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I forgot to bring Ceh's email address to work with me, so I'm dealing with party-foo by LJ again.
We have everyone confirmed, just missing a WHM (as usual). Time is 8 AM PST on Saturday. Meet in Jeuno.
Chip: NIN
Waru: WAR
Ceh: BLM
Dani: MNK
Thistle: THF
I put up a post on CTY asking for a WHM of 19-20 range, so maybe if we're lucky we can pick someone up.
FFXI fishing:
I think Chip hit it on the nose last night: For some unknown reason, SE is trying to discourage people from spending lots of time fishing. I don't understand why they would do that, when everything in the game is meant to keep you online more, but it seems to be the case.
I, with mostly healthy arms/wrists, was in major pain after fishing for a few hours. I could never, ever fish the whole day away anymore. And hey, with the price NPCs buy fish for cut so low (gutted dark bass = 10 whole gil!), why should I?
Moat carp prices seem to have (already!) gone back to a steady 4K/stack, but there's no way I'd ever buy them for that much anymore. They're fast to catch and you get nearly no money back for turning them in, so why would I pay so much for them?
Even this morning, I'm still boggling over just how annoying this new system is. Even when catching low level fish, it's hard to do things like eat or drink while fishing. And fishing for skill? Forget about doing anything else at the time, even following LS chatter. Sneak-fishing is much, much, much, much harder now, and for the first time, I feel really unsafe doing it. (Catching a fish takes 30 seconds of active watching the rod and pounding keys, half the time sneak fell without me even noticing it!)
I'm about 500 fish away from my special rod (LSR), but at this point I really don't care. It's not really all that special anymore, and fishing is no longer fun or something I can watch TV during, plus it puts me in physical pain, plus in general the fish don't sell for much, so why do it?
In one way I'm sad that SE took away one of the more enjoyable parts of the game for me, but on the other hand I'm not that unhappy. I'll farm more now. Do more non-fishing things. All that stuff. (Heck, maybe I'll do more things outside of the game now!)
RL stuff:
With no longer needing to spend so much time buying fish in FFXI, I had tons of extra time before work this morning. I went to the hardware store to pick up some things, got some breakfast, and still got to work early!
I was supposed to walk this morning, but didn't. Weight loss is an odd thing: When I lose weight, it's easier to eat right and exercise. When I have a week where I don't (or worse, when I gain), then it's harder to really care. I was intending not to get breakfast this morning (and have oatmeal instead), but I was so darned hungry that I gave in. Bah. (Yesterday was an odd day, even though I ate my usual stuff/amounts, I was so hungry my stomach was growling loud enough for other people to hear. I actually couldn't fall asleep last night because I was hungry! Very odd.) So I had an egg sandwich this morning, and feel better. Weighting myself tomorrow will = doom, but at least I'm not hungry now. :p
For the first time in a few weeks, I didn't multitask while Lost was on. As the ep was filled with subtitles, this was a good thing.
( Spoilers for Lost ...In Translation )
Years ago, I used to watch ER all the time. Then one day I got tired of every single ep being filled with OH MY GOD TRAGEDY AND SCREAMING AND ISN'T THIS SO DARNED IMPORTANT AND EVERYONE'S LIFE IS SO MESSED UP! I'm sort of starting to get that feeling about Lost. I love Jin, and feel sorry as heck for him and the life he's had... but doesn't anyone on that darned island have a normal, non-messed up, non-dramatic life? Doesn't anyone have a good relationship with their father? (I'm starting to suspect that the island drew people who have parent-issues!)
I miss how into Lost I was. Back when I first loved it and was pounding the pavement to get others to watch it, I thought it was the best show ever. I still like it, but my love for it has slowly vanished. Why? I'm not really sure. Could be because I've started disliking more of the characters (Charlie, Claire), and that I never liked the main character (Jack), but... I think it's more than that. The characters I do like (Locke, Sawyer) get so little face-time in most eps, but I think it's more along the lines of the show just wanders so much.
