An update at Sessions

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I am tempted to download the Compressorizor BUT I have heard/read about two things and I would like to get some feedback.

1. For those of you who have used it, can you still recolor/clone objects using simPE or Body Shop? Is it necessary to decompress before doing so and then re-compressing?

2. Has anyone used it successfully with Windows Vista?

I would really appreciate any help on this...

Hoping everyone can forgive my belated comments once I get caught up. It's been a rough few weeks.

Posted an update to Chameleon tonight for the simfic50 prompt table. Not sure if I am completely capturing the spirit of the prompts in the pieces but I do try.

Update is here -> Prompt 025 - Strangers

I want to mention xtina here also. She created the biker bar where this piece takes place. Thanks xtina!

Remind me to hit the pause button please. I forgot tonight. Twice. Dire consequences ensued. Although some people may think it is retribution, no one should have to lie in a pool of their own pee passed out from every conceivable needs failure with green odious clouds emanating from their armpits. She was seconds from meeting her maker and that would not have been pretty. Not sure her hubby would have begged for the Reaper to spare her.

I should be asleep but I am wound up tight at the moment. One of those times where your eyelids are heavy but your heart rate refuses to let them stay closed for longer than a few seconds. I swear I have had no coffee since this morning and it never really keeps me up anyway.

I haven't posted about updates here in awhile so I think I will do that. You can read it here -> Hangnail

Also eshuff has been doing a tremendous amount of work putting together a Family Tree for the major characters in Sessions as well as some of the not-so-major ones. Believe me there are a lot of them! She really amazes me. You can find the link on the Sessions blog or our resource blog. Or here -> Family Tree. It is still a WiP but all credit goes to her for assembling it.

OK that's all for now. I am going to open a book. That will no doubt get me to sleep in no time!

Why is it when I am supposed to be doing serious stuff that I get distracted by shiny things? Way too much going on in my head these days, too many voices, too many random thoughts. I think I was supposed to be doing something...what was it? Oh well...can't recall. I feel blah.

I am not writing a Halloween story but I will probably do a picture. I have an idea of what it will be, I think. I did have this story idea I have been shoving into the free spaces in my head but...no. It involves too much CC and I already tipped the scales at 10 gigs today. One day though, it will be written and posted, maybe without images. I can use my words.

But I digress...I was supposed to be doing something.

Edited to add the rest of the stuff that disappeared because LJ ate it. I swear it was NOT my fault.
Also edited to add that I have a love/hate relationship with LJ.

Grabbed this meme off goodbye_sun . Her user name reminds me of a children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown called Goodnight Moon. I love that book. Every time I see her user name I think of that story and reading it to my boys.


( The less than exciting stuff about me lies ahead... )


goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

Voicing my considerable irritation at the fact that some pose boxes will not work in community lots. I have gone as far as trying to make them available via Sim Categorizer but some of them don't show up there! I am guessing there must be a way to do this in simPE. Anyone know how? I guess I could poke around myself and try to figure it out...wouldn't it just be so much easier if the creator did that from the get-go?  Don't get me wrong, I am very very appreciative of those artists who create them. I'm just...frustrated that it isn't easier.

I have been pouring over various sites and tutorials looking for tips and tricks for recoloring, converting, etc. and always seem to find one thing that catches my eye. A lot of creators compress their CC before uploading and many Sims 2 players compress their downloads. These same people also seem to organize their CC in folders which, not being very organized, is a foreign concept for me to wrap my head around. And I keep losing CC every time I launch Body Shop or even the game and I swear I am not deleting anything.

My question is this - when organizing downloads, say by hair (male/female) clothing (again, male/female and maybe even body shape), or maybe even theme (holidays or maybe CC you will use once for storytelling and then never again) or age/gender how do you all do it? Are all the decorative pieces in one folder or are they separated by type (wall hangings, statues, etc), by room? Are all, I mean ALL, meshes in one folder? Walls, floors, in their own folders?

It would be so much easier to cull downloads and even manage to compress them if they were organized. I ask this because I have 9.96 GIGABYTES of CC and tens of thousands (32,046 at my last count) of files in my Downloads folder. So I really would like some input from anyone out there who has a boatload of CC and is blessed with the organizational gene.

Chasing my tail looking for CC that I had and now I don't. Confused as to why, when I save a project in Body Shop to do a recolor that it ends up black. OK the hair is categorized black but it is brown in the catalog thingy. WTF?? Thinking about doing photo shoots just for the hell of it; they sometimes spark the writing.

It's going to rain.

And a meme...

Snagged from goodbye_sun who pilfered from sixamsims and azzy

image me

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Yeah. Sorry. Large image. I don't feel like re-uploading it to Photobucket. Maybe later. Yeah, had to edit the thing.

I finally got an update finished for Rising Above. It is a little disjointed in time from the main story line at Sessions but...it could not be helped. It also is a far cry from the way the piece began. As much as I loved what I originally wrote, it was just too much fluff. Irrelevant. Old news.

