FFXI

Relic HtH is actually in progress! I have a fair bit of currency now, and 90% of the cockblock items. Just a few R/E drops off NMs in beau and xarc but that shouldn’t be too hard.  I have a decent amount of momentum building and it’s encouraging.

My current farming setup is MNK/WAR (Myrna), BST/DNC (Tinu), WHM/SCH (Anrym). It works, but I had an attack of crazy and farmed up, well a TH+1 sash for Myrna.  Add to the fact that I figured out that SMN can pretty much one-shot the statues with no worries, new and much cheaper setup will soon be MNK/THF (TH3!), SMN/DNC (for JA procs), and WHM/SCH. Should help me survive a lot better since the mobs were already having a hard time hitting me, and SMN is far far cheaper to use.  I was looking at a STACK of ladybugs a week, along with the zetas (2-3 stacks) and a stackish of sheep too.  That adds up and gets real expensive.  This way, all the gil I farm goes right to currency.

Doing a fair amount of progress on all fronts as well, we’re almost done Nyzul and that will help with SMN since it’s a magical WS and can’t be perfect dodged or invincibled.  Sweet.

Just need a bit of work on Tinu’s SMN to get it caught up (Garuda magian staff, etc).

Writing

Slow, but working at it. Music is as always my muse, but I started to drag my netbook with me to work.  I jot down scenes and rough dialogue that I edit later, it’s helping.

Real life (wut)

I got a new bed! My exciting life.

Apart from that, not much.  Health is okay, could be better.

Wow i’m boring.

Anywhoo, sleep time.  The bed is calling me.

Even right now! I’m camping Jailer of Faith.  SO MUCH FUN.

Anywhoo, mostly srs bzns time.

Japan was hit by a huge earthquake recently, and as a result of the aftermath they took a severe hit to their power infrastructure. To conserve power Squeenix shut off FFXI and FFXIV for two weeks, and Metal Gear Online did the same.  So for that time I decided to get off my ass and write, or at least lay down the last of the groundwork for it.  I got pretty far!

Well, sortof.

I got everything outlined, even stuff that will happen after the Big Story (still unnamed!), fleshed out a lot of characters and whatnot.  Also found out that it’s nearly impossible to write on the weekdays thanks to work.  So, weekend warrioring it is. I still fully intend to post everything of the Big Story here, just going to be a while. It’s four books, and the first one alone is 40-50 chapters of varying lengths that mostly just puts down the foundation for the other three.  It’s still very intimidating to look at all this and realize how much story this is; it’s a lot of story and I have some stuff that I need to keep in mind.  Like for example I had severe asthma when I was a kid, to the point that PA class was nearly impossible without a pump.  As a result of this, I have a *much* lung capacity larger capacity and I tend to… not put commas where they normally should be.

I was taught to put commas where you should normally take a breath and I need to take less breaths when talking than normally thanks to the inhaled steroid treatment.  Makes sense now? :p

So the story will happen, i’ve got a bit written.  More to write starting next week (saving weekdays for editing I think) since this weekend is a write-off due to FFXI and FFXIV being back up.

But before I get to that I promised some hot computer action.

Shortly before the downtime my computer starting to act worryingly.  After returning from work I found my computer off, which is odd because I leave it on to log MSN stuff.  My phone can occasionally miss a few messages.  Boot up, no ram.

Insert scream here.

Cas lent me eight gigs of ram from her old system and this is what ended up frying.  Needless to say I felt like total shit.  I swapped them around, nothing.  I slapped in my old ram and it finally booted, went into bios and screamed again; voltages were about 10% higher than normal.  I concluded quickly that my motherboard was finally hitting the dust.

Wow good thing i’m not writing today I sound like crap.  River of bricks! (Brocks?)

