Blarg, Monday (Almost all RL stuff! Shocking and amazing!)

It amazes me how I can be bouncy when I have like no sleep. Or maybe that's why I'm bouncy! I swear, if I got more than an hour sleep last night, I'll be amazed. I couldn't fall asleep (had all sorts of storylines building in my head, A-E-D living together in a MH and me moving in with them ... sort of. It was complex!). It was like a fanfic or MUSH TP was building in my head, and it was interesting enough that I had a hard time setting it aside to actually try to sleep.

Hooouuurrrsss later, I think I eventually drifted off, cause I woke up when some idiot started yelling outside my window. Then I woke up because my cat was scratching herself and making the bed jiggle. Then I woke up because, for who knows what reason, I was hyper at 4 AM. After that I pretty much just never got back to sleep. So I fell asleep sometime after 2 AM, woke up multiple times, then woke up and stayed away at 4 AM.

But really! I'm fine! I'm bouncy! I'm...zzzzzz.

I took Ead's package off to FedEx this morning, and it should arrive to the hospital before 3 PM tomorrow. Hopefully they'll bring it to his room the same day! Yay! I miss Ead so much. I hope the skin graft thing isn't a bad sign or anything. Do people with a leg with two breaks often have to stay in the hospital for two weeks?

I'm so stupid. Since I had to stop at FedEx on the way in to work, and since there's a McDonalds next to it, I stopped to get a breakfast sandwich. (I ordered it without bacon, but I'm sure they just took a pre-made sandwich and removed the bacon instead of making me a new one. :( ) I've not eaten anything from McDonalds in more than a year, and boy do I feel sick now. *blech* What crap I put into my body! I hate to think that people eat that stuff on a regular basis. :( It didn't even taste good. Maybe that's because I haven't had it for so long that I'm not used to its, uh, "quality" or grease or something.

*bouncy* I have no idea how I'm going to get through the day, but hey! The good thing about going to McDonalds: Diet Coke! Caffeine! *bouncie*

Diet Coke is love~

Blarg, Monday (Almost all RL stuff! Shocking and amazing!)

It amazes me how I can be bouncy when I have like no sleep. Or maybe that's why I'm bouncy! I swear, if I got more than an hour sleep last night, I'll be amazed. I couldn't fall asleep (had all sorts of storylines building in my head, A-E-D living together in a MH and me moving in with them ... sort of. It was complex!). It was like a fanfic or MUSH TP was building in my head, and it was interesting enough that I had a hard time setting it aside to actually try to sleep.

Hooouuurrrsss later, I think I eventually drifted off, cause I woke up when some idiot started yelling outside my window. Then I woke up because my cat was scratching herself and making the bed jiggle. Then I woke up because, for who knows what reason, I was hyper at 4 AM. After that I pretty much just never got back to sleep. So I fell asleep sometime after 2 AM, woke up multiple times, then woke up and stayed away at 4 AM.

But really! I'm fine! I'm bouncy! I'm...zzzzzz.

I took Ead's package off to FedEx this morning, and it should arrive to the hospital before 3 PM tomorrow. Hopefully they'll bring it to his room the same day! Yay! I miss Ead so much. I hope the skin graft thing isn't a bad sign or anything. Do people with a leg with two breaks often have to stay in the hospital for two weeks?

I'm so stupid. Since I had to stop at FedEx on the way in to work, and since there's a McDonalds next to it, I stopped to get a breakfast sandwich. (I ordered it without bacon, but I'm sure they just took a pre-made sandwich and removed the bacon instead of making me a new one. :( ) I've not eaten anything from McDonalds in more than a year, and boy do I feel sick now. *blech* What crap I put into my body! I hate to think that people eat that stuff on a regular basis. :( It didn't even taste good. Maybe that's because I haven't had it for so long that I'm not used to its, uh, "quality" or grease or something.

*bouncy* I have no idea how I'm going to get through the day, but hey! The good thing about going to McDonalds: Diet Coke! Caffeine! *bouncie*

Diet Coke is love~

Heeheehee...zzzzzz

I'm a rather boring person. I don't do drugs, I've only drank alcohol a couple times in my whole life (and not usually by choice, a sip at wedding toasts and such). Earlier today I was so tired that everything was funny and I was bouncing off walls. Totally not logical at all. (Thought process: It's Monday, isn't that funny? Heehee, it's so funny that you think that's funny! *snickers out loud* But you think it's funny that you think it's funny that... where was I? *tries not to laugh out loud over the whole thing*)

I wonder if that's what being drunk (or perhaps high) is like. It wasn't such a bad thing, other than making it hard to work. ("No, no, can't pounce the co-workers. Save it for being online at lunchtime!") I spent the whole morning grinning from ear to ear, but couldn't tell people why ("Well, um, I'm making up all these stories in my head and they're real funny! Heeheehee!")

