Downloadable Content, Fallout 4, Ballooning?

Let's start out with the interesting things and devolve into the insanity.

No ballooning at all due to waiting for my fan and now sensor and instruments and radios to be returned. Hopefully this Saturday I can get it all back and get my kit ready for the NEXT weekend and fly. Its been sad to not be able to get in the air but I am sorely tired of tracking stuff down and then having it taken again and having to ... nevermind.. just real tired of it.

Went to part of a scoring training session on Saturday... It was good for those who have never scored but it was redundant for most of the people in the room. Glad I didnt have to sit through it all.  No that I was planning on scoring but I might go out for a day and take some pictures to see what comes out.

A few shots to remind me of what ballooning consists of....

 On a cool but beautifully bright day in Angel Fire. I noticed in this shot that two of my lines are hanging over my burners. I expect this was a while after the envelope laid down or I wouldn't have let them rest there.

Kodak 360 video camera. Love this camera. Cant wait till they can get there solution better for cropping. Very compact and easy to use. Nifty raw take from it... which you will see below.

Woah! Dudes in a weird looking balloon.. Heh. THis is a slightly cropped full view. It shoots straight up and you can post process for either full 360 or half 360 or quads or split or deduct.. lots of different things but mostly you have to remember its going to take twice the time it took to process it. Just the way it is.

This is background wallpaper for my Samsung note 4. Its pretty neat too.. though if I wanted to I could modify it pretty much to change anything.. but I am far too lazy to do that.

Maybe soon... soonish.

Now.. or quickly we are going into Fallout 4 talk.. so you can stop reading now and carry on with your already scheduled viewing or reading.

Work has been a massive amount of budget processing and reconstruction of excel sheets and data. Not interesting to most people but interesting to me. Really strange. Tempted to break everything down to base sections and chase every purchase directly to it instead of a mish mosh of every different pocket of monies. Exciting huh! Other than that it has been most interesting talking to an old friend and enjoying the conversation. It's been great chatting. Next week... stay tuned.. more budget documents!! Woo Hoo!

Okay.. Fallout 4. Another DLC dropped on the 14th. I didnt see it till around 9pm. No time to play with it except for a quick look see at what cool things... like 1/4 width cement walls... 1/2 walls... posts!! More cement and steel forms instead of wood wood wood.. which is hard to find or buy. So below I will post some of my screen shots with explanations of what you are looking at. Lots of fun constructing..

 One of the cool items.. Neon lettering in different colors... and new lighting choices... This area is prepped for the transfer station to the Institute. Wished there were colored lighting instead of all white... Hmmm.. Had a thought....

Hangman Alley.. one of the suckier places to try and place a settlement.. Three alleys to seal off and until I got the cement posts It was impossible to close off this alley. Now.. sealed perfectly.. It did take a lot of time to configure it though... Its awesome.

Another late settlement. Jamaica Plain. Too hard to construct to withstand an attack until the new DLC items. Cement 1/4 walls and 1/4 walls with mesh screening to see though. It was still a Mother Sister to get it to fit and lock but it did at last.Oh.. Also there is now a water pumping station that you can build on land... or dirt. Fantastic.

When you have enough water filter plants that you can build up a massive amount of water.. which can be sold for those items like crystal and circuit boards and armor.... The cycle of sellers is about two days... Settlements about that time too... Lot of time farming but its worth it to be able to build whatever you want whenever you need it.

Not unlike Chinese Emperors I am building a Terra Cotta army.. Okay a Armored Army.. woooo Need to fix the rows but I will get it done when I have more sets of Armor!

Now you can build traps to trap anything.. including dogs.. though you can catch bad dogs.. radiation freaked dogs... or ferals and you have to get them out before other like creatures will come and attack. Fun huh!

Decontamination arch.. Yay.... The one thing I had to use chems to deal with now.... you can set this up.. power it and press a button... ta daaa.. no more rads.

And here is ADA posing right in front of me when I was trying to take a shot of my X armor and sign.. yeah.. nice! Yes.. I screwed up the colors.... Dag nabbit.. Though I can go back and change it easily enough.

Loads of running around.. buying things.. building things...  More shots below of various things...

I have been though this area so many times and found these guys in a upper room.. so weird.

Looking South at Jamaica Point Settlement.

Perfect exclamation point in Sanctuary.

