The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Still kind of distracted this week, and also kind of busy with real life. My parents were over for the weekend, but I did get a little bit of progress, mostly today. Only about a sim day in the Patch household, so they have three to go before the rotation is over for them. I should really get to it so I can back up my progress. (I prefer to take backups between houses in rotation.)

Other than that, I did get my TS4 legacy founders married and expecting sometime this week, so I suppose that sort of counts even though I'm keeping stuff unpublished for now. It seems it's somehow easier to go to TS4 after work and a bit tired, probably because I have so much going on in TS2 so it can get overwhelming. Plus since I'm not publishing it at the moment, there's no pressure there either. Well, whichever way is fun.

Today, I've also been procrastinating by reading some old fics by mzyra. Because they're fun and I felt lazy, not that much like working on my own stuff. That reminded me I should do something about that apocalypse. Or not only reminded me, rather made me want to, well because Seth and Rodney. <3 Too many projects, too many distractions, too little time. Well, I suppose I'll get to that, and everything, eventually. One step at a time.

I came home late yesterday evening, hence too tired to do weekly simming. Well, anyway, not that there's much to report anyway. I didn't have a lot of time to sim and was away for the weekend. I did play the Patches a little bit, maybe a day of the vacation or so, and also a little bit of that TS4 legacy I started the week before.

Yeah, I'm dragging my feet again, it seems that the grandparent vacation is kind of boring. But since everyone else has gotten their grandparent vacations, it'd be unfair not to give the Patches theirs. (Okay, I'm apparently kind of nuts, thinking something is "unfair" towards pixels on my computer...) Oh well, I'll get to it eventually. At least this week I shouldn't be traveling, so maybe I'll have a bit more time to sim. We'll see.

This week I've done some simming-related stuff, but still not hugely much. I've been lazily writing the next Lakewood update, but as you can see, it's not ready yet. I really should keep up the writing better than I have. Edit: Oh, and I've played the next house in the Alphabetia rotation for about a day or so, remembered to send the grandparent Patches on that grandparent vacation they missed last rotation, which was apparently *ahem* two years ago or so.

Now in the weekend I've been doing something I don't even necessarily need to do: going on a small downloading spree, as I've seen stuff I want in recent GoS events. That, and I've been tossing around the idea of starting a TS4 legacy, and *ahem* actually, even making a score sheet for that. Because I don't already have enough distractions.

Well really, since I bought the game but haven't really played all that much, and have seen others enjoying it. Plus reading Pinstar's rules made me want to try it. Plus I'm already past the limit of having too many sims/challenges to keep up with at once (*cough* the apocalypse *cough*) so what the heck. :D My plan is to keep it unpublished for now, and maybe share later if it looks like it'll hold my interest.

Not sure of the busyness degree of next week, but hopefully I'll get some progress in.

Whoops, I forgot to do weekly simming yesterday!

So, as was predictable, last week wasn't as productive as the past few, as it was my first week back at work. I'll admit that maybe I also felt a little less motivated to sim than I have recently; maybe I played a little too much on my vacation.

Anyway, I did get something done: I finished playing the first week of a new household in Lakewood, and I shared some picspam too. For the interested, I also shared a couple of pics from last weekend's building sessions.

I'll admit I'm behind in writing that week I played, I'm lazy like that. But, all in due time. Maybe this week? Who knows. I'll be busy in the weekend, but maybe I'll still get some progress during the week.

Hey look, it's the Slowest Legacy on Earth! It's been less than a year (maybe days less, but less nevertheless...), and I've already posted a Lakewood update this week! What is this madness? Oh, right, it's called summer vacation.

I hope you enjoy the chapter, and as usual, comments are welcome wherever you might feel like commenting. :)

This week's progress wasn't as huge as last week's as I've had a bit more real life going on. I've had a couple of guests over, plus I've been visiting relatives. But still, I've managed quite nice progress.

First I finished playing the Broke family's week and posted some picspam on them. Next, since I had a plan for a couple new playable families for Lakewood, it was a good time to add some new townies and to set up Lakewood's first vacation destination. It was my first time setting one up from scratch, so I hope I managed things okay and didn't break anything. I do have a backup too just in case.

I also played a couple of days of the next Alphabetia household, the Jalowitzes. They are one of my favorites, but so far the rotation has been kind of uneventful.

Towards the end of the week, I've been visiting family and hence there's some sitting in vechiles. I was sneaky and took my laptop plus the unfinished chapters with me, so there's something to do on said vechiles. So far I've managed to finish the next Lakewood update, I only need to check some stats on the simming computer plus make a cover before posting it. I've also written some on the next Bookacy update, which is currently on 105 slides. So I probably shouldn't make it hugely much longer anymore, but I'm looking for a good place to stop, plus I'm considering adding a little bit of plot in the end.

So nice progress this week, too. One week of the vacation left. I know the relative visits continue for a bit, but that means some writing can happen on the road. Towards the end of the week I should have some game time too.

For the sake of completeness, have a non-progress report for the past week. There was no simming, because I spent the first week of my summer holiday in Rome. It was a very hot week (around 35 degrees centigrade and sunny), but being careful to take a siesta every day, a very enjoyable one. I just returned this evening, so unpacking and laundry are ongoing.

I've still got a few weeks of vacation time left for the summer, so I'd expect some progress in the coming weeks. :) I plan to start by catching up on replies, reading and commenting in the next few days.

Well, this week was nicer than the last at least in the sense that now I'm no longer ill. I was a bit optimistic about getting healthy last Sunday. I did try to go to work on Monday, but noticed pretty soon that it wasn't such a great idea, headed to occupational health, where they sent me back home to rest. So I rested Monday and Tuesday (doing pretty much literally nothing) and headed back to work on Wednesday, successfully this time.

I was able to sim a little bit early in the week, I think it was Tuesday evening. I played the Fortunatos forward a bit, and today, now that we're done with Midsummer's, I've been continuing on that. Their week is currently at Thursday. I've also been writing as I've played, even though I'm again a bit behind there, but not hopelessly so.

As for the Bookacies, I've done a bit of writing there too, and the chapter currently stands at 69 slides written. I've managed to write past one of the painful points, Baudolino's death. So that's good. I'm also tossing around a new alternative plot for the downgrade point, one that would deal with the cousins in a sort of "soft" way. At the moment I'm kinda liking it, though at the same time wondering whether such a solution will be enough. We'll see. In any case, I'll need to start foreshadowing the events in the next few chapters. It's pretty fun to have plot points in mind again!

Next weekend I'm expecting some busyness, so whatever progress will happen will likely happen during the week, if there's any.

Well, this was a pretty productive week when it comes to sims, in both playing and otherwise. I managed to finish the Mellon household in Alphabetia and posted picspam on them. After that, I took a full backup again, just to be safe.

( Computer babbles )

Now in the evening I played a little bit of the Fortunato household in Lakewood, mostly to see if things worked right. Still seems they do, I was able to play and take pictures normally. So so far so good. Oh, and I wrote a little bit of the Bookacy chapter, on 58 slides now.

So, that was this week, we'll see how things go next week. :)

Feeling pretty tired right now, so a quick weekly simming this time. On Monday, I managed to finish the Chun family's rotation in Alphabetia and posted picspam. On Tuesday, I tried to start a bit on the next family, the Mellons, but gave up pretty quickly, was too tired.

After that I haven't had time to sim, as the rest of the week was pretty busy, and I traveled in the weekend. A visit to my sister and The Phantom of the Opera by the National Opera were definitely worth it.

Anyway, some progress in the early week was good. We'll see about more next week!