Weekend Intelligence: Bach-in’ it up!

Well, I had the house all to myself this weekend. DeAnn and the kids went out to El Paso to spend some time with family and friends and help D’s mom take care of final arrangements for her aunt. I was a bachelor in my castle for a weekend! So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

House and Home:

It was my week to stay late on Friday, so I got home about the same time DeAnn did. We followed the whole “get to the airport 2 hours early” advice: hurried to get baby and boy and wife all ready to go, and it ended up being way too early. Knowing Mr. Murphy, if we would have gotten there any later, she’d have missed the flight…

I decided that this weekend I was going to do all the things that I can’t do with the rest of the family around. Anyway, since I was in the area, I decided to stop by my old theater and see some people I haven’t seen in over a year. They really fixed the place up! It has more of a modern Starbuck feel to it: they cleaned up the café and pizzeria, gave it a fresh coat of paint and added in two plasma screen menu boards. They also fixed up the outside courtyard – looks gorgeous! I ate at Peng’s and didn’t have to worry about getting on Colin to eat something. I tried to game a little bit, but my heart just wasn’t into it. I decided to go out MD’s (a place where several people I used to work with are working now) and won $25 off a drunk guy playing pool. I ended up buying him and several friends there a round of drinks with the money I won, and shot another game just for kicks. Made a quick stop at certain store ( -.^ ) before heading home and calling it a night. Shrade’s carousing skills rise .3 points! :D

I got up relatively early considering the drunken shenanigans of the night before. I had borrowed a carpet cleaner from a coworker last week, and decided to get the big stains hit while the family was out. One bottle of cleaner did the just about all the carpets, and I got up just about every major stain in the house. Ended the evening gaming with a large Canadian Bacon pizza from Papa John’s: I NEVER get to order Canadian Bacon! ^_^

By Sunday, I was ready for my family to get back. The peace and quiet was nice and all, but I was starting to miss them. Lucky for me, that’s just when they came back. They arrived back in San Antonio around 1:30. Getting back to the airport was an adventure in itself. The roads in this city change daily, so I had to find a different way back to the airport than how I got there on Friday. They were completely jet lagged (even the baby) and were out for the better part of the afternoon.

In Game:

Friday’s FNLE was Jormungand. I love them, but the 2-week dragon kick has been maddening. I’m so sick of dragons. Talon and I decided to hit up Centurio and Tribunus. We didn’t get claim on Centurio, but we popped a Tribunus and I got a Tungi for my BST finally. Followed that with a quick Ro’Maeve Illuminink hunt and got all three inks we needed in the course of 30mins. Went back to Quicksand Caves just in time to try for one last Centurio, but someone else got it. Talon needed to log off and I decided to go out on the town and see what trouble I could rustle up.

Saturday morning and early afternoon was largely game-free. I set up Talon, Keri and Shrade in the Centurio campground to track ToD while I shampooed the carpets. We did get one and Keri got her cloak, followed by a Tungi for her BST. Now we just need to get Talon his cloak (hoping sometime this week) and we’ll be set. I had a blast at sky gods later that evening: I had my beer, I had my favorite pizza, and I had my friends all in the same place. We popped a bunch of sets and I have a full Kirin set for the next run in two weeks. Hopefully it has an Osode with my name on it. I went to bed after trying my hand at being a MNK/WHM in Campaign. It’s just not as good as my WHM/NIN. I kept dying and it was hard to keep reraise on with the little MP I had. My last try with MNK/NIN didn’t go so well either, so I will just keep going on my WHM and leave the MNK experience for merit parties.

I was up kinda early on Sunday, trying to get Pentaspheres for next week’s FNLE: Divine Might run. SE has got to do something about the weather in Ro’Maeve, because it rained every flipping night during the Full Moon. I couldn’t get any of the pentaspheres, but I think we have one or two people floating around with them. I didn’t get back into the game until Dynamis – Beaucedine, where we did both an attestation run and a win run. Poor Jevot went home empty handed yet again, but at least we were able to salvage the night with several AF2 drops and a win. Rounded out the evening with Keri in Campaign Battles.

I have my first real turn at shift lead starting tomorrow at work. If nothing crazy happens, the day should be relatively light, but if anything major goes wrong, I’m gonna have a major headache by the end of the day. WalMart run will be going in there somewhere, too, and if time permits, I’m going to try to organize a farming Ulli sky night. We have enough Despot drops for 3 Byakko pop sets, now we just need the Ulli stones to match.