Karma is a Whore

I knew this time would come when my leveling streek would come to a screeching halt. This weekend my gf was with me like literally 90% of it. So I barely got any chance to even log on. Then yesterday I actually had a few hours between seeing her and me going over to her house to watch some football.

So here I am, online, looking for a party in Crawler's Nest soloing T crawlers. Exp isn't great but I have my exp ring on so I have to try and finish that off before it wears. I kill enough to finish off the ring so I'm happy while still looking for a party in CN. Finally with much luck I get a party just around the corner from where I was soloing, HURRAY! I get there, its a level sync'd party but unlike every other party I've been in, these people were only holding the level 42s down to 40 which was simply fantastic. Now I didn't have to worry about leveling too soon so I popped my ring after about 3 mobs. We were rolling pretty well and I didn't even have Screamin by us because we were doing so well. After a few more mobs we hit a spot where a beetle popped on us and the one mage got aggro and was having problems sleeping it so I brought Screamin over to save the day, no biggie. Well, this is where Karma is faaaaaaaaannntastic. I heal up the people to save them, lock hate pretty well onto Screamin and then BAM! my power goes out. Now it only went out for about 10 seconds so I'm sitting there thinking, ok, I can live with it just going out like that and just needing to restart my computer. 30 seconds into restarting my computer, BAM! power is out for good. At approximately 5:30PM on Sunday my power was out, and at 11:30PM on Sunday ... my power was STILL out. That's when I packed up a change of clothes and went to my parents' house.

Sadly there wasn't much I could do with just my character without a PL because it was so late and it would probably take me about 2 hours just to be lucky enough to GET a party. Instead I decided to just log on as Screamin and walk around CN for a bit and just chat with some friends that were online, namely Ara and ... drum roll please ..... ARCKK!!! Yes, Arckk is back again! I believe he has been following Ara in the quit and come back trend, rinse and repeat. I guess his Non-Profit Organization that he had a grant for finally ended because the company that was backing it got restructured so it was a pain to work with them and keep the grant alive. So now he's back to just work and school. Hopefully we'll be able to see more of him back on in the game again and hopefully see Disdain come back more, and then if I'm really lucky Hybrid will come back too since he seemingly lost interest in the game temporarily due to some personal stuff.

So here I am sitting with my own little posse of part time players. The ideas begin to spin around my head again .... Limbus, Nyzul Isle, Assault, ZNM, yadda yadda yadda. If only I could get these guys to play more like myself or even as much as Khrone does I would be exstatic because then we really could make a good little group. I mean I'd have a PLD, WHM, RDM, BRD, MNK, and a few of those can be very flexible on jobs. Ugh, but sadly I still have my goals of Maat's Cap. So much to do and not enough time to do it all in!

And going back to the the Ara/Arckk trend of quitting and coming back. Ara believes he has finally decided to call it quits. Hats off to ya chap for doing something that I just cannot do. Without being able to do any sports because of me needing to rest my knee I have nothing to keep me busy then besides spending oodles of money on PS3 and Wii games. I look at FFXI not only as a good time but a good investment. Yes I realize I've spent tons of money and time on this game, but look at how much fun I have at $13 a month. That's like 1 new video game every 5 months. With the time I would spend on that new video game I'm sure it wouldn't last me 5 months which is why I believe that FFXI is actually an investment into my "fun" time. I mean if I broke it down into how much I'm spending per hour I'm on the game ... I'm probably paying pennies per hour. (assuming 60 hours per month, which is an underestimate, and $13 a month, I am paying about $0.0036 an hour playing this game, so FRACTIONS of a cent per hour) Now don't get me wrong, I know Ara is going to read this, but I'm not trying to sway him of coming back again once his account is done. This is merely me stating why I play this game. I remember the 10 days I was without internet a few months ago ... I spent over $600 buying a Wii and a couple of games and spending time with that. Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii and I'm glad I have it, but when I'm missing my internet for 10 days and I go on a spending spree like that, its just not smart. Alright, enough explaining why I play this game. Hopefully when I get home tonight I will be able to log on and get some stuff done in game ... like finishing off my exp ring, AGAIN!

Weekly goal: MNK 44 by the time I help my gf move down to school this coming weekend.

Quote of the Day:
Could it be, are you actually back?!?!?!?!
- me talking about seeing Arckk back online for the first time