Song that accompanies is #8 in the playlist and performed by Velvet Revolver. A must-listen.

Update is here -> Chapter 10 - Fall to Pieces

...the behinder I get. Probably not the best of days for me to be posting an entry, my arm is screaming, radiating pain from my shoulder to my elbow and I am waiting for the drugs to kick in. I think I slept on it actually. Not good. But I am a glutton for punishment and bored so...

Let's see where I am...

Week 3 update on my recovery has been posted over at blogger (yes week 2 is posted but I forgot to mention that here). Two new companion blogs have been created that go with Sessions, Passages which follows Rayne Stanfield and is being wonderfully written by my cohort in crime eshuff and Chameleon which is a minor sub-plot that follows the simfic50 prompt table #1. There are currently 2 chapters at Passages and 3 at Chameleon.

I still have some Dreamwidth invites for anyone interested. Already have one? Maybe you have a good friend who doesn't and wants to check it out. I think I have 4 invites left? I have to check.

I think that is about it for now.

I snagged an invite to Dreamwidth and have been toying some with it...well not lately but when time permits. Here is a link for anyone interested. Not much there yet, just feeling my way around. The intent is to make it more personal, less Sim related. I think. Maybe. I also have a couple of invites for those who might like a go at it.

I am also posting a weekly progress report of my recovery at Blogger on my main blog here. I will probably end up cross-posting my progress but only if I can manage to paraphrase since typing too much is...too much for me sometimes, especially one-handed.

And finally I give you a blogthing. Enjoy!

( Bad to the Bone... )

If anyone on LJ reads my blogger posts then you already know I will be away from the internet for awhile, or at least limited in my time online. I am having shoulder surgery on Monday so I will be sidelined for...well I don't know how long.

It should be fascinating to do things with my right hand, especially since I am left-handed but I have been practicing. I mastered the fork and spoon! Yay me!

So...I am bad about crossposting updates to Sessions so here you go. Chapter 15 is up. Called Sacrifice. I'm pretty sure the last time I posted an update was *counts back* probably chapter 5? Chapter 7? Oh! Chapter 11! I checked. Anyway we are up to 15.

I hope to get caught up with the LJ stories I follow. I've been scrambling really...and very far behind. Don't expect very wordy comments, I can barely type with two hands so one will be challenging.

See you on the flip side!

Tagged by phoenixfg...sort of...I love these things!

First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ. Replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
Second: Tag eight some people. Don't refuse to do it. Don't tag who tagged you.

EDITED: To fix the response I forgot to change. Duh!


( Everything you ever wanted to know about me... )

Both B and I are experiencing the strangest issue with Photoshop when applying the Filter>Render>Lighting Effects. We get this strange blank area in the preview and after applying the filter, that portion of the image is untouched by said filter. I have posted at the Adobe Forums to no avail. I have reset the Photoshop prefs to no avail. If anyone has had this issue or knows what causes it please help!

( Image of glitchiness under the cut... )

Meh, it's a slow day and I don't have enough energy to write something original. So this was snagged from phoenixfgwho snagged it from goodbye_sun. I love these things, did I mention that?

( The monster in me... )

I had a great day yesterday, a GREAT DAY! I was reminded that I am alive and interesting. In honor of that I am throwing some more blogthings out there. I am constantly amazed at how close some of these actually get to the truth. One of these days I am going to answer one the complete opposite just for laughs.

( More fun behind the cut... )

We just put up another chapter of Sessions called Figured You Out. I am going to tip my hat multiple times to eshuff who really had to do so much of the hard stuff here. Preview shot is behind the cut.

Warnings: For mature audiences. Language, sim nudity.

( Preview shot of the train wreck... )

I am a terrible flirt...as in not bad at it but I flirt all the time. So I stumbled across this and thought I would include it here. And since frozen treats often accompany flirting (?) I added that as well.
( Proceed to the quiz... )

And since I managed to get this thing looking good, I may as well post an update link as well! Beth and I just posted Sessions 10 called Used To. You can read the entry here -> Sessions 10 - Used To.

Those of you who haven't kept up can certainly read Sessions from the beginning here -> Sessions 1 - Blurry
Since this has been an ongoing collaboration for over 2 years, a bios/story summary here -> Bio/Story Summaries
Table of Contents should you be nutty enough to actually want to READ over 50 chapters is here -> For the Music - A Chapter Guide. Believe me, it is long.

Thanks to goodbye_sun I have a pretty LJ page! My title isn't showing up since I haven't found that particular bit to edit in the CSS (anyone care to point me there?) and I should give credit where credit is due to the creator of this layout, minty_peach. I used her Dumbledore's Army 31 layout and simply edited the colors. It is a WiP but I am slowly getting there. Although I have no plans to move here to LJ permanently, I am a little more pleased with the aesthetics.

EDIT: Found the code...still figuring out how to edit the rest...