Odds and Ends

Pretty busy today at work. With the new trainee, one of our coworkers on a special project and one calling in sick, there were all of two people to handle all the calls. This would be, of course, the time for development to test load handling… On a production server… in the middle of the day… Yeah, we got hit and hard. The errors produced from this also flooded the email system, backlogging an entire exchange server. Would not have been fun for a fully staffed desk, let alone for only two people. Good news is that I think the new trainee will catch on pretty quick and work out very well.

I decided to work on my poor yard today when I got home. The bush on the end closest to my front door in particular was in a sorry shape, so I decided to prune them away from the house, under the height of the window and any dead/diseased looking branches, and finished with a good watering. I hope my yard can pick up a little bit – I’m starting to get concerned. >.<

I wasn’t feeling up to much after that. I have been having either a sinus infection or some serious allergies lately. I felt much better after a nap, and decided to try to make Limbus. I logged in and had about an hour to kill, so I went and camped Centurio for the Shaman’s Cloak. It must have been awhile since the last camper, cause I only had to kill one placeholder to get him to pop. After a bit of a fight and much linkage, I took Centurio down and was rewarded with 3k in gil, a scroll of Quake and a brand new cloak! ^_^/

Limbus this week was a metal chip run. That is, it was a run that was a reward for a previous job well done instead of working on a Ultima or Omega pop set. It was simple enough – run through the area and kill anything that moves. The trick was killing them, as the monsters we were fighting had a bad habit of reraising 1-2 times each. The run netted each member about 3 coins and one point, not a bad haul really.

DeAnn and the kids leave tomorrow for El Paso. I’m kinda bittersweet about it: I’ll enjoy the quiet, but I’m going to miss them. Thankfully it’s only until Sunday. Her family needs her, and my thoughts and prayers are with them and on their safe travel and return.