There's always the option to put a list of links on the wikidot site and then put just one link from the game to the wikidot page.

Also true. And maybe that's why I didn't put more links in there to begin with. But with the wiki as the Game Website link and then the Character Data and SRP linked in the file links, that covers about 90% of the "Oh, let me look that up" moments.

Well, my computer is back, at least. I can't figure out how to use the Restore disk it forced me to make to get back to Windows 8.1 instead of 8, but I'll figure it out. I'll probably make Allen create another one from his laptop since we bought the exact same laptops so maybe he'll be able to get me a working copy of Windows that way. We'll see.

If not, I suppose I'll just get used to having it this way. All my important files were on OneDrive or Dropbox, so I didn't really lose anything other than Sims files.

Yeahhhh, guys, we should wrap up the Kai funeral scene since we've been working on it for seven months. I'm over it lol

hahahahaha!

lmao Denise

Lana agreed to be the one getting married!

Hahaha way to take one for the team!

You can do a closure post or something for the funeral, Sally :P

Okay. Future stuff questions.

How would Ellie and Nalu have been as parents after the kidnapping? Would they have been overprotective? What kind of rituals would have developed in their family? Would Malie have a bed(room)? Would there be gifts for her at Christmas/her birthday? Hana wouldn't have more than fuzzy memories of anything else, so I'm trying to get a feel for what their family was like for her growing up.

Ellie has been completely haunted by Malie's loss. She used to be a fun, quirky person and while she's retained much of that, it's tempered by frequent bouts of depression and sadness. Mostly around holidays and Malie's birthday. I think for a while, she would have been a stricter mother, maybe still is. The house has five bedrooms (I think, I have photos somewhere of the Sim version of the house, I think on the Unbound zetaboards site), so she would have kept one decorated "just in case" and occasionally sleeps there when she doesn't think anyone notices.

Well, we're in Missouri. We're taking the long way out so we can visit as many states as possible. I'll keep you guys posted in case you want the play by play.

Arkansas. The highway seems much curvier  here and at one point there was so much fog, it was like driving through a horror movie.

So. Much. Fog.

And the GPS told Allen he could shave a couple minutes with a jaunt through Oklahoma. He could have gotten those couple minutes just by driving faster on the original highway. This curvy, foggy crap is awful.

You guys are going to have fun reading all this stuff in the morning.

It's muggy in Louisiana.

Interesting road so far Debbo haha

The Mississippi River is hyoog. And Nathan is a pro at spotting water towers.

How many Mississippis across is the Mississippi?

One (unless you mean how many state of Mississippis,in which case maybe .01 since it took us 3 hours to cross the state and less than a minute to cross the river). But it's worth at least 5 Kansas Rivers. Alabama seems like more of the same so far, but the kids just finished watching Ernest Scared Stupid so it's been a great trip for sharing our kid culture with our kids. They're working on Ernest Goes to Jail now. It was a 3 movie set for less than $5.

Atlanta was pretty, but the gas station bathroom we stopped in was full of anti-white racist graffiti. So that was a little uncomfortable. And our adventure has been complicated by needing to get a prescription for an inhaler for Nathan because he cropped up with congestion on the road. So I had to call his doctor's office, they sent it to a local Walgreens, then I had to look up a Walgreens in South Carolina and have them transfer it there. But at least he'll have it before bed tonight.

Maybe it's a California thing? For me, to learn to count in seconds, we counted "One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi...". That's what I meant by that. :D

Oh. I learned that too but I usually use "one thousand" so I didn't think of it. We finally made it. Insurance wouldn't cover nathan's inhaler because we're out of state, so that sucked. But apparently, I can submit it to be reimbursed when we get back. I don't know what the difference is if they pay out before or after but whatever. And so far, we have consistently paid less than the per gallon amount I figured our budget from, so we may end up under budget for gas costs. And also, my cousin had a baby girl yesterday.

Just ate at my first southern buffet. So many foods I've never seen on a buffet before. (Or ever. What the hell is fatback?)

Very frustrating kid day. I woke up determined to write today so I hopped on 750words.com and I've only hit 470. In two writing sessions. Because every time I get going, a kid needs me for something.

Finally got my 750 (actually over 1000) words. Part of that was the prologue I keep saying I'm going to write. Denise, you have the Hofman Chronicles folder in your dropbox, right? I stuck the prologue in ywriter so you can look at it in there. I figure that's the safest place for it so it won't get lost again.