Did anyone get the license plate on that Tuesday?

It was a ‘girthy’ day at work today. Quarterly, my work decides to have an IS departmental meeting. Every employee goes to these, even the on-call people. In these meetings, virtually everyone turns off any means of communication with the outside world. I know what you’re thinking – if they’re on-call, and they can’t be contacted, who do you call? I was left pondering this very same question! Since I’m a contractor, I was left to man the ship along with 2 other people. Of course, on half a crew and everyone that can help unavailable, this would be the time that three major systems decide to kick the bucket. It was 3 solid hours of non-stop calls and hunting for someone, anyone, who could help.

I also found out that the items that I got on Saturday from our gods run, the ones I can’t use for quite some time, cost me half my points instead of being free as displayed on the claims page. I realize we were left with a website in a less than desirable state, but I should not have to check in three places to figure out what something costs. Luckily, by the end of the day, our LS leader gave Keri and I the points back for the scythe.

I’m going to drop the scythe. I don’t want to set a precedence to work outside the lotting system. The scythe was supposed to be 10 points: I got my points back so it’s only fair that I drop the scythe. The system in place for handling lots is a good one: it’s well-planned and managed and fair as I can see. It’s just too bad that the means we have for administering it are in such a state of repair.

DeAnn had quite a day, too. We ordered in Peng’s, against my better judgement. The comfort food was certainly welcome after a day like today. We got to our static a bit later than normal, but we had a great setup: Amelisa has joined us full-time on her BRD, Keri and I on BLM, Talon on MNK, Fattucus came again on his DNC and we picked up a random PLD. Kuftal crabs was the order of the night, and we hauled in a good amount of experience in the hour and a half we had left. I picked up a few elemental staves to help my magic damage a little, and we tore through those critters handily. We gave Amelisa and Fattucus a pearl to BusinessCasual; looks like we're meeting there for static.

Dynamis – Xarcabard tomorrow. I don’t know if I want to lot on anything. I’m gonna need all the points I can get if I want to be considered for an Osode on our next Kirin run. I had half considered throwing in the towel on MNK and changing my main to WHM, especially after the issue with the scythe points, but I’ll see how the next Kirin pans out first. At any rate, I love dynamis, so I’m there tomorrow night either way.