I spent the entire weekend playing Sims 2

By Sunday, I was starting to feel like a Sim. Sim!Snape was eating pancakes and they looked good so I made myself pancakes. Then I had spaghetti for dinner. Sim!Harry and Sim!Ginny are engaged. I don't know why I do these things. There's also a Hermione. The original Snape and Lupin live in another neighborhood (Veronaville). These others, including the new Snape (who looks more like a cross between Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson but I'm getting closer) lives in this new neighborhood I made, called Ocean Beach. It was one of the ready-made empty neighborhoods (the one that looks like an island). I don't have Sim City 4 so I can't make my own custom neighborhoods.

( This will probably be boring to anyone who doesn't play The Sims )

Next on the agenda: make skins and make a Sims 2 page on my site. The Neo skin's mesh has boots and a low collar but I made a slightly better Snape outfit, with plain, knee-high boots. I don't know how to get at the neck, though. And I don't get what the third image file is for, the one that's all greyscale. The filename says something about texture. Until I figure it out better, all I'll be able to do is modify colors and patterns on existing clothes. Oh well, that's not too bad.

ETA: I got the new memory and video card all sorted out. My dad didn't do anything with the CD or DVD drives and they were there when he turned it back on. So something must have been jostled loose and jostled back into place. Dangit. I'm always afraid of breaking things if something goes wrong the first time so I don't want to attempt a second try. My dad said I could've done it myself too. Not that he minded doing it. But he knows it bugs me that the problem would've gone away by itself anyway.

the plan for today

Mmm, lunch. Something Awful's Movies from Memory: The Matrix is awesome.

Dangit, I have to go to the bathroom to blow my nose because I have no tissues here. Be right back...

OK. So the plan for today is:
1. Finish my project and go home early.
2. Play Sims 2.

That's about it. I thought there was more. I guess I should wash the dishes and do the laundry at some point. I usually do the laundry on the weekend but I was too busy playing Sims 2.

dangit, this isn't leaving early

Well, an hour early isn't bad. I would've been done sooner but I was chatting with my co-worker. And looking at Something Awful.

...we don't have a lot of work here at the moment. I can't go into any details yet but I might even have my schedule cut back for next week. I don't mind, I'm OK for money. And I know it's awful but I can't help thinking "that's a whole lot of time to play Sims 2."

the plan for the day, updated

1. Finish project with the intention of going home early.
2. Get new assignment at 4:30pm.
3. BUT be told by boss that it's an academic project (and therefore is not urgent).
4. Therefore go home.
5. Get mail, which includes a package notification with no name or address on it and documents for the new savings account that I opened for the money from the sale of my house.
6. Read documents and discover that the interest rate went down between the day I checked the rate online and mailed in the check and the day they opened the account.
7. Call the bank. Be told I might be able to switch it to a different account but I'll have to go to the branch and even then they might not do it.
8. Be pissed off but console myself with the fact that I can probably watch the QAF DVDs I ordered.
9. Check the apartment management office to see if the package notification was indeed for me.
10. Find that it wasn't.
11. Be more pissed off.
12. Drink Bacardi and Safeway Select cherry cola on a nearly empty stomach.
13. Decide to rent The Matrix so I can see what the people look like, for the purpose of making Sims 2 skins.
14. Pick up keys.
15. Realize I really shouldn't be driving.
16. Put down keys.
17. Microwave veggie dog and beans.
18. Update LiveJournal and get Matrix pictures on the internet.
19. Continue getting tipsy, while eating "pork" n' beans and making Sims 2 skins.

this is about as close as I'm going to get to the obligatory drunken LJ post

I'm still drinking. This is really unusual for me.

Well, let me clarify: I'm on my second drink. This one is Bacardi with lemonade.

I was going to post something but I have forgotten what it was.

I was trying to make Matrix skins. I made a cool Agent Smith skin because all I had to modify was the color of the tie. Then I got started on Trinity's outfit but then I realized it didn't have sleeves so I'd have to change the alpha thingy and then in Body Shop I looked at the back view of the silver sci-fi suit, the mesh of which I was going to use and it's got a... hump... thing on the back. Like a big conical pouch. Like you're walking around in your futuristic silver jumpsuit harvesting corn and tossing it over your shoulder into the pouch. I can't imagine what else it could be for. Man, that's lame. At least I could use the swim suit skins from Sims 1 if I wanted one that didn't have all sleves and stuff.

So there isn't going to be a Trinity. Just Neo and Agent Smith. They'll live together in a little cottage. Like this (scroll down).

Oh! I know what I was going to post. Good thing that other browser window is still open. I was looking on IMDB for Trinity pictures to see where the hell to put the white streaks to make her outfit all vinyl and shiny and I saw that in Snow Cake, she's playing the part of "Linda's Daughter." And from the photos people have posted elsewhere, it looks like she's hitchhiking and Alan gives her a ride and then crashes and she dies, hence the "fatal car accident."

Maybe it's not quite as good as ball-eating zombie orphans but "Professor Snape kills Ripley's daughter, Trinity, and Ripley vows revenge" sounds like a good concept for a movie to me. Seeing Trinity die again would be good, anyway.

I'm pretty sure I acutally laughed out loud at the fact that Neo was trying to cry but he couldn't because he didn't have any eyes at that point. And before that, he was all "come on Trinity, let's go" and she's all "I can't come with you" and Neo's like "sure you can" and she couldn't because she had metal beams all sticking through her torso. That's what we in the biz call "dramatic irony." That's also what we call "laying it on with a big shovel" but never mind.

That should happen in Snow Cake too. Like Alan can't see her because it's dark or something and he's all "well, good thing nobody was hurt! Come on, let's go!" and she goes like "I thought I coule come with you, Guy Who Picked Me Up Hitchhiking. I thought I could but I can't" "...what?" "It's time. I've done all that I could do" and it just goes on like that with her being all pseudo-mytical and cryptic just like in the last two Matrix movies and Alan's becoming increasingly annoyed with her and then finally she dies and he's like "Oh. Goddamnit, why didn't you just say so?" And then Ripley finds out and comes over to kick his ass. And there's a cool fight scene, not at all like a certain overdone by about eight hundred percent special effects wankathon involving a bunch of Agent Smiths and improbably behaving rain and a crater that I could mention.

OK, I'm done.