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... I actually thought you had to throw the key at the door, the first time. Didn't see a use option standing beside it, didn't think to talk to the door again. Tossed the key at the door, with obvious (lack of) effect. Wasn't the most amused of individuals after that

E: Oh dear. The epic sapphic love between an undead queen and a streaking world savior. Such romance! And most of it occurring in the middle of a massive snow field, which has got to just be uncomfortable all around. Is it attraction, or just an exothermic reaction‽ Find out next episode, I guess...

E2: Oh wow, that twilight reference.

I've never understood people who complain about missing that one hour. I really doubt anyone would ever notice it, if not for the fact that you know it will happen beforehand.

Hnnnooo. Losing an hour from your sleeping schedule or going about the process of shifting it is quite noticeable, forewarning or not. It's anywhere from a sixth to an eighth of a relatively normal sleeping cycle, and that's... significant. Can definitely notice the effect of losing an hour of sleep when something causes it to happen, DST or not, m'self. Which makes not losing an hour of sleep to DST a nice thing. If it were actually impacting my sleeping cycle I wouldn't be quite so blasé about it, heh.

... I guess I'm one of the terribly few people that aren't bothered by DST time shifts.

Probably because I tend to wake up 2-3 hours before I have to do anything anyway, so waking up at (what was) 4 isn't very different from waking up at 5. Or just waking up at six, because hell I'd still have an hour+ flex allotted. Not really losing sleep, just some prep time, at most.

And then you can go to sleep (relatively) earlier and it's all gooood. Not even losing sleep. Or prep time. Just an hour's shift in sleeping schedule, if that. Which... I guess is troublesome for... old people? I'unno.

Don't forget that it was built from the skeleton of the largest siege engine ever created by man.

Screw big harbor man. I wanna see THAT.

160 tons, and it failed so hard all the metal got stripped out of it and was used to build a giant man and his giant tiny dong. Rhodes knew what was up, methinks. Very modern sensibilities.

Just... climb trees. Buildings, if there's no trees. Maybe find some labor intensive volunteer work, if you've got the time for it. Exercise on own time and money, basically. Hopefully doing something that would actually be useful. Gym won't help much without will, and with will, you don't really need the gym. Without gym, you could also be building homes or somethin' as you exercise. Many wins all around.

Get urge to play Oblivion. Decide to go see if I can find a few small mods, for added interest and ease of use.

~Hour later, just shy of 1.3 gigs worth of material downloaded

Only about ten mods, though. Plus patch stuff and miscellanea. Still...

'Course, now the "fun" part is seeing if I can get it all to work. Oblivion mod installation's always been a bit of a trial for me, bleh.

The mount quest. Though I suppose there's a cooler type of mount you need to be level 18 to unlock, though most people don't bother with it since it's not very practical.

Hehehe. Yeah, keep thinking that's a perk. It's the base requirement for a lot of nasty compulsory stuff, plus it's got a major gold cost and all sorts of mechanical minutia you have to deal with to keep from getting killed or hit with debuffs. It looks shiny from a distance, but it's less perk than getting hit with something like a mounted subtype, which opens you up to all sorts of vulnerabilities. Sure, there's a mobility boost from it, but that just means you get sent on quests that are further out. And the mount must be fed, too.

Most post-16 "perks" are like that, really. Gain "full human" subtype, suddenly able to be targeted by higher level law spells. Access to the voting questline, also get "taxable" flaw. Etc., so forth, so on. There's perks, but not many cool ones.

Had an argument with my mom because apparently she doesn't approve of me wearing boots. Is there some sort of boot stigma I'm unaware of?

There isn't, or at least not in favor of running shoes. Most might be a preference among business-type settings for dress shoes and whatnot, but it's basically sandals (and only if they're not the fancy kind, for females) -> non-dress shoes -> dress shoes. Boots and running shoes are on the same level. Running shoes in snow does have the "this person is a goddamn idiot" stigma, though, for what that's worth. She led you wrong, amigo.

Your mother is insane (or at least abusive, which might as well be the same thing *shrugs*), insofar as your descriptions of her have revealed. You can probably safely ignore pretty much anything she says, so far as greater import is concerned.