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EnigmaSphinx42: Our fountain pop machine at work broke again
EnigmaSphinx42: We've only had it for a month or so
EnigmaSphinx42: So no delicious bubbly caffeine goodness for anyone
vampdocette: Awww, that sucks :-(
EnigmaSphinx42: Not for me, I get it for free from the fountain machine but I don't enjoy it that much, so I dish out $1.43 for a bottle of Sobe instead ^_^;;;
vampdocette: LOL, I see
EnigmaSphinx42: And if we're out, I snag an orange juice
vampdocette: *nodnod*
EnigmaSphinx42: Fountain pop just...isn't as good as canned/bottled pop for some reason
EnigmaSphinx42: Too much CO2?
vampdocette: Perhaps
vampdocette: Or different syrups or something
vampdocette: Got me
EnigmaSphinx42: Dammit, now I'm thirsty
EnigmaSphinx42: *go get Sobe*
vampdocette: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: Hurrah for non-caffienated tasty beverage
vampdocette: yay :-D
vampdocette: And now I'M thirsty
vampdocette: brb, gonna grab some diet root beer
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: Hurrah corruption!
EnigmaSphinx42: Evil beverages unite!
vampdocette: LOL *toasts*
EnigmaSphinx42: NJ: "Yay, toast! *munches toast*
EnigmaSphinx42: Other muses: *stare*
vampdocette: LOL
vampdocette: *sees TeenDoc sneaking to the blender with toast* Oh no you don't, popcorn-flavored ice cream was enough
EnigmaSphinx42: Ewwwwww
vampdocette: TeenDoc: I wasn't going to make anyone ELSE drink it. . . .
EnigmaSphinx42: But still
EnigmaSphinx42: It's just the idea of the thing
vampdocette: I think you've been up too long *has the other muses steer him to bed, over his protests*
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: If he doesn't go to sleep, clonk him over the head or something
vampdocette: LOL
vampdocette: Doc: Or, better yet -- *uses sleep inducer on younger self*
vampdocette: TeenDoc: *collapse*
EnigmaSphinx42: Fine, take the more obvious way, why dontcha
vampdocette: VampDoc: Well, this way he can't complain about a headache
EnigmaSphinx42: SS: *holds up healing device* "There's always this."
vampdocette: Doc: We don't have those
EnigmaSphinx42: SS: "But I do."
vampdocette: VampDoc2: You don't live here
vampdocette: VampDoc2: Despite you looking incredibly like my own girlfriend, you don't
EnigmaSphinx42: Aw come on, you can invite her over anytime, so long as she's not offworld
EnigmaSphinx42: Just don't blow up anything too big
vampdocette: hehehehehehe
EnigmaSphinx42: She splodied a sun once, you know
vampdocette: OckDoc: We've heard
vampdocette: RolePlayDoc: Honestly, we're rather afraid to let her in the lab with TeenDoc
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: Better her than WB
EnigmaSphinx42: He blew up a solar system on accident once
vampdocette: O.O
EnigmaSphinx42: WB: "It was uninhabited!"
vampdocette: WTF did you DO, Mere? (NOTE: For those of you who don't watch/don't have friends who talk about Stargate Atlantis, there's a scientist on the show named Rodney McKay. His real first name was recently discovered to be MEREDITH, of all things.)
EnigmaSphinx42: That's no excuse!
EnigmaSphinx42: WB: ......*deep sigh*
EnigmaSphinx42: JJ: "He was playing with Ancient power-generators, got too confident, everything went kablooey."
vampdocette: Lovely
EnigmaSphinx42: Weir was pissed :-P
vampdocette: I'm sure she was
EnigmaSphinx42: Lemme see if I can remember how it went
EnigmaSphinx42: Weir: "You blew up three quarters of a solar system?!"
McKay: "Actually I think it was four fifths."
Weir: *glower*
vampdocette: *snork*
vampdocette: Doc: Let's hope McKay never gets near time travel technology on the show
EnigmaSphinx42: *thinks back*
EnigmaSphinx42: Well, SG-1 has used the Stargate and a modified puddlejumper to time travel
vampdocette: puddlejumper! (I love that name)
EnigmaSphinx42: Atlantis has a Gate (duh) and used to have a modified puddlejumper, but then they messed up the timeline and it ended up splodied and then not built to begin with
vampdocette: O.o
EnigmaSphinx42: And yeah, everyone likes it being called a puddlejumper, except McKay XD
vampdocette: Doc: . . . . *headdesk*
vampdocette: Awwww
vampdocette: What does HE think it should be called?
EnigmaSphinx42: He wanted to call it a Gateship because "It's a ship that...goes through the Gate....well *I* thought it was clever." "You're never allowed to name anything, ever again."
vampdocette: *giggle* Oh man
EnigmaSphinx42: XD
EnigmaSphinx42: But yeah, their time travel ep, I think it was season one
vampdocette: Weird
EnigmaSphinx42: McKay actually didn't even touch it
vampdocette: VampDoc: Whew
EnigmaSphinx42: When they went exploring the city, they found this VERY old woman in stasis, figured she was an Ancient and thawed her out in the hopes she could give them some intel before finally dying, then found out she was a 10,000-year-old Dr. Weir
vampdocette: O.O Wow
EnigmaSphinx42: So between naps, she managed to tell them what happened the first time around
