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thistlechaserRestless, mostly sleepless nights, but if I go into details I'll sound like a broken record. :) When I got up this morning, I was starving, but silly me didn't leave time to stop and get breakfast. (Since I'm still feeling really "eh" about eating eggs, it seemed kind of pointless to ponder stopping somewhere. Note: I'm not having issues with eggs in bread, pasta, or that I otherwise can't see, just eating globby gloops of it in my mouth. Blech. I'm really trying not to let eggs go the way of meat, because if I cut everything that has eggs in it out of my diet, I will have a really high chance of just starving to death.) But as I drove to work, I got hungrier and hungrier, so I stopped at the egg sandwich place and got a toasted bagel. The darned thing tasted like the best food I ever ate! I really need to get some food in the house, especially something I could grab in the morning.
Between the hot weather, muscle pulls, and sleepless nights, walking has decreased lately. I'm going to let it stay like this through August, but once the weather cools down again I'll go back to daily. I know it would be better if I did daily now, but... eh. Any excuse not to exercise will do! Bad me.
FFXI:
I really wonder about my brain. I find job leveling to be boring and annoying, but I'm okay with crafting for five hours straight? (Non-players: To craft, you just click items from a list, click okay, and watch about 15 seconds of animation. There are only three types of animation: One if you fail, one if you succeed, and one if you greatly succeed. Nothing exciting at all, especially since I've seen each animation thousands of times already.)
My new system of handling money/crafting seems to be working. There are three kinds of crafting:
- Crafting for skill-up. You end up with an item, but you will sell it to an NPC for a loss.
- Crafting for guild points. You make items and hand them to an NPC, nothing gotten in return.
- Crafting for profit.
So I start out with X money. (Yesterday it was 150,000 gil.) First I take care of guild points (cost 50,000 yesterday). With the remaining money, I craft for skill-up. (I bought every single cockatrice skin for sale in all three AHs! I expect thank you cards from all those farmers! :) ). Here's the new part: After I craft for skill up, I sell the items to the NPC. This leaves me with about half the money I started with (wait, that part isn't new -- keep reading!). Usually at that point, I would just pour all the money back into skilling up, over and over, until all the money was gone. Here's the new plan: After using all the money once for skill up, then selling the items and getting half the money back, I take the remaining money and split it: Half for crafting for profit, half for tomorrow's turn-in points. Since I started with so much more than usual last night, I did the skill-up twice!
100,000 -> 50,000. About .6 skill up.
50,000 -> 25,000. About .8 skill up! Woo!
25,000 -> 12,000. Crafting for profit. Double to triple my money will return, as things sell overnight and today.
12,000 left for today's turn-in item.
I fished up a couple stacks of moat carp to supplement my income as I wait for things to sell, and now have about 20,000 gil to deal with today's turn-in. (Which isn't enough, unfortunately. Hopefully more stuff will sell by lunchtime!)
So while this can't be a daily event, when I do have enough money to craft for increasing my skill, it's the way I'll do it. And more importantly, now that I'm level 64 in crafting, I don't need to put 100% of my money into skilling up! Guild turn-in points are much, much more necessary right now.
The future: One day I will be done with turning items in to the guild! And one day I will be able to stop leveling leather! This will leave me crafting just for profit, and I'm expecting to be rolling in money at that point. The only problem I see with that plan is if SE introduces more guild items... I'm not sure if I hope they will or won't...
Between the hot weather, muscle pulls, and sleepless nights, walking has decreased lately. I'm going to let it stay like this through August, but once the weather cools down again I'll go back to daily. I know it would be better if I did daily now, but... eh. Any excuse not to exercise will do! Bad me.
FFXI:
I really wonder about my brain. I find job leveling to be boring and annoying, but I'm okay with crafting for five hours straight? (Non-players: To craft, you just click items from a list, click okay, and watch about 15 seconds of animation. There are only three types of animation: One if you fail, one if you succeed, and one if you greatly succeed. Nothing exciting at all, especially since I've seen each animation thousands of times already.)
My new system of handling money/crafting seems to be working. There are three kinds of crafting:
- Crafting for skill-up. You end up with an item, but you will sell it to an NPC for a loss.
- Crafting for guild points. You make items and hand them to an NPC, nothing gotten in return.
- Crafting for profit.
