Sailor §trange

I has meh laybuy off. You know, the one with the first three seasons of SPN in it.

I also got The Sims 3: Master Suite Stuff, and pre-ordered the next major expansion.

I don't know when I'll get around loading MSS, I am currently doing so much of my online stuff upstairs, on Vec, and haven't been playing much of the Sims - 3 or Medieval.

Hmm... I do wonder if anyone has made SPN sims...

ETA: I am thinking of leaving season 5 for a while so I can watch seasons 1-3.

Also, resorting icons again so I could get one of both Winchester brothers in, and a couple of others.

Also: Totally addicted to this song.

It appears I cannot load Bridgeport, again.

I wanted to take a bit of time out from playing the Praadera family so I am starting on something totally different and want to use a different town than either Sunset Valley or Twinbrook. Seems somewhere along the line my game won't play nice with the Big City so I am having to go back to the town I was a bit suspicious of, Riverview.

I can't afford at the moment to put out the money needed for simpoints to by Barnacle Bay, and I think there's another downloadable town available now, but same thing applies. The only reason I have Riverview was because it was free.

I also have half a dozen of my older OC sims I need to rebuild as I didn't totally trust the old versions not to crash the game on me. I have, once again, lost my pair of sisters that agiftedmind created based on herself and one of her own OCs. The save I had of them were in a house and something in that house doesn't mix with the current version of the program.

I am also feeling very tempted to reload The Sims 2 and start again with it. I kinda hope that I could recreate my S2 Starwing, as well as several of my other characters.

Right now however I am fiddling with a new copy of Kyla Yaslana.

I am finally back from my internet allowance-induced exile!

And I only had to bequeath an extra $30 per month for it.

Anyway, for those who don't read my dA journal, I have been having a lot of problems lately with the measely data quota my internet plan had and as a result I couldn't get into LJ. I think there's something to do with the I-stat, because that is where it always stalled.

I also did a bit of file cleaning in my Sims game which has tremendously improved the function of the game so instead of just barely limping along it's actually going somewhere. It still has it's issues, but I'm finding ways to cope with them, especially with save times that aren't half an hour - or so it feels.

The state of my recent pet project of creating sims based on some of my personal OCs has progressed to actually playing them, and I have had a consequent creative streak of imaginings about previously neglected cast members.

And most significantly, I have my netbook! This post in particular comes to you from my bedroom, upstairs from the desktop known fondly as Cybertron, curtesy of Vector Prime the potentially wandering compting device (most of it's wandering has been only within the house).

I still have to get used to some of the basic netbook things, like the feel of the keyboard (though I'm still not totally comfortable with Cybertron's keyboard, which was new as of when I got the new compy), and the mouse which is tiny (though I love the retractable cord on it).
I also have to accept SG!Ravage (the modem) vanishing downstairs while I sleep, since I'm mostly sleep daytime at the moment (though I'm pushing it back) and Mum tries her best to stay diurnal as she can with her insomnia, so usually she comes and grabs SG to use on the compy downstairs.

The other effect of the new addition is the ability to do two things at once - something that amused Mum a fair bit the first time she saw me at it. I can now be online at the same time as playing the Sims, though I still have the occasional keyboard mix-up where I try to copy-paste on Cybertron's keyboard something I'm wanting to move on Vector.

And the moving happens - if I need to move files it's usually via Ravage (MP3) or Alpha Trion (1TB portable drive), by simple dint of plugging said drive into one compy, copying files to it, unplugging drive, plugging into the other compy and copying files over.

I also hate mouse touch-pads too.

But anyway, I'm pretty sure I've missed a pile of TF fic while I've been exiled, so I'm going to go hunting.

Well it seems my previous version of Khyilenna didn't get saved. I was a bit miffed about it because I was ready to start work on the rest of Mareph's family but ended up having to remodel Khyi again.

This time I didn't bother with silly ideas like trying to turn Bella Bachelor into an acceptable Khyi and instead used a base that I knew was good - I used Maritas Prima, who is actually based on Starwing (see icon).

It seems an irony that when I got done she ended up looking quite similar to the one who started out as a Bella clone - I guess when you're using the same tools, similar results will come out when one takes into account personal tastes.

