1. Hi! Welcome back to Ruth’s (un)Officially Wacky Boolprop
Challenge! I bet you’re wondering what the rest of the clan has
been getting up to while Phoebe and Rose were up to the usual
collegiate hijinks.
Well, wonder no longer! The next Official chapter is here!
Just in case it’s been too long, Lisa is the heir, Glen is her husband,
Olga turned out to be a girl, and the Tacky Flamingo is Level 10.
And that, boys and girls, is more recap than I have ever done ever.

2. I would like to open by saying that it did turn out that I had the
harderjobs hack in, which explains why career rewards were
suddenly so hard to get. Based on previous career behaviors, I
installed this sometime after Phoebe became a Teen.
After much thought, I decided that since I started this challenge
without the hack, and since the rules are written as if you are
playing without it, it’s fair to pull it while I play this household.
However, I started the asylum with harderjobs in, so I will need to
put it back before I play the asylum.

3. TL;dr: Glen was able to poach an Artist track career reward almost
immediately. The other jobs available that day were all for careers
whose rewards we had already snaffled.
Adam quite likes the camera, and it matches the décor very nicely.

4. Adam needed a bit of cheering up, anyway, since he went and got
himself demoted on School Spirit Day.
OLD ADAM: But surely an automaton dressed as a cheerleader is
the most spirited thing there could possibly be! O, if only I had
thought to have chosen the steam-powered llama instead!

5. Fortunately, granddaughters are wonderful at cheering up
grandparents.
OLD ADAM: O, Olga! You are so sweet and soft and affectionate,
and you smell so much of small baby! How can anyone not love
you at once? (thoughtfully) I shall have to keep an eye out for a
suitable young gentleman of near your own age…
(Apologies for the cut-off wall there -- if I went up a level, you
wouldn’t be able to see the room.)

6. The remainder of Day 1 of the rotation was pretty quiet. Glen
completely failed to get abducted (again), and Myrna started on a
new poster.

7. Ryan came out to haunt, the first time I’ve seen him do so. He was
Not Happy that his bed was no longer in the house.

8. However, he felt much better once he made Glen wet his pants.

9. The next morning, Rose and Phoebe moved in briefly. They know
that they can’t stay: they bring the total members of the household
up to seven, and the new baby will make eight, and that means no
alien baybeez. Been there, done that.

10. Did I not mention that Lisa is expecting again? Whoops. Well, she
is.

11. Moving in extra people to exploit them briefly is perfectly legal, as
long as I a. get a portrait of them and b. have a flamingo on the
lawn for them during their residence. Phoebe and Rose are in not
one, but two portraits already, and there’s three flamingos each, as
you can clearly see.
Actually, I never took those flamingoes away when the girls went
to Uni, but shhhhh.

12. Since the whole point of moving the girls in was to collect career
rewards, I set them to it.

13. Rose snagged the Military reward…

14. …and the Medical reward…

15. …and then she moved right back out again. After all, she is three
days younger than Phoebe, so I don’t
even want her aging up at six o’clock.

16. Phoebe stuck around for a bit, too see how Lisa did at work. (As
you may recall, Lisa was in the Law field, and if she got a
promotion then the family would come by the reward the hard
way.)
Phoebe spent the day taking care of Olga, who had a somewhat
alarming glitch. Last time I saw this, I had to rebuild.

17. I hoped that giving Olga a bath would reset things. It didn’t work.
But you know what did?

18. Changing her diaper.
So if this ever happens to you, now you know what to do.

19. It was quite the day for fulfilling requirements, actually. Glen was
able to nab the Rock Hammer…

20. …and earn a Silver Robotics badge.
That means a Gold Badge is only about another seven or eight Sim-
days away. (sigh)

21. Now, do you remember the picture of Lisa’s baby bump from a few
slides ago? That may have been moved slightly out of sequence for
narrative effect. Actually, she didn’t pop until after she came home
from work -- without a promotion.
Glen ran out to meet her and to help get her bright red Fun meter
back to green.

22. Of course, nothing does that faster than yelling at your undead
uncle for stealing the lawn gnome. Again.

23. Since Lisa didn’t get promoted, Phoebe poached the Law reward,
and then stuck around until just after midnight to grab the Criminal
reward as well.
She then moved out to get married. Really, for a Family Sim, she’s
been more than patient.

24. This may seem like super-fast cheatypantsness, but just remember
that I spent an awful lot of time filling up both Rose and Phoebe’s
skill points so they could do just this. Myrna was equally quick at
getting rewards, and Ryan would have been this fast if the family
hadn’t needed the money.

