Epic fight is epic

Ok not really.

So I was sitting in Sandy after doing a quest, thinking of something to do, so I figure what the hell, let me go see if Taisaijin is up, and low and behold he was. I actually went the first time as BLM but I got my ass handed to me, so I came back NIN and won easily. No Spelunkers Hat but at least I got a cool title for my trouble.

I also made a Facebook page too, despite telling myself I'd never do it. But having most of your family on it, and a desire to keep in touch with them, overrides that. I've found a bunch of old friends from my high school days but I haven't sent them friend invites. I probably will eventually though.

Other than that not much new. My daughter is a glutton for punishment who keeps hurting herself lol. Oh well hopefully she'll learn one day not to do stupid things that will harm her.

I'm also watching the Confederate Cup finals right now between the US and Brazil. We had a 2-0 lead at the half but Brazil tied it up. Its in the 82nd minute right now so maybe we'll get lucky and win.

Well see you guys later and go visit my Facebook page.

Phillies fail at interleague

Ah yes its June again, which means interleague play for my World Champion Phillies. And like pretty much every year the Phillies suck against the American League again this year. We are now 3-7 and our lead in the division has dwindled down to just 2 games. Yes its early in the season still but we are definitely not in as good of a situation as we were last year.

Well the terror, also known as my daughter, has finally started crawling and forcing me to chase her all over the place so she doesn't hurt herself. Well actually its loo late for that because she already has 2 cuts on her face and a couple bruises from falling down while trying to stand. She looks like a boxer that picked a fight with the floor and lost lol.

I also have a ton of new pics I'll eventually get to and post. I even have a video of her crawling on my cell phone, and if I ever figure out how to get it onto my PC, maybe I'll post it here.

As for FFXI, I've barely played lately because I just haven't had any desire to. I started playing FF12 again and will probably play 11 more after I beat it again. I really like 12 a lot, and it plays a lot like 11 so that helps.

Well we've gotten a ton of new work at my job so its tougher to find time to post anything. We started doing server backups and they are a royal pain in the ass when something goes wrong. We also have 2 new systems to monitor that are both fairly time intensive. Pretty soon we'll have another batch of server backups to deal with, but they are far more streamlined and should be much easier to handle.

I'll talk to you guys later.

Its been way too long

Damn 2.5 months since my last post, where the hell have I been. I don't really have any good reason for why I haven't posted, just haven't felt like it.

Well real life is going pretty well right now. Alyssa is now 8 months old and has way too much energy for an old man like me. I miss the times I could just prop her up in a Boppy and not have to worry about anything happening to her. Now she rolls all over the damn place and gets her hands on anything and everything. She has 2 teeth and is very close to being able to crawl, which I'm not looking forward to.

In FFXI news my good friend Soul has retired and moved on to better things. I will miss him very much and wish him well. My BLM finally hit 75 and now I'm back to working on subs. I still haven't decided what my next job to 75 will be but I'm leaning towards BLU at the moment. I also hit 100 Boneworking too a while back and am gonna work on trying to synth a Genie Weskit for myself.

I should also mention that SE has finally announced their next MMO, which will be called Final Fantasy XIV. I watched the trailer and read the Q and A, and despite my oath to never purchase another SE MMO, I'm very very interested in it. I'm hoping SE will allow FFXI players participate in the beta so I can try it out before I decide to buy it. If it turns out to be like FFXI mission/story wise, but much more solo friendly I'll likely pick it up. So far its confirmed that they will have a type of "job" system similar to XI, and that there will be a character growth system that will be different from the standard exp/level up system in XI.

Sports wise my defending World Series Champion Phillies are in 1st place in their division and currently have the second best record in baseball. I fully expect them to make another serious run to repeat as WS Champs this year.

I guess thats just about it for my little life update, hope you enjoyed it.

Putting out

Yeah that faggot finally put out and dropped his cloak for me, 1/15 is the final count. I was bored yesterday morning and I need a Stone IV scroll so I figured I would go camp this guy and maybe get lucky and get both drops. Well I didn't get the scroll but I did get the cloak. Of course once I hit 68 I'll probably full time Black Cloak but meh it was worth it.

I just realized I haven't updated this thing in over a month, my longest gap between updates if I'm not mistaken. I don't really have a reason other than I just haven't felt like doing it.

Things are pretty much the same as always, work and watch kid. Its starting to get warm out finally so I can start taking her for walks and stuff soon instead of being cooped up in the house all day. I'm getting ready to go to visit my parents in Virginia at the end of the month so that should be interesting. I'm not sure how she will handle being in a car for 5+ hours but hopefully she'll sleep most of the time. I'm just thinking about the sheer amount of crap I have to drag down there with me (pack n play, bottles, bottle rack, diapers, wipes, formula, etc) and its overwhelming. Its bad enough just taking her out to the doctors or mall for a few hours, now I have to plan for a week long trip.

