Flagrant system error while my Sim was gardening:

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Since installing Ambitions/new patch, I haven't been able to have my Sim excavate anything. They complain of a routing failure, even if they're standing right next to it.

That's weird. I can still do that with Ambitions.

My Sim was killed by one right after she came back from an awards ceremony, but she had the death flower so she lived.  She lost her moodlet for being the town hero though.  I was disappointed that the meteor didn't stay behind, actually.

You can get gigantic meteor rocks now sometimes with the Miner created by the inventor bench.

There's unintended consequences, and then UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

Time travel sucks ass.  My Sim just got a freakin' kid out of it, due to talking to a couple that "looked familiar" and telling them how good of a couple they are.  Next thing I know, she's got a child.  Didn't get to pick its name, gender, whether or not I WANTED a damn kid...

Detonating Agnes Crumplebottom's car is pretty great - over 2000 scrap pieces, and the explosion made me happy in my pants.

Firefighting seems borked during large house fires when there are people to be saved - I had 2 people who apparently needed to be convinced, one which was a toddler and I couldn't select her to do it, and if you can't see anyone on the lot to convince to run and instead just put out the fires, the entire exercise fails and you get a bad grade at that emergency, because the game thinks you skipped it.

I don't think that's true.  I've had my Sims do tons of gardening constantly, and I've never once seen any plant bear anything other than the sort of plant it is - with the obvious exception of the omni plant.

You read wrong about the soil, there's no dry or wet.  As for the automatic sprinklers, they work automatically from 4-7 am, and there is no night option.

Level 4.  Or by having the childish and/or playful traits.

Join the culinary career.  That seems to trigger it, I've found.  Otherwise, just make sure your Sim is getting out in the neighbourhood and interacting with his neighbours.  Meeting people in the neighbourhood is vital to having opportunities come your way.

When you master any skill you get a certificate.  That's not news.

In the military career, you get a new interaction under friendly, "salute".  It's cute.

No, it doesn't.  My Sim is perfectly able to use her cell phone after I used this.

Alarms work great outside in TS3.

Beepers are lost, and they do not regen either when you go back to work or next get promoted.  At least that's what happened with the cop beeper.

As I just finished doing this, I can confirm it works.

Delete it from the launcher.

Don't read the compositions - that completely fucks it up.  Keep them in your Sim's inventory, and when they're at the proper level to learn it, click it and choose Learn Song.  And now that you've read it, I don't believe there's any way to go back and learn the song properly.  I learned the hard way, obviously.

They need to not be neat Sims (or else in journalism, maybe law enforcement?) and at any occupied residential property except their own.

Move him back into the trailer lot, put the stuff in his family inventory (are you sure it didn't place copies in the family inventory?) and then move back out.

My Master thief Sim didn't get a fox statue.  She got a couple of stupid paintings on different heists, but they were lame.

And stop signing your posts.  That might help your sound issues too.

Coincidence.  Not true.

No they definitely can't be used in food.  My impression was that they were solely a replacement for being an accidental death victim.  But I know for sure two are gone.  Weird.