Is it parceled out or are you just winging it through the day, week, month and year.
What is the better spent moment or day. Is it outdoor activities or just vegging in front of the television or computer. Which is more worthwhile. Both or neither.
I would say its dynamic, changeable and up to you what you think is worth what and what is not to bother with. If you enjoy that walk or ride great. If you would rather binge on Netflix go for it. Time will cause you to change and do something else for most people. There are some who can over do things. Unless they are directly causing you problems let them alone is my motto. So go have that bag of chips or watch the Walking Dead season one through five. Enjoy your time. That's all there is...
Enjoy it.
I think I will spend my afternoon enjoying my Granddaughter and see what new faces she can display and what control she has now.. It should be worth the time. She is a hoot to look at and watch over.
Soon the spoiling will begin.
The facebook banners and logos have been interesting. Waiting until I am ready to change the postings to come up with an idea is much better for me. An idea always hits...sometimes its been the whole day that inspires me towards one direction and sometimes I change my mind at the last minute and design a completely different thing. Here are a few from this week.
Found scratches on my burner knobs. Tried to buff them out. No go. Omage to my old knobs as I am replaceing them.
We did a Beta test for a radar upgrade. It went very well with only a few bobbles. We are rocking a much better receiver system now.
Got a request for shots I took of Fiesta. Very nice to be asked for photographs. I always worry that every shot looks like every other shot.
Ran out of time while working hard and late. Had the thought to scribble a design. The stick men are supposed to be zebras giving thunbs up. One looks less that happy with that finger.
Situations in the ballooning community cause me to have to balance what is fair over what will ruin a good thing.. but if its bad then it should be stopped.. correct?
Cutting cheese for cheese and crackers and drinks after flying at the Sunday AAAA meet...which didn't happen due to the rain and wind.. so it will be cheese sammiches for lunch this week.
The stormy stormy clouds overhead caused a general limit out of limits error in the earthly global computer systems. Rain error, storm error, water damage error highlight level 1, soggy feet error level 3 and a general protection fault kept me in bed texting crew to stay in their beds and warm.
It is one of those days to consider the amount of work that goes into getting ready to fly and then the niceness of just sitting in your chair with a hot cup of coffee playing games instead. I miss the conversations and the impromptu breakfasts at which ever restaurant is nearby but it was nice to be at home.
Listening to a version of Matjora Is Still Alive by Johannes Schmoelling. Its very good music for a day like today. Rumbly and a beautiful chord dance.
Next up with me sections of Adele and some Tangerine Dream. Then the kids get here with Emily.
I had a good time ( figuratively ) with Fallout 4 this week. Rebuilding of settlements continued with the new building materials. Before it was hunt wood up as much as possible.. buy wood when you could.. now its steel. Steel and copper and rubber and ceramic. There is a new generator and its fusion. I didn't think there would be a need for a thing that big or powerful.. hah.. Yeah.. retrofitting every place with them. 100 power. I can use that up now fast installing powered gun turrets and lights and lots and lots of water. I have to go back and adjust a few things but about 26 settlements have been updated and set with loads of water processing. Water is the life blood. It even sells very well.
If it was not for the raiding that happens it would be a o k. Sadly the game keeps hitting me with three or four attacks on settlements at the same time so I have to race from flare up to the next.. wipe it out or oversee it then jump to the next one since if I don't show up in time it breaks things in the settlement I have to then fix. One bad one was enough for me to upgrade a wall of guns. Warlord class Mutants in a group. Took me standing toe to toe with my explosive shot gun to knock them back. You would think the game would wise up and stop raids but that would be too astute of a "game".
Some of many screen shots.
Big decisions with limited supplies is to rip apart a settlement and upgrade it. You always loose part of whatever you are salvaging. Since I moved to community living in a secure strong structure with facilities and a single room for each settler..this was the easiest and most economical way to go about it. Twenty rooms on two levels with bath and toilet and beds and a community living and dining area.
