Yes thats right Catgirl Haruhi, all ours :D

I decided it was time to have some fun. I had told my manager to not expect me to come in without a hang over Friday morning. I started drinking rum and coke's at I think 7PM while questing my BRD AF (yeah I was lazy and didn't get them earlier). Feet and Legs down I headed to Dynamis - Windurst. First time doing Dynamis as BRD, and oh boy, I tip my hat to all those BRD's that have been doing this for years before me, BRD's never stop moving in Dynamis.

We finished up around 2AM, and the rum was still flowing. I don't think I was that drunk, but enough to think that going out and getting BRD AF Hat from the Crawlers' Nest coffer before bet was a good idea. I rocked up there and to my joy the coffer (like the Pants coffer, which I scored 5 minutes before Dynamis was due to start) was just sitting there begging to be opened.

That morning I woke up at 9:30AM with an SMS sent to my manager saying "Duuuuude, I swears it was just 7am like 10 minutes ago". Later that night I started up again, drinking and doing BRD stuff. This time it was Castle Z coffer and on to Dark Spark for BRD hands. Apoc got online and I went off to help him do Miser Murphy and Guardian Statue to finish off his RDM AF. Lets just say that it was the funnest thing I have done in this game for a while. Running around with no MP and MM after me while he rests up MP to throw another avatar at it... too much fun.

I didn't get to sleep til 7:30AM or something like that Saturday morning. Saturday was a complete write off. I remember waking up at Noon, 6PM, Midnight where I looked at the PC screen said "MEEEEEH" and went back to bed. It wasn't until 6AM Sunday morning that I actually go up to do something. Bacon and Eggs in the morning at a nearby cafe and I went back to recover.

Later that afternoon we got Tiamat, where to my enjoyment I was able to go as BRD (by this stage you all are probably wondering why I'm so happy to be doing stuff as BRD, well I'm a glutton for punishment ok!!!, I like the job). Full drops :D

A few hours after that was Limbus where we got 2 legs to drop. I had talked to Jerome earlier where he basically said that Feet were probably the rarest drop in our group with only a handful having ever dropped. Booo.... that's the next piece I really want. The only think that will stop me from getting them is if 2 pair of Nashira legs drop next Ultima, I'm second in line for those, and I'm unsure if I would be able to live with myself if I passed up on them.

After Limbus I went out to watch HNA get Behemoth and Adamantoise. While out at Valley of Sorrows I decided to get some Tabs from FoV to pop the NM in Behemoth's Dominion. Trading a Phalanx Ring I got the Augmentation (STR-1, DEX+1, AGI-1, INT+2, Water+8)... Meeeeeeeh!

Crazy crazy weekend.

1.8 levels of Bonecraft, 2200 gil loss. If I hadn't broken 2 synths it would have been a profit. Pretty nice for late 80's.

Been a while since I've been to a Tiamat fight. Tonight we lost initial claim, but ended up helping our Eminence. They could have quite easily held it, chipping away 1-2% every 5 minutes until they had a full force but they took our offer to help take it down fast. I forget the exact time, but once we started it went down fast. I think it was 40 minutes tops.

It wasn't until the final 10% that we found out that they had no TH on it, but then again TH is a placebo, and I was right. Full drops. Unfortunately we lost the 1v1 lot on the Gaiters, but then again, they claimed, and they could have kept it held for another 8 hours. It's just good to see it dead, and someone get the boots.

A combination of things at work has taken my state of mind to the edge of insanity. Be it the 100k odd pages of documents being printed less than 2 metres from where I sit, or the large evaporator machine that's trying to dry the carpets after extensive water damage, or the fact that I'm trying to code while all this is going on and listening to random programming podcasts. Either way, my brain is going to explode soon... and what is about to tip it over the edge is something fairly insignificant.

I'm a nice person, well I like to think that I am. I go above and beyond the call of duty some times, going out of my way to help fellow linkshell members out. But what really makes me mad is when you go out of your way to rescue someone, tractor them 3 times, raise them and then sit for thirty minutes waiting for them to get up so you can Warp II them, only to logout due to pure frustration. I could have been sleeping an extra 30 minutes (of which I know I need all the sleep I can get).

Speaking of which, I've been sleeping too much of late. Normally I'll go to sleep after my girlfriend and wake up before her. It's been totally the opposite over the last week. Maybe I'm just getting too old. I know I lost the ability of a 4hr per night sleep pattern a few years back, maybe it's all catching up on me.

There's still so much I should be doing. A lot of projects I have half completed that all I really need is the motivation to finish them, but I kind of never get the chance to either not do something, or be that bored that I can motivate myself to do them. I'm trying to relax I swear.

I've been watching Anime:
- Basquash!
- Eden of the East
- K-ON!
- Manabi Straight
- Sengoku Basara
- Valkyria Chronicles

Started playing GTA4 the other night, but failed getting anywhere significant in the storyline. I did though get a few levels in WoW on an old character. Almost 69... out of 80. I'll never get there.

So I think that I should write something here for a change. I can't say exactly how long I've been holding onto these pieces for, so the closest date I can give is 14th Aug 2008 (when noted that we had had 5 35's drop with 2 complete). I'm still working off a debt from an advance off a friend to get said item. I hate borrowing money off friends, but it's better to have it and use it than to not have it at all, so I think the end justifies the means.

Seeing that goal is off my list, the rest of this game will be fairly relaxed for a while. I intend to go back and finish AF for all jobs. While waiting to get the Ares body I started working on this:

http://ffxi-lakshmi.com/schultz/

It is not done, there's going to be more gear set data etc.

One thing I learned from a developers interview that annoyed me was that they have no intention on adding NPC storage support for Nyzul gear. I swear, I've been carrying around 11 pieces of that crap for maybe a year now. I want to store it. Is it because they don't foresee players obtaining complete sets, impossible, they aren't that stupid right?.... right? Players are getting full Salvage sets, and there's no sign of adding that to NPC's.

Don't they see that they could add a 2000 gil fee for Nyzul gear, and 5000 gil for Salvage and you would have a massive gil return right there. Sometimes I wonder who really runs the show up there. Sure some people might say that they would never NPC that sort of gear, but there comes a time when it's just convenient not to have an additional 5 spaces taken up by gear your current can't use.

Additionally, I'm considering trying to race through the Bastok and San d'Oria mission story-lines as fast as possible. The only problem is that I have no wingmen anymore, I fly solo in this game. Most of the time I prefer it that way, but I have way too many good memories of doing these missions with friends. WoTG and ACP are two more story-lines I need to do, but I think I will wait on ACP a bit.

This just happened...


12 synths, .3 skillups, 1 HQ, 2 levels under cap.

Is it just me or are we capped at .3 skillups a RL day?

Moogles have never been so much fun...


( My Secret Weapon )