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I've been away from the computer for a long weekend (not to be confused with THE long weekend - we didn't have one, but I took some overtime hours). I took a trip to visit my parents, who have dial up, and I didn't have any time to spare on the computer anyway. It's a very busy time for me (I'm getting hitched, don't you know), so I'm going to be seen less and less around these parts until late August.

Strangetown, Here We Come will be taking a definite break during this time, but unless something changes, I plan to start it up again in the fall. I hope to get the second half of chapter 26 out before then, if at all possible. I'm sure that nobody will really care all that much if they don't know what sort of haircut Ripp has until the fall (or even notice the delay, really), but I figure that it would be nicer to clue up the chapter before I take that break.

I'm sad to see that I missed the deadline to participate in the Ben Long makeover at

sim_mania, and I really had intended to do that. It's not like I expected to be in the running to win, but it would have been fun to try. I guess I could still post it here in my own journal. Someone did something sort of like what I wanted to do anyway: a bookish Benny, with his very own writing collective (well, their Ben didn't had a writers group, but mine would have). A beer commercial version of Ben would have been funny too, complete with a Don Lothario "dickhead" shirt and frosted tips.

So, moving along to another community... after a month of being completely ignored, my founder submission at

pixel_trade is up for the makeover challenge, so maybe she'll get some play with that. I hope so. I love that community, but so far it has left me feeling the same way I did back in gym class when people were picking people to be on their team, and I'd love to get in on the fun too. *jumps up and down* Pick me! Pick MEEE!

I've also started another cc project: making my own default replacement eyes. It's something that I've been thinking about for a while, to give my story a more individual look. I think it would be great to have my very own hand-drawn eyes. I've also never been 100% satisfied with Lyran's eyes, especially the green, which is a little too olive for my tastes. The eyes will be in a comic/cartoon style, and I've been digging through my collection of comics and graphic novels for ideas. I'm not sure if it will work out, but I'm going to attempt it.

Here's an early look:

There's still plenty of work to be done (this is really rough), but this seems to be close to the right hue for the green eye. I'm going to experiment with the light flecks some more, and the eye texture, but I'm thinking of keeping them pretty solid like that, just like they're usually drawn in comics. I'll see how that looks. If they're too dead looking, I'll add some extra iris detail.

(Johnny's doing some tai chi there, by the way. It seems like something he'd be really into to me.)

My default replacement PTs are on the shelf for now, since I won't need them for a while, and they are mostly for my own use anyway, unless someone really wants them. There are plenty of other replacement PTs available out there already, so mine are pretty redundant at this point. If you're looking for some PTs in the style of the Maxis pollinator, you should check out this lovely set by

pixel_and_bean, made into replacements by

simgaroop. She has also made a set for

ikichi (found in the same post) that replaces the black-haired PT (Jayne's pollinator) from the fwiffo set with the Maxis PT, which should be useful for some of you.

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Not bad, not bad at all. They're already better than half the crap at MTS2, so I'm sure once you have a finished product, plenty of people will love to try them out. If you need someone else to test run them, just lemme know.

I suppose I can wait til the Fall for Ripp's haircut......(thou I'd really prefer not to, no pressure or anything :P) Yay wedding!! I wonder if it'll be anything like your self sim's wedding with Buzz?

You really think they look okay? I'm mostly just interested in having something unique, and completely to my tastes. It would also give me an opportunity to make some eyes (or contacts) exactly as I want them, like making an albino eye and a really dark (almost black) iris for Nervous Subject. I'm thinking of getting some type of graphics tablet for my home computer (my SO has one, but he keeps it in his office), so I can actually make use of my drawing skills.

Yeah, if I wait until fall I might lose what little suspense I had built up, huh? :P

I really hope my actual wedding is as fun as my simself's wedding to Buzz. That was awesome. With all the Celebration stuff and all that, I just might sim my wedding after the fact, for a laugh.

Simming your own wedding would be pretty fun to do. If anything really interesting or funny happens, be sure throw in those details!

Don't worry. I'd never leave out that sort of detail. ;) Those are the best parts.

I see a number of weddings in the future in my story too (and I'll bet they're more fun to plan than a real wedding, and cheaper too). An obvious one would be Charlotte Worthington's marriage to Malcolm Landgraab. That will be a lot of fun, since it's going to be a grand affair. Then there's Jaxy and Zoe, but I don't see them actually getting married for quite some time. They'd go pretty informal, but they'd have a fun party. Popularity sims just love those wedding parties.

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As long as your happy with the eyes, that's all that really matters. Nervous with almost black eyes would be pretty darn cool looking. And albino? That would be kinda scary. :P

It would be so freakingn cool to sim you wedding. And for guests, you can just use all the self sims you have! :D I call bridesmaid!!!!

I have very dark brown eyes on Nervous now, but I'd love to see them in a dark, cold steel grey. I like the idea of him having these unsettling eyes that hint at who his father is. The albino clone just has pale blue eyes now, but more accurate albino eyes would be better.

I think it would be fun, and maybe I'll let your simself come to the wedding, if she promises to behave. :P I'd have to install her again, though, since I lost all the simself stuff I was doing with my computer crash, and I haven't really have the energy or the interest to set that up again. Oh well... it was fun while it lasted, and maybe I will do something again with it at some point.

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