
D) And the trio revealing to Barnaby and Kasimir their escapades in the last story, “A Murder Shared Is A Murder Thirded” – specifically, stealing Bumby’s ledger and then killing the man. Barnaby declared that they were now a little closer to Zillah in the ranks of people who terrify him (because he canonically is frightened of her – she may be nice, but she is very muscled and pulls no punches in a fight!). XD
And that’s where I left things off! Tomorrow, we pick up with Smiler getting that lock picked, and finally get into the vault! Hooray! :D Ah, it feels good to be back with them – I missed them. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: No check – though tonight, that was largely because I was too busy answering comments on Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland.” People have been chatty on this one! From giving me praise (and saying they’ve been recommending the fic on the Discord channels they’re on, damn), to talking about ways Alice could get more carry capacity (so far, it’s all via Discplines that she’s very unlikely to learn – though I did learn that the World of Darkness once had explicitly Japanese vampires who had a “pocket dimension” power called Rift, so that’s cool), to saying that I might want to consider rewording LaCroix’s command to Alice to not speak of the fact that he’s considering a blood hunt on Nines for the crime of “appearing at Grout’s house when Grout had been mysteriously murdered” because there are all sorts of loophole ways around that (writing stuff down, charades, etc – I said originally that Alice was unlikely to think of any of that in the moment, because ow the trauma, but after sharing in some bitching with one of the commenters about how the game rather railroads the fledgling into being unable to help Nines (I don’t think you can warn him before going to LaCroix, and after you talk to the Prince, Nines somehow already knows he’s in trouble even if LaCroix hasn’t called the Blood Hunt yes and runs away, leaving the other Anarchs to yell at you), I conceded that Wonderland probably WOULD let her know about the loopholes once she had her head together a bit more. So I might be making a tiny tweak to that bit!) It can be kind of a lot, but it’s gratifying to know people like the story, I suppose!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, I’m happy to report –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got my Song Saturday sorted and in the queue – “Simmer” by Hayley Williams! The song I was originally looking for last week before stumbling across “Late Night Talking” by Harry Styles and deciding “huh – this does kind of weirdly fit the upcoming Chapter 5. Let’s put it up.” :P “Simmer” also fits Chapter 5, but whereas “Late Night Talking” fit Victor wanting to make Alice happier after her miserable night at Grout’s, “Simmer” fits Alice’s initial mood after her miserable night at Grout’s – namely, that she’s just BARELY keeping her rage contained, poor thing. It’s a good song and I’m happy to feature it again!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, with once again a dearth of asks or thread replies to answer, I just queued up the link post to Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland!” Because I pretty much reblog all of my fanfic stuff over there – it keeps the blog a bit active during those quieter periods.
Other: Another nice day meant another round of beanbags...and today’s game was rather annoying, as I think every round involved at least two of us having to break a tie. Hell, the first round saw us ALL end up with 26 points at one point, and didn’t end until we were all past 30! Which meant it took longer than usual, and – yeah. I like the game, but by the end, I was grumpy because I was expecting to have a lot more time on the computer pre-workout than I actually got. ...plus I didn’t manage to win a single game, which was also frustrating. Final scores were me 2-3-3; Dad W-2-2; Mom 3-W-W. The odds were definitely in her favor tonight, that’s for damn sure! We’ll see what happens the next time we play...hopefully fewer goddamn ties!
...okay, there's a fair amount of complaining in that write-up, but I promise it was mostly a good day. :p Getting to play with my VITD verse really helped in that regard! But now it is time for me to head to bed, for it is late and I am tired. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy with potential thunderstorms, so I may not get as much computer time as I hope -- however, if I can, I'd like to work some more on my Victor Loves Alice (N Smiler) tumblr drafts (be nice to get that darn Tav!Smiler post done); write some more on "The Van Dort Vacancy" (get back into the swing of my crime trio); play some Baldur's Gate III (time to fight some intellect devourers and collect Astarion and Gale again!); and figure out the YouTube Situation (namely, if I want FreeTube or not). We'll see what happens! Night all!
