Weekend Intelligence: Presidents' Day Weekend

I’ve decided that from now on, barring a really slow and uneventful weekend where I have nothing better to do than blog (yeah, right…), that I’m going to just give the highlights of the weekend in one entry.

It must have been the vision of our forefathers that Americans could have as many three-day weekends as possible. It's the American way! ^_^/ So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

House and Home:

Saturday was a particularly yucky day outside, so we decided to stay inside and get the kitchen cleaned up and all the junk mail that’s been piling up all sorted out. Colin was still grounded, so he was obliged to do chores that were asked of him. Which he did like a champ. DeAnn asked him to clean the cat box. While he was trying to get the sifting container high enough to empty into the trashcan, he knocked the trash over, cat poop and all. Instead of complaining about it, he got some rubber gloves and picked it up all by himself in less than stellar outside weather. The whole issue that started the punishment was over his work ethic, so I considered the grounding over after that point. He done good.

Sunday saw us up and about late in the afternoon, we just barely caught the 1pm service at church. I’m glad we did. The message was on the necessity of community. Now I’ve been somewhat of a lone wolf for many years now. I just don’t like large groups of people and such. There were several years where I was completely content to not go to church and be involved at all. But even I was taken aback by the accuracy of the message. Hard to put what I heard back into words without slaughtering the idea, but let’s just say it was something a lone wolf needed to hear.

In Game:

Saturday night was a busy night for Soulfire. We kicked the night off with an early hunt in sky to pick up some random pop items before we popped some Kirins. No Osodes, unfortunately, but the linkshell bank got some nice things, and an abjuration for Crimson Cuisses (aka: Fasty Pants) dropped. There’s an even longer list of people for that than Osode. We stopped Kirins just in time to make it to Dragon’s Aery and watch someone botclaim Fafnir. Nikolai, Emmaline and Kerith helped me catch Moat Carp while waiting. I’m really lucky to have people help me out with this. I really appreciate it.

We ended the night with some Campaign runs in party. The dynamic in a party is very different from campaigning solo. As a WHM, people expect you to cure and raise them. And rightly so; you are, after all, playing a job that specializes in that aspect of the game. Too bad campaign really doesn’t reward those actions. To get the most out of campaign, you have to figure out how to keep yourself alive and deal out as much physical damage as you can. This is hard enough for a WHM, much less a WHM that has a party of people expecting you to help them stay alive so they can get experience and notes. Campaign battles are still relatively new, and I hope SE has plans on changing this aspect of the system to be more friendly to all jobs, not just damage dealers.

Didn’t play much during the day on Sunday – we got a late start. Dynamis – San d’Oria was largely uneventful. A few 100 coins dropped, bringing our sponsors that much closer to completing their relic weapons. Monster Trousers (Beastmaster Relic Pants) dropped in the last 2 mins of the run, so now I’m 2/5 on Beastmaster.

If only I could find the time to level it. I’ve been so busy with Black Mage. We went back to the bat camp in Newton Movalpolis and Amelisa got her level and Mage’s Ballad II. Aiming to go back out on Monday. Maybe I'll do some other things on Monday, too. I do have the day off...