How many merits4 that?

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It's always a good day to try to kill Bahamut. Here he is in all his glory. He wasn't so hard but I hear that the next version is much tougher. I saw someone doing a run for him today but we were only just able to get the cs for the slivers on Sunday so I wonder how they got through 3 promys in one day? Who knows. (edit: the next version is totally different thing, Apocalypse Nigh is the next fight which can be done with 6 people and is rather easy but fun. I did my 3 slivers in one day too so it wasn't so hard. Promys are CAKE now!)

I am about to go do a Beseiged and I am at a loss as to whether to finally get the Penitent's Rope or continue saving for my really cool item that I want that's far more money? I think I am just gonna get it and be done with it. That means that I will have to sell my Spectral Belt which gives the most -enmity of all belts, and my WHM will miss it, but -3 enmity ain't so bad with +5 INT and +5 MND.

Tonight I am going to do a Xarca run too so might as well get him ready early. I am maxed out in Elemental Skill (8 points) and in Ice Potency(5 points). Next in line is my Freeze 2 which I think needs only one more (3 points) to be maxed but I will need 5 merits for that one point.

I am getting along a lot better with my current manager than I was with my last one and I hope for great things from work but I am going to try to keep my mouth shut there. It's working out pretty good so far.

Man! I am SO sick from this cold. I feel awful. Even caffeine idnt helpin.

Well on the upside, my THF finally got Feint. Ya, ya, you guys cowed me into it. If the great THF leaders of our ls use it, it can't be all that bad. I used it in meripo tho and I can't say I noted the difference. But WOW is that Accomplice ability ever useful! I saved the WHM and the uber WAR many times when they had pulled too much hate or there was a link or something. I used it so much that I had to move it to the top of the Job Abilities list.

/poke :)

I need some help

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Well I tried to get ready to head on up to the fourth level to get my slivers for the Bahamut Version 2 fight and oh ya I forgot about the NM at the end of each level so, pfft. I guess I will just have to wait for someone to offer up some Promys before I can get my slivers.

Nothing new in work but I have to say that I really overdid the drinking Friday and that night after yelling at my sister for really stupid reasons and getting kicked out of her house when she drove me, I caught a cold. It's so stupid. I even saw the old tattoo girl there that night and I gathered from her gaze that she wasn't all that un-interested anymore, but I was already too sloshed to make anything happen. I wish there were a coffee side item with a squirt of diet coke you could order. I also wish they wouldn't look at you like you were a fright kite when you ordered water with coffee. I got her number but actually now that I am checking my phone and my notes, it isn't there.

Oh well, the saving continues.

Good groupage!

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This is a group shot of some people that were in our old linkshell. We went to a wedding, online, of an honest to goodness married couple. I also got a group shot of the people that helped me with Bahamut but lazy me doesn't want to go retrieve those photos just now.

Still waiting for the next conquest tally coming up. I have tried going over to Ru'Lude Gardens for the second cutscene that will allow me to venture into the Promys for the appropriate slivers but no luck, I didn't get the cutscene.
I have Friday off but since I work Saturday early in the morning, I am not going to be able to go to Dynamis. I betcha that BLM belt drops too and I miss out. Oh well, if I wanted it bad enough, I would commit to it. That's probably what that girl is thinking who hasn't called me. I would call her but she lost her phone. I asked her about it but she walked away like she was unwilling to give me her new number. Whatever. I think I am reachin for her but I don't want her to have the pleasure of hearing me plead. So I haven't and that's that.
Half of me thinks I ain't tryin hard enough and the other half says just forget it, everyone else would.
So now I have maxed Ice ability and maxed Elemental Skill so my BLM is uber. My next goal is to get the BLM coat +1 and I am not to far off from that. When it happens I will just stop using Errant gear altogether for BLM. I still need the Temenos item though and about 14 more Ancient Beastcoins. It amazes me to see people with +1 BLM AF hat like that was worth it. Hah. Still, I can't say I am reaping the benefits of my Assassin's Armlets +1 since there aren't any that I can see so maybe I am goofy. I would like to get my hands on that Homam Corazza though. It is bad ass and though I don't believe in doing a lot of dmg as a THF since the job is angled towards evasion, I do believe that having triple attack and double attack maxed and haste gear in tow along with those is probably the direction I will take if I ever start working hard on THF stuff again. That Boxer's Mantle is TOP on my list of things to get too! That is MUST have! Some people would rather have +10 attack and to those I say meh think what you want. I also NEED to have Brutal Earring for my /war sub but "Boy, that's a lot of Ancient Beastcoins you need HOHITO, where's your Limbus linkshell?"
On a better note, I am getting healthier and staying sober and being with that last girl has made me feel more responsible and somewhat attractive. I know now that I need to get my own place and that I have to control things that are pleasurable including my drinking but I don't want to start taking risks and have nothing to fall back on cuz I don't feel like I have a whole lot of time left to pick myself up and try try again when I fail.