About an hour ago I crashed, and now I feel like poo. There's no use trying to take a nap when I get home from work, because I cannot sleep during the day, period. Haven't napped in a decade or so. (Other than when I'm sick as a dog, but that doesn't count.) Problem is, I can't concentrate on anything, so even if I wanted to do something online it likely wouldn't get done.

Blah. Hopefully tonight I'll sleep better, but if patterns hold I won't sleep well till Thursday. :/

Thistle-Fact Of The Day: I cannot spell "alcohol". I can't spell it so much that when I try to look it up, it takes me seven or eight tries for the spellchecker to even make guesses at what I was attempting to spell. Silly vowels in strange places...

Heeheehee...zzzzzz

I'm a rather boring person. I don't do drugs, I've only drank alcohol a couple times in my whole life (and not usually by choice, a sip at wedding toasts and such). Earlier today I was so tired that everything was funny and I was bouncing off walls. Totally not logical at all. (Thought process: It's Monday, isn't that funny? Heehee, it's so funny that you think that's funny! *snickers out loud* But you think it's funny that you think it's funny that... where was I? *tries not to laugh out loud over the whole thing*)

I wonder if that's what being drunk (or perhaps high) is like. It wasn't such a bad thing, other than making it hard to work. ("No, no, can't pounce the co-workers. Save it for being online at lunchtime!") I spent the whole morning grinning from ear to ear, but couldn't tell people why ("Well, um, I'm making up all these stories in my head and they're real funny! Heeheehee!")

About an hour ago I crashed, and now I feel like poo. There's no use trying to take a nap when I get home from work, because I cannot sleep during the day, period. Haven't napped in a decade or so. (Other than when I'm sick as a dog, but that doesn't count.) Problem is, I can't concentrate on anything, so even if I wanted to do something online it likely wouldn't get done.

Blah. Hopefully tonight I'll sleep better, but if patterns hold I won't sleep well till Thursday. :/

Thistle-Fact Of The Day: I cannot spell "alcohol". I can't spell it so much that when I try to look it up, it takes me seven or eight tries for the spellchecker to even make guesses at what I was attempting to spell. Silly vowels in strange places...

Damned trees... (FFXI)

I think I need a new hobby. No more NM chasing. Merlee mentioned that a NM was up in Jugner Forest. Fradubio, a walking tree. She had the mantle already so couldn't kill it, but Draque (SMN) and I jumped at the chance (even though neither of us needed it).

We outpost teleported out and hunted it down. Well, okay, back up a step. I don't know about Draque, but I dashed for the outpost teleport guy. I didn't stop to put on my real armor or anything, I didn't want to lose the chance to nab the tree. (And how many times have I said that DRK AF is worthless for anything important? I had nothing else on me, not my hauby or rings or anything. And amusingly, I didn't have the one semi-useful piece of my AF: the head (good for SEing). I was wearing my yag hat.)

So the two of us ran off and pounced the tree. I SA+TA'ed it and didn't move the HP much at all, but I was totally unworried at that point. I absorb-VIT'ed it and tried to judge what else to absorb. I wasn't missing it and it wasn't hitting me (hate was moving back and forth) so I figured VIT would be enough for now. (It wasn't aspir'able so I didn't want to waste MP.) I drained each time I could (twice).

The darned tree was very big, so I couldn't see what was happening with Draque at all, but the text was showing something about a Duessa. I thought maybe some PC came to watch and was getting AoE'ed. Near the end I swung around the tree to try to see what was going on there and found D rather mobbed with saplings spawned by the NM. Bah.

Carby died and I had the tree's full attention. One hit, two hits, three hits. I was in dark orange, so tried to 2hr. Stupid damned empty-headed me couldn't remember where my 2hr macro was, and the seconds spent having to look at the macro bar display did me in. By the time I was hitting it, I was dead. Poor Draque died a moment later. (I'm really kicking myself about that as much as anything else. I've had my macros memorized for ages! It's been months since I needed to look at them! How could I have forgotten?)

