Pleasantview Round 8 - Harry Burb

Alrightie.  The last new lot of this round.  This is (Dr) Harry Burb.  John + Jennifer = Harry.  Harry is  newly graduated from University, and is striking out on his own now in Pleasantview.  His neighbor in this apartment building is Eddie Dreamer.  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

Like his buddy/neighbor Eddie, Harry decided to rent an apartment.

Hmm looks like this one will do.

Yes, you are a man now Harry.  Responsible to pay your own way!

First wishes:  Woohoo in bed (locked in) get a job in medicine, criminal, education, science, gaming.  Well.  It is obvious what Harry wants.  Sex and employment. Sadly did not get his fears.

Alright from the point I took the first pictures of him looking at the apartment (months ago) I apparently downloaded a default replacements for the equestrian pants and his hair.  Like the hair but will be replacing the pants.  Here a wish was fulfilled for Harry, must have been a hidden one.  These were townies hanging out on the sidewalk.

A quick change into the only other thing in his closet. Harry headed to the phone and called his three bolt attraction for a date.  OOhhh who died?

His parents, John and Jennifer Burb.  Between them, Harry inherited 17K.  WOW.

Rebecca Welsh, one of Harry's professors from Uni.  She is the cat's meow.  Upon arrival at Aspirational Laboratories, Harry's wishes:  woohoo in bed & get a job in medicine (locked in) and all for Rebecca:   Play with, tickle, tell joke to, entertain.  Fears: Be rejected by Rebecca for play with, and entertain, tickle.  Geesh.

Eventually the date moved to Harry's apartment, and the woohoo wish was fulfilled.  Go you, Harry, and lucky Rebecca!

Rebecca left...and Harry headed right to the computer to look for employement in his desired field.  Oh my and looky!  There it was.  He grabbed it.  Right about then, the phone rang.

It was Meadow Pedersen, a girl Harry dated in University.  Of course he said yes to going downtown!  He needed a new outfit.

The group piled out of the taxi in front of  Cold Issue Clothing. A quick flirt from Harry  toward Meadow was all it took for Manny the Servo to go bonkers.  ???  Oh yes.  Manny lives with Emma Copur as support for her and her child.  In order to promote up, Manny would romance all the coworkers who visited after work.  Meadow must have been one of them. 

To avoid any more drama, Harry flipped the switch on Manny turning him off then went inside to shop.  Manny's jealous fit put a damper on the outing, the group broke up and Harry went home.

*****

Tuesday saw Harry wanting to woohoo in bed again.  Before heading off to his first day of work it was  a little blogging about games and playing some TS3.

New LTW - Become Education Minister

Harry is now perm plat and none of his wishes have to be fulfilled now.  Woohoo!  Sounds like ASimWen has license to play however she wishes!  At any rate that wish for woohoo needed to be fulfilled, so Harry called Rebecca.  She is always up for some time with a young and upcoming handsome doctor!

Ah.  Margaret Caliente.  She came strolling by just as Harry said goodbye to Rebecca.

Harry and Margaret moved the visit inside...and looky who slid right in the door.  This is Al, the cat from next door at Eddie's.  He peed on the floor, then kept meowing with the "food" icon in his thought bubble.  Hahaha!  I have never seen somebody's pet come over and beg for food.  That is too much like real life.  (We won't talk about how ASimWen keeps a bowl of food on the back porch for the stray cats IRL).

Harry put down a bowl of food then went to clean up Al's mess.  Margaret had a good time playing with Al for a while, then she left..and so did Al, without eating.  heh

Hm.  How is it that Harry is talking to.....himself on the phone?  He was being asked on yet another outing.

The group ended up at the art gallery...and the Count showed up.  It took a long time for him to begin visiting lots after Count Ted was removed from the NPC life by marrying PlantSim Rose Wilkie.  Count Ted later met his demise because he couldn't stay in his coffin during the day.  He kept popping back out to cry about being abducted.

Back home, Heidi the cat was in the yard.  Harry decided to try teach Heidi another command over the three she already knew...knowing this is a fast track to making friends with her.  She nearly learned to play dead, but got tired and left.  *sigh*

The next day after work, Harry's neighbor from upstairs, Nery Turner, passed out on the sidewalk.  This is the second time Nery did this.  The first time he laid out there for 2 days and finally ASimWen made him selectible and got him to wake up and move.  His needs were draining.

Eddie came home from work and just stepped over Nery on his way to the front door.  In the mean time, Harry quit worrying about Nery and decided to see if there was anything good in the hole the wolf made.  Yup, he got a map to the Hidden Burrow.  ....  hmmmm.

One of these two Sims are the ones who have been calling Harry all week long to go on outings.  Only two people, these same two ladies.  One of them, the gal in the back is a coworker.  They never rest!!!!

They are both Knowledge Sims...like Harry.  Nope Harry is not athletic at all.

Harry doesn't like to talk politics....probably a good thing.

So this outing he made a complete fool out of himself....threw up after he got out of the dance-so-sphere....said exactly the wrong thing about Pleasantview politics..but one thing everyone could agree on was havin' a drink!

*****

Well....out on another outing, another day.  Same ladies asked him out.  I think the game is stuck.  I mean, it is every single day.  Out to party hardy.  hahaha  This time it was to Four Corners Shoppes.

Some billiards.....don't know who this guy is, but ASimWen played him in the ISBI challenge years ago.  He was the clueless husband.

Harry is resting with his back to the camera so ASimWen could get a gratuitous picture of the room with plenty of Sims in it.  ASimWen had to begin using a MOD to allow more Sims on a lot to make it fun to play.  Ooohh who is that I SPY playing pinball?  (second from the left).

Harry gives a hug to the girl who invited him on the outing (yes the same girl that calls him all the time) and he gives a big ol' scowl behind her back to the mysterious pinball player.  Who is it???

It is Thomas Lothario...Don's son, in the military uniform.  What the heck happened between these two that would make Harry scowl at him???

Daaaaaang!

Whatever it is, Harry won't let it die.  Thomas is oblivious.

*****

Okay a couple of days have passed while visiting Harry.  This apartment building has been throwing continual errors, making play extremely difficult.  The Welcome Wagon never showed up, an error threw stating "too many iterations"....the mailbox was bugged.  It was right at that moment I realized the lot didn't have the apartment mailboxes, just the single one found on a regular residential lot.  The other residents of the apartment building acted strangely, like Nery continually passing out and nearly dying.

I knew I had a package of "AL Fixes" MODs in the downloads folder that I had installed long ago before Ultimate Collection.  I took it out and rebooted the game.  Suddenly everything was normal and smooth again.  Everyone in the building spent time together in the common area, normal chatting took place.  No more errors throwing all over the place.  Only a couple of more days to play Harry.

Suddenly everything was sunshine and roses.  Harry had a great time cooking out for his buds.  He was full of FLAIR.

Hot dogs eaten...back to drinkin'.  Wanna point something out here.  Harry was not much one to get in the hot tub.  He just liked to watch others in the tub while drinking.

On ASimWen's way out and waving goodbye to Harry, he found his next desired career on the computer.  Go you, Harry....too bad we won't see you doing it for a while.

Alright...so some of my thoughts.  Harry was asked to go on outings multiple times....usually by the same two people.  More than once or twice a week.  Perhaps it was the MOD doing it.  Once it was removed, everything settled down.  He had been a regular party animal.  Felt like that was totally not his quiet Knowledge Sim personality.

So what is next??? You guessed it!  University!!  Woohoo!  There is:

• 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)

So goodbye for now, and keep on simmin'!  Thanks for dropping by!

~ASimWen