Loose Ends

I called the radio station on my way to work to get in touch with the phone screener gal. Turns out I won a pair of Spurs Tickets for my pumpkin story. I think I might take Colin, have a little father/son time whooping and hollering at a sporty thing. I’m not a big sports fan, but Colin likes them and I like having fun with the kiddo. I’ll stop by the radio station on Friday and pick them up.

Work today was a bit of a grind. It just seemed to be one angry call after another of people wondering why the issue they reported earlier in the week. It needed to be Friday three days ago.

When I finally made it home, DeAnn called me to say she was leaving early and would be home soon. ^_^ I tossed dinner in the oven and it was ready shortly after she got home and settled down. We played with Clara a little bit. She was having fun getting bonked on the head with her ball, running and picking the ball up and handing it to one of us. We tried to get her to simply roll the ball, but I don’t think she got that concept. She’s also been saying more words lately. She learned “book” and “cracker” recently, and very plainly tells us when she wants a drink (“cuppy” or “poppy” – haven’t figured out the difference yet), banana (“nana”), cookie (“cooky”), when she wants to be picked up (“P” or “picky”) and when she has already dropped a #2 (“poo-poo…”). Getting ready for the vocabulary explosion.

I started my game night by getting the rest of the recall scrolls and ate them on WHM. Yay! I also came up with a way to catch up to everyone in party tonight. First I did a few campaign ops to get the calculation right, then I popped the last charge on my empress band and threw it away. I bought an emperor band before heading out to Whitegate and logged out to conserve time on the charge. Once I knew everyone was online and gathered, I logged back in and we went to our camp. There were already 2 BLM there killing rats. -.-

Ya know, its sad that the game has come to this. Everyone wants lots of BLM for their endgame stuff, but not a single party will invite them anymore. Even with the update to increase magic burst damage and accuracy, people would rather TP burn with a party full of melees and a BRD than invite BLM. So what are BLMs to do now but solo? The problem is that there are only so many places a BLM can solo or manaburn, so the competition gets pretty cutthroat for camps. I’ve dealt with this before: rude JP players ordering us in /say or spamming me with /tells in autotranslate to “Leave,” asshats crashing your camp to skill up – the list goes on and on. And it’s caused by the nonexistence of BLM party invites and utter lack of places to solo or manaburn.

At any rate, one of the two BLMs left almost immediately when out party arrived. The other one hung around, brought a WHM pet out and tried to claim mobs before we could get to them. Ame tried to pull from the other side of the tunnels in an attempt to keep the exp flowing, but the rats over there like to run off and get reinforcements, and drag us through chiggoe-infested areas. She died a few times when she was just too far away to help. She also pulled a Lv83 NM that pops over there. That wasn’t pretty either… Eventually we established camp where we normally do, more or less on top of the other BLM and drove them out to the far end camp where Ame was pulling from. They eventually found out why we didn’t want to be over there and warped out. I feel bad, but a group of 5 people leveling is greater than one person leveling. We nearly ground out the entire level, and we’ll all ding next party.

Tomorrow is Friday, and not a moment too soon. I’ve been so tired all week from the time change. I’m like a zombie for the first three hours of the day. Hopefully I can get my clock properly set this weekend and next week will be a little easier on me.