I need a bus.. I NEED a BUS NOW!!!!  Okay.. you can drop two busses and I think a truck.

A street light to tell your settlers its time to take off for the night. I couldn't find it until just now... stupid silly place to put a light.. in cages!

OKay.. I have to run off.. All this time watching the baby and I just got back to this. LOL.. I have no problems with that.. she was a wet noodle sleeping for a long time in my arms.. Then she wanted to see what I was doing on the computer.. she is very aware of the screen... Now she snoring again so I am going to finish this off quickly. More "Stuff" next week! WOAH!

Okay. Highperactive shots and STUFF and some Fallout 4

Just skip the parts your not interested in.. it's all good. I am completely exhausted.. so very very done.

Below you will find some very nice shots of Patturns Highperactive on Fiesta field. They were taken a few months ( last September ) back. I wanted some of myself standing on the field with no balloons around but with the Pavilion and Balloon Museum in the background. Took so stalwart crew to pull it off.

I thank every one of you.

On this day the mounted police had their horses out to acclimate them to the noises and large bright colors of the balloons they would be working around during the Fiesta. I took pictures of them too before and they had no problems with the balloons at all. Very graceful and pretty horses... except for one female who seemed to have a cold and kept sneezing on everyone.. Lovely.

I'm watching you.

Cute but snotty.

Come here often?

  Photobomb.

 Untangling twelve main lines and three vent lines.. way fun.

Out and throat open for some air.

Being a total goofball.

Taxiing to a nicer green area... lots of green.

Settled and posing for great pictures.

It really was fun even though we didn't fly... She needed out and some grass.. cause it was so... green!

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It was my intention to get the cat5 cable run to the other four cameras at the house today. I ended up having to do it myself without any help. That meant taking two 12 foot small irrigation tubes and taping them together after they were up in the attic... getting to the farthest end of the attic and covered in insulation.. then poking the tubing in the general direction for the two side corners of the house until it felt like it was in the right place... had to do this twice.

After that it was squirm backwards without falling through the ceiling and then back to the opening and then... sheesh.. outside to cut ports in the overhang of the roof... I guessed right twice also and the tubing was right above the exact place I wanted it. Taping a drawstring and two cat5 cables to the tube and then again.. going up into the attic and scootching out to get the tube and draw it back until I had the cable in my hands. Tying off the draw string to a nearby rafter then pulling the cat5 cable all the way up.. then back to the attic hatch.. and fall out and I lost breath up there and had to sit down for ten minutes to stop from passing out. Bad.

Outside again and verify that both the cable and the damn drawstring had found things to get hung up on... fixed that. connected the cameras and then draw the remaining cable to the port. Finished those two and headed back to the back to run the camera for the back. Same deal. in the attic..feel for the corner... get down .. rest.. go outside and locate and cut the access hole... tape and pull. Connected it all and it all works.

After that I had to disconnect all the cables from the system... re route them through an existing port in the attic to a box in the wall.. ran it down that and into the office and connected up to the system. Still works. Whew. In between this I disconnected the old system and removed all that stuff...cut two bushes down...washed off the back porch and then put everything away. After that it was cleaning up and vacuuming all the fiberglass insulation up around where I was working and run the cables behind everything.

Not run to its correct place yet but I have cable to get there... not short like I thought it might. I didn't run the 8th camera as it was not needed...it's now my spare. Here is where I was by myself for most of the morning trying not to pass out from lack of oxygen and heat...

Looking East to where I had to wiggle in.. way at the back. The bucket was for catching water from a spinning vent. Not needed now but didnt feel the need to move it. Meh.

West side and air-con tubing. I love having to balance on the rafters and work bent over so the nails from the roofing tiles don't poke into my skull or back..way fun. 53 is far too old to be doing this crap. Granted I saved myself about 3 thou in installation. Bad news is I am going to pay for the stress on my system for days to come.No.. not mold on the back wall.. dirty insulation.

Okay.. that was this weekend and a past weekend.... Below are the banners for the week from facebook.. Lots of fun here...

 

 Its pretty tough to come up with a banner and a logo every darned day. Yes I was asked to do this.. yes I should have said HELL NO... yes... I can be manipulated.. yes.. It's all my fault. When did I think I needed to relate the logo to the banner I don't know. My photoshop skills are thin. Need some major training.... but all the best are not on this continent.... hahaha... oh well..