You can sit by me!

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This is me and that Ancient Quadav is the dealership that is working on my car tomorrow. [Insert evil laugh here]. Normally I wouldn't fret too much but I am now gonna be in the hands of the customer service manager and if he screws up my car I just don't know who to go to next. The nearest dealership is near Orlando which is about 2 hours away but I hope it doesn't come to that. I have a history of stepping on people's toes but that's normal for me since I need room to breathe but in this case room to breathe may end up in a lawsuit against the dealership, that is, if I knew what the hell I could blame them for except not doing their job which is to maybe fix my car... if they really want to...
This time next year I seriously need to learn to change my own oil. Owning a car shouldn't mean a visit to the mafia for their protection money. The worse part is I don't even know how to act. If I am super nice it comes across fake, and if I am my normal self, which right now to them I would be mean, I am a smart-ass. Even if I don't talk I feel like I am ignoring them and then that must be why they are pissed off.
Well, guys wish me luck.
In other news, screw Feint. Feint is for magpies. Have a nice day. Hello maxed ICE ability, woot! I was saving my merits for Feint but getting THF/WAR invited to Dynamis when the leader is THF/NIN is like asking your momma if daddy could cook this time. So, so much for my THF and maxing out his ability for Dynamis, BLM's Ice ability is going to get much more use and in fact when I get some more merits, I'm gonna max out Freeze II next. One of my old online pals just came back and he was pting with me and this other guy last night. We had a pretty good time of it in Caederva Mire. We were going at chain#17 or so and we really could have just kept on going. We has like the whole eastern half of the main area to ourselves and boy did we blow through some mobs. It was easy pickins and low exp per mob but we still managed 25k or so exp before we were done. I was using my WHM and we had WHM RDM NIN MNK MNK SAM.
Earlier that day I had been trying to get AM 44 out of the way but that is a very tough fight. AM 42 was rather difficult and we did that first thing and I was very surprised by the Supertank strategy used for that fight. I had tried that once before but the PLD must not have listened to me and he up and Flashed the mob and whole alliance went to hell inside of 3minutes. That was the last time I try to get an alliance for somethin. Still, after beating AM42 we were lucky enough to get several tries at AM44 Nashmeira's Plea. This fight involves Raubhan. He is a BLU that will remember what you hit him with and will reraise twice. If you hit him with overall melee damage during the first two fights, he will be IMMUNE to melee damage on the third fight. We died several times. We just coudn't stun his Eyes on Me move enough times. When he did his Azure Lore 2hr, Eyes on Me was deadly. I could point fingers but I will just say we had a tough time. I was BLM in that one.
Later, I hear someone doing the Bahamut fight and I join up and sure enough we get the full alliance out there. This fight is so ominous that we decided before hand to do a dry run. When you click the green displacement area, you get thrown right into the fight and you get 45 min to win so the leader didn't get her chance to go over the battle plan. I suggest a dry run where noone uses their 2hrs so as to save them for the real attempt ahead and we all go in. Well as it turns out, we were doing great damage and the healers were doing outstanding in keeping the tanks healed. Don't ask me cuz all I was doing was throwing out the mega spells till I was out and then I noticed Bahamut was at like 30% and I was like "2hr" to which the response was " yes yes yes yes , etc. So 2 Blizzaga IIIs later he was down and we were like woo hoo! The downside was that it was Sunday so we go over to Monarch Linn, take a group shot, go to Ru'Lude Gardens, get the cs with Ealdnarcht or w/e and then find out that after the next conquest tally is when she will give next cs. A week later! Conquest update is Sunday mornings! So bally hoo and on I go to find something to do other than drink cuz I drank too much Saturday on my day off and no girl.
I decide to start looking for that danged Warhorse hoofprint. I checked last week in the JP website and it says that it was in Caederva Mire then. I asked about 3 days ago in a shout and someone said it was in Wajoam Woodlands. Therefore, I decide that the best course of action is to chocobo it through Bhauflau Thickets. If it was in Caederva Mire or in Mamool Ja area I was just gonna be out of luck. Can you believe it! I find it not less than 5 minutes after and sure enuf I pop the Quartz Transmitter on it and [Walah Turban], I am Corporal rank.
It was after this that I almost fall asleep and find two NA guys lfp and I ask them and then I get the rest. I was real lucky with the RDM though, since he was WHM at first I was ok with just doin 2 WHM party and healing mp etc but then he changed to RDM and really it was easy meripo from there out. I told the one guy in /tell that those JP don't like to give in cuz he was NIN but he was looking to merit for a long time. I explaind that in my experience they won't be the first ones to say quit. That's what I like about them though is that they are SO proper. Unlike some monkey people I won't mention that we all know about that are not Japanese but are conspicuously just as alien and probably don't smell so good cuz they got manners that compete with their food.
My parents keep naggin me to get a wife from Central America and those woman are very hard-working but in fact I feel that a Japanese woman would be best in class if you get me. Especially if she had JP button! :O