EnigmaSphinx42: Instead of the failsafes engaging and de-submerging the city when the power to the shield drained too much, the shield collapsed and everyone drowned
vampdocette: O.O
EnigmaSphinx42: Sheppard, Weir, and someone else that I forget managed to make it to a puddlejumper in an attempt to save some lives, but then the jumper bay flooded and they had to seal the ship
vampdocette: Ack
EnigmaSphinx42: Sheppard accidentally triggered the time travel device by wanting to have words with whoever built the thing and left no instruction manual, and they found themselves in orbit over Atlantis 10,000 years ago
vampdocette: Ooooo
EnigmaSphinx42: But then the ship either got shot down by the Wraith, or malfuctioned, or something, and they crashed into the ocean
vampdocette: oh no
EnigmaSphinx42: Only Weir survived
vampdocette: :-(
EnigmaSphinx42: She spent awhile trying to convince the Lantean council to let her time travel back to her future and save her people (with the help of the Lantean scientist, Janus, who invented the time travelling puddlejumper), but they forbid her to, because messing with time travel was too dangerous
EnigmaSphinx42: Plus they had to evacuate, because they were submerging the city and fleeing back through the Stargate to Earth
vampdocette: Awww, I see
EnigmaSphinx42: So Janus set things up so that she could be put in stasis and come out every so often to adjust the power, and set up failsafes so that once the ZPM drained to a certain level, the city would rise to the surface and everyone would live - he also locked out all incoming wormholes except from Earth (until the first wormhole was established) and set the city to reactivate when it sensed the presence of her team
vampdocette: Ooooo, yay Janus
EnigmaSphinx42: Then he had her hide, and lied to the council and told them she'd already gone through the Stargate to Earth, and she was left on Atlantis all by her lonesome for 10,000 years
vampdocette: Awww
EnigmaSphinx42: So then once she finished telling her past self about the story, of course, she died of extreme old age
vampdocette: *nodnod* of course
EnigmaSphinx42: Which made youngWeir sad because it was their birthday, too
vampdocette: Bleh, that sucks
EnigmaSphinx42: And she'd already been going through that "Oh woe is me, I'm getting old" phase
vampdocette: I'm sure that's over with now
EnigmaSphinx42: But fortunately, oldWeir managed to cheer her up by giving her a list of planets where the Ancients had left ZPMs, which they desperately needed at this point (and now do so again)
vampdocette: Heh, yay, I suppose
EnigmaSphinx42: So that's the Atlantis time travel story :-P
vampdocette: hehehe
EnigmaSphinx42: Oh, and there was a funny Sheppard and McKay bit while oldWeir was telling the story
vampdocette: oh?
EnigmaSphinx42: Apparently the first time around, McKay stayed in the control room in an attempt to open the puddlejumper bay doors so they could escape, and was drowned in seconds
vampdocette: Eeek
EnigmaSphinx42: McKay: [paraphrased] ".....*sounding a bit disturbed* ...well. A man always wonders how he would choose to go out, given such...dire...circumstances. It's comforting to know I'd go so bravely, trying to save lives."
Sheppard: *smugly* "But ultimately failing."
McKay: "I'm sure if I had more time!"
vampdocette: lol, man
EnigmaSphinx42: Sheppard just can't resist doing that ;-)
vampdocette: No, no he can't
EnigmaSphinx42: But McKay got him back later for dying, I think
EnigmaSphinx42: I can't remember, I only saw the ep once
vampdocette: Ahah
EnigmaSphinx42: So yes, it wasn't McKay's fault that they screwed everything up :-P
vampdocette: LOL
EnigmaSphinx42: And since the second time around, Janus didn't leave his time traveling puddlejumper, I'm not sure if he'll ever be able to mess with one
vampdocette: Aw, hmmm
EnigmaSphinx42: But on the other hand, the SGC has one stashed somewhere, God knows where
vampdocette: Interesting
EnigmaSphinx42: They took it back to Egypt, their second timeline selves took it back to Egypt AGAIN, and then the third timeline selves didn't need to take it anywhere :-P
vampdocette: LOL, I see, yeah
EnigmaSphinx42: So technically there should be three running around
vampdocette: Hmmmm
EnigmaSphinx42: Different theory of time travel and all, you know - their past selves and all accessories stuck around once the timelines changed, rather than going poofle
vampdocette: Ah, interesting
EnigmaSphinx42: Otherwise not-quite-SG1 wouldn't have been able to meet up with originalDaniel in Egypt
vampdocette: I see *nodnod*
EnigmaSphinx42: And in 2010, when the future SG-1 sent the note back through the Gate to themselves in 2000, the note's still around but their future selves no longer exist because of the altered timeline
EnigmaSphinx42: It's confusing
vampdocette: Yeah, I know
vampdocette: All time travel is confusing
EnigmaSphinx42: No matter which theory you hold to, yeah
