weekend; Simming

[fflo]

Had a good, social weekend. On Saturday, in fact, as H. and I used to do back in (some of) the (very best of the ol') day(s), I went out for breakfast and didn't (really) come home until after dark, just a-futzin' the day away. Good futzin', with good peeps. Finally ate at Angelo's and hit La Fiesta for the evening meal; in between was playing in the park, while sounds from the Big House wafted our way.

I did get started on washing the deck, but got only about 1/3 of the surface done, and some of that needs another go-over. It got pretty bad last year. It's a job that'd be a helluva lot easier if I wanted to shell out for (buying or renting) a power washer, but investing in the cleaning and sealing products seems like enough debt to rack up over this preservation effort.

I've been playing with the Sims again a little lately. No, pijeanf, I haven't visited the dada family. They're so much your turf, you know? If I see one of them downtown, though, I always have whoever I'm playing with go say hello. Mostly I've been going through days with Lisa Mudville, of the Mudville household---a modest home I set up for just me after the split w/H. I don't do the money cheats there, so I have to go to work and all those bummer kinda things you can avoid if you give your Sims free money.

Thing is, even though the Mudville house has been there quite a while in Sim time, and (as you Simmers out there may have noticed) you get dramatically fewer "strangers" coming to visit after the first little bit, Lisa Mudville keeps getting visited by two versions of Holly, neither of whom she's met. One is the Holly for whom I built a big house with gardens and a helluva sewing room, while we were still together in real life (there's a house for Just Me, of the Me family, too---that version of me lives across the street from this version of Holly). The other is the Holly who lives with Lisa in the Us family, whose house is the closest replica I could make of this house I'm sitting in, created shortly after we bought the place. I don't visit that household any more. But its Holly and the other Holly (one in a white shirt and jeans and one in a sorta dusty purple shirt and jeans) keep dropping by the Mudville house. Persistently. For (Sim) weeks there's only been one other persistent dropper-by "stranger" in the whole neighborhood (which has probably 35 residents, only 8 or so with whom Lisa Mudville is acquainted)---a hip-hoppy-dressin' guy who I think is Grendel Orphano---but he hasn't been by lately. Just Holly, and that other Holly, ringing the doorbell over and over again while I don't answer it.

It's sort of the opposite of real life. She's not a-ringin', and if she were I'd be a-answerin'.

Tonight I think I'll be watching In a Lonely Place, 1950, Humphrey B. 'Ll let you know.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

I thought the previous owner power-washed, and that's what did the damage? Definitely don't power wash. Not good.

Very strange about the Hollies. Cool that your Sims are saying hi to the dadas when they see them, though. Does that mean the dadas can call them, or does downtown stuff not interact with neighborhood stuff?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

What the inspector said about the power washing was that with cedar and redwood they do quite well if they're NEVER powerwashed, but once they are their "magic" durability is largely diminished. And they're open to regular dirt-type staining as well as their own tanning tendencies, apparently. Basically, they then need to be protected/treated the way you would any deck. So before I do that I've got to get the boards good 'n' clean, and that's pretty tough with the brush, especially in the hard-to-get-at places. I'm not giving up yet, though.

As long as you're within one neighborhood, people in Simland will interact. The dadas, though, live in a different neighborhood---it's (I think) the first neighborhood I populated. We evicted some people to make room for 'em, and (I believe) demolished their house. So it's when I'm downtown in THAT neighborhood that I interact with 'em.

[groovesinorbit]

Aha, on both counts. Good luck with the deck.

I'd forgotten we'd evicted folks to move my peeps in. Boy, that was tacky!

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

I've been very intrigued by SIMS, but have never played myself since my computer is a dinosaur and would crash at the mere mention of such an endeavor. I have made appearances in other people's SIMS world, though. I wish I could be in your SIMS neighborhood and I could visit you instead of the ghosts of Holly. But you'd have to answer the door at least once in a while. Even in the land of sims, I have my pride. ;) Thanks so much for the wonderful playtime on Saturday. That day could not possibly have been more enjoyable.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Any time Sim bigfinedaddy comes to my Sim door, I'm Sim-answerin' it!

Saturday was indeed a delight. Looking fwd to playing with you again soon.