Anyway with FFXI I've been leveling Alchemy so I can synth all the Igquira gear and its sitting at 40.5 at the moment. I only need to get it to 44 to be able to synth everything, but looking ahead getting to 60 should be cheap and easy so I might just do that. As for BLM, since I don't have a partner anymore I may just shelve the job at 68. I leveled the job so I could duo with my partner, and since she is probably 75 already there is no real point to it anymore. Sure there is level sync but its not the same. Who knows though, I got it this far so I should probably just finish it off.

Well thats it for now, I'll try not to have any more 1 month gaps between posts. See you later.

Finally some pics

Yeah this post is long overdue, being the first time in 2 months since posting pics of Alyssa. Well I can definitely say she's fattened up to normal baby standards, and has lost a notable amount of hair. Despite that she is as cute as ever. Forgive the poor quality of the pictures, the flash on my digital camera is broken so I had to manually brighten them myself.

Newbie days

So like I said in my previous post I've begun to level one of my mules and put Soarian on the back burner for the time being. With leveling Brigide I'm come to remember all the old hardships I had back in my newbie days. Having to walk everywhere since I have no chocobo liscense, airship pass, or OP warps. Being unable to teleport because I have no crag crystals or Teleport spells. Being unable to switch to BLM to warp home when I'm in another town. Being stuck with a mere 30 inventory slots in my gobbie bag. Ahh the joys of starting over.

Despite all this I've had a blast starting fresh with a new character. I get to redo all the old quests and missions and actually have something to look forward to doing besides soloing another job for no real purpose except being able to sub it occassionally.

Well anyway I started her as a RDM and leveled that up a bit along with WHM. I finally got her to 18 and Shay was nice enough to help me get my subjob items. After that I just pushed to 20 instead of leveling my gimped subjob so I could get my chocobo liscense (which I did) and be able to travel faster. Unfortunately I forgot to build my fame before heading to Jeuno so I couldn't get a Gobbie Bag quest so first thing I did after leaving Jeuno was head to Selbina to trade some Moss.

Before doing all that I did some missions and am sitting on the 2-3 Dragon mission, which I'll probably d-box when I get to 25. Of particular note was my epic solo of the 1-3 BC fight when I was only level 14. It is a fight against 3 Orcs in Ghelsba Outpost, and I buffed up, ate an au lait and then.......... proceeded to destroy all 3 Orcs while only losing like 30 hp lol. I actually thought it would be challenging but oh well it was fun.

My goal now for Brigide is to build enough fame for at least 2 Gobbies, level WHM and BLM subs to around 15, then take RDM to 30. I also want to get to Rank 5 (with a little help obviously) and start Prommys (lol doubtful). I don't know how long I'll stick with Brigide before retiring her and going back to Soar full time, but so far I'm enjoying being a newbie again. See you guys in game.

Super Bowl Sunday

So it has come, the biggest unofficial US holiday, Super Bowl Sunday. Yet again my beloved Eagles fall one game short leaving me disappointed as usual. I'll still watch the game though since I like football in general, and I expect an easy win for the Steelers. Hopefully the commercials will be good this year.

So yeah I caved in and came back to FFXI after quitting for a whole 2 weeks. I am so weak I know. I realized after 2 very trying weeks dealing with my daughter that I need a social escape and nothing else but FFXI fits the bill. I have decided to do things a little differently this time around though.

I have decided to level a mule so I can do what is ultimately my favorite thing in this game, quests and missions. With Soarian I am almost done every mission, and any quest I have left I need help for so there is little left for me to do with him besides level subs which gets boring. Honestly after RDM I don't need to level any more subs as is so all the more reason to level a mule.

So I am leveling my Hume female mule Brigide at the moment, and she will ultimately be a RDM due to me always wanting to level the job, and because it is in demand for damn near everything. Why did I pick Brigide? Thats easy, because she is the only mule of mine that has an Anniversary Ring lol. I plan to keep leveling her and doing any and all missions with her (nation, RoZ, CoP, etc) and doing more quests too.

So for the time being Soarian is in semi-retirement and I'll only use him to finish off my RDM sub (26 currently) or for any help he may be needed for. I also want to work on missions with him and duo BLM with Shay if we can ever manage to be on at the same time. More than likely I'll get bored with Brigide and go back to Soar full time but who knows with a ready made pl available getting stuff done like will be less tedious.

Everything else is pretty good right now. We just got a bunch of new work at my job so it looks like mine is secure, which is good in this shitty economy. Alyssa just got done going through a growth spurt which saw her gain almost 3 pounds in a month. She was very fussy during that time but she has been much more content lately. She loves being on the floor so I lay out a blanket and let her be and she is content for hours at a time. Maybe now my play time will start to get better. Meh probably not lol.