vampdocette: *nodnod*
vampdocette: Martys: *nodnodNOD*
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: Gotta think fourth-dimensionally - and then some
vampdocette: Marty: And to paraphrase my brother, the last thing I need are headaches
EnigmaSphinx42: Me too, but nonetheless, I have one
vampdocette: Awww
EnigmaSphinx42: Aaaaanyway
vampdocette: heh
EnigmaSphinx42: Now that you guys brought out the sleep inducer, you've got WB and SS all a-curious :-P
vampdocette: LOL
EnigmaSphinx42: They wanna take it apart and see how it works
vampdocette: Doc: *unsure if he wants to give it up*
OckDoc: *suddenly worried they'll want to do the same thing with his tentacles*
EnigmaSphinx42: SS: "Nah, the kids are special. That'd be like asking to vivisect someone's dog."
vampdocette: OckDoc: Whew. *kids chatter, relieved*
vampdocette: Doc: Vic, do we have more of these?
Not at the moment, but you're always welcome to head to the future and pick up more
Doc: Good point. *hands the sleep-inducer over, a tad reluctantly*
EnigmaSphinx42: SS: "Thanks, I'll try to put it back how I found it when we're done."
WB: "What? But-"
SS: *elbows him*
vampdocette: Doc: Sam, feel free to use it on McKay if he gets too uppity -- don't worry McKay, it doesn't hurt or anything
EnigmaSphinx42: WB: "Oh har har. Very funny."
JJ: *casually starts juggling lemons*
WB: .....*attempts to subtly flee*
vampdocette: LOL
vampdocette: (<.< >.> I've been meaning to ask -- what does JJ stand for? I know one is probably John)
EnigmaSphinx42: Jigowatt John, remember? :-P
vampdocette: Oh right! :-D
vampdocette: Docs: :-D
EnigmaSphinx42: JJ: "Oh, and I just wanna say, I LOVED your movies. Back to the Future was awesome."
WB: "Are you serious?!"
JJ: "Yes, now go back to your toys."
vampdocette: LOL
vampdocette: Doc: Thank you kindly
Marty: Yeah, thanks a lot :-)
vampdocette: And what does Mere mean, "are you serious?!"
EnigmaSphinx42: Well, it's a canon fact that McKay doesn't think very highly of BttF ^_^;;;
EnigmaSphinx42: It was in the time travel ep, most likely
vampdocette: Oooooooo
EnigmaSphinx42: McKay was saying something about the special component in the puddlejumper that let it time travel
EnigmaSphinx42: Sheppard: "Like a flux capacitor?"
McKay: "Don't even get me STARTED on that movie."
vampdocette: Doc: I dare you to get started, McKay
EnigmaSphinx42: WB: *mutters and tinkers with gadgets*
EnigmaSphinx42: I think there was another Backie ref later than McKAy spazzed over, but I can't remember what it was :-P
vampdocette: Awwww
EnigmaSphinx42: Of course, it might've been more due to Sheppard's "annoying" habit of simplifying his technobabble with the greatest of ease
vampdocette: Marty: *secretly tries to hire JJ as a translator*
Doc: Hey! I'm not that bad!
EnigmaSphinx42: McKay: Blah blah technobabble stuff yada
Sheppard: "Like a dam."
McKay: "No, not like a....well yes, but...." blah blah technobabble failsafes etc
Sheppard: "Like a spillway?"
McKAy: "..........yes. Like a SPILLWAY. Can we just stick with 'failsafes'?!"
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
vampdocette: hehehehehehehe
EnigmaSphinx42: JJ: "Technobabble translator. Now that's a job I never thought I'd have."
vampdocette: You look to be good at it
EnigmaSphinx42: Yeah, he is :-P
EnigmaSphinx42: McKay was literally striken dumb for a few minutes when he found out Sheppard could've been in MENSA, and passed the test, but chose not to join
EnigmaSphinx42: I think he just took it because he was bored
vampdocette: Oooo, lol
EnigmaSphinx42: Apparently not all Air Force jocks are dumb. Who knew? ;-)
EnigmaSphinx42: NJ: *stares blankly*
vampdocette: hehehehehehehe
EnigmaSphinx42: Yes, yes, we know
vampdocette: *patpats NJ* Go back to your toast
EnigmaSphinx42: lol
EnigmaSphinx42: I was watching an old season three episode the other day and found the part where Sam is mildly geeking out at him and he just sticks his hands over his ears and starts going "I don't wanna hear it, lalalalalalalala~" at the top of his voice
EnigmaSphinx42: XD
EnigmaSphinx42: Sam was annoyed, to put it mildly
vampdocette: hehehehehehehehe
EnigmaSphinx42: He's not as dumb as he looks though
vampdocette: Course not
EnigmaSphinx42: Never would've made it to Colonel if he was, and he's pretty good on the battlefield - kept his whole team alive for his entire time as leader of SG-1, not counting Daniel's Ascension
vampdocette: *nodnod* :-)
EnigmaSphinx42: And here's the funny bit that people don't know about
vampdocette: oh?
EnigmaSphinx42: In order to become a colonel in the US Air Force (possibly the military in general), you have to have at least one master's degree in any subject
vampdocette: Ooooooo
EnigmaSphinx42: Jack is a colonel (well, was) and therefore must have at least one master's
vampdocette: Cool
EnigmaSphinx42: God knows what it is - could've been in Creative Packaging for all we know - but he's got one
vampdocette: LOL

