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thistlechaserI have no idea why, but this has been one horrible week. No sleep (okay, maybe that's part of it) and stressed to the point where my neck hurts (I've not been that stressed since my high school or college days). I suppose it's time to schedule a vacation at work, even if it's just a short one.
I made more sweet and sour sauce tonight, but added the ketchup this time (forgot last time). I couldn't taste a difference though. It's a little thicker too, since I added all the cornstarch. Mmm, so good. Realizing that it has two-thirds of a cup of sugar in it, I packaged it up into small containers to hopefully make it last a while.
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FFXI: Blah. Luckily I didn't have much to do, because I had no patience at all (and little more desire to play). Went to help kill a NM for a LS friend's AF the moment I got home from work, and then right after that ran off to help kill some other NM (Bright-Handed Kun-someone). Got a few limit points and some gil, but not the drop he had been after.
Checked the fishing guild to see what the rank contest fish was. Titanic Sawfish. A level 100 fish that people don't even know a good rod/bait for. One that only might appear on ONE route of the Manaclipper. >< Well fuck me with a fork, I guess I can't enter the contest this month. *grumble* I took all my fishing stuff and sold it or sent it to a mule. I'm tired of fishing anyway.
After that I had to dig. I haven't missed a night yet, and I'm not going to just because I'm a little grumpy. Almost didn't go to the Jungles because I didn't want to deal with other diggers, but I really do need more commodes, so I went. Luckily I was the only one in the zone again, so it was non-stressy. Got a bunch of logs as well as three king truffles (rarest item there). I really need to check and see if I leveled up.
Then I spent a couple hours idly camping the AH. My next BRD cape is sold only once a day or so, and I'll need it in four levels, so I'm starting to watch for it now.
Unfortunately back armors don't show, so it won't help me look any less ugly. I look like I rolled in ink and mud... What the hell is up with that collar? I had been excited about buying the Raven Jup-whatever (body armor) because I thought it looked good, but that looks awful. And you get to see my ugly boots in that shot, too! And look, I'm wearing tights! Armor is supposed to be metal! I'm supposed to clink when I run! Clink clink clink!
To end on a high note, here's a better picture of my bitty baby chocobo singing! Listening to music and eating carrots, that's all he's going to do. At least until I can shove his claws and beak into the ground to dig for stuff.
I'm going to try to get more sleep tonight, and maybe tomorrow will be better. The last nights were 5, 2, and 3 hours of sleep (add up three nights of my sleep and you get what some people consider a normal amount for one night! 9.9 ), and that's just not enough. Zzzz
Oh right, and Pokemon: My damned game has another bug. I lost in my first attempt at the Elite Four (I hadn't intended to try it yet, but I entered and saved by mistake), and when I tried to go in to try a second time, it told me that one of the Four is gone, so I couldn't go in. >< That's supposed to happen after you beat them, because you have to go to Island Four to find her... but you can only get to Island Four AFTER you beat the Elite Four! So I give up. I do want to find some other game to play at work though, because it does help pass the time.
Anyone know of a good rom site?
I made more sweet and sour sauce tonight, but added the ketchup this time (forgot last time). I couldn't taste a difference though. It's a little thicker too, since I added all the cornstarch. Mmm, so good. Realizing that it has two-thirds of a cup of sugar in it, I packaged it up into small containers to hopefully make it last a while.
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FFXI: Blah. Luckily I didn't have much to do, because I had no patience at all (and little more desire to play). Went to help kill a NM for a LS friend's AF the moment I got home from work, and then right after that ran off to help kill some other NM (Bright-Handed Kun-someone). Got a few limit points and some gil, but not the drop he had been after.
Checked the fishing guild to see what the rank contest fish was. Titanic Sawfish. A level 100 fish that people don't even know a good rod/bait for. One that only might appear on ONE route of the Manaclipper. >< Well fuck me with a fork, I guess I can't enter the contest this month. *grumble* I took all my fishing stuff and sold it or sent it to a mule. I'm tired of fishing anyway.
After that I had to dig. I haven't missed a night yet, and I'm not going to just because I'm a little grumpy. Almost didn't go to the Jungles because I didn't want to deal with other diggers, but I really do need more commodes, so I went. Luckily I was the only one in the zone again, so it was non-stressy. Got a bunch of logs as well as three king truffles (rarest item there). I really need to check and see if I leveled up.
Then I spent a couple hours idly camping the AH. My next BRD cape is sold only once a day or so, and I'll need it in four levels, so I'm starting to watch for it now.
