JdotMI's LiveJournal

So, despite having a really nice computer... flipping between WoW and Sims 2? Not gonna happen.

Yes, I tried. :p It didn't blow up, it just wasn't fun.

Gonna re-nuke my custom neighborhood when I get home and start over with two Young Adults instead of two Adults. I just can't stand not having the perks from graduation. And since none of my hacks are updated yet, I'm so going to work my way through normally.

This does mean one rather unfortunate thing, though. I am going to have to create 3 sims. The two Founders, and then a late arrival for when they graduate from UNI.

Hmm. Must not spend rest of workday wishing I was home. Yes I should. Hush you. No

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I'm not crazy. Don't look at me like that. :p

I got home so early yesterday! It was surreal! I can't wait for the day I'm not working 4/10 anymore on a regular basis. As much as I am not a morning person, I'd love the 7 to 4 simply because I'd get home sometime before I have to go to bed at night!

Installed The Sims 2 and all it's expansions (no Stuff packs, as I have none) on the new computer. It runs like a dream. I only played for about half an hour, though, before hopping over to Civ IV land. Played that for an hour before hopping into WoW land to do one quest turn in and update all of my character profiles on RPGOutfitter.

Did some chatting with people online during all of that. Alt+Tab on the new machine doesn't even phase it at all. It's a glorious thing.

So, today, not sure what I'm doing. I'm taking a small WoW break because I need a bit of a breather. Letalli's going to hit 60 within the next three weeks tops, and we have a Sunken Temple run scheduled for Friday evening. All the quests but one have greened out on me already for that. After that I'm going to grind Timbermaw faction up to at least Friendly and then probably go back to the Western Plaguelands to do the AD quests there.

I think I'm going to do some more Sims 2 gaming tonight. I need to get Pleasantview all set up on the new machine. Have to add Sim State University to it as well as Downtown and Bluewater Village. Need to marry off Don to Cassandra, get Mortimer and Dina engaged (but I don't get them married at her place), get Nina started on her career path, get Daniel and Mary-Sue's relationship patched up, get Lillith and Angela friendly with one another, get Brandi un-pregnant and make her meet Darren Dreamer.

I should also go back to the Realms Beyond game for Civ IV that I'm playing. I'm about halfway done with it, I think. I'll probably get pasted by an AI soon anyway. But I want to finish it and write up the report so that it's ready on reporting day. I already know a few things I did spectacularly wrong, but I've never played at Monarch level before anyway.

Well, it's almost time for my lunch to be over and for me to get back to work. So, off I go!

• Make a post pimping my movie night in case anybody didn't see it yesterday.


• Close lots of cases at work. Don't laugh at me, I'm serious. :-p


• Vacuum when I get home. Entire apartment again.


• Take pictures and post of the new house/home business I built in The Sims 2 last night.


• Make vaguely whiny reference to the fact that I made my ear bleed about five minutes ago.

And that's all.

Time to yammer a bit.

Played some Sims 2 last night. Got my lonely shopkeeper to Elder status and a day past. 29 more sim-days to live according to SimPE. He's filthy stinking rich, but owns practically nothing. Can't wait for him to finally kick the bucket so I can post all the pictures and write the story for it. Not really any exciting pictures, mind you, but pictures nonetheless. Mostly pictures of the key business events that occurred. And the two robberies, both of which were apprehended by the cops, but not before the second one actually made off with his TV.

Played some City of Heroes as well. Did some Carnie bashing with Kung Ru. Quote of the night: "Finally done with the Carnies! (He said, in the middle of Madeleine Casey's story arc...)" Pondered doing some Longbow bashing with Kalleesta, but sleep was more important in the long run.

Waking up this morning was... interesting. So did not want to get up, but then my bladder said "You had how much water/soda yesterday? You last went pee when exactly? That's right, bitch, GET THE FUCK UP NOW!" I think it's eyes turned red and it started breathing fire at that point, but I'm not sure as I was busy stumbling to the bathroom.

And now, work time!

Apparently I can only update once a week. :-p I'm just lame like that.

carebear_flare came over on Tuesday. He got to learn just how deep my Sims 2 addiction runs. That's all I'll say about that. :-p Fortunately, he brought a PS2 game of his over to keep him busy while I ignored everyone else in the apartment for the sake of my Sims.

I completed the "story" I've been posting over on Scrapbook, but I plan on doing an edit of it at some point to pare it down. It's over 300 pictures at the moment, after all. Now I'm getting the children through University and setting up their own families. The oldest daughter (Tanya) is already Mayor and her husband (Richard) is Captain Hero. The oldest son (Matthew) is working on his Business career and his wife (Allana) is working on her Medical career as well as going with her mother in law (Melinda) to the Spa to work up her own Cosmetology badge so she can eventually buy the lot for herself. The second son (Marcus, twin of Matthew) is unemployed, but getting his home set up to be a home business (think brothel, only GAY!) and his husband (Malcolm) is working in his Art career. The third boy (Eric) is about to head off to University. He just needs 8 Creativity skill points and some dance skill first. The second daughter (Allison) is halfway through her Teen years. The youngest boy (Peter) is two days from becoming a Teen. He may get an early ejection to University just so his parents aren't elders when he graduates and gets married. Plus that will allow Matthew and Allana to have their own children and activate the Servo he made while in University.

