The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Despite concentration being scarce, I managed a bit of progress this week. I sent a couple of comments that I owed, and today, I got started on set number 4 (I think) for the interlude. It's substantially smaller than the ones I've made so far, and I think I'm maybe halfway done with it. That's pretty good for a week in February.

Next week is probably more of the same, but after next week, I have a week of vacation planned. So maybe, in the weekend, I might get something done. Maybe.

Well, even though the winter absolutely sucks, it's the worst time of the year for me, I have some progress. The progress can be summarized as follows: Lakewood update! I finally managed to finish typing it and do the copy paste operation required to publish it. So, at this time of the year, it's definitely progress to be proud of. Without further ado, here it is.



I hope you enjoy the update, and if you feel inclined to comment, that's welcome anywhere it's the most convenient for you.

Another week finished, I had pretty good progress in the weekend.

I wrote a little bit for the Goths, and I'm not terribly far away from finishing writing their week. Gathering the concentration for writing is a bit of a task, so every little bit counts.

On the Bookacy side of things, I set to work building a third set for the planned interlude. It's coming along pretty nicely, I've built the structure and partly decorated it too. It might take a couple sessions to finish it, but it's quite good progress especially as I only I got started yesterday.

So yeah, pretty good this week. I won't make any promises about next week, but hopefully I'll have a bit of time here and there.

Well, it seems I'm stil a bit off schedule with things. Getting re-accustomed to work took all my energy last week, and I spent the weekend doing absolutely nothing productive. I think I was simply in the need of that.

Now I've been slowly catching up with some comments, and there's more of that yet to come. After that, I should really look into updating the TS4 randomizer. It's way overdue by now. I have another weekend with no plans coming up, I hope I can find the concentration to at least get that one out there. If I have the energy, the next thing would be to get back to Lakewood. I guess we'll see how that goes.

Well, the year is pretty much wrapping up here. I did manage to play a little bit in the weekend, the Goths have about a day left in their rotation, and that'll be where they'll be at the end of the year. I'll have my writing with me as I travel for the holidays, plus the TS4 randomizer that needs updating, but whether I'll get anything done is an open question. I'll try to check in yet once next weekend or so, but no absolute promises.

Just in case, I wish you a happy festive season, whether you celebrate or not. Take care, I'll be back at the latest next year!

Again during the week I've been kind of distracted, mostly reading. Well, that's nice too. Plus there's been a little bit of X-mas stuff going on, but I did get to play a bit in the weekend. The Goths are now at Saturday evening, and they have a business lined up for them for as soon as they have the money to buy it. So hey, we're getting somewhere.

Next week I predict not much progress, as I'll be on the road some. On the other hand, I'm planning to take my laptop, so maybe I can do some writing. Maybe?

Well, last week did see some progress on the TS2 side too. I decided that to take a break from the building, I'd play the next Lakewood household. It was the turn for the Goth uglacy, and there's nice progress being made there. The first generation spouse is moved in, and there's babies happening. I'm about halfway through the week now in playing, not quite that far in writing, but we'll get there.

I did also play a tiny bit of my TS4 legacy, mostly to get a missing picture for a forum event at Boolprop. Every little bit counts there too.

This week, well, we'll see. It shouldn't be too busy, but it is the dark time of the year so let's see how much energy I have. Hoping for the best!

As I suspected, I didn't get quite as much done this week as the last when it comes to sims. Still, it was a surprisingly good week for progress.

I should now be all queued for picspam again, so that'll keep going on for a while. The queue is more than forty days long, which is nice.

I've also been on a cc hunting spree for the current and the next set. The current one, the school, is pretty much done I think. I even remembered to install lights today. I'm still considering getting a big cc clock for the outside wall, but otherwise I think it's done. The next one is a hospital, I think that'll be a fun one. I'm considering playing either Alphabetia or Lakewood first though, to not get sick of building. We'll see.

I've also been playing and documenting my TS4 legacy. My second generation heiress became a young adult, so the first generation is officially done! Today, I celebrated that by installing Get to Work, which has been sitting in my games cart for a while. I had a new young adult in the need of a job, so I of course picked one of the new ones to get to try an interactive career. My heiress became a doctor, and I just finished her first day at work. It was fun, doctoring around! It seems the biggest challenge was to lure the other doctors away, as they liked to chat with the patients and stand in the way so that my sim wasn't able to diagnose and treat them. :P Anyway, it was pretty exciting, and I'm going to need to restrain myself so I don't follow my heiress to work every single day and miss everyone else at home! From what I hear, I'm not the only one with that issue. :)

On the side (while waiting for the GTW download to be done), I continued a little bit of the potential collecting of apocalyptic cc. I'm still undecided on what I might do with the apocalypse, but I haven't forgotten about it.

Next week promises to be on the busier side I think, so we'll see what I might have the energy for in the evenings. I hope I'll have a bit of progress at least.

This week, I'm quite content with the progress I've had. I had time to play in the weekend, and so managed to finish the Mendoza household, the last one in the rotation. I also went ahead and calculated which of the neighborhood kids should have grown to teens had I played everyone. I visited those houses and artificially aged them to their correct ages and gave them makeovers. Aspirations and orientations were rolled too.

I was going to send the next batch of college kids on their way too, but didn't have time for that. I'm going to do yet that (next week I hope) and then it's time to take a backup. It did cross my mind that there may be elders that should possibly have died, but that's not a task I'm looking forward to, so I haven't done that yet. I suppose I should check though. There aren't many gen. B elders left in any case.

Anyway, I hope to get at least to the backup point next week, hopefully queue picspam too. If I'm lucky enough to have more time than that, I think I should probably continue with my set building for the interlude. Fingers crossed for another good simming week!

Another good simming week behind. I'm happy to have made this much progress.

During the week, I managed to squeeze that little bit of the next Lakewood update together, and on Friday night, I got it posted. It's been a long time coming, and I'm glad to have it done finally.

Yesterday I did some more building, and I think I'm now finished with the set I've been making. What's maybe a bit less encouraging is that I'm going to need at least four more for shooting the upcoming plotty interlude. Yes, four. Well, when the mood strikes, building is fun, plus I suppose I can use some of those again in the future. I think I should probably finish the Mendoza household first and take a backup before I start making the next set.

Today, I documented my TS4 legacy for a bit and also played a little bit, apparently for the first time for about a half a year or so. My teen spare managed to set the stove on fire, but luckily he also managed to extinguish it while the rest of the family panicked. Now they're all pretty miserable, trying to recover from the shock. Except the spare, who thinks he did a pretty great job putting out the fire.

Next week promises to be pretty busy, so busy even that I suspect that there may be no simming at all. But I'll check back in about a week and we'll see.