But due to game crashes, I lost the first Maritas-based Khyi, and ended up having to do her again, this time saving after I finished basic facial alterations, and then again after her make-up (including tatts) was done. Her clothing isn't done yet, but at least the facial structure is complete.

( Senna Daani Khyilenna Malaasa )

Then I had some ( genetic fun )

So it may be obvious from my recent posts that I have some of my old OCs on the brain lately. Well I am also making sims of them.

( The is not the Goth you are looking for! )

The only thing is I forgot to load the Lady Gaga sim I found - I want to use her as Khyilenna's base, since I have really taken to using Gaga as Khyi's face on riftfire_dancer.

On other Sims play: I had to scrap my 3DS game and start again - I found I had two copies of the Townie I'd made as Daani's prospective boyfriend. It would get too confusing with two Marcus Prides when I'm trying to get one to like Daani enough to romance.

The second take on Daani (Daani Malaasa) is Danielle Malan (a recently decided alias for Khyilenna). I haven't gone in to make a new Marcus Pride (Mareph) yet.

First off, let me headesk about the Sims.

*Headesk!* *Headesk!* *Headesk!*

There.

I managed to get some good progress with my latest sim, Serena Viator, and got it into my head to call over a sim orphaned in my early work in killing off sims I really detest, only I was giving her a makeover and... BAM! Game crash! Several hours of play lost!


In other things, Mum and I are having our xmas early - opening prezzies and having our turkey dinner tomorrow. This is because Xmas Day I am getting up at buttfuck o'clock in the morning to get on a plane to Sydney. As I have found out, that's going to be interesting because my cousin and her family are down for the hols, so my Aunt (Dad's sister), Uncle and younger cousin are staying at Dad's place while Older Cousin and family are at her parents' house.

Anyway, tomorrow is going to be the big DVD viewing day, with two box sets of Doctor Who to watch through.

In other things, I now have a Galvatron, thanks to onetruesikorsky. He's sitting on the desk in front of me, next to Cyber-Megs, with Cyclonus sitting on top of him. Red Alert thinks this blodes some massive plot to kill all the Autobots in the house. He also thinks Big Rav having his roof pack thingie is part of the plot.

Last thing: agiftedmind has let me know she's got her cat, Tika, back. I'm sure she'll give the details when she can get online and post an update.

Well I should have read the damn pack before I bothered.

Turns out I don't have enough RAM on Primus to run LN. The irritating part is, I did have enough on Feanor but when I had to change, I didn't think to ask about the RAM that would be in Primus. I didn't consider having a new 1 TB drive installed either, but whatever.

Thing is, I can't afford to do anything at the moment - I have bills, xmas to buy for, not to mention the trip to Sydney, and I don't think I'll have the money spare to get more RAM installed.

I guess I either have to do a full reinstall back to Ambitions again, or just not play the game.

So, I hate my keyboard.

But to get on to the subject, I got my new TV off laybuy yesterday.


( TL;DR - OldTV was crappy, bought a LCD HD with DVD, had problems getting DVD working but eventually figured it out. )


( TL;DR - Nick and Vita Alto dead, their kids moved in with Landgrabbs, family in Egypt, Holly adventuring. )

Anyway, I'm tired as shit and wanna go to bed. Cya. o/

If folks haven't noticed, I've been offline for the last two days. I have no idea what's causing it, except the computer claims there is no dial tone, but the phone disagrees and all the cords seem to be in fine, if dusty, condition.

This may be the modem getting old.

As it is, I am just pleased it's playing nice at the moment, so I can check my mail and such.

I have been playing a lot of Sims 3 - finally got out of the Goth house and am resettling Agnes back into her house... along with the Yaslana twins, which means I have a whole basement to furnish. I have already tried to do that once but the game got stuck so I had to kill the game and lost all that work. Yutz.

At the moment I am having to save frequently - as Mum said last weekend, I seem to spend as much time on my lounge, playing Tetris and waiting for it to save as I do actually playing it.

Anyway, while I'm on I'll be reading. Haven't been able to get my fanfic fix for the last couple of days!

I have had some luck! My Sims game has played nice for once and my copy of Starwing's base sim I had in files hasn't caused havok with the game. The result is that I now have a sim version of my tf_matrix version of her, Rachel Coulson.

( A few pics )