Unfortunately back armors don't show, so it won't help me look any less ugly. I look like I rolled in ink and mud... What the hell is up with that collar? I had been excited about buying the Raven Jup-whatever (body armor) because I thought it looked good, but that looks awful. And you get to see my ugly boots in that shot, too! And look, I'm wearing tights! Armor is supposed to be metal! I'm supposed to clink when I run! Clink clink clink!
To end on a high note, here's a better picture of my bitty baby chocobo singing! Listening to music and eating carrots, that's all he's going to do. At least until I can shove his claws and beak into the ground to dig for stuff.
I'm going to try to get more sleep tonight, and maybe tomorrow will be better. The last nights were 5, 2, and 3 hours of sleep (add up three nights of my sleep and you get what some people consider a normal amount for one night! 9.9 ), and that's just not enough. Zzzz
Oh right, and Pokemon: My damned game has another bug. I lost in my first attempt at the Elite Four (I hadn't intended to try it yet, but I entered and saved by mistake), and when I tried to go in to try a second time, it told me that one of the Four is gone, so I couldn't go in. >< That's supposed to happen after you beat them, because you have to go to Island Four to find her... but you can only get to Island Four AFTER you beat the Elite Four! So I give up. I do want to find some other game to play at work though, because it does help pass the time.
Anyone know of a good rom site?
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:34 am (UTC)Also for the armor, I would recommend against the raven armor, get the NQ, the whole crow jupon set, so you can store it on NPC, it's a great lvl 50 armor for most jobs whenever you need to do anything capped at 50 so it's very convenient. I know it's very cheap and you don't like that, but it's actually better in the sense that you'll be more likely to have all of it instead of just a few pieces in the future whenever you need it, since it doesn't take space.
About the pokemon, I am glad you learned from your previous bad luck and started to save often... oh wait.. hehe =P
Aside for instruments, I think bard doesn't really need much gear for xp, you could be naked and your party wouldn't notice as much. Evasion and enmity- from crow is nice though, and mp from custom armor too. Also remember now that you are 50 there is one piece of gear that's great for bards, more than any cape or other armor piece, the minstrel's ring, a good reason to be in yellow hp all the times =P (at 75 some bards use hp gear swaps back and forth to become yellow hp anytime they need and get the -25% song spellcasting time).
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, I have all the mannequins on my main, but I need the commodes for my mules. While I wouldn't mind having mannequins on them, I'm not going to run low level characters around to do it. (Hm, and I think you need Safehold access, too...)
Also for the armor, I would recommend against the raven armor, get the NQ, the whole crow jupon set, so you can store it on NPC, it's a great lvl 50 armor for most jobs whenever you need to do anything capped at 50 so it's very convenient.
I actually wanted Crow, but there were none in stock! Three Ravens, no Crow. I figured I could just sell it back once I hit 57.
About the pokemon, I am glad you learned from your previous bad luck and started to save often... oh wait.. hehe =P
*snickers* Yeah. I totally laughed at myself when that happened! I had made very few other saves, but never broke myself of the habit of using 'save in oldest slot'. So, yeah. :P
the minstrel's ring
*looks it up* Wow, that's interesting! But man, why is it that in these times where the prices of everything are falling so much, the few things I actually want are rising? Per ffxiah.com, the price has gone up from 800K to 1.8M in a month. >< (Same thing happened with the one piece I want to improve my DRK armor, it's actually rising! The value of all my other armor has fallen by 50%, but the one thing I want has doubled! Sheesh.)
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:21 pm (UTC)About the crow, I would still take some time to get the NQ or craft it or have friends craft it, just because it's great to have the claim slip whenever you need it (ENMs, riverne, sacrarium, BCNMs etc). THey are all recipes below 60 too. Or just camp the AH, even if you have the HQ already.
About saves on GBA, one way if you are too lazy to switch save spots etc is to just keep the save directory on your PC open in explorer, and when you are about to save just drag and drop the old save file so it makes a "Copy of..." file.
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:34 pm (UTC)Yeah, but water jugs take double the space in your safe. One safe spot for two storage, or one space slot for four storage.
Quite embarrassing, I have five mules but still never have enough space. (Though one is in Jeuno, thus has no storage.)
Yeah, I can make the Crow stuff myself. Maybe I will one day, since I suppose someone will eventually want my BRD for something capped.
Oh, and I "fixed" the Pokemon issue. My walk-through-walks hack worked (again). I've about had it with the game though.
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Date: 2006-08-31 01:42 pm (UTC)www.emulator-zone.com
www.freeroms.com
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