That's it for the main blog.. now we are going to pop into Fallout 4 so .. stop reading.. run away... find a good book....

This week's silliness.... I really usually spend about two hours playing... unless there is nothing else to do.. I rarely watch television ( I'd rather read a book ) though I will sit in the same room as a television that is turned on. I shuttle between the office and the main living room depending on babysitting or just being watchful.. no I do not try and play and babysit at the same time.. Like that's even possible.

Back to the show... We had the DLC Mech drop. It was fun and I got through it quickly. Since I had created a set of power armor for each settlement and then put up a lighted mounting place in each atop or attached that part was interesting. Having one set of armor stolen was maddening as I had left no power cores nearby. Bastard! So.. there.. did that... what else was there to do... Well I went ahead and found the optimum build out for a robot... This was a mix of an atomatron with tesla armor.. laser grip left hand and a gatling laser right arm. Tight and with the tesla melee damage it is a great package. I have only lost one to battle and it was forced into a place it couldn't escape from.. It has been replaced. Getting them to the settlements I wanted turned into a companion join then break and send off to whichever settlement was empty.

With so many settlements I forgot where I had sent them and had duplicated in places.. had to write up a quick cheat sheet on yellow postit note paper.

First four letters of the settlement, first R is Robot in place, second R or L is for Rocket or Laser turrets. I had too many attacks by high level raiders/mutants/robots. Had to do something to slow them down. It worked and now it's a bit easier to repel these attacks..and yes.. I have had three settlements attacked at the same time at times.

The ] means not worth building a settlement on except Red Rocket as its my home base and the O above the names means there is a robot building station there. The dots are attacks while I was working on the robots. Many. They follow along behind every trader and pack cow. Wish I had set up a better route for them... too late now. I also upgraded Sommerville place and moved crops out of the way of stupid raiders appearing in the middle of a settlement and in a few other places.

I did work on an upgrade to Sanctuary only to lose it all due to a glitch in the system. Wonderful.

What's next... upgrade some more places ( Sanctuary first probably followed by Oberland Stations rest area... I have yet to get to a lot of the remaining quests but will probably do those between fixen up the homestead.

Yes.. I have lots to do around the "real" house too.  How was your week... as different?

Luminal Views ( don't sit so close to the screen! )

The formatting for the font is screwed up. Sorry bout that.

Is it bad to sit close to the television screen anymore?

From Scientific America

"Luckily for many of us and our kids, sitting “too” close to the TV isn’t known to cause any human health issues. This myth prevails because back in the 1960s General Electric sold some new-fangled color TV sets that emitted excessive amounts of radiation—as much as 100,000 times more than federal health officials considered safe. GE quickly recalled and repaired the faulty TVs, but the stigma lingers to this day."

I doubt the LEDs in today's flat screens can give you more than tired eyes because of the constant bombardment of light you would not normally get outside... you remember outside right.... Neither do I.

Okay I did go out on Saturday. I watched KAH go up and down and up and we grabbed her out of the sky twice. Yeah.. I am paying for it now. In diamonds of sparkly pain. It was worth it. Fun. 

Today we are visiting with the baby and Brian and Aubry... well... Mainly the baby. She has  her eyes wide open and the are almond shaped and blue. When she looks at you you damn we do what she wants... if you can figure it out. Mostly it's been.. Im wet.. or I am about pass gas so much that you will have to evacuate the local area... or I am so hungry that you had better find a breast full of milk pronto... Yeah.. here mom. We have bottle backups but mom is right here so here ya go. Yay.. more time.. but when she gets wet or hungry everything stops.

LOL

Well below are some shots I will post now.. while she is scarfing more food...

KissAHoy Burner test...GOOD!

If you have to have good friends.. pick the best.. or hang around them and wear them down till they accept you.. hahahah.

We see what you are doing over there.


Favorite of the day..of Saturday... Flip Flop


Howde Howde Howde.


Initiates into Hot Air Ballooning.


It was a good day after a badder day.But now a good weekend. Hoping your weekend was or is going we well as it can.

Oh..... facebook banners for the Fiesta countdown. Coming up with ideas daily,... yeah.. fun!

Matching up is a ridiculous idea.. I am so screwed.. 180 days out... yeesh!