News from the neighborhood

Malcolm has his promotion to Leader of the Free World. He and AJ now have three children; Mindi (child), Malcolm(toddler) and Andrew(baby).

Jon and Tanya Marsh are still together with two children; Kathy and Dexter. Kathy is a teen and Dexter a toddler on my last visit.

Thomas and Kristen are doing well. Thomas is level 9 in science. Kristen is unemployed. Their girl Marcy is now a child.

Don and Rhoda are still together with their daughter Fatima who may be a teen by now.

Grandpa is still enjoying hanging out at all the fishing spots.

Jon Lessen and Alicia got hit with some random aging. Their son Dustin is a teen and Elvis is now a child.

In the other houses, Samantha is still seeing Dallas but no progress on her career. Sarah has been promoted in culinary as has Dugan but they have no love life on the horizon.

Kathryn married Jerod and they have a baby. The only problem is that Jerod and the baby live in the hood but not in a house. She's at level 6 in her career. Riley is still level 1 with no romance in her life. Kanya is still unemployed.

I have a large number of piccies to go with this. I should get them up and labeled for you guys soon.

Grandpa Muleskinner, a brief update

So far, the only things I've asked Grandpa to do was to share a house with a single Sim already in town and learn to fish.

I left him fishing at one stage and by the time I got back to him, he had caught over 350 fish (only a few in his inventory).

On one visit, I noticed that Grandpa had decided to get a job. This was a mistake, he must not have done well at his job. Next time I went by, he had a bad moodlet and no job.

A Great Fishing Spot

Grandpa's new romance, Roxie Lin.

Poor poor Malcolm - nasty glitch

Well, after I had established the new kids, I was trying to decide which house to visit next.  And when I looked at the Landgraabs, Malcolm had grey hair.  Grey?  But he'd only just had a birthday to adult a few days ago...

Yep, he had a glitch that caused him to basically miss adulthood and move straight to elder.  I can't find a cheat to set him back to the correct age group so I decided it was "Be Kind to Malcolm" time.  I put him in the next to top rank of politics - he wants to be leader of the Free World.  He's been skilling up and socializing like mad to get enough charisma.  And the second day at work, he very very very nearly made it.  But not quite.

I'm a bit afraid to leave the house because the last two Sims to reach elder, Jon Lessen and Rhoda Bagley, both immediately retired.  He is so close to that goal. 

The Landgraabs are paying a penalty for my attention.  AJ and Malcolm now have a son and another little one on the way.  Or maybe more than one, AJ has been listening to kids radio a bit...

New arrivals in town

I decided it was time for a few new Sims to be added to town. I called for volunteers over in the forums and took on a total of 8 new Sims. Four guys and four girls.



House one contains Jerod Bodette by shay480, Riley Jenkins by lovints, Kanye Richardson by snurfles and Kathryn by SimpsonFly.   I set them up with a nice pile of money, a decent home and sent each one to at least two skill classes. Riley had an immediate birthday to young adult. But they had no jobs when I left that home. When I popped back a day later, Kathryn had a level 1 culinary job and Riley had a level 1 military job. They are also managing to talk to each other and meet a few Sims around town. Poor Kathryn, she's a loner and having 3 housemates isn't a kind thing to do to her.

House 2 contains Dugan Gruffman by Gruffman, Jared Carter by LynelleF,Simself 1.0 by velcroshoes, and Sarah by elenisav2. Simself 1 didn't have a name and so she's now Samantha Simself.  They also have a nice pile of cash plus a nice house to live in. They had a skill class each and got jobs on day one. Dugan and Sarah got culinary jobs, Jared wanted military and I think Samantha wanted to be journalist. The jobs were all careers the Sims themselves wanted. I'll be checking back with them later today to see how they are going.

After this set up, my plan is to pop back and visit for a few minutes to see how they are going and what they've managed to do.  If I stay, I'll interfer and these guys I really want to see how well they go without help.

More Lessen pics

Toddler Elvis

Dustin wearing somewhat less colourful clothes

Elder Jon

House of birthdays - Lessen home

On the last visit to the Lessen home

Jon aged to elder.  It was his day to age


Alicia aged to adult. She only had a few days left.

Dustin aged to child.  Like his mom, it wasn't his birthday but it wasn't far off.
I had Dustin change to a slightly less colourful outfit when I saw this.

Elvis aged to toddler. I seem to have forgotten his piccie!

Finally, the ghost of Jon's mentor was out and playing guitar.

Now that is a great name

The second child of Jon and Alicia Lessen is

Elvis

Elvis is a great name for a virtuoso son of a famous rock dad.  I see much music in his future.