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Sep. 24th, 2014 06:04 amMom and Dad bought a new washing machine the other day, have just bought a new stove yesterday, and are also looking into replacing our dishwasher and microwave.
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As of right now, I'm probably just gonna call it quits on Candy Crush again. Level 677 has been by far the fourth level I needed to use boosters on. Second and third were DreamWorld levels 276 (when I was trying to wrap things up after working on the Starbound game script) and 381 (in which all starting candies are each the same color between playthroughs, rather than alternating, probably due to a bug). Helps that I started using the Daily Booster Wheel just the other night, when I needed to bypass DW-381; never used it before, because I thought until then that whatever you win applies automatically to the next level you play, rather than simply adding to your booster inventory.
There have been more than a few levels that took me days at a time to succeed at, but for the most part, I did at least manage to come as close as just one jelly or one combo short of winning. Here, the most I ever got was eight (not nine, eight) out of ten required double-stripe combos, and not even very often. I even started giving myself free lives through Mom's iPad a few nights ago, after finishing disk 1 of Haganai Next, not being in the mood for more anime, and not perceiving anything left to do for the evening. Needless to say, this became a habit.
In any case, my secondary purpose behind playing that game, being to hold off on checking Fanfiction.net's Lucky Star archive until I reach a certain point, has already been defeated when I did just that several times Its primary purpose was to give me something to do between anime episodes, but it's more like this: between each time I use up a life, I tend to alternate between watching something and finding other things to do, because a few minutes worth of gameplay isn't much of a buffer between episodes. It's more like, I'm watching anime in order to pass time until I get a new life, when originally, the purpose was to spend time with stuff that isn't Lucky Star.
Even though I got a whole handful of different titles from the library, all I currently have left for now are the last disks each of Haganai Next and Utawarerumono. Vandread, InuXBoku Secret Service, Shakugan no Shana, and Heaven's Memo Pad all involve girls whose treatment of their respective (male) protagonists would never fly if the gender roles were reversed, and Fairy Tail is just too comical for my tastes. On the other hand, I do have Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? waiting for me at the library, Sakura Wars is also on its way there, and I also plan on returning to the mall to buy Elemental Gelade in its entirety.
Anyway, time to sort myself out as far as any writing plans go. As far as the Cries Unheard rewrite goes, I have managed so far to begin discussing the issues that the current version has with Sqweebs, and he managed to come up with a more likely way for Kagami's detachment from Tsukasa to begin. Only how it begins; we still need to discuss the other points regarding her relationship with Riku and why she ignores her family and Misao's warnings about him. Might also get mariofan48 involved if he's interested.
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As of right now, I'm probably just gonna call it quits on Candy Crush again. Level 677 has been by far the fourth level I needed to use boosters on. Second and third were DreamWorld levels 276 (when I was trying to wrap things up after working on the Starbound game script) and 381 (in which all starting candies are each the same color between playthroughs, rather than alternating, probably due to a bug). Helps that I started using the Daily Booster Wheel just the other night, when I needed to bypass DW-381; never used it before, because I thought until then that whatever you win applies automatically to the next level you play, rather than simply adding to your booster inventory.
There have been more than a few levels that took me days at a time to succeed at, but for the most part, I did at least manage to come as close as just one jelly or one combo short of winning. Here, the most I ever got was eight (not nine, eight) out of ten required double-stripe combos, and not even very often. I even started giving myself free lives through Mom's iPad a few nights ago, after finishing disk 1 of Haganai Next, not being in the mood for more anime, and not perceiving anything left to do for the evening. Needless to say, this became a habit.
In any case, my secondary purpose behind playing that game, being to hold off on checking Fanfiction.net's Lucky Star archive until I reach a certain point, has already been defeated when I did just that several times Its primary purpose was to give me something to do between anime episodes, but it's more like this: between each time I use up a life, I tend to alternate between watching something and finding other things to do, because a few minutes worth of gameplay isn't much of a buffer between episodes. It's more like, I'm watching anime in order to pass time until I get a new life, when originally, the purpose was to spend time with stuff that isn't Lucky Star.
Even though I got a whole handful of different titles from the library, all I currently have left for now are the last disks each of Haganai Next and Utawarerumono. Vandread, InuXBoku Secret Service, Shakugan no Shana, and Heaven's Memo Pad all involve girls whose treatment of their respective (male) protagonists would never fly if the gender roles were reversed, and Fairy Tail is just too comical for my tastes. On the other hand, I do have Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? waiting for me at the library, Sakura Wars is also on its way there, and I also plan on returning to the mall to buy Elemental Gelade in its entirety.
Anyway, time to sort myself out as far as any writing plans go. As far as the Cries Unheard rewrite goes, I have managed so far to begin discussing the issues that the current version has with Sqweebs, and he managed to come up with a more likely way for Kagami's detachment from Tsukasa to begin. Only how it begins; we still need to discuss the other points regarding her relationship with Riku and why she ignores her family and Misao's warnings about him. Might also get mariofan48 involved if he's interested.