I've been playing City of Villains as well. Kalleesta is working on Diviner Morass (whatever the hell his name is) and Archmage Taraxus (whatever the hell his name is) in Sharkhead Isle. Almost done with their missions, I think. Then she's moving on to Nerva for a brief stay in the most annoying zone in the game. And I mean that in the nicest, please kill me now, way possible. Beautiful zone, don't get me wrong. It's just the fact that it's a combination of Perez Park, Talos Island, and Independence Port if you mooshed the three together and then got them all very stoned. It's the West Karana of CoV. I played some City of Heroes as well and finally did Hidden Justice's I5/I6 respec. I then proceeded to solo a Warburg mission and got the villain badge for 50 PvP missions. o_O Well, that's what it's description seems to indicate anyway. I was highly amused. Turns out that she can solo Heroic missions without much trouble, short of finding two groups mooshed together. Maybe I'll solo her in Warburg until she can get a team since it's easier than running around all of creation for her normal contacts.

I want to make a Dark/* Corruptor or a */Dark Defender because someone over at city_of_heroes decided to call Tenebrous Tentacles "Molestacles" (and someone else called them Hentaicles) and I must now have the power so I can bind it to a phrase that says "MOLESTACLATION!!! AIEEEEEEE!!!" or something similarly juvenile. Probably not that particular one, because I'm sure someone without a sense of humor would report me on it, but still.

And now I'm going to get to work. My oldest cases can't have anything done with them, because they're all in Singapore or Australia, and those poeple don't like answering the phone in the middle of the night for some reason.

So. I started a new neighborhood in Sims 2. Unlike some previous attempts, I did not nuke the entirety of the Townie pool after creating it. It was tempting to do so, but I didn't. I'm actually having a lot of fun and pseudo-taking my time. I say "pseudo" because I'm still tearing through UNI with the two founders of the Neighborhood, but I'm taking time to take lots of pictures. And when I say "lots of pictures", I mean lots of pictures.

I also uploaded some of the pictures from my picture phone of the last Shadowrun gaming session we had. Those are a bit more locked down, though. You can see all the stuff I've uploaded (CoH and CoX pictures, gaming pictures, Sims pictures, and at least one hillarious goof by Petsmart) here.

So, like, satyr_mi text messaged me yesterday and told me to go shopping after work. At Best Buy. To pick up Open for Business.

And I'm at work today.

*grumble*

Why, no, I don't have a Sims 2 addiction... really!

Small lunch today. Very small. Having Red Robin for dinner tonight with eligrrl! Mmmm. Cheese sticks. Mmmm. Hopefully it's not too busy there at 6:30 when we get there. :-p It's a Wednesday, it shouldn't be that bad.

Today at work is "JD Calls twenty billion stores and closes four cases total" day, apparently. Well, maybe six cases.

Oh well.

Completed the Monster Arena sidequest in Dragon Quest VIII. Got my mage with the magic bikini back in my party. Opened up a fun lil Casino of DOOM. Now have to milk it for tokens to buy a scary whip and some nice weapons to go Metal Slime Hunting with.

Need to play some Sims 2. Maybe make a new Neighborhood for play on my PC at home since I'm already playing a Pleasantview on the laptop.

Off to do some reading before I have to punch back in now.

When I get into something new, I really really get into it. If you look through the last two months worth of entries I've posted, you'll probably see indications that I am heavily addicted to Smallville, which is definitely not one of the best television shows ever produced. Fortunately, after a while, I reach a point where the obsession goes away, or at the very least becomes something slightly less neurotic. Finally hit that point. I mean, I was actually bored on my lunch break yesterday because I didn't go reading obsessively about things related to the show. :-p I still am finishing re-watching Season 4, and am watching new episodes as they air, but it's not the only thing I do with my free time anymore. :-p

So now I need new obsessions. Dragon Quest VIII is working nicely for a little bit, and I'm getting back into The Sims 2. I need to finish reinstalling it on my PC (still have to install Nightlife and the latest patch they released last week). I've also gotten back into City of Heroes/Villains thanks to them changing some of the game-stopping missions that spring surprise Archvillains on you (they'll be Elite Bosses if you're solo, which means that anyone with anything resembling healthy, sustained DPS should be able to take them out), and both satyr_mi and I are back into World of Warcraft. After my post from yesterday, we sorta decided to keep it running after the timecards run out. At least for the time being. I'm even considering a few more games of Civilization IV. Now I just need more free time to actually do all these things. :-p


On a related note, since we're supposedly playing Shadowrun on the 25th, I requested the 26th off from Borders and am considering requesting it off from Booth as well.

And now, time to do more work (virus issues annoy me).

Last day of VACATION!

boo.

:(


And on an unrelated tangent, a brand spankin' new neighborhood in The Sims 2 with both University and Nightlife installed created a total of 263 character files. That's townies, dormies, downtownies, service NPCs, carpool NPCs, secret society members, and the Downtown exclusive characters (Mr Big, Ms Diva, Slobs, Grand Vampires).

Two hundered and sixty three.

o_o

Yikes...