Ant Farm

Half of my coworkers were, for some reason or another, gone today at work. It made for a very busy day. Not that the call volume was heavy - in fact it was rather light. It was that we only had 3 people at any one time to handle what we normally have 7 do. One of the higher ups decided to call 5 minutes to quitting time, and try as I might, I could not find anyone still around that supported the application she had the issue with. She understood, though, and said she'd call back at the end of the 3-day weekend.

I've been thinking about my friends back at the theater for some time, and yesterday made me think about them even more, so I decided to go over my lunch and visit. Everything has changed... Most of the people I knew there had long since left. Even the General Manager had left the company altogether. What was once a beautifully maintained palace has started to decay. I felt horrible that something that I helped make so great had fallen into such a state. In a way, though, I felt lucky that I got out when I did...

3-day weekend! Woo! One extra day of rest and one less day of work-related stress. I kicked off the weekend by joining Chic's Friday Sky Hunt. I had half expected they would be done before I was able to get home, but they were hollering for people to assemble to Mother Globe. I hauled up there just in time for the pull, and we quickly took her down. Next we started hunting Steam Cleaner, who decided to show up on the first try! The last thing we needed was Faust to complete 8 full Kirin sets, so we went up to where he hangs out. I teleported up to his floor, not realizing that the door I got ported to was the one right next to him. I never knew a Mithran head could go through ceremet... We recovered and took out Faust for our last item.

Sky was followed by yet another attempt at Rostrum Pumps. Our last few scheduled attempts had been jumped by other linkshells, and our last 'successful' attempt resulted in all of two pairs of shoes and the first wipe we'd ever had on that fight. Keri won the lot for first run, and it was not encouraging. We wiped. Again. We didn't kill the antlion that spawns others in time, and soon we had 4-5 ants and the main NM ant pummeling us. I don't think we had the numbers we needed either. Brickhouse called out on the LS for people to come to FNLE and help out, and we soon had reinforcements. Mohit had an extra trap for just such occasion, so Keri went again. After much CFH (Call For Help - ie: monster doesn't drop anything) action, we finally took the NM down and got Keri her shoes. We did many other runs that night - all of them successes that we would normally have. We're not going to do that fight for a while...

We ended the evening with a quick Fafnir camp. We got there just as the window opened, and that happened to be the window Fafnir popped in. At least I got some fish out of the deal, as well as an accurate Time of Death for tomorrow night.

Tomorrow is cleaning day around the house. We're probably going to focus on the downstairs, particularly the kitchen, which is a complete disaster area. In game, we have a Kirin night. May Osodes fall from the heavens. :P