Pleasantview Round 8 - (Dr) Harry Burb - ALTERNATE TIMELINE

Welcome to (Dr) Harry Burb's Alternate Timeline.  John + Jennifer = Harry.  Harry is  a recent graduate from University, and is striking out on his own now in Pleasantview.  Harry is twin to Ida (Burb) McCarthy.  Ida and her husband George McCarthy live in the original Burb homestead.  Harry recently attended Ida and George's wedding.

(teen, YA, Adult)
Knowledge - Wants to be Chief of Staff 
Is currently unemployed

First wishes:  Get a job in...Medical, Science, Gaming, Intelligence, Oceanography or Adventure.  Fears:  Fire, lose a skill point, and get sick.  

Monday

 

Harry Burb, or Dr. Harry Burb as he was known in college, had just bought his first place after graduation. A smart little condo. Oh no but wait....He had a vague memory that he lived in an apartment across the hall from his good buddy Eddie Dreamer. This was very unnerving. He just graduated from medical school and was now an MD....and hoped to gain a position at the prestigious Pleasantview Hospital. he could not let anyone know he was having visions like this.

One thing was for sure.  Harry wanted to get right to work and was lucky to find a job as a teaching scientist.  It would do until he started working at the hospital.  (wish fulfilled)  He went to work immediately, that day.  Had to shake this dejavu feeling.

Friends came over to congratulate him on his graduation, and to see his new place, but he wasn't there.  He was working.

Harry was promoted right away, and started feeling normal.  He decided he could use a little female company, so called his favorite professor he had spent time with in University.

Prof. Rebecca Welsh

Harry threw a wish for woohoo in bed upon returning home from work.  In this play, that wish is always honored, which ever way it can be done. 

 It was so great to see Becky again.

Tuesday

Wishes: Reach cooking level 8, go on on Far East vacation, play computer game, blog about science, talk about hobby, and see a shooting star.

It was off to work early.  

Harry was feeling like the science career incredibly easy and interesting.  But his heart was still in medicine.  He checked in with the hosptical recruiter,  nothing yet.  Then his friend Margaret Caliente came over for a visit, since he was just out of University, and all that.

Romance - WooHoo With 20 Different Sims

It was nice seeing Margaret again. (talk about hobby, wish fulfilled)  However he didn't fall for her Romance Sim wiles.  There was good conversation, and that is all.

Other wishes fulfilled this day, blog about science, play a computer game.

Wednesday

Wishes:  Reach cooking level 8, talk about hobby, play a computer game, gain a skill point, blog about science and see a shooting star. 

After breakfast, Harry checked in with the recruiter at the hospital.  They are finally ready for him!  He took the job and started immediately.

Play computer game, blog about science, cleaning skill point. wishes fufilled.

While Harry was fully skilled to be a successful doctor, he was was going to have to develop his social life a little bit to promote up.  

Thursday

Wishes:  See a shooting star, play a computer game, talk about hobby, gain a skill point, play marco polo, and eat cereal.  Played computer game, eat cereal.  Then rolled bUy a telescope.  Fulfilled.

A quick play of The Sims 3 before the hospital carpool shows up. Even a doctor likes to play games.

Dr. Burb didn't promote again.  This really drove it home that he needed to work on his social life and get a couple of new friends.  This young man, Jeff Ternynck was in the neighborhood and Harry asked him if he wanted to learn a little logic.  Jeff was all about it!  And a new friend was added to Harry's list.

Harry called his friend Meadow Pedersen.  It had been a while since they talked.

It was a large screen television.  Harry couldn't use something like that, his place was far too small.  He just tucked it away for future posterity.

Friday

Wishes:  See a shooting star, talk about hobbies, gain a skill point, gaze through the telescope, eat cereal, and play computer games.

Wishes fulfilled:  Eat cereal, play games

This was a day off from the hospital.  Even though medicine was his passion Dr. Harry Burb needed time away from his job.

If medicine was was first love, then cooking was his second.  He visited Sue's Kitchen to enter their weekly cooking contest.  He was going to win, he just knew it.

Alas, he did not win.  Skip Broke was the victor, son of Charles and Frannie Broke.  

Skip Broke

Fortune - Become a Prestidigitator

This contest wasn't everything Dr. Harry thought it would be.  He returned home, then thought it would be great to see Becky again.   She came right over and knew exactly how to cheer him up

A rousing game of pillow fight.  That's the ticket!  And that was the end of Friday night.

Saturday

Wishes:  Buy a bookcase costing at least $650, win a cooking contest, reach cooking level 8, serve food, get a food processor and get a stove costing at least $500.

Fears:  Get sick, burn food, and lose a skill point.

Replaced stove, wish fulfilled.

A date last night, so that meant spending today with his buddy Eddie Dreamer.

Eddie became completely enamored with Heidi the cat.

The smell of great chili in the fall brought him inside the house.  The guys ate chili and watched football on the TV.  What better way to spend Saturday afternoon?

Sunday

Wishes:  See a shooting star, stargaze though the telescope, talk about hobbies, play a computer game, serve food, and play Marco Polo.

Play a game, wish fulfilled.

Again no work today, but tomorrow would be back to the grindstone.  Harry was starting to feel like he was more than ready to get back to the hospital.

Harry spent the day studying anger management, (wish fulfilled) and cleaning the condo.  Not much other than that.  Slept through the night dreaming of another time, maybe, and another place.  The place where he lived across the hall from his buddy Eddie, and the little tuxedo cat that used to come and visit him.   

Did he dream it?  Or was it real?  Confusing and hard to tell.  There is only one thing he knew for sure.  There was no place like home, where ever that was.

This Alternate Timeline has completed for Dr. Harry Burb.  He is left feeling confused, in the same place in his life that he was in a distant fuzzy memory, but not in the same place at the same time.

Next we will see how the kids in University fared.... 

• Arthur Tellerman (Lucy Burb + Komie Tellerman = Arthur)
• Ricki Wilkie the Infallibly Good Witch (Silver Maple Wilkie + Brittany (Upsnot) = Ricki)
• Betty Broke (Beau Broke + Brenda Broke = Betty)
• Minnie Pleasant (Lilith Pleasant + Neal Leong = Minnie)
• Sammy (Samuel) Dreamer (Nichole (Thompson) Dreamer + Dirk Dreamer = Sammy)
• Skip Broke (Charles Broke + Frannie Broke = Skip)

See you later tater...and the only thing that matters is that you are playing The Sims...no matter the version!