Goblin Love

Today was the pilot launch of the new intranet portal at work today. Everyone at the desk was bunkered in for a hectic day: two support analysts from portal, big cups of coffee and breakfast tacos were brought in to keep everyone content. It actually wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Most people that called in were wanting to leave feedback, something that is easily deflected to the feedback email address designed for just such an event.

I spent the greater part of the evening studying my Cisco materials while D was exercising upstairs. I’m still in the Introduction to the Cisco IOS chapter. I was reading a large chunk of the chapter that didn’t require any work in the router. Then I got to a part of the book that said, “If you’ve been reading all this time with a router on and ready for you, your router has probably timed out by now.” I look up and just then I get a time-out notice. Gooooood book. XD I got in a little bit of DDR while D went to go shower, then I logged in to get some fish turned in. I’m now less than 400 fish away from completion. I also won the Chocobo Hot Cold Game out in Altepa and got a 5 Chocobuck slip, Mahogany Bed, an X-Potion +1, a Parasite worm and a bunch of greens. Lastly, I completed the Bastok [S] quest that included the gnole claw I got from Friday. The reward: “Jeunoan Currency. Untracable” 10k Gil :P

I read a little more about he Bastok [S] storyline: it’s filled with intrigue. Almost makes me wish I would have signed on with them. Almost. One of the rewards for a quest in that story thread is an adaman ingot, the most expensive part of the new gobbie bag quests, so it’s definitely something I’m going to work on soon.

Static tomorrow. It feels like it’s been forever since we partied, but it was only the end of last week. Tomorrow is also April Fool’s Day. I’ve found some reason or another to stay home on this day for the past 3 years, and I generally avoided this day altogether most my life. I can’t afford to stay home tomorrow, though, so I hope my day is kind to me…