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Nov. 16th, 2013 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyWell today has been a whirlwind of confusion. Channel 5 has been showing Christmas films all day. I watched all of an (admittedly fun) one called The Town That Christmas forgot. And the Eastenders omnibus was on today, despite that normally being on on a Sunday. SO HARD TO ORIENT YOURSELF IN TIME THESE DAYS.
This comes after a week of playing Skyrim again from scratch - having finished Saints Row - and getting really confused because there were a bunch of new features I didn't recognise. Google suggested they were from the Dawnguard DLC, even though I haven't bought it, as far as I know. I assumed it was because I'd bought a later DLC and maybe some of the content was in there too, but then the main quest of Dawnguard starting playing out. Which I didn't really want because it's about vampires, and I have heard the vampires attack towns sometimes and kill off often pretty vital townsfolk. I downloaded a mod, for the first time in about a decade, that apparently made the townsfolk run inside when the vampires attacked so they couldn't be killed. But they then never came OUT of their houses, and I couldn't talk to anyone or use any shops without breaking in and being arrested. Frankly, if that's how that mod is supposed to work it did more harm than good. Eventually, while messing around in the data files, I found out how to turn the mod and the DLC off - and it does look like I somehow have Dawnguard, for free. I don't really know what to do about that. I'm hoping Steam just corrects that mistake on their own. I mean, it is a free DLC, but they could take it away any moment and I don't want it. So.
But on the plus side, I got a letter saying the Jobcentre were paying me my arrears, or may have already paid me. Which sets my mind to rest a bit - even more than before - about a possible appeal from them, because I'm guessing they'd do that BEFORE they gave me any money, not after. It also means I'll probably have to go in to the Jobcentre and start doing Work-Related Activity soon, but eh. That is part of the deal. Funnily enough, my arrears include about £50 of 'Cold Weather Allowance', owed to me from January last year. I have never heard of that before, and it would probably have been more useful during that cold weather, but hurrah. I'm owed it, and I have it. And according to the papers we have plenty of cold weather to come, so I'm sure it'll come in handy anyway.
This comes after a week of playing Skyrim again from scratch - having finished Saints Row - and getting really confused because there were a bunch of new features I didn't recognise. Google suggested they were from the Dawnguard DLC, even though I haven't bought it, as far as I know. I assumed it was because I'd bought a later DLC and maybe some of the content was in there too, but then the main quest of Dawnguard starting playing out. Which I didn't really want because it's about vampires, and I have heard the vampires attack towns sometimes and kill off often pretty vital townsfolk. I downloaded a mod, for the first time in about a decade, that apparently made the townsfolk run inside when the vampires attacked so they couldn't be killed. But they then never came OUT of their houses, and I couldn't talk to anyone or use any shops without breaking in and being arrested. Frankly, if that's how that mod is supposed to work it did more harm than good. Eventually, while messing around in the data files, I found out how to turn the mod and the DLC off - and it does look like I somehow have Dawnguard, for free. I don't really know what to do about that. I'm hoping Steam just corrects that mistake on their own. I mean, it is a free DLC, but they could take it away any moment and I don't want it. So.
But on the plus side, I got a letter saying the Jobcentre were paying me my arrears, or may have already paid me. Which sets my mind to rest a bit - even more than before - about a possible appeal from them, because I'm guessing they'd do that BEFORE they gave me any money, not after. It also means I'll probably have to go in to the Jobcentre and start doing Work-Related Activity soon, but eh. That is part of the deal. Funnily enough, my arrears include about £50 of 'Cold Weather Allowance', owed to me from January last year. I have never heard of that before, and it would probably have been more useful during that cold weather, but hurrah. I'm owed it, and I have it. And according to the papers we have plenty of cold weather to come, so I'm sure it'll come in handy anyway.
