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Danielle, 15th June 2005

Loony BoB — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:44:06 GMT

Her first day in chat!

[21:56] noone would marry me

wanna bet, lady!?

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said...

Loony BoB — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:16:56 GMT

A fair few people have asked me why I've taken a week off staff and I can't seem to settle into an answer. There are all kinds of little reasons and none of them are negative towards the staff of EoFF or my relationship with Danielle.

I can understand how people would jump to those conclusions, I suppose, but it's simply not the case for either option. I've not been unhappy with staff, in fact I've been quite happy being on staff and I enjoy it far more often than not. As for Danielle, we're great. We're about to get married, and it's a pretty exciting time, I gotta say. These next few months may be stressful but when it comes to how much I love Danielle, nothing has changed - I love her every day, with all I have.

My reasons are less obvious (although some are still easy conclusions to come to). I'll try to list a number of them here, as best as I can.

I wanted to focus more of my time at EoFF on getting to know people without having the titles of Administrator and Developer sitting above my posts and messages. I often get the impression that some people spend more time looking at those titles than they do considering me as a friend or a person. This goes for both those on staff and those off of staff. I wanted our chats and our messages to be more focused on being social than anything.

I wanted to test myself and see if I'd lose my trout. Being away from staff, not knowing what is going on in the staff forum, not being able to do "my job", it's always something I've wondered if I could handle. So I wanted to give it a go.

I want to rely less on the staff forum. I find myself posting there so much. I wanted to see if I could keep up my high, regular posts without the reliance on the staff forum. This also rather unintentionally forced me into reading more threads in more forums, and creating a few threads I would not have probably started if I was spending my thinking about staff duties. Kind of ironic considering that I always feel that one of the top staff duties should be encouraging discussion, huh?

I wanted to continue working on avoiding stress. While I feel I'm out of my stressed out state, there have been occasions where small things have made me snap straight back into it and I realise that it's not such a simple thing. I felt that doing all of the above things, and avoiding staff duties in general, would help me ensure that the stress doesn't creep back in once more.

I wanted to have a break. Just to have a break, to know that I've done it. It sounds a little silly to many of you, I'm sure, but having been on staff for as long as I have, knowing I check into staff every day of my life, it feels right that I have a little break.

There are more reasons. I won't go into them here, but they aren't as important as the above ones, as much as I like to make a big deal about small things. :p In an ideal world I'd just come and go as I please but I know very well that staff doesn't work like that, and I opted for one week off while having a chat with a good friend (cheers man) who set my mind at ease about reasons I shouldn't take a break.

The length feels about right. I would love to have gone for as long as I wanted and take it one day at a time, but there are good reasons for me returning soon.

As for how successful my break was in achieving all of the above... I'm mostly happy with how it went, really. Whether or not that means it was as successful as I'd like it to have been, well, I don't know. I'd say it was about 80-90% of the way there, at least. It was a good thing. :)

Finding a decent pair of sunglasses in Scotland is a bitch.

Loony BoB — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:37:52 GMT

Aviators, aviators, aviators, and oh, would you care to see the aviators? Urgh. Finally struck gold at Jenners. Although I'm pretty sure I just spent more on a pair of sunglasses than I've spent on clothes in the past three years. xD

doop doop

Loony BoB — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:23:15 GMT

A lot of things are getting to me lately, and in some cases a little more than I care to admit publically. Some things are making me paranoid, and almost everything is making me stressed out. I suppose I'll make a vague attempt at listing them off and going through each thing one by one. This is a venting, people. I don't need help or anything, I just like the weird little idea in my head that someone out there is aware of my thoughts.

Firstly, my job might be gone in October. Our company didn't win the contract and that means I go through the TUPE (Transfer Under Protection of Employment - basically all people on our account transfer to AGT, who won the contract) process. That could lead to me being made redundant by the new company, or it could lead to Computacenter - my current employers - offering me another role. I'm hoping AGT will give me a role, though. If neither company keep me on, then, well... bugger. I'll probably end up having to finally look for a better job. Heh. The timing? Oh, it's due to happen in October. Two weeks after the wedding. I should know what's happening well before then.

