Well, that's life...
Dec. 19th, 2010 04:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hat_plays_simsSo my father has pancreatic cancer, Christmas is looming, the rat gnawed a hole through the hospital cage, Mom and I have the less-than-fun challenge of figuring out whether or not we can keep the house once we lose Dad's income (the goal with pancreatic cancer is to make it a treatable condition instead of a beatable condition; the survival rate is not awesome), I've had, like, zero creativity since November, and to top it all off, about a week and a half ago, the dog died. She was old, though-- eleven or twelve, there is some argument on that-- and we were mostly prepared, because eleven or twelve is OLD for a big dog... but we weren't quite prepared for it to happen NOW.
So that's why I dropped out of the Garden of Shadows Secret Santa on the eleventh, I think it was.
I've been trying to catch up with comments over the past few days and get back in the swing of keeping up with Garden of Shadows, but on the whole I can't really let myself feel too guilty about falling off the internet for a while.
On the plus side, I finally forced some Sims to hit elder at various aspiration stages, and I got a good range of lifespans-- the youngest would've died around 69, the oldest just before 97. So it appears the aging mod works! I just need to figure out if I want to try and tweak the bit that says if you've been X long in Platinum, you get Y bonus years, to try and lower it a little. My 97-year-old didn't actually spend THAT long in Platinum, comparatively, so for Sims who weren't made in CAS and had longer than 29 days to live, it might still be too easy to live to a hundred.
There will probably-- only probably!-- be a hair dump before the first of the year; I've been sitting on a bunch of Rose hairs hoping someone will fix the gaps in them, but I may just upload the stuff where I didn't alpha-edit off the bangs, because I'm pretty sick of sitting on all these hairs. (Some of them are for Cynnix, who wanted long hair that fell back over the shoulders instead of in front of them, and provides Medieval pregmorphs in trade.)
So that's why I dropped out of the Garden of Shadows Secret Santa on the eleventh, I think it was.
I've been trying to catch up with comments over the past few days and get back in the swing of keeping up with Garden of Shadows, but on the whole I can't really let myself feel too guilty about falling off the internet for a while.
On the plus side, I finally forced some Sims to hit elder at various aspiration stages, and I got a good range of lifespans-- the youngest would've died around 69, the oldest just before 97. So it appears the aging mod works! I just need to figure out if I want to try and tweak the bit that says if you've been X long in Platinum, you get Y bonus years, to try and lower it a little. My 97-year-old didn't actually spend THAT long in Platinum, comparatively, so for Sims who weren't made in CAS and had longer than 29 days to live, it might still be too easy to live to a hundred.
There will probably-- only probably!-- be a hair dump before the first of the year; I've been sitting on a bunch of Rose hairs hoping someone will fix the gaps in them, but I may just upload the stuff where I didn't alpha-edit off the bangs, because I'm pretty sick of sitting on all these hairs. (Some of them are for Cynnix, who wanted long hair that fell back over the shoulders instead of in front of them, and provides Medieval pregmorphs in trade.)
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