The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Whoops, it's been a while. I've been too lazy to keep up with weekly simming, especially as progess has been scarce. Real life has been kind of busy, plus it's again getting darker so maybe it's showing a bit in my energy levels.

Anyway, yeah, I'm still alive. And there has been a little bit of simming too. I've played my TS4 legacy a bit, written a few slides here and there, and I've continued my dorm makeover in TS2. I'll probably share pictures on that one once it's done. Only in recent years I've come to appreciate the joys of building, it's fun and kind of relaxing if the mood is right.

I hope I might get back into swing of things sometime soon. Maybe I might have time this coming weekend? We'll see.

A little bit of simming this week, at long last.

I felt like simming, but wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I entered Alphabetia for a bit and considered playing the next household, which would have been the Greek House. That felt somehow a bit intensive for my mood, so I went into the building 'hood and started making over another college dorm instead. That's something I want to do for the rebuild eventually anyway. I only got started by a little bit, but it's a start.

Next week I'm quite busy, so I expect to have no progress, unless I get some unexpected bunch of time during the weekend. In any case, there's always the week after that.

I can't really say there's been progress last week either. Well, if it counts, I did manage to take a full backup of my simming machine this past Sunday. Real life has been pretty busy, and I've often been pretty tired in the evenings. Like now. Plus I've been toying around with this geeky non-sims project, too, we'll see if that might keep me interested. But yeah, haven't forgotten about simming, either. Maybe in the weekend I might feel like looking into stuff again?

So, as I'm done with the plotty interlude I've been planning on so long, it's time for some behind the scenes and "how did I do it". If you're interested, look under the cut, but beware if you haven't read Interlude 2 yet, as it's obviously spoilery.

( Behind the scenes, Interlude 2 )

And here's another cut for a brief weekly simming for two weeks:

( Weekly simming )

I should be heading to bed, but a quick weekly simming before I forget (again).

So, the last two weeks of my vacation flew by, and I did a lot of non-sims stuff, but I've been pretty hardworking on the sims front too. I finished playing the last household of the Lakewood rotation, and I'm more than halfway through with writing it too. I think I got to Friday night time-wise in the update, so a couple of game days left to report.

As for the Bookacy side, I've started shooting the pictures I need. I'd forgotten how slow that is, with messing around with poses and omsps and canceling unwanted actions and all that. Plus it's been so long that I'm kind of rusty too. But, I've gotten I think 7 pictures so far, so there's been progress. The update was originally going to be only around 30 pictures, but as it usually is with me, it's probably going to be longer in reality. Still probably shorter than a regular Bookacy update.

So this week I need to adjust to being back to work (it's kind of nice really otherwise, but the waking up is the hard part), and there may be some evening activity, but I do intend to do sims stuff too. I've got two weeks left in SimNano, and I think it's possible to do both goals in that time if I put in some effort. Fingers crossed for a good week!

Last week was midsummer week, so the end of the week was taken. I just got home from my parents' tonight. But, in the beginning of last week I did have some progress!

I started making some characters for the upcoming interlude, extracting a couple supporting characters while I was at it. I'm not a skilled sim maker, but I think those couple of characters I've made so far turned out quite decent.

A bunch to make still, mostly background characters. I think that's where I will continue this week. I might also start playing the next Lakewood household if I feel like it. We'll see.

Well, it's been two weeks without progress then. First I was busy as expected, and on the road visiting friends in my old hometown. Then, when I was thinking of getting a bit of progress this past weekend, I promptly caught the flu. It seems to be passing, I was at work and everything today, but yeah, I mostly did nothing in the weekend.

This is my last week of work before my summer holiday. So maybe, if I'm not super distracted by something else, the vacation could be a good time to get some progress in. Fingers crossed!

Well, a little bit of progress last week again. I managed to take a full backup, and after, I started queuing up the pictures I've taken of my newly built lots. There's currently a couple weeks worth stuff in the queue, but that's just the beginning.

So yeah, I suppose next I should continue that, plus get to making those characters. We'll see about that this week, don't know yet about energy levels and so.

Whoopsie, I forgot about weekly simming. But, I do have a bit of progress to report. I had a couple of build sessions during my long weekend, and with that, I finished (I think) the lot makeover that I had ongoing. If I haven't overlooked something, that means next I could get to making a few characters for my interlude, and then, start filming. Wow, it's been so long, we'll see if I can still do it!

So yeah, even if progress is slow, it still happens occasionally. We'll see if I might have some more time and energy this weekend or so, to try my hand at filming again. Oh yeah, and I should actually package those houses, and probably take some pictures too, to share. Well, we'll see when that happens, but eventually.

Checking in again. I was right about Easter week, I was pretty busy so progress didn't happen. I had my pre-arranging work with me on the road, but in the end I didn't do anything about it. I've also needed some distraction lately (worrying about something irl that's not my business to share), and I suppose Zelda has been working best for that.

I dunno about this week, I see some distraction ahead and stuff I should do. We'll see if I might come around to simming on the side.