More pics

Nothing new to talk about today, just pics of my kid. Enjoy.

More random stuff

Well biggest thing going on right now is that my aunt has to get quadrupal bypass surgery on her heart on Monday. The doctors think she'll pull through fine and I hope they are right. I don't really want to deal with a death in the family right about now.

I finally downloaded all my Alyssa pics from my camera and I'll work on converting them so I can post them. There's some really good ones in there I think you'll all like. She's doing well so far and she is finally starting to put some weight on. She is almost grown out of the Newborn sized diapers and some of her Newborn outfits are getting tight on her. The doctor was a little concerned because she wasn't really gaining weight fast enough but I think he'll be happy when I bring her in next week.

I started playing FFXI a bit more too, but probably when I go back to days next week I won't be able to play much. I got Boneworking up to level 97.3 and am definitely looking to finish it up relatively soon. Another thing I did was hop on my BST and skilled up Scythe a bit, but after 2 hours I only got 3 levels. Skilling up 2 handed weapons sucks ass. Finally I went back to my Dancer and got it to 34. I was killing EP-DC in Delkfutt's Tower and eventually popped an NM names Epialtes, which I managed to solo without too much difficulty. My only mistake was taking him on with no TP built up and it almost cost me the win. I got a whole Gigas Sock for my troubles.

I also finally finished up Rogue Galaxy (remember I made a post about it a while back). It was a very good game with a fun battle system and definitely worth a play through in my opinion. The ending kinda sucked, but honestly all the awesome endings Final Fantasies have had has probably raised my standards too high. I started playing FF12 again because I liked it so much the first time. It plays a lot like FF11 and has plenty of challenging fights and secrets to keep me occupied for a long time.

Thats about it for now, my goal on FFXI is to finish up Dancer sub and then probably work on either SAM or RDM sub next. I want to level one more job to 75 (excluding BLM) and still have no clue which one that will be. I'm sure I'll decide eventually.

Random stuff

For the past 10 days or so I've been on solo baby duty because my wifey had to get eye surgery, and it was the hardest 10 days of my life lol. Why anyone willingly wants children, let alone multiple children, is beyond me. Babies are no joke, they are very difficult to deal with and demand way too much attention. Many days I barely had enough time to take a piss let alone get anything productive accomplished. Whats that, you wanna sleep? Not happening. Man I'm hungry, gonna make some food. Nope, you aren't, hope you got lots of cereal or something similar that takes 5 seconds to prepare cause thats all the time your getting. Might as well accept the fact that you don't matter anymore.

Despite all that I did manage to get a little FFXI play time in. I was kinda sick of soloing Dancer like I always do when I play lately, so I decided to just mess around and enjoy the scenery. I went to Den of Rancor to solo Leviathan which was a piece of cake as NIN/DNC. I was going to do Ifrit too but Levi took me almost 18 minutes and I didn't feel like doing another marathon fight like that again. After that I hung around Temple Ugly for a bit slaughtering Tonberries for no apparent reason.

I'm hoping once Alyssa hits 3 the month old mark things will get easier with her (like everyone I know assures me) so I can start playing again more. Even though almost everyone I know has quit or rarely plays I still enjoy the game and miss many parts of it. I still want to beat ToAU missions one of these days, and possibly even level another job to 75. The WoTG missions are interesting so far and amazingly I've kept up with them (yeah ok I know theres only 8 of them and they are all soloable). I want to do the new Windy quests from the last update since they have been totally badass so far and I want to see what happens next.

Besides all that nothing new going on. I'm gonna post more pics of Alyssa once I get around to resizing the pics from my digital camera. I had what I thought was a really good one with her petting one of my cats but sadly it turned out pretty badly. I might post it anyway. Who knows. See you all later.

President Obama

Barack Obama won the Presidential Election last night in a landslide, beating John McCain to become our 44th and first black President. It was a historic night that I will always remember.

My prediction for the final results was very close, and Obama actually won bigger than I thought he would. With 2 states still too close to call Obama leads 349-163, and they will likely split the last 2, leaving the probable final result to be 364-174. Obama also won the popular vote by 6%, which is higher than the 5% I predicted. I predicted 48/50 states correctly, with Indiana and probably North Carolina going to Obama instead of McCain.

All in all it was a very exciting election cycle that saw record numbers of participation, and I hope it stays like this forever. I will make a post about why I think McCain lost a little later after everything is wrapped up.

On another note, I have no idea what the hell I'm gonna write about now that the election is over. It was by far the biggest topic for me, and with me barely playing FFXI anymore I can't really focus on that. Well I'm sure I'll think of something to bitch about eventually, but for right now I'm feeling sky high.

Election Day Eve

So here we sit 1 day before Election Day, and its still looking like Obama will win in a landslide. The polls have been tightening in recent days, but it always happens in the last days of the race and was expected. I will probably go vote tomorrow afternoon before going to work, and naturally will be voting for Obama.

As bad as Bush was, and as badly as he and the Republicans fucked up this country, I still believe McCain could have won this election. He is definitely a "typical" Republican and always had moderate appeal. Unfortunately for him he decided to sellout to the base, and pick a bumbling retard as a running mate, thus killing much of his appeal to moderates. he tried to run a campaign similar to Hillary, and he will fail like Hillary failed. I honestly don't understand why he ran the campaign he did, and fell that had he stuck to the issues and been himself, he would have probably won.



My final Electoral prediction has Obama winning 338-200 (blue states are Obama) and winning the popular vote by approximately 5%. I plan to be in celebration mode (yet again, go Phillies!!!!) by around 10pm EST tomorrow night.

Pictures

I know I promised these a long time ago, but I now finally got some time to play with my PC at home. I hope you like them.