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Of Computer Problems & Straight-jackets

January 18, 2010

Lawdy, it’s been a long time. I hadn’t intended on taking a long hiatus – or any hiatus at all! – but life happens. Then computer problems happen. Then Sims problems happen. I’ve spent the last few weeks wanting to toss my beloved old computer, Bertha, out the nearest window.

First came the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who’s heard those words before, and had to deal with the consequences, is gasping in horror right now. After that was fixed (by installing a new motherboard – Bertha’s third) I attempted to reinstall The Sims 2. It wasn’t until I was to the Bon Voyage EP did I realize that both FT and AL were missing from my EP pile. I scoured the house, the basement, the attic, the yard… okay, maybe not the yard… to no avail. I ended up having to buy them again.

“Finally,” I thought with trepidation. “I’ll get to play TS2!”

WRONG BLOODY ANSWER!

I went to grab my flash drive which held all the files from Simberry Fields – the ‘hood, the sims, the custom music and paintings, all of it – when I found that for some unknown reason, it wouldn’t read. The computer would not recognize the drive when I plugged it in.

At this point, gentle readers, I should have been taken away in a straight-jacket by the nice doctors in white coats.

As it turned out, something had corrupted the flash drive (I blame the rather disagreeable feline prowling around my house), and the files were gone.

I cried, dear readers. I cried. I had spent so many hours creating the town, the sub-hoods, the sims, the stories, the scenery…. and now, it’s all gone.

This is the third time Bertha has decided to die on me. The third time I’ve had to start TS2 from scratch. Well, maybe not entirely from scratch… I did manage to find my two favorite sims’ files in my email account, from when I sent them to Apple Valley. Thank the Gods for small favors, right?

So, now I’m starting to rebuild. I apologize to those I was talking with on the SUN boards – well, to those Neeve was talking with – I didn’t abandon the RP! Really I didn’t. I’ll be back, hopefully soon, once I make a little headway on rebuilding Simberry. Sorry again!

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Hectic, But Stoked!

August 8, 2009

Wow! This week has been a hectic one. “Hectic” doesn’t really do it justice, to be honest. “Sucky” would work better! I had a huge piece of editing to do on a friend’s future novel, I had a funeral to attend (aren’t those always fun?), and my home of over 10 years finally sold on Wendsday, which elicited mixed feelings from myself and my family. I am exhausted! But totally stoked. It’s been so long since I had another person’s sim in my ‘hood – years even!- and I was lucky enough to have one of the sims from the awesome town of Apple Valley come to visit. I hope to get in-game tomorrow and take a load of pics – look for them to be posted on the Resident’s Blog!

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Updates and Events

July 18, 2009

Isn’t it a wonderful feeling, getting something accomplished? Life has been nuts for me lately, and I haven’t had the time or energy to update the blog or the website, or even keep up with my sims at the SUN board! But luckily, yesterday I was left with a whole day to myself, and managed to update just about everything. I’m feeling great about having gotten so much done… and am raring to do more! I have some ideas for events in Simberry, and it seems like every day I come up with more. Food festivals, film festivals, cultural festivals….

What kind of events do you hold in your city? And how many events in one month is too many?