In what was the greatest (American) Football game I have ever seen, my Eagles stomped the shit out of the sorry ass Cowboys tonight 44-6 to clinch the final playoff spot in the NFC. It was just total, unadulterated rapage the Eagles dished out tonight and I loved every minute of it. Fuck TO, fuck Jerry Jones, fuck Tony Homo, fuck Pacman Jones, fuck the shitty bandwagon Dallas fans, you can all kiss my Cheesesteak eating Philly ass. I hate the Dallas Cowboys in case you can't tell. God embarrassing them so badly on national TV, with the playoffs on the line, was just beyond epic.
So yeah I know I haven't posted in a while. Its been a combination of things but mostly lack of motivation. My Christmas was good and extremely hectic. I visited more family than I even knew I had and got to show the baby off to everyone. Of course she got a bajillion presents while all I got was some T-shirts and socks, but meh I guess I should get used to it.
In FFXI its been pretty much soloing SAM in my limited free time lately. Its up to almost 34 and will be capped as a sub shortly. I'll probably move on to RDM next, though I was actually considering THF first (its 26 currently). With the exp changes for EP-DC mobs and Fields of Valor soloing up subs is easy as hell now.
I'm also starting to plan my "end game" right now, which means the end of me playing FFXI. Things haven't been exactly as I expected with the kid free time wise, and I don't see myself getting normal play time again any time soon. Soling subs in my free time is ok for now, but not enough to keep me around. Right now I'm targetting the end of WoTG expansion as my exit, but things can change and I may stick around longer. Its not the first time I've planned to quit and not gone through with it so don't panic. As for my To-Do list before then, finishing up Bonecraft (97.6 atm) and AU and WoTG missions are at the top of my list. After that who knows but another job to 75 would be nice, just have to decide what one.
Well thats all for now, see you all later
Monday, December 29, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
My new toy
I added a new little toy to my blog over there to the right. Its my Bush counter, counting down the time he has left before leaving office. We are so close to finally being rid of him, yet still so far away. It can't come soon enough in my opinion.
So its rapidly approaching Christmas and I haven't bought anything yet. I'm not going to really buy much since I have no money right now, but something small for the family. I wish Alyssa was a little older so it would be more fun, but next year I can go crazy and enjoy it more. She is still growing pretty quickly right now and has outgrown a bunch of her clothes already. We have another appointment next week and I can't wait to see how tall she is and how much she weighs now.
In FFXI news I got my SAM up to 19 by mass exterminating EP and DC mobs. That new Fields of Valor thing seems kind of interesting, though most people say its better just to mass kill everything in sight instead of targetting the specific mobs it gives you to kill. I'll have to try it out. This coming Saturday night I am completely free for the first time in months, and I'm hoping to get a lot done. I am hoping to start out doing some stuff with Shay, maybe level BLM, then after she goes to bed try and do AU44 again with Soul. If we can't manage that hopefully we can knock out the new WoTG quests and missions.
Depending upon if I have to pick Alyssa up or not I may be able to play a few hours Sunday morning too. Then I'll probably just solo more if noone else in on.
Well thats all for now, time to actually do some work.
So its rapidly approaching Christmas and I haven't bought anything yet. I'm not going to really buy much since I have no money right now, but something small for the family. I wish Alyssa was a little older so it would be more fun, but next year I can go crazy and enjoy it more. She is still growing pretty quickly right now and has outgrown a bunch of her clothes already. We have another appointment next week and I can't wait to see how tall she is and how much she weighs now.
In FFXI news I got my SAM up to 19 by mass exterminating EP and DC mobs. That new Fields of Valor thing seems kind of interesting, though most people say its better just to mass kill everything in sight instead of targetting the specific mobs it gives you to kill. I'll have to try it out. This coming Saturday night I am completely free for the first time in months, and I'm hoping to get a lot done. I am hoping to start out doing some stuff with Shay, maybe level BLM, then after she goes to bed try and do AU44 again with Soul. If we can't manage that hopefully we can knock out the new WoTG quests and missions.
Depending upon if I have to pick Alyssa up or not I may be able to play a few hours Sunday morning too. Then I'll probably just solo more if noone else in on.
Well thats all for now, time to actually do some work.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
My old past time returns
Its been a while since I talked about Politics, figured I might as well give it a whirl today.
So Obama has been steadily naming his White House staff members over the past few weeks, and he finally starting cranking out the big ones. He named Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State in a move that doesn't really surprise me. Its one of the most important and prestigious positions in our government and I think she will do well there with her considerable foreign relations experience (just in case you were wondering what exactly this position is, Condeleeza Rice is the current SoS).
He also kept Robert Gates, a Republican, as the Secretary of Defense, another good move in my opinion. He was probably the only good thing to come of Bush's choices for staff besides Rice, and I expect he will continue to do well under Obama. All in all its looking like a good start to hopefully a great presidency.
In Alyssa news, she's starting to get big. Well not really big, she's just been growing really fast all of a sudden. The Newborn diapers barely fit her anymore and I'm hoping to finish them all off before moving to the size 1's. Her poop is also starting to stink. Badly. Thankfully she only does it once a day so its not too bad. She also eats twice as much as she did when we first brought her home, and more frequently too. We finally moved her out of the basinette in my bedroom to the crib in her room and so far she doesn't like it lol. Oh well she'll get used to it, she was getting too big to stay where she was.
In FFXI I finally managed to get my Dancer to 37 over the past few days and am likely to move onto SAM sub next. I want to get that to at least 25 or so before doing anything else. I'm also now 0/17 skill-up attempts in Bonecraft and still sitting on 97.3. I will get this damn craft to 100 I swear it.
Well thats about all for now, later
So Obama has been steadily naming his White House staff members over the past few weeks, and he finally starting cranking out the big ones. He named Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State in a move that doesn't really surprise me. Its one of the most important and prestigious positions in our government and I think she will do well there with her considerable foreign relations experience (just in case you were wondering what exactly this position is, Condeleeza Rice is the current SoS).
He also kept Robert Gates, a Republican, as the Secretary of Defense, another good move in my opinion. He was probably the only good thing to come of Bush's choices for staff besides Rice, and I expect he will continue to do well under Obama. All in all its looking like a good start to hopefully a great presidency.
In Alyssa news, she's starting to get big. Well not really big, she's just been growing really fast all of a sudden. The Newborn diapers barely fit her anymore and I'm hoping to finish them all off before moving to the size 1's. Her poop is also starting to stink. Badly. Thankfully she only does it once a day so its not too bad. She also eats twice as much as she did when we first brought her home, and more frequently too. We finally moved her out of the basinette in my bedroom to the crib in her room and so far she doesn't like it lol. Oh well she'll get used to it, she was getting too big to stay where she was.
In FFXI I finally managed to get my Dancer to 37 over the past few days and am likely to move onto SAM sub next. I want to get that to at least 25 or so before doing anything else. I'm also now 0/17 skill-up attempts in Bonecraft and still sitting on 97.3. I will get this damn craft to 100 I swear it.
Well thats about all for now, later
Friday, November 28, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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.
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.
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