25. Now, of course, the family has money coming out their ears, which
makes certain situations easier to deal with.
OLD ADAM: Truly, Myrna, I do not see why I should go to that --
that mockery -- nay, that travesty of an institution of learning!
MYRNA (resignedly): Is this about the robot cheerleader costume
again?
OLD ADAM: It was a masterpiece, Myrna! A masterpiece! And I
was mocked and scorned!
MYRNA: If you feel that strongly about it, why don’t you just
leave the job?

26. OLD ADAM (V.O.): Do you know, I believe I shall!
OLD ADAM: No, I am not “quitting.” I am resigning my position
as a protest against the inferior educational methods and shoddy
spirit of -- I beg your pardon?
OLD ADAM: Well, the same to you, sir! And to your mother!

27. Although the business hit Level Ten last time, the family can’t just
rest on their laurels: the rules are that they have to run the business
the whole time, no slacking.
But that doesn’t mean they have to spend epic amounts of time
there. Adam took the first day.

28. Myrna the second.

29. And Glen the third.
Nobody told him that you should eat before you open up. And go
potty, while you’re at it. Maybe even throw in a nap. His session
was the shortest: barely two hours.
Still counts, though.

30. The aliens are still being stand-offish, although Glen did teach me
that my Sims are dealing with the same awful weather as I am.*
Heatstroke at three in the morning?!
*I devoutly hope that by the time you read this, it will no longer be 78 degrees
Fahrenheit at 6:30 in the morning. (That’s 25.5 for you Celsius people. Either
way, it’s too darn hot!)

31. And one final bulletin before we check in with the rest of the
family: Olga is adorabubble.
That is all.

32. Let’s start with the extended family, since that will be quick. Jo
and Phoenix’s daughter Penelope has become a cute Toddler. I
think she’s inherited her mother’s eyes, but it’s a little too early to
tell whose mouth she has yet. Right now, it looks like Phoenix’s,
but Jo’s mouth looked very close to that until she hit Child.

33. And speaking of Jo and Phoenix, they behave more like a three-
bolt couple than a two-bolt one with an aspiration mismatch. Every
morning when they wake up, they reliably roll the Want to Kiss
Each Other, and if their other Wants vary throughout the day, at
least two if not three are for each other, and are generally pretty
compatible. Here, we see that Phoenix has rolled the Want to Give
Jo A Backrub, while Jo has rolled the Want to Have Phoenix Give
Me A Backrub.
Like I said, very compatible.

34. Now, as you may recall, Old Adam promised Phoebe the wedding
to end all weddings if she would only finish college first.
When Old Adam Shankel gives his word, he keeps it. Absolutely
every family member from both sides was invited, as well as all of
Phoebe’s sorority sisters -- or “sisters” in the case of Dmitri and
Frederic -- and their significant others.
Most of them even watched the ceremony.

35. No expense was spared on the cake, the catered buffet, the
furnishings, the table decorations, or the champagne.
Sorry -- the “sparkling white grape juice.”
The trappings were all a gift to Phoebe, and were sold after the
wedding to fund home improvements. Well, a dowry is a time-
honored tradition, so that’s all right.

36. The budget even stretched to a display of fireworks in the evening.

37. Not that the happy couple cared.
Phoebe Shankel is now Phoebe Couderc, by the way.
Still, that’s setting the bar rather high for Rose’s wedding, don’t
you think?

38. Although that wedding won’t be happening this rotation. Both of
Dmitri’s parents died this rotation, and a big party didn’t seem
appropriate. On the other hand, a big party is exactly what Rose
wants.
So Rose got a new look and is waiting until Dmitri is ready to get
married.

39. Adam is surprisingly cool with this development.
OLD ADAM: But Myrna, why should I be concerned? They have
been betrothed for years. Moreover, Rose is a sensible girl, and no
one will have cause to count back from the birth of their first child.
Her situation is much less scandalous than that of my brother. He
had two children before even having the social sop of being
engaged!
On which note I will leave you.

40. Notes, disclaimers, and other trivia
The title of this chapter is taken from The Gondoliers, and is sung
by one of the two possible kings of Barataria, explaining how the
very best part of being a king is getting to do everybody else’s
work for them. It seemed appropriate.
Please accept my apologies for the lateness of this chapter. Real
life (in the form of computer issues and a new nephew) intervened.
I will try not to let such a long gap happen again.
Until next time, Happy Simming!