-D: I wanted to ask -- why didn't we have sleep inducers before?-
Just didn't think of it. You really don't have to wait for me to realize you need tech, though, you know.
-VD: We're just worried you won't get anything done if we keep popping off to the future and past to get tools.-
-RPD: And, frankly, I'm not sure if I want to see any more future technology. *briefly shows wounds*-
-M: *shudder* Just no Holo-Tools.-
-VD2: Damn, I LIKED that. . . .-
I'm sure there's other wonders to be found in your 2015.
-M2: I'm curious to hear the music. Rock still exists, right?-
-OD: Yes, of course. There's still a large market for rap too, but rock has not died. There's plenty of 'emo' music still too.-
'emo?'
-RPD: A.K.A., what you listen to.-
Oh, Linkin Park stays big? Yay. And I don't just listen to that angsty stuff. 80s rock still holds my attention.
-VM: Please, no more about it being on the OLDIES station.-
*patpat* I know, I know.

Writing has gone about usual--
-OD: Meaning you've gotten distracted and are now reading the -- Evil Overload List. *tentacles chatter* Perhaps I should be quiet.-
LOL -- and Sims -- well, I got on late (reading some fanfic) so I decided to do building projects. In Hill Valley, I sort of started the 2015 Courthouse Square:

Not much of a start, but I realized too late it might be nice to have the actual 2015 map. Must remember to buy printer ink so I can print out more of FrenchMarty's nice maps.
-J: Somebody went wild with colors.-
It's the future, I can afford to be crazy. Here's some close-ups:

A small gaming store. I'm probably gonna tear down and rebuild to actuall have some room in here, but it's a start.

I've already decided the top level should be the food court. Color scheme will probably be altered -- kind of wish there were food carts like in Sims 1 (forget the ep they came with), that would make more sense than a real "restaurant."
You'll also notice the esclators -- my first time using them! Bit of a bitch to get them to stack at first, though. Think I've got it now. I didn't want to use stairs because, well, it's the future!
-RPD: Did you find time to visit Eureka?-
I did indeed, and I finished Madblood bowling!

Exterior -- took me a bit to decide on the aluminium siding, but I think it fits.

Interior -- bowling alleys with booth seats and lots of semi-cheesy decorations, an arcade area, and a bar. The bar will have to double as the "shoe check-out stand," as I'm not sure what purpose a fake one would serve.
I plan to do Dubon Henri's next -- I want to try to make the BTTF-based locations semi-accurate, so best to get the orginals out of the way first while I have free reign.
-DW: Good idea.-
-RPD: *grin* Proceeding very nicely there.-
I know. Maybe I'll make a family next time I play, I've been thinking about the Carters. . . .
-J: Still deciding if I'll get in?-
I think you will, I'm just unsure about Doc's future wife.
-D: You could have one of us who's single. As I recall, that's what you initially planned with me, until Gypsy showed up.-
Maybe. . . . We'll see what happens.

Okay, time to do some writing and/or story organizing and/or Sprite coloring.
-VD: She's going to futz around on YouTube and Wikipedia again.-
-.- Have SOME faith in me.