Currents of Time

I don't think I mentioned that I finally finished setting up my room. So now all the lights are plugged in and working and the stereo isn't on the floor. AWESOME. And I taught my Dell to open .PDFs since teaching this thing to print is apparently outside the realm of possible things. VISTA. WHY. LEXMARK YOUR SITE IS SO USELESS. I can't get the Dell to connect to the internet, so I had to download Adobe's install on this machine, then transfer it to my old one. It was a bit annoying. I need a fax machine. A thousand curses upon Sundays.


Lately, I have found a new mind-numbing activity.


Fishing.


Yeah, that's right. Fishing.

No, not ice fishing. Online. FFXI. The usual.

It is the slowest skilling 'craft' in the history of everything. It really is. My brother's trying to get to 30 so he can try to catch a special fish to try and get a special item to try and fight a bunch of monsters to hope to get an extremely rare drop. It's taking a while. Aniko's fishing, too, and I, being bored and curious and mostly for lack of anything better to do, decided, why not? So now we all fish, but not all in the same places or at the same times. Aniko's collecting carp for a special item. I am also collecting carp, because that is what you catch at my level of fishing. Then I move on to ... also carp, but in a different area. All right!

Sometime in the last, uh, five years, anyway, they changed the fishing system! This is a good indicator of how much attention I pay to the updates and how well I keep track of what happens when. I have no idea. My brother only just noticed the boat time NPC in Mhaura (he's been there for a few years), and he asked me if there was one in Selbina and I couldn't tell him. Anyway, they changed fishing at some point, but I can't remember if the new way is really any better or worse, but apparently some people find the fatigue aspect of it annoying. Lemme tell you. I am sick of fishing long before my Mithra can't catch anything more.

SO YES.

FISHING.

my carp. let me show you them.


Ways to tell SquareEnix hates their player base: to get the super awesome fishing pole, you must collect carp. Oh, that is not hard!

Guess how many carp.

No, really. Guess how many carp.

50? No, not quite.

100? No, higher.

... 500. No, actually, it's a bit more.


..... 1000?? Nope, higher, still! Guess again!



TEN THOUSAND CARP.



F.U.S.E. IS A WAY OF LIFE.


If this entry weren't too long already, I'd talk about yesterday's Transformers: Animated, but as it is, I probably don't have anything to say that hasn't been said already.

In case you'd forgotten, I went with a class to Mexico earlier this month. Then I came home and immediately started moving, and was without internet and phone for a few days. But now I'm all set up! And unpacked! And classes have started again! And so it is time to ramble endlessly about Mexico. YAAAAAY. This is only part of it, because THIS IS TAKING FOR EVER AND I DO NOT WANT TO SIT HERE TYPING ALL DAY AAIUHRKJGMHT

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That is all for now. I am sick of typing.

HOUSING GET


:D :D :D


NOW I GET TO FREAK OUT FOR ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASONS. LIKE "OH MY GOD I HAVE TO MOVE OUT NEXT MONTH."




edit:
i will be getting a new address, which i will give out once i know it. (Well, I know my location, but I think I'm just going to get a PO box.) My parents are not going anywhere so you can still mail things to the address you have, and I will get them. (Also, I'm not moving out until I get back from Mexico, which is mid to late January.)


ALSO I will stop bouncing around and start being as coherent as I ever am soon. I rewarded myself with a copy of Crisis Core, and ended up picking up a copy of Shadow of the Colossus for myself, as well. I was looking at the massive wall of used PS2 games and ... yeah, shut up, I have no self restraint at times. (AT LEAST THE GAMESTOP IS ACROSS THE BIG ROAD FROM THE TOY STORE AND NOT NEXT DOOR TO IT, RIGHT?) Also, I saw a copy of Ōkami, which was really surprising, because I never see that game anywhere. But I bought mine when it came out, so I don't need it. That was just surprising to find.

Edit 2 'CAUSE I CAN:
Also, we're eating Thanksgiving dinner tonight finally. AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO WATCH WALL·E because it is adorable (and since I now own it, we don't even need to go rent it).

I AM EXCITED RIGHT NOW.

Edit 3:
To make today be pretty much perfect, my brother helped me find something that'd allow my computers to play all AVI files again. Finally.

So now I will be busy watching, you know, all of series 12 of Top Gear for the next day or so. GEEZ. *dances*