Audi 190hp whoas

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Well I have finally maxed out my merits in Elemental Skill and I have enough merits to get that one ability they all find so useful, Feint. It's strange that they don't want too much DOT going on in Dynamis but Frost is the same exact thing as Feint and can be cast non-stop on mobs. I guess the hard part is making sure noone DOTs one of the slept ones.

I leveled my WAR a bit today and he is still using his nice GSD but it always surprises me how fast people will open their mouths in exp parties like before we even get started. How are people supposed to try hard when people go, nice /thf sub, where's your /nin? One JP responded to the crack that there would be a serious loss in attack like -20 or something and the guy just shut up and she was allowed to stay. NAs really are better off not talking to JPs about stats cuz they just come across as stupid. We were in a RDM> DD/NIN pt though and we were supposed to be saving MP by taking hits through the shadows. Well in stride I ask if I can /whm since that would help with curing and add Blink but they just sed no. With AF and Divine Seal I would have at least halved the MP spent by the RDM but NO... war/whm is just too stupid-looking to be allowed a chance even in specialty party where noone is making any sense. The RDM spent about half an hour curing the crap out of us as hate went everywhere, (ie. no tank) and I almost never got off a Sneak Attack at all because the mob was always moving. Well, in retrospect he probably blames me for the RDM quitting but /whm would have worked in that group!

At work I got a low score on one of my monitorings from my new boss but I am sure it is because I took a day off recently with pay. The company hates it when you do that and it's understandable.

The Audi dealership just did service on my car and after returning it , the Check Engine light came on. I told them it ws perhaps their fault but they disagreed. Then they asked me to pay for the diagnostic to find out what the real problem was and then they found a problem that costs $400 to fix. So I paid it and counted my blessings I guess that they weren't REAL goofballs about the whole thing. By paying, I supposed that my assuming it was their fault(for the last 8 months there has been no CHECK ENGINE light on> how could it POSSIBLY NOT be their fault since they just did service on it) had perhaps rubbed their feathers the wrong way a little bit. My guess actually is that they needed their "protection" money cuz they came out with recommendations and I rejected all of them cuz I wasn't ready to spend. Well they MADE me ready to spend! So I paid them and got my car somewhat better and with new oil and some new hoses that were very hard to get to and hey that costs money.

