A Very Busy Weekend

(Oh great, another job to feed...)

Friday - celebrated with Ape at one of her fave restaurants (she aced her classroom observation!), then she watched "The Strangers" with her visiting uncle, and her sis and BIL. As with many movies of its ilk, the box practically screams "Inspired by True Events!" My standard reply is, sure, a guy once knew a girl. After the movie, Ape looked into it. The events in the movie involved a couple enjoying a quiet night at home being mercilessly stalked and eventually done in by three freaks wearing garish cloth clown-face masks. The inspiring events? Someone came to the director's house one time when he was a boy. They had the wrong house. Wow.

I logged in a bit to try my luck with the Citadel key again. I wound up PLing a random party when their leader Alta asked if I could help while they waited for a rep. I initially thought she wanted me to join and I begged off but then we got it sorted. I told her I wasn't going to stay long because I was here on my own business, then wound up PLing for an hour. I escorted the puller and kept everyone healthy. No major drama other than having to apologise to their PLD for overcuring her. After scooting I tried to get past Gate One, but the two soloers there and I were not enough.

Saturday I got up early and messed around. Fhox was helping Sharley with DRG and I decided to help. Helping meant flagging it myself and as I WHM'ed my fuzzy butt all over the midwest, I got about halfway there. But I had to log since the Collective was headed to a corn maze. Yes, it's as exciting as it sounds. But I'm trying to make Ape happy ^^. Later after returning, she took off for awhile and I logged back on. I finished DRG, got my crystal ball and *FINALLY* closed out the Amazin' Scorpio quest after flagging it like a year ago.

Later still, I logged back in and basically hung out with Phax. I helped him farm some Alchemy mats and skill up Ninjutsu. It took awhile to start because I offered to get him Hyoton: Ichi from Norg and the "shop" NPC was closed... But we farmed for quite a while getting him a number of Water crystals and other goodies. Also, he waaay overpaid for the scroll so I might spot him one more if he needs any other Ichi elemental.

I think this was when Dark, Damu Aleu and I had a great big chat about Mithra-Galkan relations. Mostly about why the Galkas seem to want to have relations with all the Mithra lol. This was probably my longest truly in-char convo to date and I got a kick out of it. I need to write up something about Galkas and their obsession with fine, flexible Mithra tails being a result of their dissatisfaction with their own thick tree-limbs. :p

Sunday I got a party with Log and several other GDers, plus Rizz, a Mithran Dragoon I don't recall meeting before. I was on SCH and there seemed to be a little concern from the group as we assembled that I might not be able to hack main-healing by myself as there was no other healing in the party. Silly shellmates! Don't you know me by now? Other than two MP warnings I called for I was able to stay on top of curing, regens and poisonas despite Log's frequent chain-pulls.

There were two bad pulls, both involving gobs. I died both times and Yalto and Stoik split the other pair. Overall I was happy with my performance and even got to try out Scholar's 2-hour for the first time. Not bad, not bad. Also, I slightly refined my curing strategy to try not to pull hate. I still don't mind getting hit but I know it drives melees nuts. I hope they were satisfied and that Budeko was able to keep things going. XP was rolling in and I made two levels and the rest did well too.

Sunday night was a big AR party and during, I happened to check FFXIAH. Ninja socks are back to 8k! So, I logged in afterwards and crafted like crazy, going to 31.2 and putting 6 stacks up. On a Fhox Broadcasting program note: Yes, I still watch Desperate Hosewives with Ape. But now, I'm engrossed in Brothers and Sisters and that doesn't end until 11, so I'm tired now /yawn