ACR and other things

No, I don't have the game installed yet. In fact, I'm feeling like crap and I did say don't expect anything for a while, right? But I've been looking at my downloads and mods and stuff anyhow, trying to figure out what I want to keep, and ACR is on the "only maybe" list.

Decisions, decisions

Okay, well, after thinking about it some more, since I'm still feeling iffy about the old projects, I think maybe I'd be better off just making a fresh start.

So, as soon as my back pain allows, I guess I'll go ahead and look for the disks and install. See if I can get FT working without hitches, or deal with the hitches, see if I can get that bodyshop compression workaround doing some good (and do some updates on my CC), do testing in the default neighborhoods, etc. I'm not planning on rushing; among other things I'd just as soon wait to start publishing until I at least get a little further into sorting out my health woes or, y'know, acquire a painkiller that works reliably. But when I get around to setting up custom 'hoods, it'll be for new projects.

Today's dilemma

Or, more like, "last few months' dilemma".

I've been pondering reinstalling the Sims. Again. Still. Whichever.

Unfortunately, I'm still having health issues. Yes, I'm trying to do something about them, but being that I'm using the local po' folks' insurance, time between appointments gets long... not to mention that the last appointment I had I missed because, heh, I was sick. And then my doctor left the practice. Yes, really. She's moving out of state. I did make it to what one of my friends calls "the annual titsmash" (no problems, btw, yay) but haven't tried to get on a new doctor's list yet, because I hate starting over with a new doctor. I know, I know. I'm going to call soon, really.

Okay, let's try this again...

This week, I hope to get done what I didn't get done last week.

I didn't make zero progress, but right after posting that last post, I started feeling ill. Ran a fever for a couple days, and generally have been foggy (and not sleeping well, either). Today I'm pretty foggy as well... I've been physically awake for about an hour but I feel like I'm still asleep. So I don't know how much (if anything) I'll do today, honestly, but we'll see.

Last week, I did get a set of shots for Twilight Dreams, though just one. I had to throw in a new lot and do some off-screen setup for a couple minor characters, which took a while, and then it took me forever to figure out how to pose a couple things, but at least that part's done, and most of the rest are straight-forward except one or two things. Ultimately it was a good 5 or 6 hours of work for what will be... half a dozen slides in the story? Something like that.

And S&S, college is still colleging, but the eldest kids will graduate on this rotation and then I'm consolidating houses and so it should be fairly quick to get the rest done as well. Then I can get people started on scary babies. (And hopefully in some people's cases, less scary ones.)

Plus there's several updates I want to read and comment on, which I'll get to in the next couple days I hope.

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.

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.

this week is full of FAIL

I'm... really not sure what happened to the week. Again. On the good news front, my sleep schedule, which has been really munged up, seems to be back to normal, so I'm hoping that'll help. And I got some comments to folks on boolProp. On the bad news front, no, I'm still not done writing the new S&S chapter and haven't gotten anywhere with TD. Both of which suck, yea verily.

I did, however, finally notice that the select in Photoshop has a fixed ratio option, which will make cropping quicker. So, um. Yay. I'm a bit past the halfway point, but I'm probably not getting any more done today, alas.

Where did the week go?

Okay, I got distracted, there were health issues, and now it's Thursday and I'm about where I'd hoped to be Monday night... so everything's behind.

I'm going to get the Gen B kids to college and then do a chapter, which may or may not go up to that point. Likely "not", but we'll see. A few are already there, but I've still got the younger ones to go. I'm not bothering to play college until everyone's there... the kids will go into dorms based on their age group so I can just play the eldest kids more.

As soon as that's done, I'm going to focus on TD for a bit, doing the next episode and the extras... I'll probably release E4 first and then the extras as a separate update. Then I'll work on E5 too. I've got some building to do in S&S so I can alternate in case I get bored with shooting. Also I can play Neopets or something for short breaks. It's been far too long since I released my last one, though, so I'd like to try to get E5 up fairly quickly after the extras... I also really need to start working on the full scripts for E8 onwards.

In the meantime, while you're waiting for an actual chapter or episode, have a lolSim:

Oh, right, Memorial Day

I almost forgot that was this weekend... and my sweetie is taking a couple extra days around it, so it's actually going to be an extra-long weekend for him, during which I imagine I sha'n't get much Simming done.

So... I'm guessing I won't be putting out any more updates of either project until early June, though hopefully it'll be fairly early June for both of them.

so sleepy

Quite aside from my sleep schedule being munged up and not having enough sleep last night (really "this morning"), I've also got the lovely Extra Tired because it's That Time of the Month. Apparently any focus is out of the question today, as even coffee isn't helping. So I really doubt I'm getting to any Twilight Dreams stuff the next couple days. Maybe later in the week, I don't know.

I may twiddle around in S&S, though. It doesn't take as much focus to do that.

OK, maybe S&S tomorrow

This weekend has just been full of distractions. Lousy mission in Guild Wars we had to repeat several times. Feeling sick and tired for no reason. You know. Stuff.

I'm a tad shy of halfway through the captions. I can probably do the remaining ones tomorrow and get the chapter up without problem, though. Assuming I don't fall asleep three or four times, which has been known to happen once in a while, but we'll just hope for the best. And drink lots of coffee. Well, I will. You will drink whatever. Which may also be coffee. But doesn't have to be.

Anyhow.

I don't know what I'm doing this week for Sim stuff. I think it might be more S&S and then do more TD next week instead. But we'll see.

The Brain, It Is Still Full of the Dead

Just... having a bleah month. I played a little. Still working on college. But mostly I've been distracted by other things.

the brain. it is is full of the dead.

Seriously, I seem to have come down with a serious case of the "easily distracted brain fog", or something. I haven't fired up the game in nearly two weeks, which seems so odd because I actually do want to play.

I'm going to blame it on it being nearly April, even though most of it occurred in March. April's historically been a bad month for me*. Maybe my brain is cringing in the expectation of the month being bad and shut down.

I think today is a wash but I'm going to load the game up tomorrow even if it means sitting there staring at Aaron's nose on pause for 5 hours before I actually play. At this point, though, I'm guessing the earliest I'll have anything out is mid-next-week.

[*Near death of a friend in a motorcycle accident. Unplanned pregnancy discovered just after really bad breakup. Really bad breakup in question. Suicide of someone I knew, albeit someone I wasn't close to. Death of a friend in a car accident. Figuring out my ex-junkie roommate of the time was not, in fact, an EX-junkie. Death of my cat, last year, and I've been thinking about him a lot lately. Birthday of very close friend who died 18 months ago. There's probably other things I could dredge up but I'm already in a poor mood, so why go there?]