July officially has sucked

Aside from the fun recounted in my last post, there was also the cold or flu or something, continued other health problems (and continued lack of insurance), the a/c freezing routinely such that it can't be run all the time (and yes, it's quite hot and humid 'round here) and then, of course, the transformer for the DSL modem fried. Which is obviously fixed, but it was just so nice to go along with the other crap, lemme tell you.

I am currently beating my head against my computer's inability to compress textures without doing so ridiculously again, so I haven't forgotten about the Sims. But boy am I making no promises about when anyone will see anything. At all.

I am reading folks' stuff, tho, as usual.

Monday started early....

Let me give this post a full title: "How I came to not watch Dr. Horrible, ended up with wet pillows, and had Monday luck start early but leave late".

slooooowwwww

Eeeeeevvvvveeeeeerrrrryyyyyytthhhiiiiinnnng iiiiiisssss gooooiiiiinnnng vvvveeeeerrrrrryyyyy ssssssslllllllloooooOOOOoooowwwww.

Seriously, I looked at some of what I shot yesterday. Something that turned out to be a total of 5 seconds of video took a full minute of sitting there to shoot, because the Sims is too stupid to take advantage of my multicore system.

For those of you who aren't into math, that means that the clip that I shot that was nearly 2 minutes long took over 20 minutes of sitting around staring at the screen waiting for something to happen. (Not something I can trigger. Also, it didn't happen. No, I won't say what, but I might after if I still haven't caught it.)

And this is why I'm not done yet. Because there's only so much of that I can take.

It does not, however, explain why I haven't finished up the CC or building. That, you can chalk up to the back and neck pain, being easily distracted when I'm in pain, and my sleep schedule.

I'm going to go take another painkiller and see if I can get something done today, but I don't expect to have anything to show anyone for another week at least, alas.

Videos and other things

I'm organizing stuff in preparation for shooting video for Twilight Dreams, but I haven't actually started, and I don't think I'm going to until tomorrow, because I'm not feeling patient enough to deal with the "5 minutes of shooting is 30 seconds of video" ratio today. (Thursday-Sunday was All Guild Wars All The Time, because they had a holiday weekend, too, and yesterday I had housework to do, so today's the first day I've really looked at it anyhow.)

I'm actually going to be doing shooting for three videos: a revised version of the opening theme, the video I intend to release ASAP along with one other thing for the close of Volume 1, and one more video that'll probably come out with or just after Episode 5.

The other things I plan on doing, this week and likely part of next: a small batch of CC, some vacation lot building for S&S, and hopefully some scripting for TD.

Today, tho, I think I'm going to veg out on strategy games.

Twilight Dreams updated

Episode 4 of Twilight Dreams, "...becoming the Now", is finally, finally, finally up.