The wedding is a source of stress, too. Cancellations are understandable but it makes me quickly realise how few genuinely close friends I have (EDIT: to fill in the seats of those close friends that can't make it), and that's a bit of a downer. I mean, I have a lot of people I'd call friend, absolutely. We're probably still going to have a full house. I know peopl who are asking to go, almost daily (often in jest, but hey). Still... I really will miss certain people who can't make it, be they friends or family. I'm sure I'll enjoy my entire day, but right now I'm just at the stage where I'm praying that my closer friends will simply show up.

Friends are a source of stress in an odd way that I'm not sure how to explain. I mean, I think it's just that I don't like to mix work friends and my personal life. I go out drinking and have a laugh with my workmates, they know that I help manage some site, they know of things relating to it, they know about Danielle obviously and they're coming to the wedding, but I don't talk to them about anything I would consider private. And then it dawns on me - who do I talk to about that stuff these days aside from Danielle? I need more friends who I can speak to about anything.

I did, however, manage a good long chat with Nicky last night, which was awesome. I'm super-tired as I was shattered from a hard day's work and I stayed up 'til after midnight talking, and now I'm back at work again... but it was worth it. A good laugh. I wish I could do this with someone local, on a more regular basis. Not someone from work. I dunno. I used to talk to Nicky, Dan, Sarah and then of course there was Sus back in the day. I have Danielle now, but I want someone who isn't in a relationship with me that I can talk to. It's kind of silly, I guess. I don't know.

I guess this goes back to something I said at the end of the first paragraph - I just like the idea that there is someone out there that really wants to listen. Someone I can trust, and someone that I see as a good friend. There are loads of people that I know I can trust and that I see as good friends, but I'm not sure how many would be eager to listen to my trout. I mean, look at this thing so far. I can get like this rather a lot sometimes.

What else? Money, I suppose, was an issue until last night, since it was basically confirmed to me that I couldn't afford to bring Nicky over myself and even with my help it wouldn't work out if we combined our financial muscles. In the rather obvious way, I'm sad about it. In another way, though, I'm happy - it means that she can put her money towards more important things in her life, and that's a good thing. I can also ease my own financial strife and focus on helping out the friends I have coming over in July and September, take them all out for a nice dinner, stuff like that. I may be a tight bastard and (as Nicky always said when I was a teen) a massive capitalist... but let it not be said that I'm lacking in generosity towards those that mean most to me. I mentioned somewhere that places don't make me happy - people do. I stand by that. Nothing makes me happier in this world than being amongst friends I love. Not that I'll tell them I love them. That'd be weird. :shifty:

Oh, and the transfer of the contract (work again) means I lost my paid-for course by my current company. It was in the approval stages and they rejected it (which they are within their rights to do, sadly) the second they found out the contract was lost and I might not be working for them much longer. Heh.

The flat is falling apart, as some of you know. I look forward to repairing our living room carpet and getting the wallpaper, bathroom and kitchen all redone (perhaps redoing the kitchen from completely scratch, too). Money money money. Not sure what'll come first, that or the honeymoon... we'll figure something out.

Sleep has been horrible lately. I keep waking up at around 5am and I don't know why. I'm blaming the daylight hours of Scotland during the summer for now, but I think it's probably also a result of all the other stress. NOT HELPING.

Sometimes crappy things are happening to people I care about, too, and I want to help but I don't know how. But that's just the way things go sometimes, I guess.

Looking forward to the good things, though. I've saved up enough to pay for my half of the wedding, now I'm helping Danielle with her half. It's going to feel amazing when everything has been paid for and we know when we are done with the wedding that we won't still be paying it off later on. It also means I can spend a little more freely on the greatest podcast crew in the world when they get here in July. Gotta take the good things where I can.

I'm sure I'll feel better in a few days, maybe when I've had some better sleep and a bit more veg in my diet and so forth.

Cross-posted from Facebook. More likely to be read on here, somehow!

Loony BoB — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:26:34 GMT

A lot of people have asked, and I've already gone through the below in various levels of detail to about a dozen people. Here's something to satisfy your curiosity. It's LONG...

