Relaxing yet sleepy day, yay! (RL, FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

First off: Thanks to everyone for the font size advice! I can see now!

Second, important: More pet food recalls. :( Unfortunately one brand my cat eats is on the list, sort of. The recall is for M/D dry, and mine eats M/D moist. I know it would say moist if it included that, but it still worries me. Heck, at this point all pet food is starting to worry me. Which brand/type is going to be on the list next?

FFXI: I had said I wanted to do something fun today, but didn't know what it would be. Turns out it was Besieged, which is about the most fun I have on the game! I caught one wave before work, one wave soon after I got home, and the last wave is going to attack in the next hour or so. 3/3! That rocks!

Other than that I went mining with meh results, but the important part was to try to find out for sure if my tabbing=crashing bug was gone. It seems to be! Yay!

I did a ton of muling/organizing/selling. I shipped all my SAM and COR armor off to my mule and now have room to actually store my BRD armor on me when I'm not doing anything that requires being dressed!

And to end on an amusing note: I almost died to a level 36 NM (Smothered Schmidt) tonight. On BRD 75. Note to self: A naked BRD with no instrument or weapon cannot fight much of anything. I was punching it for 0-3 (mostly 0, crit for 3), I kept dia and requiem on it, but it kept getting my HP down into orange. Even with (one) ballad on me, my tiny MP pool couldn't keep up with curing me and trying to damage it (banish 1/2). Thankfully undead doesn't bloodaggro if they're TW, otherwise the bones, ghosts, and hounds there would have swarmed me. :P

Comments

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Although probably unrelated to tainted pet food, my cat Cassidy died from kidney failure nearly four years ago, so that whole pet food scare thing is...upsetting. I hope they figured out who or what is responsible soon.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

And on a less depressing note: I almost died to the DRK AF1 mob as a 75 WHM with weapons. (The DRK that was with me died.) So I think I have you beat there. :P I blame my broken Shellra V spell.

And I need to pester you about BRD tips...

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I feel pretty safe wandering around on MNK without a weapon on me (for obvious reasons), but it'd be a cold day in Ifrit's before I'll be pried out of my MH without a bow|xbow/ammo on RNG. If for no other reason than I need those to use half of my Job Abilities (Barrage, Shadowbind (run away!), and EES). If I was wiser I'd make sure I always have an Axe on me too, but usually just a bow will suffice in aiding my escape >.>/

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Hurray for MNKs and their beat-you-to-a-pulp-with-or-without-weapons-ness!

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Re: Pet food recalls: I'm getting incredibly disgusted with Menu Foods and Mars, the company that it's part of. I got an email from Mars a few days ago saying that everything was fine and now, this. So glad my pets eat Purina and Alpo because I'd make sure heads would roll for this.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ugh! It's going to take me weeks or months before I believe that everything is back to fine, and it certainly won't be because the companies involved told me it was now okay.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was intending just to mine, but I can't resist NMs. But really, it'd be better to carry a weapon even when I'm intending to just mine or something like that. I keep having this fear that I'll hit * while trying to hit the - for the menu... sit in the middle of moblins. So I'm going to go mining as DRK instead. One weapon, no armor, and I'd be fine against them.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And on a less depressing note: I almost died to the DRK AF1 mob as a 75 WHM with weapons. (The DRK that was with me died.) So I think I have you beat there.

Hee! We should start a club or something. :P

And I need to pester you about BRD tips...

Sure thing, but keep in mind I'm not a pro. I've done 1-75 with the same people, same jobs. So my BRD know-how is basically working with a NIN-WHM-SAM-SAM-DRK.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Aww! And yes, I hope too. :/