THis is the Starlight Drive In. Completely revamped. From this spot you cant see the furnishings inside but you can see the water plants in the top right corner. All surrounding the "hot springs" in the middle. It even has a basketball court. Hah!
Night shot of the area. Wish you could have more than 21 people living there.
Another tough mod. The Slog. Huge amount of area to manage and locate the housing. Power and water are protected behind curtian walls. Power Armor ready to go on its mount.
By day The Slog is quite nice. Tempted to take the water filtering units from the pool...Loads of weapon positions to protect it.
Pain Wall. This is at Summerville Place. Since the game pops raiders into the middle of it regardless of the huge walls I have put up and the weapons everywhere.. I have made a wall of pain. All powerfull automatic rocket launcher and laser positions. If they still pop in I might add another level.
Tenpines Farm. This was the first place I upgraded using the new building materials.. It didnt come out well but gave me the ideas to hone into what I create now and how... with as little extra supplies necessary. Now all the crops are farther down and protected. There is a large open area for traders to arrive in. The housing has windows all around and its subjectively nice to come to.
Norhagen Beach was a tough nut. It was a large area but the housing I had there was ok. I completely changed and raised the curtain walls and the housing is up another level and wider. A nice platform for traders to arrive at. Its nice too. I still have to flip the crops around.
Opposite view showing the housing and support columns. I try to create supports for all this as you would have to in the real world if I can.
Jamaica Plane. A very limited place to build. You cannot build high here. I have the roof of the housing as high as you can go.
Daylight in Jamaica. The odd angles is due to the odd angle of the building space. It was very hard to get that right.
Spectacle Island. This place. Its so huge that the supplies needed to make it right would be enormous. I decided to try it and see if I could get the people out of the scrabble together wood shacks they were in. I decided to cover the very rough terrain with flooring and grow crops in orderly places instead if in and around bushes and crap. It in the end turned out very nice indeed. Ada hamming it up in front of the camera again.
Looking South East. A very nice terrazzo and wonderful place to walk and tend the crops. Lighting and benches and gun turrets to keep it all safe and sound. The big box in the middle that is now the Local Armor point is a shack you cant remove full of dead people who never go away. So I covered it.. added up-lighting and a place to set my Armor. Turned out nicely. even added lion statues and a fountain.
Inside the community's great room. Art on the walls. Seats to sit and silly Ada in the middle.
Looking North at the Armor and fountain. Shops are on the main terrazzo.
Front the North East corner. There is even cows behind and a little patio in the back to let off steam with an overlook of the Atlantic Ocean. Even the dog box has a sun and rain cover.
The fusion generator in Jamacia Plain. Armor above in case you get ideas.
I have spent a lot of time on this game. I love it because I can build what I want to build... perhaps not as wildly or where I want but its fun... Much more fun than the other Fallout games. Think how fun this would have been in New Vegas and 3.
Was or has it all been a huge waste of time..... No... for a few reasons... Its fun to go blow things up or save people or just remove raiders from existence after a frustrating day... its cool to see what you can come up with for living arrangements for people who only exist inside the game but after a while of dressing them in clothes and giving them jobs its nice to see them going about their days... and seeing the happiness meter going up.. silly huh.. And the game has let my mind sit on that instead of reality's harsh crap it was driving through every night instead of letting me sleep. I was dreaming of building instead of going over conversations in my head incessantly... Back to almost normal sleeping patterns.. And silly dreams of silly things. So the game and the amount of time I have spent playing it have been worth it for the peace it gives me... Blowing things up is fun too.
On the 19th a new segment ( DLC ) drops with a large zome and new storylines.. Far Harbor.. and supposedly.. ELEVATORS!!! I get to add elevators to some of my settlements.. that should be fun.
I hope you have been wasting your time in things that make you happy. Go waste some more.. because its never a waste if it help you get through those rough spots in the life we live. Enjoy.