Today, the check engine light is on again. :(

What a racket! I just recently wrote how they messed up my car too. I should have left them alone but I am so forgiving, I thought if I go in there and pretend I am a new customer maybe they will start fresh and do a good job but no. I am not sure what they want but I AM sure they don't wanna see me again as a customer.

the Crag of dem

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I am supposed to meet with my Adventuring Fellow in one of the Crags for her next upgrade but I have to pull her out and use her more often for that to happen. It's slow going.
Last night, I was able to re-unite with old friends in Karaoke. This one girl looks so hot she is like a mack truck when she looks at you. She sings good and hunts her man and may drink a lot but never quits. She is cool. I have her number too so I plan on calling her. I even told her last night that I would and she sed ok. I can only hope I guess but hey I better keep that old date truck rolling if I even want to have sex again. Sometimes it seems so tedious to me.
At work I am with a new manager but my old manager still managed to cough up two more zeroes as like a goodbye gift to me. It used to be so ominous to me to have 3 months in a row of bad quality and now I am up to like 5. Conclusion is ... upper management must realize he is fat cow belly dancer manager. Hah!
There are two kinds of people in the world, people that want to be productive and get paid for it, and those that want to appear to be productive and get more pay. That's all I have to say about that.
With my new manager I plan to do better but they did just train me in a new area so I hope they will abide with me until I am up to par on the new material. She is so fresh and young and the people are so new that I makes me want to help them somehow, but I am still going to keep my mouth shut. I know that saying the wrong thing, no matter how well intentioned, is unforgivable.
I still miss tattoo girl. I don't care if she punted me like yesterday's trailer hefty, I want in! I texted her last night but I don't expect her to ever call me again. I talked at length with a buddy last night and he recommended I move out. I really need to I guess. He is so intelligent and outgoing that I admire the crap out of him. I wish I could be like that. He also gets laid more, hence the admiration. It's better to get back with your old buddies after a break.
Dem's da breaks.

Twinkle toes

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Whelp, I decided not to take the plunge and so I am not going to move out after all. I figure, like many Spanish guys often do, that it's best to stay home till I have a reason to move out. If the girl works out and all then fantastic, I will get a place for us and we zoom, zoom, to the next room. But if she is just a fling, I don't wanna land myself into house payments that take all my extra money and blow it to the wind. Besides there's a lot of money there I could be spending on gifts and crap. I could barely afford beer if I lived on my own. (No not really!)

So now I am truly confused as to what step to take next in life.

Time to zone out in the Auction House I guess. Sometimes I could swear that someone is watching from their computer as I shop, learning my secrets.

I'm just paranoid I guess.

Today I had my car repaired and they found that the wheel was bent. How does a wheel get bent?

Just say no to crabs

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Well it was time to get all of my weapons that were B rated up to par for my war and this is a pic of me doing it in Qufim. You can take most of your weapons to skill 80 or so in this area by the way and the skillups are not so slow that you can't start them from zero even. Obviously, the big drawback is the time it takes to skill up and two handed weapons skill up much slower than the one handed. But the upside is that it's cool to see the messages pop up that say "Hohito learns flat blade!"
Hohito does learn even if it takes him a while.
Hohito also shaves.

Time to take the plunge

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It's time to make some waves. I brought the "what'shername" girl home,(I call her that cuz if she can't speak to me with respect I won't claim I am proud to be with her) and me and my father starting having problems. I know it's his house and all but please! How does having a little 110 pound girl bouncing around on my bed create problems?
Well, it got really bad. She happens to have a lot of tattoos and a bunch of stickers on her car and when I confided to my Dad that I didn't altogether trust her completely, he went ballistic and started ranting about how her guy friends were gonna walk in here and kill us and help themselves to our nice stuff.
Next day, I get kicked out.
I have to say I was a little shocked. But then I decided it was about time and hey this is as good an excuse as any and now I have to live on my own for a while. I guess it was about time. Funny thing is I could give 2 chits about what the price of Seraweels are nowadays. I have a million things to prepare for the coming week when I move out. OH boy what a new year this is gonna be!