Yes, I’ve been meaning to update for a while now. I owe an entry on my class reunion last week, and a picture of my mom’s puppy attacking the older dog (which is on my laptop at home, so you don’t get that now.)
The class reunion was very interesting. In many ways, the five hours I spent there mirrored the four years I spent in high school. Barring the short period at the beginning when there wasn’t really anyone I knew, I spent most of the evening with a small group of people (which was just a sampling of the actual group from HS who actually showed up), while wandering around having short conversations with almost everyone, because I knew most of the people there, but about half of them not that well. I had a couple of interesting conversations, got the exact same response from every single person when I told them I worked at Yahoo! (Oh, really?) and was constantly hounded by the husbands of two of the women from my Japanese class, who were obviously trying their hardest to get everyone to have a good time. This plan involved trying to get me drunk, evidently. They didn’t succeed. Oddly, a lot of the guys there had shaved heads, either hiding baldness or as a fashion statement.
On to other things, I got Chains of Promathia last week after a painful delay, then promptly installed it, and really haven’t explored any of the new areas, only a little bit on that day, and a little bit yesterday. Also yesterday was perhaps one of the greatest days in FFXI for me so far. Not the greatest, but it’s up there. Not only did I get my Castle Oztroja coffer key, I got the coffer itself. Warlock’s Tabard get! Then, I managed to help someone else to the Batallia Downs stone monument, as well as getting it myself. 10,000 gil get! Then, I hung out in Garlaige Citadel, hoping to get through to the stone monument there, managed to sneak through both gates when someone was going through, got the monument. 10,000 gil get! Then, I went back in to the citadel, and planned on logging there in hopes that the coffer would be around when I logged back in. But it had spawned in the short time when I went to get my monument. Warlock’s Tights get! AF Armor Complete! Now, all I have to do is level to 60, and I have my entire pimp suit. I also leveled cooking to level 42, and I’m making so many apple pies that I will never have to buy them again.