So I wanted to propose in the snow during one of our spontaneous midnight snowfights we sometimes have. Thankyou, Edinburgh, for somehow managing to make me go through an entire winter without snow for the very first time. >=( After that, it was a case of thinking of new ideas. Danielle had already made it clear: No restaurant, no big public area like Princes Street. So basically if I took her out at all for any other reason I knew she'd be suspicious... *shakes a fist*

Anyway, a random burst of heat appeared a few weeks ago but either Danielle wasn't interested in going out, she already had plans or else I was doing overtime. Easter was the next planned time so we could have a few days off to be happy about ourselves, but then the weather went sour and Danielle didn't want to go out, and to be honest neither did I!

Then came this weekend and it wasn't bad, so the first glimpse of sun on Saturday morning and I got her out of bed early (for her - so 10am) and convinced her to get ready so we could take advantage of some good weather. The plan was to get her into Princes Street Gardens, have a hot dog and slushpuppy (a regular thing for us during nice weather) near the fountain close to the west end, then go to the National Museum of Scotland which is at the far corner of the gardens. That would give me time to spot a nice slightly less populated area and then catch her off guard.

In the time it takes for a woman to get ready, the weather is almost guaranteed to change. It got cloudy. "Do you think we should just stay in?" she says. Grr. Cursing the weather for a good half hour, suddenly the sun went through our window. I could only see cloud, so went down to check the other side of our block of flats and it was blue sky. So plans were back on again! Phew. Time to get ready, again.

In the time it takes for a woman to get ready, the weather is almost guaranteed to change. We got downstairs and it was cloudy already! I convinced her we may as well go in for some fresh air anyway. Onto the bus we went, and got to the city and walked to where the hot dog / slushpuppy place is near the playgrounds and fountain.

Or, where it was. One look down there, one look at the weather, and feeling the cold already, Danielle just went "Oh. Well, shall we go to McDonalds?" This romantic day was not going to plan AT ALL. One thing did help, though. When the sun disappears, the weather gets cold and it's around 1-2pm... everyone goes to McDonalds and everyone goes out of the park. There was a big queue, and that gave me time to suggest we just splash a bit more on lunch and have it at Vittoria's on George IV Bridge, which is conveniently across the gardens.

Out we went. "Just one minute, it's really cold. Can we go into that New Look store I only just discovered has opened while we walked from the bus to the gardens? Because I need a jumper." So I reluctantly agreed, knowing this meant we were more likely to go up the streets than through the gardens from New Look. Needless to say, I was getting a bit frustrated as she rummaged through the dresses, tops and coats sections looking for a jumper. After she tried on a coat that she couldn't afford, I convinced her I was really hungry and that she needed to get a jumper and go. She did! Hooray!

Into the gardens and it was exactly as I had anticipated - relatively empty. Still pockets of people but nothing major. I walked her up behind the stage area across the sort of raised walkway thing and said I was also feeling the cold and that I wanted to get my shirt. She apparently didn't hear me, as she later told me she thought I was getting her some chocolate! Danielle slowly walked away and I frantically looked for the ring box. Offering her a drink of Powerade in the hope she will stop walking away, she declined. I said "Hold on, come back, I just want to get my shirt on!"

I found the ring box, got it out, opened it up and she just looked at me and laughed a little as I got down on one knee, very nervously, and she asked "Are you really doing this?"

I had a lot of things planned, notably what I was going to say. That went out the window, big time. It was something like "Erm, you know I love you, and I hope you love me... want to live with you forever and hear your voice every day..." - from the day I met her six years ago, I have not once gone through a day where we haven't talked on the phone, Skype or in person - "...will you marry me?"

I can't remember if she said "Yes" straight away. I honestly can't remember. The only part I remember is when she said "Aren't you supposed to take it out of the box and give it to me?"

"Oh, yeah, right..." So I did. And we were engaged. Cue nervous laughter as we walked back through Princes Street Gardens.

Introduce me to some somewhat obscure music.