We have everyone confirmed, just missing a WHM (as usual). Time is 8 AM PST on Saturday. Meet in Jeuno.
Chip: NIN
Waru: WAR
Ceh: BLM
Dani: MNK
Thistle: THF
I put up a post on CTY asking for a WHM of 19-20 range, so maybe if we're lucky we can pick someone up.
FFXI fishing:
I think Chip hit it on the nose last night: For some unknown reason, SE is trying to discourage people from spending lots of time fishing. I don't understand why they would do that, when everything in the game is meant to keep you online more, but it seems to be the case.
I, with mostly healthy arms/wrists, was in major pain after fishing for a few hours. I could never, ever fish the whole day away anymore. And hey, with the price NPCs buy fish for cut so low (gutted dark bass = 10 whole gil!), why should I?
Moat carp prices seem to have (already!) gone back to a steady 4K/stack, but there's no way I'd ever buy them for that much anymore. They're fast to catch and you get nearly no money back for turning them in, so why would I pay so much for them?
Even this morning, I'm still boggling over just how annoying this new system is. Even when catching low level fish, it's hard to do things like eat or drink while fishing. And fishing for skill? Forget about doing anything else at the time, even following LS chatter. Sneak-fishing is much, much, much, much harder now, and for the first time, I feel really unsafe doing it. (Catching a fish takes 30 seconds of active watching the rod and pounding keys, half the time sneak fell without me even noticing it!)
I'm about 500 fish away from my special rod (LSR), but at this point I really don't care. It's not really all that special anymore, and fishing is no longer fun or something I can watch TV during, plus it puts me in physical pain, plus in general the fish don't sell for much, so why do it?
In one way I'm sad that SE took away one of the more enjoyable parts of the game for me, but on the other hand I'm not that unhappy. I'll farm more now. Do more non-fishing things. All that stuff. (Heck, maybe I'll do more things outside of the game now!)
RL stuff:
With no longer needing to spend so much time buying fish in FFXI, I had tons of extra time before work this morning. I went to the hardware store to pick up some things, got some breakfast, and still got to work early!
I was supposed to walk this morning, but didn't. Weight loss is an odd thing: When I lose weight, it's easier to eat right and exercise. When I have a week where I don't (or worse, when I gain), then it's harder to really care. I was intending not to get breakfast this morning (and have oatmeal instead), but I was so darned hungry that I gave in. Bah. (Yesterday was an odd day, even though I ate my usual stuff/amounts, I was so hungry my stomach was growling loud enough for other people to hear. I actually couldn't fall asleep last night because I was hungry! Very odd.) So I had an egg sandwich this morning, and feel better. Weighting myself tomorrow will = doom, but at least I'm not hungry now. :p
For the first time in a few weeks, I didn't multitask while Lost was on. As the ep was filled with subtitles, this was a good thing.
( Spoilers for Lost ...In Translation )Years ago, I used to watch ER all the time. Then one day I got tired of every single ep being filled with OH MY GOD TRAGEDY AND SCREAMING AND ISN'T THIS SO DARNED IMPORTANT AND EVERYONE'S LIFE IS SO MESSED UP! I'm sort of starting to get that feeling about Lost. I love Jin, and feel sorry as heck for him and the life he's had... but doesn't anyone on that darned island have a normal, non-messed up, non-dramatic life? Doesn't anyone have a good relationship with their father? (I'm starting to suspect that the island drew people who have parent-issues!)
I miss how into Lost I was. Back when I first loved it and was pounding the pavement to get others to watch it, I thought it was the best show ever. I still like it, but my love for it has slowly vanished. Why? I'm not really sure. Could be because I've started disliking more of the characters (Charlie, Claire), and that I never liked the main character (Jack), but... I think it's more than that. The characters I do like (Locke, Sawyer) get so little face-time in most eps, but I think it's more along the lines of the show just wanders so much.
