The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Well, it felt silly to post basically twice in a row, so I decided to combine the posts, especially since they would essentially say the same thing.

Again, in the beginning of the week I've been a bit absent, lazy, distracted, tired, one of these things. But in the weekend I managed pretty good progress. Yesterday I finished playing Regan and Jenny's second week, and today I finished writing it. So all in all, I'm really happy with the progress. To tell the truth, I don't think I've been able to push updates out this fast, like, ever, at least in the time I've been full time employed!

Of course, it all has to do with two things. 1) This is an observational challenge, and I'm not worrying about text quality, at all. And not staging, and planning, and... And the typing as I play really seems to work here. And 2) it's still a new challenge, so I'm perhaps more excited than I am for something that I've been working on, well, frankly, the better part of a decade now. (Wow, that's a scary thought!) Well, in any case, I suppose I'll just enjoy it while it lasts!

As for the presumed hack issue with dazzling, I'm currently tossing the thought of just leaving it be and playing around it. It's rare enough, and seems to be recoverable, so I don't actually have to quit without saving if it happens. Sure, a kind of an annoyance in a BaCC, and an annoying one at that. But frankly, since it's so rare, it's also a pest to find, and I've sort of run out of ideas on what it could be. So maybe I'll be able to just live with it. In any case, I'll probably try and finish the Lakewood rotation before I consider going back to the Bookacies.

Anyway, so, I think that covers my simming this week, just about. Oh wait, you were waiting for that update, right? Well, here you go!



As always, comments welcome here, there or anywhere. I hope you enjoy! :)

Don't know if you're around to see this, but happy belated birthday, docnerd! I hope it was a good one!

Take that, real life, sickness, distraction and excuses! We're back with the first part of week 2. I hope you enjoy, and as always, comments are welcome wherever they're most convenient for you. :)

Excuses, excuses... Guess what happened in the beginning of the week, just as I thought I'd get back into the swing of things? Well, I promptly got sick. Not the kind of sick that gives you fever and puts you into bedrest, just the kind of sick that makes you tired and annoyed and trying to do the normal things anyway. If I didn't go to work, I'd feel guilty because I'm not "sick enough", and when I do, I feel guilty because that may make someone else sick. *sigh* Anyway, that has left me pretty useless in the evenings this week, not having the energy to do anything simming-related. Or much anything, really.

Now in the weekend I've been better, even managing to go to the yearly book fair today, as I planned. (Yay!) Yesterday I managed to write a little bit for the next Lakewood update. I don't like how the gap between updates is growing here, too, but on the other hand, I've been feeling a bit uninspired and lazy, too.

Well, really only one thing to do: try again. I think I'll see if I can write a little bit more yet tonight. And then there's always next week.

*runs by*

Happy belated birthday, widget_sims! Happy still-on-time birthday, mzyra! I hope you both have/had great days!

*runs in the other direction*

So, as I said last time, this week was kind of busy when it comes to real life. I was on a business trip from Monday to Tuesday, and kind of recovering from that the rest of the week. When it comes to free time, I had my first French class on Thursday and I thoroughly enjoyed it. (I studied French in high school, but have since then just about forgotten everything, and want to brush up my skills.)

I've also been a bit distracted by other games (especially since I've been tired in the evenings), but I did manage some progress today. I allllmost finished the rotation for the Davidsons, and wrote a little bit too. I'll have some catching up to do with writing afterwards, but thankfully just a rotation worth. Once I get to it, it goes pretty quickly, at least has so far.

But goodness, I didn't even remember how hard the toddler training is without smart milk! I'm not sure if I regret choosing the no aspiration rewards handicap or not. On the one hand, it feels like so much work, on the other, it feels like an actual challenge, too. I think out of all the aspiration rewards, I really miss two the most: elixir and smart milk. Not that surprising I suppose. Anyway, by my usual playstyle, the Davidsons' oldest child should be a kid now, but there's still the nursery rhyme to go! Well, we'll see how that goes.

I'm not sure about next week, but hopefully it isn't as busy as this week. I've been a little distracted lately, but again, playing was fun when I did actually play. So maybe more progress next week? Maybe.

I'll confess, I didn't actually sim much this week. I had a kind of a bad start of the week. Long story short, it was a peak in unhappiness about how I look, my weight etc. Kind of stupid really, but I was pretty upset in the beginning of the week. It's gotten better since, and I'm trying to do something about it, so it'll be ok.

Anyway. So during the week I didn't sim much, actually mostly played Civ V online with my sister. I guess I felt like taking a break. I did sim a bit during the weekend, started playing the second week for the Davidsons. And I wrote a little bit too, though not a substantial amount. Playing was fun and there was progress, so that's all good.

Also, Lakewood: Just a BaCC got selected as a featured story over at Boolprop, so I got to answer questions on a short interview one evening. (Features are picked randomly from stories updated after the last features.) It was nice, helped me get my mind off things for a bit. Just checking back now, it seems the features post is up, so if you want to read my interview, along with a couple of others, now you can. :)

That's all this week I think. We'll be back next week!

Here comes the final part of week 1! I hope you enjoy, and as always, comments are welcome wherever it best suits you.

This week concludes my summer vacation for this year, and although last week was better progress-wise, I did get stuff done and I'm happy with it.

( Things that got done )

So tomorrow morning it's back to work for me. But, there's still evenings and weekends, so we'll keep trotting along.

Phew, I've been hardworking this week!

( Progress report this way! )