Happy New Year

Introduction: I'm not normally one to set New Year's resolutions, but I've wanted to start a blog for some time now. And what better time to start something new than New Year's? I have a beautiful, fun-loving (and gamer!) wife DeAnn (Kerith in FFXI), a smart grade-school age son Colin and rambunctious toddler Clara. I'm looking to blog mostly about my adventures in Final Fantasy XI, with accents of real-life added for taste. With my family, you can be sure there will be plenty of real-life taste... >.>"

So right to it. I had the day off yesterday for New Year's, so most of it was spent lazing around the house and sleeping off the night before. I didn't get into game much - only a little to do some teleporting in Lower Jeuno and check my auctions between laundry and kiddos. Got another mission done in Halo 3. No heavy lifting.

Spent the evening fishing up Moat Carp. DeAnn offered to fish Moat Carp with me on her mule Rhylosha a few days back, so I had Insect Ball ingredients left over from that. So I set up shop right next to the pond outside of Port Windurst and spent a few hours raking in the carp. DeAnn and Colin are both into this new reality show called "Twister Sisters," and they were doing a marathon, so I brought my laptop upstairs to do my fishing. I'm at just over 3900/10000 fish for that quest.

While I really want to get that fishing rod, I'd rather tele-whore in Lower Jeuno for cash to buy the fish than spend so much time fishing them up. It takes me 15 minutes to make enough gil to buy what would take me an hour to fish. It's just quicker to make the gil and buy the fish from people who don't mind spending hours to get it.