A bunch of people from the LS soon arrived (Aurian, Beanie, Chip, Nif, Niala, Caboose, and... did I miss anyone?) and they killed it. I got my first ever R3! Poor Draque got caught by an AoE while weakened and died a second time. Bah. No drops at all, not even anything worthless. *sigh*

If there's a small "plus side" to this, I don't think it would have mattered if I had taken my time. Even if I had had all my armor, even if I had used my 2hr, even if I had used my TP instead of holding it to try to keep from getting hate, I think Draque and I still world have died. (I can't judge how differently things would have gone if D had changed his subjob, but that tree had a crapload of HP. We didn't move it much at all. It took our level 74-75 LS folks a few minutes to kill it.) But even with that, this whole thing pisses me off. Not just that I died (I must have lost almost no XP with the R3), but... *childish whine* It wasn't fair. Damned stupid tree was in Jugner Forest, and we should have been able to kill it. (Yeah, yeah, I know that some zones can have much stronger NMs in them, but still!)

Screenshot of the big, ugly, stupid tree. I hate you so much! One day I'll be back and kill you myself.

Stupid me dead at the feet (roots?) of the tree.

I'm going to move to Bastok. No damned trees there. *grumble*

Damned trees... (FFXI)

I think I need a new hobby. No more NM chasing. Merlee mentioned that a NM was up in Jugner Forest. Fradubio, a walking tree. She had the mantle already so couldn't kill it, but Draque (SMN) and I jumped at the chance (even though neither of us needed it).

We outpost teleported out and hunted it down. Well, okay, back up a step. I don't know about Draque, but I dashed for the outpost teleport guy. I didn't stop to put on my real armor or anything, I didn't want to lose the chance to nab the tree. (And how many times have I said that DRK AF is worthless for anything important? I had nothing else on me, not my hauby or rings or anything. And amusingly, I didn't have the one semi-useful piece of my AF: the head (good for SEing). I was wearing my yag hat.)

So the two of us ran off and pounced the tree. I SA+TA'ed it and didn't move the HP much at all, but I was totally unworried at that point. I absorb-VIT'ed it and tried to judge what else to absorb. I wasn't missing it and it wasn't hitting me (hate was moving back and forth) so I figured VIT would be enough for now. (It wasn't aspir'able so I didn't want to waste MP.) I drained each time I could (twice).

The darned tree was very big, so I couldn't see what was happening with Draque at all, but the text was showing something about a Duessa. I thought maybe some PC came to watch and was getting AoE'ed. Near the end I swung around the tree to try to see what was going on there and found D rather mobbed with saplings spawned by the NM. Bah.

Carby died and I had the tree's full attention. One hit, two hits, three hits. I was in dark orange, so tried to 2hr. Stupid damned empty-headed me couldn't remember where my 2hr macro was, and the seconds spent having to look at the macro bar display did me in. By the time I was hitting it, I was dead. Poor Draque died a moment later. (I'm really kicking myself about that as much as anything else. I've had my macros memorized for ages! It's been months since I needed to look at them! How could I have forgotten?)

A bunch of people from the LS soon arrived (Aurian, Beanie, Chip, Nif, Niala, Caboose, and... did I miss anyone?) and they killed it. I got my first ever R3! Poor Draque got caught by an AoE while weakened and died a second time. Bah. No drops at all, not even anything worthless. *sigh*

If there's a small "plus side" to this, I don't think it would have mattered if I had taken my time. Even if I had had all my armor, even if I had used my 2hr, even if I had used my TP instead of holding it to try to keep from getting hate, I think Draque and I still world have died. (I can't judge how differently things would have gone if D had changed his subjob, but that tree had a crapload of HP. We didn't move it much at all. It took our level 74-75 LS folks a few minutes to kill it.) But even with that, this whole thing pisses me off. Not just that I died (I must have lost almost no XP with the R3), but... *childish whine* It wasn't fair. Damned stupid tree was in Jugner Forest, and we should have been able to kill it. (Yeah, yeah, I know that some zones can have much stronger NMs in them, but still!)

Screenshot of the big, ugly, stupid tree. I hate you so much! One day I'll be back and kill you myself.

Stupid me dead at the feet (roots?) of the tree.

I'm going to move to Bastok. No damned trees there. *grumble*