Wyvern = Guud! Lizardman = Baed!

Kinda a rough day at work today. Not going into specifics, but it has to do with doing too many other peoples’ jobs for them and getting in trouble for me doing one of their jobs wrong. -.- When I got home, I sat down to play some Xbox and Clara came up to me. I really wasn’t in the mood, but she shoved my arms out of the way, crawled up into my lap and just sat there. Normally she’ll try to take the controller away from me, eject the disc tray on the Xbox, or change the channel on the TV or turn it off and on repeatedly, but not this time. She just wanted to spend some quiet time snuggling with daddy.

That calmed me down a little bit. D got home and I vented to her a little. I feel bad because I know she didn’t have the greatest day either, but she was very attentive to me nonetheless. I had dinner practically ready when she got home, so we ate up quickly, played with Clara a bit, and got her ready for bed before static started.

I decided to try out a new camp in static tonight. There are some very squishy wyvern pets just outside a ruins exit – where we have been camping. When we got kills, they were VERY good experience. But just because the targets were squishy didn’t mean the walls guarding them were. Of the four pulls we made, two of them involved linking some rather nasty Mamool Ja, causing a swift and painful death. We decided to go back to our rat rounds – back to the drawing board…

At least we still had enough time to level and skill up. I got to eat the scroll of Stonega III that had been sitting gathering dust in my storage for nearly a year now. I think we all capped dark magic skill and I’m about .5 from capping elemental as well. It’s kinda funny: we all know that for the first 5k of the next level is skill-up time. The kills slow down to a crawl, but we don’t have to worry about falling behind where we should be. Some competition showed up in the form of someone with a history for mob-stealing and MPK, so we avoided him until it was time to call it a night.

I decided, before hitting the hay for the night, to check the moat carp market and see what else I could get. To my surprise, there were 20-something stacks on sale, and I bought all of them for a decent price. Then I went to San d’Oria and got a few there and bought some from a bazaar by the moat carp NPC. It wasn’t enough to finish, though… I’m at 9942/10000… 58 fish to go – that’s 4 stacks and 10 singles. I’m so nerve-wrackingly close, but I’m not gonna pay 3k for a stack of fish. 2500 is expensive enough. I’ve been working on this quest off and on for over 3 years, one more night won’t hurt me. I can wait for tomorrow after my studies to finish.

Speaking of tomorrow, there’s a Dynamis – Windurst going down. As much as I’d like to be there in case a Monster Helm drops, I have to study and finish this chapter if I want to play on Friday. I also have to poke my wife into doing her exercising. She’s really enjoying it once she gets going – it’s the “get going” part that is hard for her.