So I start out with X money. (Yesterday it was 150,000 gil.) First I take care of guild points (cost 50,000 yesterday). With the remaining money, I craft for skill-up. (I bought every single cockatrice skin for sale in all three AHs! I expect thank you cards from all those farmers! :) ). Here's the new part: After I craft for skill up, I sell the items to the NPC. This leaves me with about half the money I started with (wait, that part isn't new -- keep reading!). Usually at that point, I would just pour all the money back into skilling up, over and over, until all the money was gone. Here's the new plan: After using all the money once for skill up, then selling the items and getting half the money back, I take the remaining money and split it: Half for crafting for profit, half for tomorrow's turn-in points. Since I started with so much more than usual last night, I did the skill-up twice!
100,000 -> 50,000. About .6 skill up.
50,000 -> 25,000. About .8 skill up! Woo!
25,000 -> 12,000. Crafting for profit. Double to triple my money will return, as things sell overnight and today.
12,000 left for today's turn-in item.
I fished up a couple stacks of moat carp to supplement my income as I wait for things to sell, and now have about 20,000 gil to deal with today's turn-in. (Which isn't enough, unfortunately. Hopefully more stuff will sell by lunchtime!)
So while this can't be a daily event, when I do have enough money to craft for increasing my skill, it's the way I'll do it. And more importantly, now that I'm level 64 in crafting, I don't need to put 100% of my money into skilling up! Guild turn-in points are much, much more necessary right now.
The future: One day I will be done with turning items in to the guild! And one day I will be able to stop leveling leather! This will leave me crafting just for profit, and I'm expecting to be rolling in money at that point. The only problem I see with that plan is if SE introduces more guild items... I'm not sure if I hope they will or won't...
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Various Suggestions
Date: 2004-07-28 11:01 am (UTC)1) Egg-beaters. Low in cholesterol, and already turned into a nice homogenized and inert cooking substance. Not as tasty as whole eggs, I think, but excellent for an omlette. And Omlette means more veggies and that's always a good thing. Also handy for any cooking you may do. Honestly, I find egg-beaters work better in fried rice than whole eggs do.
2) Yogurt. Nice dairy serving, low in fat, has some protein. You can always jazz it up with some fresh fruit too. Yogurt comes in small cups; feel free to have two. I personally have become very fond of the normal Yoplait yogurt.
3) Fruit+grain bars. Most of the commercial ones are not really that good, but "Fi-Bar" brand is mostly compressed dried fruit. It has regular and low-fat versions, neither is the lowest fat snack bar on the market, but as my nutritionist put it, you're actually getting food value not empty bread calories.
Whole wheat bread with natural peanut butter & fruit preserves is another tack. Still better than a Nutrigrain bar.
4) Fresh or frozen fruit. It's always better than juice. Juice is basically soda with vitamin C added. Whole fruit has vitamins, minerals, dietary and soluble fiber.
5) Quaker instant oatmeal. As far as "smart eating choices" go it's ridiculously high on the list, even if it's a fru-fru flavor like Maple & Brown Sugar. Notice that a typical packet even has soluble fiber listed, not just dietary. Soluble fiber is even more important than dietary fiber, it helps control cholesterol and blood sugar.
6) Trail mix/low-fat granola cereal/dried fruit. Just keep some on hand for jazzing up other options, or when you're in a pinch for time.
I wouldn't be surprised if you told me you had weird appetite/blood sugar problems. Disrupted sleep can mess with your blood sugar and cause diabetic-type symptoms. I know, I had 'em.
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150,000 gil? DUDE, where's my bithday present?!?! ;p
Seriously, how'd you make all that money, crafting sales or fishing or what? I still need to buy Erase and I have a whole 20,000 saved at this point (I bought some equpiment and spells already from my big profit fishing weekend 2 weeks ago...)
Re: Various Suggestions
Date: 2004-07-29 10:18 am (UTC)Yogurt is an especially good one, I should go out and buy more of it. (My only issue with it is that I need to eat it before it goes bad! I suck at that! :) )
As for the bars, I like Luna Bars. Great flavor (tastes like a candybar, but no where near the calories!) and more important (for me) is the 10 grams of protein. I'm always short on darned protein!
Peanut butter on whole grain bread is one of my usual meals! I eat it probably once every two days, sometimes a little more often. I'm a little concerned about the fat in it (the low fat PB tastes gross), but it's got protein so I'm okay enough with it.
Fruit is a good idea, but I have the "yogurt issue" with it. I never know what I'll be in the mood to eat! I get tired of throwing fruit out because I waited too long.
You're right on the oatmeal! I used to love the stuff, I should get back to eating it...
FFXI: Yep, all though crafting, with a little fishing thrown in on the side. And I'll be happy to make you a birthday gift! Just tell me what leathery thing you want! :)