The 6 p.m. hour has now passed off the west coast of North America. I am sad, because this rules out Sunset Valley being anywhere near Vancouver. Surely the End Of The World must already have been felt in Vancouver by now — yet here in Sunset Valley, we’ve gotten nary a bump all day. So we must be yet further west.

Oh, I know the city of Vancouver itself is much too expensive for young working-class Sims like us. But I had hoped to be somewhere nearby, because there is a ship leaving from Vancouver scarcely two weeks from now, upon which will be April Verch. More completely, the April Verch Band, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, and in sum a week-long Ceilidh At Sea such as no Sim has ever heard. I am so going to be on that boat. Ms. Verch can be heard on YouTube, but a video does not do justice to the fun and warmth of the live show — and, the frame rate cannot keep up with her feet. No: if I sense a chance to hear the April Verch Band, I am not going to let a little thing like the End Of The World stop me.

As far as plausible longitudes for Sunset Valley, there’s really nothing left now except small islands in the vast Pacific. Either we’re in the middle of the ocean, or the End Of The World prediction was somehow mistaken. Either way, someone is all wet.