Anywhoo, good news is that I was already planning a good future-proofing upgrade. Long story short here I put in the HSF wrong and the sound card in a semi-reserved slot… and didn’t put all the risers in.  I got demerits on my geek license now, and I deserve them. Luckily the good people at MemoryExpress (local comp shop) tested, remounted, and retested everything for me and now it works!

Fuckedaround is dead, long live Lazarus.

• CPU: AMD 1090T 6-core
• Mobo: Crossfire IV Forumla
• Ram: 8 gigs of G.SKILL ripjaws
• New 120gig SSD HDD for Win7/FFXI/FFXIV
• Scythe Mugen cooler

Lots of old parts too: PSU, sound card, two HDD, monitors etc all the same as before.  Now for the scary part.

I can’t get it at 100% load.  At all.

As of right now I got three FFXI clients running, Firefox 4, and Foobar2000 and it’s running at a paltry 26C with 18% load.  With FFXIV it only gets to 33C and 35-40% load.

FFXI I was able to bump to it’s limit pretty much, three clients at 1440×900 with double background resolution steady at 30fps unless i’m in port jeuno.

FFXIV is nice at 30-60fps at drawing quality 8 (80%), no AA, background quality 5 (highest), and all the pretty effects except occlusion (which is broken).

I have no games right now which pushes this beast, and with nothing pushing system temps higher than 50c, this system will last me a very long time unless I get stupid with it.

NO I’M NOT LAZY SHUT UP.

My last present is coming in nine days; a kitchenaid mixer thanks to my stepmom and dad (who are both awesome btw)

Here’s a teaser however: PINK. FOOD PROCESSOR.

Toodles

*flail*

Anyway, here’s what happened in short form.

• Summonker is 75 and prints gil. Huzzah!
• Patch came out, PLD and DRG are now 80, yay!
• I HAVE A TV :D
• I can watch TV again
• And play PS3
• eeee
• Helped Dar and Karm rebuild basement after flood
• Still didn’t see a bunch of movies I wanted to see but I HAVE A FRIGGIN BLU-RAY AND THEATER SEATS SUCK so i’ll buy them
• List of movies to buy from this summer: Inception, Scott Pilgrim, possibly Kick-Ass
• I forgot to mention the flood huh?

Long story short I was heavily distracted. I’m better now.

…you can blame Mass Effect for that too, tho >.>;;;

That would be the work in progress!

So yeah they’re finally toast.

Waitin for the new ones to arrive, and in the meantime all I have are too-damm-small dress shoes.

I’m full of ouch.

Still planning to write up a storm this weekend tho, I need to see what kind of pace I can keep up.

That about sums up how I feel right now.

Anywhoo, ffxi.

I’m at the last two stages of my high damage magian hammer and greatsword, and can’t wait to finish both. I skilled myself to 232 greatsword and I’m pleasantly surprised by spinning slash so far. It’s nice consistant dmg and skills nicely with club.

SMN is still 65 because Tinu and Anrym need Diabolos and Fenrir. And this is because i’ve been totally obsessed with Magians. @.@ I totally forgot about Nether Blast and it might just be my ticket to leveling safer. Somnolence is another thing, it might help me kill tigers that much faster. In any case, my damage shot up.

I’ve been writing again but I’m severly hampered by allergies and fatigue. At least I can refocus all my energies that I put into magians into writing for now. I need to put more time aside for writing, I want to write that long-ass story dammit. My goal is at least a chapter a week.

The wedding is Monday, and I still need to draft things. I’m nervous but I’m dedicating the majority of the weekend to it.

I consider myself ready for cap 80 now. Anrym is leveling in sync parties, my weapons are almost complete. I’m not seriously planning a stribog for drg, but I’ll consider it if I want a break from smn.

That’s all for now.

Quick update: got to stage six in my magian high damage weapons, and did a trio of kclubs last night. No drops but 150k. SMN trio is so damm easy.

Bwahahaha

I DARE YOU ALL

More later, I just got rickrolled by the radio ._.;

Yeah.

Busy.

>.>

More eventually!