Loony BoB — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:38:43 GMT

Go on. I do love music by artists that are well known in their area but not huge enough to be global. At the moment, some of my favourite stuff to listen to includes Alphabeat, The Naked and Famous and The Feelers. Gimme the names of some other bands and artists that don't have any US/UK top 10 hits, stuff like that. I'm talking bands that get to around 20-30 with some of their singles and not much better. Maybe even far worse. But still good stuff, obviously. Go go go.

I am very whistle-y today. Doop doop.

Also, if you don't know Alphabeat or The Naked and Famous, definitely trial some of their music on YouTube or something. Yay for them.

Control yourself - take only what you need from it.

Loony BoB — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:30:29 GMT

Jiro made a thread about blogs in the staff forum and it got me thinking about... well, blogs. I haven't posted one in a while so I figured I may as well. Here's a very quick and pointless run-down on what's going on in my world.

I went to the Isle of Arran on Saturday for a nice trip, partly because some of Danielle's family were also going there, partly because it was a means to catching up with Mo & Abbey who we met there last time and partly because it was a nice place to go a day after Danielle & I celebrated ouf 5th anniversary. It was a proper delight, although the amount of activity I did on the weekend made Monday evening one of the most boring nights ever. I think I abused Facebook fairly well that night to pass the time. The thing that occured to me post-Arran is something that surprised myself about my life. Kids.

No, not my own kids, I don't have any of them and don't intend on having them for some time to come. But kids in general. Hanging out with Abbey and Louise that day for a while and having a proper laugh, it made me miss having younger people to hang around every now and then. The great thing about younger people is they are very talented at being stupid and silly, and I enjoy doing this on occasion. Now, I'm not saying I want to be like that every day, or even every week. Danielle is certainly silly enough for me to get the odd taste. But then it dawned on me that we don't know any kids. It's a weird thing. We just... don't. Abbey, at the age of fifteen, is probably the youngest person I know in this country and even then we only meet up once a year during those trips to Arran. Do we know anyone younger at all in this country? Perhaps someone on EoFF, but I don't think so... and there is Adam, Abbey's brother, but I don't really know him, he does his own thing. Danielle's youngest sibling, Ben, is 16.

When I was in NZ, I knew loads of kids. Like, they were everywhere, man. I even have a couple of little nieces over there now that I've never met, and my sister has a third due any day now. They won't be coming over with her to our wedding, though, whenever that happens. This means it is extremely unlikely we'll have anyone at our wedding that will be 18 or under. Great for legal drinking and all, but not so great for the idea of flower girls and whatnot. But so be it, I'm okay with that. I just find it so weird that after spending nine years in this country I do not know any children whatsoever.

I rather enjoyed my time hanging out with my younger siblings in NZ and we got along great, and I would have no problem babysitting anyone or just talking to younger cousins or keeping the kids of visiting families occupied and making sure they don't get into trouble. So for me, someone who has no problem getting along with kids, I find it a little sad that I don't know any. I'm not going to go out of my way to meet them, that's creepy. But it's a shame, because while Danielle is most certainly one of the silliest people I know, the great thing about younger kids is that they don't roll their eyes at me when I do something stupid, they just enjoy it with a good laugh and I do the same for them. I guess I just miss the silliness of youth. It's a nice break from the boring old seriousness of us elderly. xD

And that's my blog entry for the day, I guess. I shall try to remember to do them more often (and probably fail).

What the hell, guys.

Loony BoB — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:21:46 GMT

STILL no retirement threads for Rye or Kishi? EoFF's members are slacking. I'd do it myself but apparently people get all whiney when a staffer makes these threads. As I found out last time I made a thread for a retired forums staffer. :p

Today I finally bothered to finish my FFV game.

Loony BoB — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:47:09 GMT

That means within the past year (as in 365 days, obviously, being 2011 and all) I've completed FFV, FFXII and FFXIII - all for the first time. :D Not bad! I'll probably also finish FFIX for the first time in the next month, so that'll make four in the past year. Before now I'd finished VII, VIII and X, for what it's worth. I'll probably re-finish those soon enough, too - or at least the first two. Not sure if I'll ever play X again for a long time. Just don't like Yuna and Tidus. :(

I was thinking of making it my new year's resolution to also finish FFI, FFII, FFIII, FFIV and FFVI this year, but then I remembered that new year's resolutions are stupid.

