After spending a week doing some pretty heavy lifting at work, what better way to reward myself than to stay up until all hours of the morning dancing and having fun? Work hard, play hard, right? >.>; Between clubbing and the opera, I barely noticed the weekend go by. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights.House and Home
The work week was pretty brutal. The client site that I was at needed about 50 workstations torn down, reimaged, packed up, stacked up and shipped out. When I was almost done, they let me know that they'd forgotten to ask me to pull serial and part numbers from each of the workstations, so I had to unstack, unpack and record all the workstations I'd already done, and repack them and prep them for delivery. Very tiring!
It was a wonder I was able to go out that evening. D and I have been trying to get out a little more. We've spent the last two years living like hermits: who knew its almost impossible to get out with kids? >.>; We went out to a club that we'd tried out before, but had a bad first impression. The first time we went was on a Saturday night about a month ago, and they were having a radio remote night. That means they pandered to the crowd that listens to that station, and as much as I love "the best mix of the 80's, 90's and today," when I go to these kind of places, I'm looking for something I can hit the dance floor with right away. It was much better this time around, so first impressions aren't always best. Just don't go on radio night. :P
The next day was spend recouperating from the previous evening before our opera night. Since our show was The Mikado, a victorian satirical musical set in feudal Japan, we decided to go out to eat at Samurai Sushi for the complete experience. Speaking of complete experience, it wouldn't be a real weekend night in downtown San Antonio if there wasn't an absolute sea of humanity filling the streets. I mean, I know it's tourism that keeps this town afloat, but in one night there was a celebrity roast, a Mary Kay convention, Air Force graduation, Spring Break weekend and the opera. Downtown was NUTS. The streets were bumper-to-bumper, and just about every parking garage was filled to capacity. We got into the 3rd one we passed by just under the wire before it closed.
So we were a little late. By a good half hour. Which wasn't a big deal, as they always start on time by having the current president of the opera talk for a few minutes before they even start the overture. We might have missed the first 5-10mins or so. There were few problems we had with this performance... The first being that they accoustics, being what they are in an opera house, are optimized for operatic and orchestral performances.
The Mikado was neither of these: it was more of a musical than anything. Much of it was spoken, and the singing was not of the style that carried over the orchestra. Furthermore, they did not have any of the lines displayed in supertitles, as they had been in past performances. The end result was something of a murmur that was half drowned out by the orchestra. Imagine an unholy union between a cheap knockoff of work by William Thackeray meets the adult characters from the Peanuts cartoons, set to music that was constantly too loud. Yeah, it was like that. We left early simply because we couldn't understand what exactly was happening, and didn't feel like fighting the opera crowd to get out.
Sunday morning, we got up bright and early to meet with the wife of one of D's coworkers who was recently deployed to Iraq. She has a little one too, so it was good to exchange toddler stories over a good breakfast. After WalMart, we really didn't do much else for the day. It was one crazy weekend, and I was good to just chill out and relax for what little I had of it left.
In Game
Was kinda a shame that I didn't have much time to blog last weekend. So much happened in game. To quickly recap:
- Soulfire ground out several KS99 dragons, and one of them dropped a Wyrm Beard with my name on it! 1/3 Black Belt items, baby! Not to mention all the gil and such that goes with getting in on those runs.
- We also camped Fafnir several nights, and actually claimed him 3 of the 5 nights we camped. and 2 of those claims was me. >:D My computer has no lag, even when the zone is completely packed, so the dragon popped each time as clear as day. My issue the third time was I was too far away to cast Flash, but I saw him pop unclaimed.
- Finally, we leveled our "marriage mules" to 15. Only 5 more levels to go until they're legal. LOL!
This weekend was significantly lighter in game. We really didn't do much until Sunday, when we leveled BST. We started out in the tree, but it was simply too crowded. Seriously, that place has become THE place where everyone goes to skill up. So I decided to start scoping out a new camp. The mobs there were starting to get a little too easy, anyway. One guide suggested that a duo does really well just outside the eastern gate of Nashmau, so we decided to give it a go. Glad we did. Our rings wore in 10mins there, and we were getting chain 4-5 with little effort. After about an hour, we were over halfway done with the level, and decided to logout in Nashmau and call it a night.
So... The next two weeks looks like this: I'm onsite Monday and Tuesday and in the office Wednesday and Thursday. Then I'm traveling to Yuma, AZ on Friday to work Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and returning to San Antonio on Tuesday. I haven't worked an April Fools' Day in years, and am not about to start now, so I have PTO in for Wednesday. Then I work somewhere (I think...) Thursday and Friday before I get a taste of the weekend again. It might be a little while before I get to write to you all again, but I promise to keep you posted when I can! ^_^/
