I'm about half way through my main hood rotation, which normally would mean that I'd still have a ways to go before thinking about updating.  However, I'm far enough ahead in my playing that I've been seriously working on the update for the past week.  I think I have all the plotty stuff shot that I need, and have even gotten about twenty pages ( Read more... )

The number of sims that reside in Familiarity can be a little bit overwhelming if you try to get to know them all.  Even just figuring out the first cousins can be confusing to some.  As they are my sims they don't confuse me, I know them.  However in an effort to alleviate confusion for others it was suggested that I provide a guide to The First ( Read more... )

I love mutts I really do love mutts.  Every animal I've ever owned in real life has come from the Humane Society.  Mixed breeds make me smile.  Familiarity is big on mutts, the way pet adoption generally works is when a family starts rolling up wants for a pet I roll the dice and choose what they get 1-2 Cat 3-4 Small Dog 5-6 Large Dog.  They then ( Read more... )

It's the end of the Summer in the main hood!  I finished up the last six houses in the rotation and shipped twenty-two teens off to University.

( Way too many pictures for six houses )

Randomish stuff this week, I played some of the normal rotation, played some of my not normally played houses.  Got inspired to do some plotty stuff so hopped to the main house for a bit and got sidetracked by the photo hallway.  I did get most of the plotty stuff that I wanted to get done done, and I'm kind of excited about what I have planned for ( Read more... )

My video card has been giving me headaches.  I can't find a good driver set for it though it might be the video memory, this card only has 256 while my old system's card was a 512.  The graphics are great but the card is overtaxxed and when I found a driver set that seemed to work better the graphics were horrible.  I fiddled with various settings ( Read more... )

Five more houses four new teens wee!  Teen list has been updated.
( Five more . . )

My Dad says that college students are the only people that are happy for not getting their money's worth, but hey every time a class gets canceled there's more time to sim.  Several of my professors decided that watching election results would be more interesting than class (I agree), so I had a short night.   Since my video drivers are giving my ( Read more... )

Continuing on with the Summer who's who I have four more houses
( Four More )

Last year, rotation wise that is, I did a series of LJ posts that introduced each of the households in Familiarity. I decided that was a pretty good tradition and I want to do something similar each summer.  Somewhat along the lines ofwriteraissa weekly updates but more on a yearly who's who and where do they live.  I'm not going to try to fit a year's worth ( Read more... )