As for FFV, I found it to be one of the more satisfying FF endings I've witnessed. I quite enjoyed it. I definitely enjoyed the game itself, too. I love the FFV job system better than any other, with the possible exclusion of FFXI.

Today I won the internet.

Loony BoB — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:59:24 GMT

'salright.

Winter sucks.

Loony BoB — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:31:08 GMT

Because I get tired so much earlier than usual. I hate that! I'm falling asleep before 11pm, and that's just weird for me. I'm not enjoying it one bit. Time I'd usually spend going online and playing FFXIV or chatting with people has lately been spent watching TV instead. I'm barely remembering to have dinner. This never happened in NZ, it's just the Scottish winter... it gets dark so early and having to close your windows to keep the heat in also means you get a real lack of fresh air circulating into the flat to keep you awake. For anyone who says it's not winter yet, Scotland only has two seasons, and it's definitely not summer anymore.

In FFXIVland, I've not spent as much time on it lately mostly due to the above, and also due to the lack of people who are actively playing during UK hours. I'm considering getting random people into our linkshell or at least partying up with random people a bit more often instead of sticking mostly to those that are already in our shell. I think is something that, in FFXI, I would only do because others encouraged me to do so because they already knew others anyway, and were used to it. This time, I'm the most experienced (FFXIV-wise) person in our shell and it's a foreign position to me. I find myself really wishing that Murd, Miriel and Ouch! were already playing so I could pass the leadership role onto them. Either that or else if Shawtiie was playing, since she had a real gift for getting to know random people and starting parties and all that.

It doesn't help that either I don't understand the party system or nobody else is really using it at all, meaning there are no parties to join. I'll have to read up on it. From what I've heard, it's a brilliant system but at the moment mostly it's only used during Japanese peak hours - which are the opposite of mine! D'oh. Maybe people are also avoiding parties due to soloing being so easy, which is what most people think. Personally, I think it's mostly down to the completely different way of working parties in FFXIV. At the moment, fishing enemies isn't really a done thing... parties roam around, finding enemies and taking them on where they stand. Also, it's still largely unknown where the best leveling spots are, which means that parties are hard to please. The lack of level sync also forces people into leveling at slightly different rates, which at the moment doesn't seem to be dramatic but it could become an issue. We'll have to wait and see.

Despite all of this, I still do enjoy the game. I think it's just a case of it being so new that not everyone is on the same page right now when it comes to how to go about getting parties, and that can cause problems. Obviously.

Have you played? Do you enjoy it?

Loony BoB — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:37:54 GMT

This is a (long, now that I finished!) rant about trolling! And also perhaps people who are just easily frustrated by a video game and like to talk about it a lot.

Obviously (for some, not all - but yeah, note the category this blog is in!), this stems from my recent reading of / posting in a few forums throughout the web.

Basically, I'm wondering how many people have a purpose in going to a forum to slate a game they don't like. I can understand people who do like the game but don't like parts of it slating those parts, but a few people here and a massive amount of people at other forums I go to don't tend to point out the parts that make them like the game despite this. My challenge to them is to ask them why they are still posting in that game's forum. Do they post in the forums for all games they don't like, doing similar things, or is there a special reason they feel the need to post in that specific one?

I don't like FFX that much. I've posted in the forum occasionally, sure. I've expressed my dislike for the characters. I've actually enjoyed a lot of the game though, and have also pointed out the things I find good about it. But in the end, I found myself not liking the game much and therefore decided to not post regularly in that forum. If others enjoy it, good for them - they shouldn't have to validate their interest in the game to me, though. They shouldn't have to defend the game. Maybe they can debate specific parts of the game, but some people aren't there for that.

There is the commonly touted "I want to like the game, but..." - no! No no no! This is silly. I'm sure you could want to like every game in the world. Hell, there are few reasons out there to not want to like a game they have access to (the biggest probably being elitism, dislike of an idea behind a game or something the game represents) on some level, but really, if you find yourself not liking the game - wanting to or not - then you just don't like it. It's not for you. Time to move on.

