My Cat Ate My Homework
Sep. 18th, 2008 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orikesSo, last night before going to sleep I sat down and wrote out a list of all the scenes I need to shoot for the BC finale. This was good to do because it helped me work out the order of the things and how to make the story work. This afternoon when I got up, I dropped the notepad and my ipod on my computer chair along with a blanket since it's freaking cold out there today.
When I came back in after showering and getting breakfast, I discovered one of my cats sitting on top of the notebook happily shredding it to pieces. He's NEVER done anything like that before, but apparently since it was on top of the blanket he wanted to cuddle into, it was fair game.
Not only did he mutilate my notes, he also mutilated a couple of RPG characters I had in the notebook. Everything can be salvaged, but it was very irritating. I suppose it's not quite as bad as a dog having half eaten it, in which case it would be completely unrecoverable, but still. The furball is lucky he's cute. (For those that know my kitties, it was Malakhi.)
I did get a couple of the filler scenes shot today. They were relatively uncomplicated ones meant to fill in some gaps I had from the pictures I already had. I actually made a copy of my whole neighborhood folder and set it up with a new neighborhood number. Now I can do all the plotty stuff without worrying about accidentally messing anything up. There are also a couple of other reasons I did this, but I won't reveal them until I'm done and doing a final behind the scenes.
Now for some random picspam!
Hmmm. Living in an apartment complex does mean that privacy is a commodity, doesn't it?
The placeholders for the last update were the Goodie couple which comes with AL. They're actually rather sweet and I had fun playing them for a couple of days while getting the update setup. I like them enough that I finagled to get them into the adult career track so they have a chance of fulfilling their LTWs. Playing them has given me a better understanding of how apartments work, so I might give them a serious try with the next generation when they graduate. God knows when that'll be.
Anyway, how are you? Babble at me, please. Work's going to take forever tonight.
When I came back in after showering and getting breakfast, I discovered one of my cats sitting on top of the notebook happily shredding it to pieces. He's NEVER done anything like that before, but apparently since it was on top of the blanket he wanted to cuddle into, it was fair game.
Not only did he mutilate my notes, he also mutilated a couple of RPG characters I had in the notebook. Everything can be salvaged, but it was very irritating. I suppose it's not quite as bad as a dog having half eaten it, in which case it would be completely unrecoverable, but still. The furball is lucky he's cute. (For those that know my kitties, it was Malakhi.)
I did get a couple of the filler scenes shot today. They were relatively uncomplicated ones meant to fill in some gaps I had from the pictures I already had. I actually made a copy of my whole neighborhood folder and set it up with a new neighborhood number. Now I can do all the plotty stuff without worrying about accidentally messing anything up. There are also a couple of other reasons I did this, but I won't reveal them until I'm done and doing a final behind the scenes.
Now for some random picspam!
Hmmm. Living in an apartment complex does mean that privacy is a commodity, doesn't it?
The placeholders for the last update were the Goodie couple which comes with AL. They're actually rather sweet and I had fun playing them for a couple of days while getting the update setup. I like them enough that I finagled to get them into the adult career track so they have a chance of fulfilling their LTWs. Playing them has given me a better understanding of how apartments work, so I might give them a serious try with the next generation when they graduate. God knows when that'll be.
Anyway, how are you? Babble at me, please. Work's going to take forever tonight.
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Date: 2008-09-18 09:39 pm (UTC)Apartment Life has me interested in taking time to explore the neighborhoods more than I have in the past, whereas I've usually been more interested in CAS characters. Maybe it's the nature of seeing your neighbors with regularity, but I really like this expansion.
I'm probably going to spend part of my weekend exploring the non-Strangetown hoods to see the stuff that I may have missed before. The Goodies seem really sweet. It would be cute to see them paired up with the Oldies on a double date or some such.
I hope you have a good night working.
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Date: 2008-09-18 11:41 pm (UTC)With the Maxis megahood, I recommend taking the time to get all the binned families set up in their appropriate neighborhoods. It seems like the majority of the Veronaville folks are all in the bin and only the three main families are already in their houses. I grew quite fond of Veronaville, so they're definitely worth poking with a stick. I also enjoyed Pleasantview more than I thought I would. Surprisingly, Strangetown is the one that I got bored with the quickest, but there are fewer childrinions in that neighborhood. And on top of that, some of the teens are so close to growing up, you don't get any lpaytime with them before you have to ship them off to uni or grow them up (I'm looking at you, Johnny, Ophelia and Tank!)