What a week.... I wont go into the work side as its mostly paperwork, people, heat and consternation.
The main thing that was really a side thing but a thing was chasing down photographs of one of my friends and retiring lucky guy at work. I thought I had all of the office work work shots labeled but it seems that when I had only taken a few shots of work related stuff I wouldn't download it until the next time I really "took pictures". That is making it very hard. I have gone through my files three times already and have to go through one more time to find them and reorganize them. Lots of movie clips too. Two of which I pushed to facebook... They were cool.
Went to a office outing ( not mine ) and mini office shower for my Daughter and two other pregnant people and bowling as well. Novel. They had some designer cupcakes that looked amazing.. I heard they were very good ( tasting ) too. I didn't take one as I kept thinking that there needed to be enough for the people of the company and I was just there to say hi. It is an Architectural company.. Somewhere I might have been as an architect if I had not let impatience and irritation at a State and ducting get to me. I think my choice was good if not exactly what I wanted to do, I am doing something pretty interesting. Thoughts.
So it was at a bowling alley.. and there was this throwback gaming console... too bad I didn't have time to play the games but I could on my computer but without the same feel I guess.. Never mind.. Passing interest.
One shot of the cupcakes....
I took some shots for my Daughters office web site. She is on the standby list for popping this kid out so I am sitting and waiting. Not that I will be in there... but when the wife says get me there.. I will drive her..... better than her driving over people to get there.
Nothing really major after work hours... mostly playing Fallout 4. Not sure where the tipping point in this game is going to be. Its a lot of fun and building secure ( hah ) settlements has filled hours. Cant be perfectly secure since the game pops raider of one kind or another into the middle regardless of walls... very high walls.. or just behind the scenes where you don't even have a chance to try and help fight them off. I was very irritated with that happening. Its cheating.
Silliness above. After ringing my settlements in wood and steel walls I went back to almost all and surrounded them with huge cement walls with steel walls on top. Hoping this would stop the raiders getting in. It slows them down except one place where every time I visit there are two or three inside getting blown away by my ring of gun turrets. Silly raiders. Stupid game. Above was in the middle of a rebuild. People were sleeping in the beds so I could not move them until they left... that first step was a doozy.
I hate that you cant repair houses that exist and nor can you remove them.. It bugged me to no end that this house that had a father and two children living in it were in fact sleeping under a gaping hole in the roof. So I built the settlers housing above it. It has a causeway to the back along the rear wall. Its three cement blocks high in the rear now but I am probably going to run another course because there is another flipping hill behind it. Hard to stop raiders shooting down into the settlement. They even have lighting and nice couches with carpets in there... I have to fix the main wall first as it has been messed up by the game...
This is the Slog. Now fully ringed with cement and topped with steel walls. Many many gun turrets as there is a Deathclaw nearby and foolish idiots. I may go back later and add another run of cement wall.
Another zone with an un-fixable house. Taken from the lighthouse you can see the walls. They are not a nice square as the game will not let you build over, on, or through stuff you cant move. Stupid again. See that tree... I had to base every part of the wall on how one cement section fit to it. Took four times running that course to get it perfect and to fit. Probably going to run another course of cement on it too.
One of the first places I visited and brought over to the minutemen ( Abernathy ). I did this one almost last of the rebuilds. Now it is two courses of cement and ringed with steel. Added a complete massive housing unit on the top level to make it more comfortable of these not real people. If only rebuilding was so easy in the real world. Or as able to sell scrap for materials. Or if your back was not prone to freaking out carrying heavy loads.
In the bottom of the insane asylum in the game ( really..In The Game )... and you get these guys going off.. Lighted eyes flashing and ching ching ching of their little cymbals.. freaky as all get out. No real crazy peoples, just hopped up raiders.
Glad its done.
I have a list of places I have to fix or build correctly or adjust or replant .. Like I said.. Love if you could do it so easy in reality. I have a back yard that needs scraping flat and re-rocking.... Going to take a three day weekend and a good bobcat to do it right here soon.... soonish...
The problem there is the grading around the house was screwed up by the last owner. In three places the water drains toward not away from the house. One I have fixed and another I have created a trench to move the water away but the third still has a tendency to back up ( not bad and not into the house.. Just onto the cement ) ( It bugs me ) onto the patio so it has to be done right.. which means bobcat and knocking down retaining walls and filling in a crappy built pond. It might be easier to sell and move. Probably.
Here is what I would like to get hold of if I ever have a spare bit of green stuff to fling at it... It would be very nice not to have to try and hurt myself loading and unloading my basket and envelope.
Granted I have a trailer and it should never need to be removed except to fly but I do like to clean the basket and wash it down and keep the wicker healthy as possible.... Maybe..
So since I have been having fun with the new Fallout I have not been doing much else. It takes a lot of time to get things done in it and there is always someone needing a rescue.. sigh. I stopped tonight because after doing two back to back rescues with a couple of side attacks and I just about had enough supplies to start building and they threw another side rescue in and I was too tired of dealing with them. So a good break and reading and perhaps tomorrow I can get a few things done in the garage if its nice enough. If not.. I have many photographs to deal with and find some videos and such.... Lots to do... time has been wasted .. fun and no.. I don't really regret the time.. No Ragrats!
I might put a few hours in the game tomorrow just to get 100 sets of cement sections.. that would be cool.
