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alchemia and bugland! I'm reading Procul His, and eeee! It's so good! Plus, I was really behind in my reading, so I have 31 chapters to read! But I'm only reading them at work, so I have something good to do while I'm here!
It's amazing how well they write animals! (Heck, and everything else, too!) It's so realistic and wonderful! Oh, and they did something else that I would have thought impossible: They actually made me want to pat my cat even more! (She spends all day sleeping in a chair right next to mine, so I already keep in contact with her all the time, but now she nearly owns one of my hands!) If cats really do enjoy petting as much as they've described it as (and I'd believe it), then how could I do anything but give her extra pats? :)
I know I've mentioned it before, but: my co-worker's taste in music sucks ass. She listens to some easy listening/light rock/whatever station. I have to hear that themesong from Titanic every single day. (My heart will go oooooon and oooooooooon. Neeeeeear, faaaaaaaar, whereeeeeeeever you aaaaaaaaare. Gah!) The other songs are just as bad, and this damned station plays the same songs every single day. I'm undecided if I should take a hammer to co-worker's radio or to co-worker.
FFXI: We did a LS party last night. Yay! It was nice seeing everyone again, and I got enough XP to allow me to die again without de-leveling. That's good, as I need to go to Windy tonight. (Darned cooking test! I hit level 40, so I need to go take another.) I'm going to try to chocobo it the whole way, I think. I just need to find a RL/paper map, and hope that I have an in-game map for all the areas. (Edit: Gah, looks like an awfully long distance! Maybe I'll do the usual teleport and then chocobo from the crag.)
I wasted some money this morning. For those who don't play, each player has a house, and in it is a mog who does stuff for you. (He's sort of an interface to various commands.) When you buy a certain bed, it triggers a quest through him. I bought the bed a while back and got the quest, but didn't do anything with it. Since I needed to kill a little time this morning, I decided to do it. The mog wanted a bow and a ring to give to his parents, and so I needed to get them for him. I hit the AH. The ring was reasonable enough (1K gil), but the bow... gah! 13,000-14,000! I got it for 13,400 gil. Whimper! So much, for something I didn't even need (the reward was a house expansion).
On the other hand, I need to stop worrying about money. I'm making an insane amount through cooking. Meatballs sell outstandingly and are total profit-makers!
Stack of hare meat: 1,000 (I believe)
Stack of distilled water: 132
Stack of flour: 600
Stack of earth crystals: 300
Total cost of raw materials: 2,032. This makes 12 stacks of meatballs, each of which sells (quickly) for 500. So that's getting paid 6,000 gil for 2,000 output. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oh, and speaking of cooking, I might do levels 40-50 with crayfish ball instead of apple pies... or maybe both. I suspect crayfish might be less expensive than the many items in apple pies, however when I needed them a week ago, there weren't many for sale. So maybe I'll need to do both, plus put fishing-leveling on hold and fish for lowly crayfish.
Darned fishing takes so long to level. It's sort of the anti-cooking. I'm STILL at level 29 with it! Just getting a tenth of a point increase takes hours and hours. Grrrrrrrr.
I still haven't touched leveling thief. Maybe I'll get to that this weekend.
alchemia and bugland! I'm reading Procul His, and eeee! It's so good! Plus, I was really behind in my reading, so I have 31 chapters to read! But I'm only reading them at work, so I have something good to do while I'm here! It's amazing how well they write animals! (Heck, and everything else, too!) It's so realistic and wonderful! Oh, and they did something else that I would have thought impossible: They actually made me want to pat my cat even more! (She spends all day sleeping in a chair right next to mine, so I already keep in contact with her all the time, but now she nearly owns one of my hands!) If cats really do enjoy petting as much as they've described it as (and I'd believe it), then how could I do anything but give her extra pats? :)
I know I've mentioned it before, but: my co-worker's taste in music sucks ass. She listens to some easy listening/light rock/whatever station. I have to hear that themesong from Titanic every single day. (My heart will go oooooon and oooooooooon. Neeeeeear, faaaaaaaar, whereeeeeeeever you aaaaaaaaare. Gah!) The other songs are just as bad, and this damned station plays the same songs every single day. I'm undecided if I should take a hammer to co-worker's radio or to co-worker.
FFXI: We did a LS party last night. Yay! It was nice seeing everyone again, and I got enough XP to allow me to die again without de-leveling. That's good, as I need to go to Windy tonight. (Darned cooking test! I hit level 40, so I need to go take another.) I'm going to try to chocobo it the whole way, I think. I just need to find a RL/paper map, and hope that I have an in-game map for all the areas. (Edit: Gah, looks like an awfully long distance! Maybe I'll do the usual teleport and then chocobo from the crag.)
I wasted some money this morning. For those who don't play, each player has a house, and in it is a mog who does stuff for you. (He's sort of an interface to various commands.) When you buy a certain bed, it triggers a quest through him. I bought the bed a while back and got the quest, but didn't do anything with it. Since I needed to kill a little time this morning, I decided to do it. The mog wanted a bow and a ring to give to his parents, and so I needed to get them for him. I hit the AH. The ring was reasonable enough (1K gil), but the bow... gah! 13,000-14,000! I got it for 13,400 gil. Whimper! So much, for something I didn't even need (the reward was a house expansion).
On the other hand, I need to stop worrying about money. I'm making an insane amount through cooking. Meatballs sell outstandingly and are total profit-makers!
Stack of hare meat: 1,000 (I believe)
Stack of distilled water: 132
Stack of flour: 600
Stack of earth crystals: 300
Total cost of raw materials: 2,032. This makes 12 stacks of meatballs, each of which sells (quickly) for 500. So that's getting paid 6,000 gil for 2,000 output. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oh, and speaking of cooking, I might do levels 40-50 with crayfish ball instead of apple pies... or maybe both. I suspect crayfish might be less expensive than the many items in apple pies, however when I needed them a week ago, there weren't many for sale. So maybe I'll need to do both, plus put fishing-leveling on hold and fish for lowly crayfish.
Darned fishing takes so long to level. It's sort of the anti-cooking. I'm STILL at level 29 with it! Just getting a tenth of a point increase takes hours and hours. Grrrrrrrr.
I still haven't touched leveling thief. Maybe I'll get to that this weekend.
