In my game, Peter has his whole family stalking Valentine. Wants to write his biography. Valentine says bios are for dead men and he's still alive thankyouverymuchgowayIgotsomeimportantcanoodlingtodo.

I laughed a lot at Hamilton's parsing of his situation. The secret to complex soap opera: Small towns! Really really really small towns! When everybody you know has connections to everybody else, nobody can move without yanking on somebody.

Give Rocky a break, there. The kid needs comfort food. Though I'm keeping him fit in my game because somehow that boy grows up to be a hunk, and I can't bear to waste it. But watch him around the bar - I've seen him hit the sauce hard in neighborhoods where his parents split up, the moment he's tall enough to reach the bottles.

We don't have to be concerned about Dixie holding her stomach there, do we? It was just from that spoiled food she ate last update?

Y'know, if Daytona wants a cashier, there's always Sadie...in fact I thought at first she was on the register in that picture.

So happy to see this this morning! Though it does get me behind on the morning.

First thing to say: those blue underlines are now actual links that lead somewhere! I don't know what exactly I did there but it's fixed. Sadie is on the register in the first lot which is why Daytona has to pick up the slack in the second, the outtake pic was meant to show off the difference.

I think Junior was Valentine's only male friend, which isn't going so great these days, so it'll be interesting to see if their acquaintance morphs beyond grudging tolerance on Val's part.

I can see Rocky finding an incentive to be fit as an adult or late teen but he's teetering on tubby and I say let the scales tip. I don't often have plump kids, though I must say Alexander Goth was determined to be round no matter how I tried to help him out. Virgie hitting the bar is more because she's not supposed to but Rocky does seem to take more after his father in the ways they deal with their emotions so I may well have to watch him. He's got his own quiet stubbornness I'm finding.

No need to worry about Dixie. I'm a little miffed because between the roach stomping and the spoiled food I was hoping for the flu! With Dixie popping up everywhere surely she'd have plenty of time for infecting folks before I got to her round. Of course, I've got RealisticSickness so she may have also condemned a few to their deaths in the process but it would've unlocked Medical. And then she started groaning and it was only food poisoning. These people are never getting a doctor.

Realistic sickness? You're braver than me - that thing strikes at random, regardless of who you love most/need most for your story. And who would your doctor be, anyway? Rhett at best plays at it, and I'm not taking anything Junior prescribes! Mary or Penny, now - but they've got their hands pretty full, as does Sandy. Hm... Sandy needs a source of income, though, and she's high motivation enough to squeeze in studying Physiology in between toddler wrangling if she has enough to eat...But with Realistic Sickness, Sandy's just as likely to die as not. Don't mind me, I'm nattering.

Ah, I hadn't realized those were two different lots, I see! Y'know, I should've given Sadie a Gold Register Badge in the subhood version of Widespot! She gets so much practice, she deserves one.

oh, I have no idea who'd be in the medical career, it'd just be an option as I go forward. Mostly I'd like to get something unlocked per round.

I know Realistic Sickness has a reputation for being a tad extreme but I've never actually had any deaths from it, even before the hospital mod. (They conflict but only at the hospital, where its mechanic takes over and would be the point of sending them to the hospital. It's a system that's worked well for me.) IIRC, the first version of Realistic Sickness was very much sick=dead, so I've wondered if that's the one people end up playing. But they definitely do require some coddling now when sick.

Another nifty little feature of the hospital mod is the midwife option, which I think would fit in very well with a slowly but steadily progressing Widespot. Not being part of the game, it's pretty arbitrary whether I let them have it or not, but while I don't care whether it has been topped or not I do think medical should be unlocked first.

Funnily enough, Junior is the one who rolled a 'join medical career' want. It didn't take long to realise 'Um, No' but I let him dream for a little while. I put it on the same scale with Junior wanting to be a trucker or an astronaut or president.

I'm with you about Rocky and comfort food, chubby simkids are so cute (and that little cake doesn't seem to be very nutritious anyway).

It's also practically as big as his head! But as bad as he seemed to want it it'd better be delicious.

Once again - kudos to your attention to detail and the nice CC you use. I don't recognize half the stuff and very often find myself feeling "Want that!!" - like the fishing rods. But I won't ask for links, I have a ton of CC myself and I really shouldn't download any more now.

Will Hamilton ever find happiness? He's lost his wife and his carreer seems to be more about satisfying his mother's wishes. I liked that he stopped Virigina badmouthing her mother though.

Thanks! I hoard cc so I tend to have lots of old stuff mixed in with the newer things. And I never stop downloading. Not to tempt you but the camping set, with the fishing rods, is pure Retail Sims. In fact, the next few businesses moving forward all grow out of the sets I have from them, I just love the personalised touch my hoods get from their specialty store deco.

As for Hamilton, establishing his career identity separate from his mother's will probably be good for him, especially as it carries over into other areas of his life, even if right now it's making him uncomfortable and unsure of himself.