Baby Timothy John is born!

While I wait for my new computer to get built (And I finally get all the games installed), I went thru the archives and made this video on the fly. Enjoy! (By the way...Maybe it's just me, but I think that there is something kinda creepy about watching my older brother get born!)

It's all about the M O N E Y!!!

So, I've made plans, I made the announcements, and now, I find that I have to put off my plans to move forward in my evolution as a Simmer and save up for some memory BEFORE I install all of the Sims 2 add ons, and thus, start my plans that I had announced earlier of making my first recolor. Now, I still plan on making my recolor and the subsequent other parts to this project, The "I Made a SIM of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" Project", but I realized as I'm re-installing all of the add ons and Eps a few days ago, "Hey, I'm going to need more memory once I get past the "Fun With Pets" collection Ep, because the last time that I had that EP on this computer, it almost crashed!" So folks...bear with me...I will be forging ahead with those plans to install all of the EPs, I just won't be doing that creating mesh thing just right now. I will however, taking Mitchell and Michael "off of life support" and they should be back in the new Covert Covet by this evening, and I will pick up their story at whatever point I left them at when I removed the game off the old hard drive, and hopefully, I'll have enough footage shot that I can make some new videos!

And now, for my next trick!

As I stated in my post of October 16th, I am about to embark on my first recolor project. It will be the first time that I will have ever made ANY object for sims, so this will be a totally new experience for me. About he closest to "design" that I've done is changing hair or skin tones or types in the CAS screen, but never any true original design. This is actually just one part of a much larger project, which for now is for now being called The "I Made a SIM of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" Project. (If you know your broadcast television history, you will be able to guess of whom I am going to make a celebrity sim of.) I won't say just what look he or she will have, but his or her costume is rather involved, and will take many parts, the first of which will be a recolor of part of the costume, the second will be of the sim himself or herself, the third will be a very important accessory, and there will be a fourth and final accessory.



Now, that's all the hints that I'm giving out...can you guess who it is going to be, readers? Only Lab Cat, Hunter, Sugah, SIMply Edward, and Andrewplay and if memory serves me correctly, AdriannaSimmie know who I am referring to. No fair tracking them down and trying to get them to divulge the identity of the mystery celebrity...all will be revealed in good time...





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So...I haven't been on lately...my apologies!

So, there's been a couple of turn of events for this sim dad: First, I haven't played the game for several weeks, but will resume playing hopefully soon. The main reason that I haven't played is because I don't have all my expansions installed, and the reason that I don't have all of my expansions installed is because I don't have enough room on my tiny 80 G hard drive. I have looked into possibly buying a used 300 G hard drive (I actually want a terabyte, but I don't think that this old GatewayE-6100 XP machine can handle that much!) Another development is that I've transfered to a different branch of my company, which allows me to earn more money, so eventually, that means a new car and hopefully, a new computer as well---or at least a really bitchin' update to this clunker!

The last development is a bit of a sad one: Edward and Andrew have decided that they no longer have the time to devote to Simply Edward's and The Playhouse, so they shut it down last week. So yes, that means that I'm now out of a "job", and I am actually thinking of starting my own forum.

...Or, I might just join them over at Colour Sims where I'm already a member, and just hang out there. I'm also going to hang out at DL Mulsow's forum a lot more, so you can find me there and(http://dlmulsowssimantics.freeforums.org/viewforum.php?f=25)
...over at Insiminator.org (Where I met Edward, by the way)

So, you...my readers...what do you think? Should I be content with the 3,000 other sim forums that I already belong to, or should I get a taste of life in the fast lane and start my own sim forum? I can't even create at this point, and I'm crazy for even thinking of starting this forum, but part of my reason to do this in the first place is that I want to re-unite the old gang from SE as well as have a crack at being the administrator of a forum. We had some great times at Simply Edward's and they were over too soon, and dog gone it, I want to get those good times back! I miss the old gang, ya know? I'm already a moderator at two other sites...how much more work can it be? Okay, faithful readers...either talk me into it or talk me out of it!

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

The decision was made for me!

Readers,

You will remember that last time, I was asking you if I should go ahead and start my own Sim forum, or if you could, to please talk me out of it.  Well, about ten days ago, the decision was made for me.  I didn't even have to put it to a vote.  I had fallen asleep early a week ago last Tuesday evening, and I woke up early Wednesday (The 6th) morning about 4 AM.  Still groggy from sleep, but rested and bored, I turn on Facebook.  There was Edward with a message for me in live chat.  He basically said, "If you would like, please go to this link!"

...I went to the link, not knowing what to expect.   I had pretty much said my goodbyes to the forum once known as SIMply Edward.  I mourned the passing of a great forum, and I had moved on, having just re-connected with Colour Sims a few days prior.  I thought, "Well, that is that...it's over...done...finit.  Time to move on, Michael!". I really thought that SIMply Edward was gone the way of the dinosaur...

Well, was I in for the shock of the year, if not my whole life!

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And then...in front of me..like Zeus's daughters being released from a many century's long sleep...




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It was surreal..SIMply Edward was back!  Edward had spoken with Andrew, and they agreed:  Give the form to me, and re-name it "Michael's Musings"  And so, just like the muses of Kubla Khan, the forum once known as SIMply Edward and The Playhouse has risen up from the grave like a phoenix to inspire once more! 

I was in such shock...I almost felt like crying, I was so happy, but I couldn't.  It was like the story of a French king who, upon being presented with a golden statue, just stares at it for hours on end, unable to speak.  Or, my late brother Tom when he got a Lionel Train for Christmas back in the 1950's...he just sat there...didn't speak a word...just played with his train and completely blocked out the whole world.

Well, I have a a lot to learn, folks...I've been a moderator at SIMply Edward's and another forum for about a year, but never an administrator!  One of the first permanent changes that I made to the site was that I added Google Translate.  I'm thinking of adding it here as well.  I got the idea when I visited Sims Cafe.  I've changed the look at least a half dozen times, as I'm still experimenting, and I will leave the old posts intact.  Also, Edward's rules were perfect for me, so I won't be changing them, but I will institute a new ban policy.  Hopefully, I won't ever have to use it, except to ban malicious IP addresses.  In short, the first ban will be three days, second one will be a week and a warning, and the third one will be like a certain Ray Charles classic!
OTHER NEWS:

Well, I got around to buying my friend Lynn's old ATA 200GB hard drive, and Lynn will install it hopefully Tuesday of this coming week, and as soon as that's done, I will be re-installing Sims 2 on the new hard drive, with all of the EPs!  (Well, there's about two or three stuff packs that I haven't gotten yet, but I'll take care of that hopefully within the next month, after I upgrade the memory on this old beast, and upgrade my drivers---I highly recommend UNIBLUE'S POWER SUITE!  I used to have it installed, but my computer crashed, and I had to re-install XP Pro, and next thing you know...I also lost the key code!  So, after I get the hard drive installed, upgrade the memory and get UNIBLUE (again!), I'll be done with this computer's upgrades.  After that...it will be time to get a new computer!

After those upgrades are all done...I'm off to designing my first recolor.  Stay tuned for the details!

Oh, and before I forget...here's where you can find Michael's Musings:

http://simplyedward2.forumotion.net/forum.htm
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