Worlds Apart

It was a VERY slow day at work today. So slow that one of the network engineers joked about that being when they usually start sending the contractors home. ;_; It gave me an opportunity, midway through the year, to look back on this blog and read through it. It's interesting to go back and think "Yeah, I remember that!" and see all the mistakes in grammar and punctuation. I didn't edit any of the older posts, much to the dismay of the proofreader in me. It was also funny to see how warped my sense of time is. Some of the things that feel like they happened only yesterday happened months ago, and somethings that feel like forever ago aren't really that far past. Maybe I'm just getting old. LOL

Traffic was pretty light as well. After picking D up and arriving at the daycare, Noni had some questions about the video game we play together and I blog about. She also didn't know that D and I had met through this game, so it was story time for about an hour as we related our experience with the game, try to explain how this whole (previously unknown to her) world worked and answer questions about it the best we could without being utterly confusing. FFXI is pretty complex when you're trying to explain it to someone else. She seemed so interested in the game that I decided to add a link to the PlayOnline site to my sidebar and edit my blog from last night. I might bring my laptop tomorrow so she can see how it's played. It would be pretty sweet to have a friend locally who plays. :D

It was pretty late by the time we were done at the daycare, so we decided that it was to be our night eating out for the week. We went to Sea Island - I've had a craving for seafood lately. If there's one thing I can say for the place is that I never leave hungry. I don't like bringing home leftovers from seafood restaurants because it stinks up the house, so I eat all I can there. And that particular restaurant has rather large portions. :P By the time we finished eating, got home and put baby to bed, neither of us felt much like dancing... x.X

We logged in and decided to see what was going on in game. All of the stuff from the Castle Zvahl raid from yesterday had sold, bringing the earnings from the previous night to about 50k per person. That more than paid for the Black Cloak I bought in anticipation of leveling BLM. >.>'' I also heard that all the gil items from Ouryu had cleared, and there was a nice chunk of change waiting with Glinda for people who attended. :D I didn't get around to asking, but I will tomorrow. More gil? Yes, please!

Speaking of Glinda, Keri got a tell from her that Dynamis - Jeuno actually did get off the ground, but they were hurting terribly for more bodies, particularly WHMs and RDMs. So we suited up and jumped into dynamis a little late, but just in time to clean up and keep people propped up. Emma decided to come to Dynamis on her newly leveled 75WHM. She now gets to create a raise macro of her own! Congrats, Emma, but how am I gonna stay entertained in dynamis if I'm not scrapping you off the pavement on your BLM? D:! We were exchanging gear and raise macro ideas most of the night. I look at it as a rite of passage: if you sacrifice bits of your sanity and grind out 75 levels of WHM, you have earned the right to inflict that twistedness on your LS mates with raise macros. XD

The run ran late (English rocks...), so D logged off, put Colin to bed and went to bed herself. The people at the run were dropping like flies for the night too before Shado decided to try to eke out a win with a low-man strategy. We did actually win, and with maybe 16 people at that. I stayed through the win - I need the points. x.X No plans for tomorrow beside work and driving home. Talon is out for the next week and a half, and static has seemingly fallen to the wayside. I may decide to just say screw it and go campaigning on BLM. I want to put that one in the drawer already...