I'm still clinging to the precipice, and life it still stomping on my fingers.  At this point I'm seriously considering living out the rest of my life as a hermit.  The only thing holding me back is the cost of having high speed internet installed in a cave.

Anyway!  Happy Halloween!  I wanted to make something Sims-related for Halloween this year, but I'm having issues with my graphics and issues with my own lack of creativity at the moment.  SO, in lieu of something fresh and new, I'm giving you all some stale old thing I made ages ago.  (in fact most of you have probably already seen this)   At that time I had been playing Sims2 for less than a month, I had no CC, and the only cheat code I knew was move_objects.  But I managed to stage a story, dangit!  Or, in this case, a poem I wrote based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".  Behold the silliness and bad photoshopping!  :D

Trick or Treat, y'all.

So, what started off as a quick post to dispel any rumors that I might have been fatally run over by a beer truck, this has turned into an epic-sized episode of "A Day in the Life of Fuzzy".  o_O  Apologies.

( Mario, I swear he meant nothing to me - please take me back! )


PS - There is far more important stuff going on in my life right now, but I don't think you guys want me to expose my ugly, pulsating underbelly.  That, and I hate pity parties (tiny violins eat my soul, man).  Besides, I must remain elusive and mysterious!  Like an undiscovered species of chameleon living in a volcanic crater on some remote island somewhere.  Eating bugs with my tongue...  o_o   But I'll be back in your internets eating your bandwidths soon enough.  See, I’m penciling it in now...

Ever since the Exchange went belly-up, I have been looking for an alternative for posting my Sim stories.  I love the click-to-advance slideshow aspect of the Exchange, and I've been desperately looking for something "similar but better".  I've spent months looking.

I've downloaded countless programs and software; tried every online generator, wizard, and widget I could find.  I've signed up for every photo sharing site, photo hosting site, and web building site I thought might have a simple click-button slide show that also allows for a generous amount of text with each slide.  I don't want fancy transitions, or music, or borders, or thumbnails, or anything but a simple click-button slideshow that also allows for a generous amount of text with each slide.  I'm convinced this does not exist.  At least not for the portion of humankind that is not techno-savvy and must rely on outside sources for our click-button slideshow needs.  SO,  I have been beating my brains up the past many weeks trying to learn Javascript so I could make my own flippin click-button slide show that allows for a generous amount of text with each slide, dammit.  I would use Slideshare or something similar just to make my own life easier, but I don't want to be forced to conform to their idea of what I need or want, man.  I just want a SIMPLE slideshow, that shows my pictures their true size, and has room for as much or as little text as I want to add to each one.  Why is this so hard to find?!  *waves fist!*

Well, I'm still in the zygote stage where Java knowledge is concerned, but I finally found some well-written code that is easy enough for me to understand and manipulate.  And I now have a simple click-button slideshow with full sized photos taken right out of the game, and as much text as I want to go with each slide.  BUT I need people to look at it and tell me if something looks wrong.  There's a little bit of a fade effect that happens with Internet Explorer that I need to fix (WTH IE?).  And it might take a few seconds for the slideshow to load up, since it's loading all the photos in the background from Photobucket (if it takes a LOT of time, let me know).  It will start on a default "logo" slide, then progress to the first slide when you click forward.  When you reach the last slide, it will loop back to the first slide again.  The controls are pretty simple: the middle button takes you back to the first slide, and the arrows are for "forward" and "back".  Here's the slideshow (it's a work in progress still)...

Hosted on another site, because LJ won't allow Java in a post.  *sadface*

Sorry about typos and unchecked grammar and stuff.  Thanks in advance for taking the time to help me out with this!  :D

*collapse*

Another week gone, and another week gone by without any progress in my challenge stories.  At this point it's going to be September before I get time for any serious playing.  ("serious playing" lol oxymoron)  The next month is booked with out-of-town guests coming to visit, appointments, and way too much yard work.  Might be why August is my least favorite month of the year.

Anyway, at the moment, I'm at least glad to have something like sim_scenes  to inspire me to get into the game for a few hours during the week, and help stretch my imagination.  Oh, and I should mention I installed Pets recently.  Like, a week ago.  Which is what gave me the idea for the story I did for last week's prompt words: new friend, optimism, and creativity.  Hey, nothing on the planet is more optimistic than a dog!  And a dog is "man's best friend"... perfect.  I just had to work in the creativity part.

I keep a pad of graph paper on my desk for jotting down notes, and last Monday I jotted down a quick little stick-figure storyboard for my idea...

( LOL Why yes, I do have a degree in art. Why do you ask? )

I thought of this little "story"  last Monday for this week's sim_scenes , and only managed to start putting it into pictures tonight.  A little bit rushed, and I see things that might not be entirely clear, but at least it's out of my head!  lol... The prompt words are New Friend, Optimism, and Creativity.

 

( Never Work With Children Or Animals )

This is my first Sim Scenes entry!  I hope it's okay!  I'm really nervous!  *hyperventilate*


( studying - pain - school )( studying - pain - school )</div>

And of course my stupid LJ cut is borked.  Oh well.

Has it been more than a month?! Dang.

I was hoping to make an appearance with something Sims related, but I’m here sans Sims this time. Real Life has been far too demanding lately. Or something. That, and I’m suffering from a near lethal case of lethargy - otherwise known as The Mehs. I suppose that’s not an excuse for being completely missing from the community for so long, but I really don’t think anyone wants to hear about my daily non-Sim life. It involves mundane household stuff, summer heat, and a large number of Band-Aids. Not because my normal, everyday routine is dangerous in any way. I just seem to attract injury. And not because I'm clumsy or distracted; I’m the most focused and balanced person in my family. So what’s the problem?

( Inanimate objects are trying to kill me. )

It's time for another amazing and thrilling update of "Who's Your Daddy?"...  Or, maybe just a mildly entertaining update...  Or an update that is so lame, it makes you contemplate my mental capacity.  Probably more like the kind of update that you can't stand to watch suffer anymore, and you are forced to take it out back and shoot it just to put it out of it's misery.

( I'll just call this one Old Yeller. )
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(PS - I'll be out of town and without internet for a few days.  Don't panic if I don't reply to comments, or if I show up at your front door unannounced.)