La la la la. Another day, another dollar.
Jul. 29th, 2004 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserFirst off: My &*#$&@)!&042 webhosting is down AGAIN, and so I cannot get my email. I've not seen any comment emails in more than a day. If you commented and I didn't reply, it's not because I hate you! (Okay, I might hate you, but that isn't the reason for my lack of a reply! :) )
I slept the night through last night, or close enough to it to count. Woke up only twice, once after something of a nightmare: I was younger than I am now, and was forced into some sort of a religious school (but you had to stay there, not go home at night). You could do nothing at all, other than read, study, and talk about the Bible. (The Bible had over 19,000 pages, by the way! I could never find the right page the class was on!) Almost none of the other kids wanted to be there (we were "kidnapped" by the teachers, or something along those lines). A lot of the others were physically sick because of the conditions they kept us in and the amount of religious stuff they kept trying to force into us. In the end I escaped, but they were close to recapturing me. (Almost no one could ever successfully escape.) Then some girl who had escaped years back (but she still had mental problems from her time there) helped me, and I made it out!
For some really odd reason, I'm getting the urge to go to Disney World. Last time I went (a few years back) I was very bored and didn't have a good time at all. I have no idea why I desire to go back now. Very odd!
FFXI:
I'm sort of thinking about attending a ballista event. (Non-players, it's the only time when PCs can fight/hurt other PCs.) Problem is, I don't want to do it as a WHM. (What's the point? I can heal PCs outside of the event, I don't need to go into one to do it.) I'm getting more and more dissatisfied with being a WHM. It feels pointless. All I do is hit macros during fights. Healing is boring! But I want to get to 36 so I can teleport people for money, so even if I didn't have a fun party I'd stick it out. (Static folks: You all are fun! I won't stop partying with you. :) I'm just not too interested in playing the job outside of our time together.)
The game sometimes reflects real life: I'm not terribly interested in leveling in general. I've finally accepted the knowledge I've been denying for so long: I do not have fun leveling up. Oh, I like getting the new levels, but doing the work for them isn't fun. So, my plan to become the Greatest Lethercrafter On The Server will serve what purpose? Once I get level 100 crafting and have my apron and gloves, then I can craft solely for profit. (Here's the RL part.) And once I have all that money doing so will bring in, what will I do with it? If I'm not leveling much, I won't need to buy much... It'll just build and build, having no value in my mind. I do the same thing in RL: I spend almost nothing, I'm not interested in buying expensive toys for myself, I almost never buy more than the minimum I need to get through life. My paycheck just goes into the bank, and the money sits there and builds, having no use and (in my mind) no value. What's the point? I'd really hate for the game to get as pointless as my RL is. :p
Stupid leather. I had an accident yesterday and kicked myself all night for it. The item I'm currently making (for skill-up) needs expensive leather: 40,000/stack. I bought one stack and processed it, then said "No more for tonight! Save your money for the guild turn-in tomorrow!". So I went out and killed rabbits and collected my daily 100 hides from them. When I came back into the city, I needed thread to make the hides into mantles, so I went and bought some. Then I noticed I had about 40,000 left. Wow! I could buy another stack of that leather I needed! So I did! ...then I remembered I was supposed to be saving it for today! ARG! (I'm at level 64.7, but only 65.5K points. I need to reach 100K points and level 68. At this rate, I'll hit the level way way before I have enough points. Must concentrate on points, not leveling up!) Stupid, stupid me. Luckily some stuff sold overnight, and I fished up two stacks of moat carp yesterday evening, so I should have enough for the points today. But no more skilling up! Must save money!
Edit: Maybe if I make enough money through leatherworking, I could take up another craft. The idea of getting into another horrible moneysink sounds insane, but if I'm doing nothing else with the cash? The ironic thing is, that second craft I take up would be goldsmithing -- the only craft more expensive than leather! Hee. But I want those shaded glasses so much! They look so cool! I'd need to get to goldsmithing 58 and 70,000 points turned in for them. Maybe... Maybe. :)
I slept the night through last night, or close enough to it to count. Woke up only twice, once after something of a nightmare: I was younger than I am now, and was forced into some sort of a religious school (but you had to stay there, not go home at night). You could do nothing at all, other than read, study, and talk about the Bible. (The Bible had over 19,000 pages, by the way! I could never find the right page the class was on!) Almost none of the other kids wanted to be there (we were "kidnapped" by the teachers, or something along those lines). A lot of the others were physically sick because of the conditions they kept us in and the amount of religious stuff they kept trying to force into us. In the end I escaped, but they were close to recapturing me. (Almost no one could ever successfully escape.) Then some girl who had escaped years back (but she still had mental problems from her time there) helped me, and I made it out!
For some really odd reason, I'm getting the urge to go to Disney World. Last time I went (a few years back) I was very bored and didn't have a good time at all. I have no idea why I desire to go back now. Very odd!
FFXI:
I'm sort of thinking about attending a ballista event. (Non-players, it's the only time when PCs can fight/hurt other PCs.) Problem is, I don't want to do it as a WHM. (What's the point? I can heal PCs outside of the event, I don't need to go into one to do it.) I'm getting more and more dissatisfied with being a WHM. It feels pointless. All I do is hit macros during fights. Healing is boring! But I want to get to 36 so I can teleport people for money, so even if I didn't have a fun party I'd stick it out. (Static folks: You all are fun! I won't stop partying with you. :) I'm just not too interested in playing the job outside of our time together.)
The game sometimes reflects real life: I'm not terribly interested in leveling in general. I've finally accepted the knowledge I've been denying for so long: I do not have fun leveling up. Oh, I like getting the new levels, but doing the work for them isn't fun. So, my plan to become the Greatest Lethercrafter On The Server will serve what purpose? Once I get level 100 crafting and have my apron and gloves, then I can craft solely for profit. (Here's the RL part.) And once I have all that money doing so will bring in, what will I do with it? If I'm not leveling much, I won't need to buy much... It'll just build and build, having no value in my mind. I do the same thing in RL: I spend almost nothing, I'm not interested in buying expensive toys for myself, I almost never buy more than the minimum I need to get through life. My paycheck just goes into the bank, and the money sits there and builds, having no use and (in my mind) no value. What's the point? I'd really hate for the game to get as pointless as my RL is. :p
Stupid leather. I had an accident yesterday and kicked myself all night for it. The item I'm currently making (for skill-up) needs expensive leather: 40,000/stack. I bought one stack and processed it, then said "No more for tonight! Save your money for the guild turn-in tomorrow!". So I went out and killed rabbits and collected my daily 100 hides from them. When I came back into the city, I needed thread to make the hides into mantles, so I went and bought some. Then I noticed I had about 40,000 left. Wow! I could buy another stack of that leather I needed! So I did! ...then I remembered I was supposed to be saving it for today! ARG! (I'm at level 64.7, but only 65.5K points. I need to reach 100K points and level 68. At this rate, I'll hit the level way way before I have enough points. Must concentrate on points, not leveling up!) Stupid, stupid me. Luckily some stuff sold overnight, and I fished up two stacks of moat carp yesterday evening, so I should have enough for the points today. But no more skilling up! Must save money!
Edit: Maybe if I make enough money through leatherworking, I could take up another craft. The idea of getting into another horrible moneysink sounds insane, but if I'm doing nothing else with the cash? The ironic thing is, that second craft I take up would be goldsmithing -- the only craft more expensive than leather! Hee. But I want those shaded glasses so much! They look so cool! I'd need to get to goldsmithing 58 and 70,000 points turned in for them. Maybe... Maybe. :)
