The occasional musings of Andy Scheffler
Because they said us new people had it too easy with our flail-less Tiamats. So they specifically tried to make her flail with judicious use of Sneak Attack/Trick Attack.
This was also the fight I spent the entire fight staring at the wall, doing nothing but stunning Firaga IIIs. Whee. Remind me why I wanted to have Dark Knight as a viable subjob for Red Mage?
So, not much has happened in real life, same old same old. I guess I cleaned my room, that’s sort of momentous for anyone who’s seen my room recently.
FFXI: I held off on saying it because I wanted to make sure it’d stick, but I’m now in an HNMLS again. They’re mostly EST folks, though, so that makes doing stuff with them haphazard. I’ve already fought Tiamat twice, though. That was certainly being tossed into the deep end. Tomorrow we’re doing Jailer of Love, so that will also be “fun” (if I can make it home in time).
WoW: I actually logged into WoW last night, I went and transferred my druid main (Werehamster) from Elune to Uldum. Now I can play with
KoL: I don’t know if I mentioned it, but a few months ago I started playing Kingdom of Loathing. It’s good for a quick distraction while I eat lunch. I did a full run through, ascended once, and just ascended again in Hardcore. Hardcore is sort of frustrating at the start, because I have so few turns. I guess that’s a good thing, so I get done with them faster. I’m assuming it gets faster once I start getting a few Hardcore Permanent skills, because I hear tales of long-time veterans of KoL finishing HC runs in 4 days. If I can get it down to two weeks or so, I’ll be happy. Then I can try a Hardcore Oxygenarian Turtle Tamer for a Plexiglass Pith Helmet. Mmmm…. helmet.
FFXII: 12 days to go!
I’ve been DVRing Heroes and Studio 60 in HD, because, hey, I’ve got it.
Last week, the stupid recording kept skipping, as the HD signal was losing strength, somewhere between the station, Comcast, the wires in my house, my DVR and my TV. Okay, so it wasn’t the connection between my DVR and TV because replaying scenes made them break in the same way.
This week, the HD NBC channel had crappy sound, but only on the show, the commercials were fine (of course). Then I got to Studio 60, and for some friggin’ reason, the sound was only the backgrounds. I can’t hear people talking, or the main foley.
This can’t just be me.
I bought new shoes yesterday. I found a pair I liked, found a box in my size, tried on the left shoe, walked around a while, it seemed okay so I bought them and this morning I put them on.
For some reason the right shoe is bugging me, you get three guesses as to why.
So I’ve always tossed around the idea of making a second PC so I could do other things while playing FFXI that I couldn’t do on my Mac (like play FFXI on a second account, but I don’t know how likely that would be now). I started thinking about it again, as I found that a Ventrilo server that I’m about to start using isn’t using the one single codec that allows the Mac version to connect, so I’d have to connect to it in the background. That’s not really a big issue, but it got my mind turning again, I started thinking… it’s only $50 for a cheap processor, $70 for a motherboard, $80 for a hard drive, $70 for a video card, $5 for a keyboard, I already have a case, monitor, mouse, optical drive.
Then I do the math, and realize that for only $200 more I could buy a Mac Mini with a Core Duo processor and just use Boot Camp. Then I have to fight the years of brainwashing that Apple has invested in me. I don’t need a fourth Mac.
Yes, that’s me. The Manchurian Consumer.
I just ate an entire three tiered wedding cake in one sitting.
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In Kingdom of Loathing.
Yesterday, this is what I did at work:
10-11: Meeting (Presentation of last two week’s worth of work)
11-12: Meeting (Review of last two week’s worth of work)
12-12:30: Lunch
12:30-2: Email, small amount of work
2-3: Meeting (Bi-weekly staff meeting)
3-6: Meeting (Planning of next two week’s worth of work)
I feel sorry for the guy who was in every single one of those meetings as me, and also had a 1-2 meeting.
And on a side note, I watched the first episode of Heroes last night, and at some point I realized, “Hey, that looks like Tim Sale’s art…”
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/dell-battery-explodes-at-yahoo-hq-hundreds-evacuat/
It’s hilarious to see the people in the comments saying so vehemently “this is so fake” just because blah blah blah something something photoshop battery on outside blah blah blah and I know 100% that it happened because I was there.
People on the Internet can be so unintentionally funny sometimes. Funny in a way that makes me scared for the future of our species.
On my way back from pickup up lunch in the cafeteria today, I heard the fire alarm going off in my building, so I ended up waiting outside for a while for the fire department to come. Why did the alarm go off?
Heh, the LiveJournal banner on top of the page is done up like a ship… I wonder if that’s special for today. On second inspection, the user icons have eyepatches (
Anyway, stuff is happening. Working, FFXIing, Magicing (Time Spiral Prerelease this weekend, joy!).
My car is getting considerably dirtier because of all the trees in the parking lot here at work or something. What’s kind of funny is that almost every single car in the lot is filthy, so I’m not alone. One of them has “PLEASE C” wiped into the dirt on the back, I’m guessing that’s as far as someone got into “PLEASE CLEAN ME” before they chickened out and ran away. On a similar note, I saw the car with the license plate “WASH ME” again on the way back from work, almost in the same spot.
FFXI is moving along slowly. I haven’t been putting as much time into my chocobo as some other people, and I got started late so I know when to expect certain things. In two days, my chocobo will be ridable! Yay! I’ve got my Paladin up to 71 now, and I decided to take up Woodworking so I have a “real” craft, and eventually useful to repair Lu Shang’s Fishing Rods in the field. Most of the crafts I’ve been doing so far have been break-even or profitable… in theory, if they ever sell on the AH. I got undercut on Uchitake by 1,000, and I still have 5 bundles to sell. I think I’ll hold off listing the last few so that the number listed doesn’t go too high, encouraging people to undercut even further. Of course, the last few times I’ve been spending crafting have been cutting into my fishing time, so that’s sort of counter productive…