ANALOGY TIME! I mean, I want to like mushrooms, but I don't. Simple as that. Mushrooms are in a lot of meals I otherwise thing I'd really like. Same with asparagus. Still, I can't have them. I want to have them but know I won't like them because of the mushrooms and asparagus. Does that mean I wander about telling everyone they shouldn't like that meal? That they should hate it because it has mushrooms and asparagus? Hell no. If they like it, great. Some people then go on to say "But if I raise hell over the fact that there are mushrooms, maybe the mushrooms will get removed by the chef!" Well, maybe. But then there may well be a lot of people out there who liked the mushrooms wanting the mushrooms back. Perhaps you just need to start focusing on a different meal - one you like! END ANALOGY TIME! Okay, back to where I was. Yes, I edited in this paragraph after doing the rest of the entry. Heh. This may mean I may repeat myself. If so, oops!

"But I have my right to post in this forum and warn people to not buy it!" - Why would you do that? I'm sure I don't like a few games that other people like. I don't think there is any point in me trying to convince others to buy the game. What makes me the master of knowing what others want? If there are people out there enjoying the game then let them do just that.

To me, it's just frustration and trolling. Frustration at buying a game or investing time - even merely investing interest - in a game that they found out wasn't to their tastes. There are games out there which aren't to my tastes. I move on. It's okay, there are other games out there. This is a single game.

Some people then point out that they are trying to change Square Enix's style of gaming, when it comes to FFXIV/FFXIII. But again, what about the other people who like this style? Leave it, man. Stop buying games from Square Enix if you feel they're consistently bad. I sure as hell wouldn't spend money on a series if I felt they were becoming consistently bad. Spend your money on things you feel you'll actually enjoy!

Some people will scoff at a game despite not playing it. This, for me, is the ultimate troll. Just go. Really. I mean, they go "but I've seen how the game works" or "but my friend plays and..." - so what? Let your friend post if he/she wants to. If not, leave it. As for seeing the game, seeing is never the same as experiencing the game first-hand, otherwise none of us would buy a game, we'd just watch someone's replay of it on YouTube. That's stupid. I can't think of a better word for it. It's just stupid. If they have the cash to spare, they want to buy a game, they have access to the game and the system it plays on... they'll buy the game, not watch a YouTube video. Think of your favourite game. Would you have enjoyed it and learned everything about the gaming experience if you had simply watched it on YouTube? Perhaps you should begin posting at IMDb.

Basically, if you like another game better, play that game. If you think there are dozens of better alternatives, play those games. If you feel that you have completed all of those games and want another game to play... and that this is your only option... do something else, play another game genre. Maybe even do something outside of gaming and posting on forums. There's a whole wide world out there, and if you can afford to play every RPG (or whatever genre you prefer) released, perhaps you might consider investing in travel. It may open your eyes to other things and other people you could spend your time with when there are no games released that are to your liking.

If you do like the game, post about it.
If you don't like the game, post about it once or twice and move on.
If you want to like it, but don't, then you don't like it. See above.
If you like the game but don't enjoy the game, trust me, you don't like it. See above about wanting to like it.
If you do like the game but don't like certain things about it, post about the things you don't like but also post about the things you like.

Yeah, I suppose I'm about done now. Can't quite think of anything else to say, really. xD Yay for repeating myself repeatedly.

Only 700gil, 1400gil for a +1!

Loony BoB — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:40:50 GMT

I think I must have sold about 80-100 bronze needles by now. Barack Obama has bought a bronze needle +1 from me. Hell to the yes.

Something that passed me by in late August.

Loony BoB — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:55:20 GMT

I've now been registered at EoFF for over ten years. Go me? Probably actively posting for just as long, too. I think I've only taken one month off, so yeah... crazy.

Server Maintenance!

Loony BoB — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:12:27 GMT

Which means I get away from FFXIV for a little bit. Well, three hours, anyway. Which is great because something I want to watch is on TV in half an hour. :D Anyway. Final Fantasy XIV!

My first impressions were pretty much what I expected - the only major changes from the open beta are that the story has been expanded, you can go to more areas (presumably - I can't verify this as I've only played for a day so far, I'm still too weak to travel that far) and that - most important in my eyes - the user interface has vastly improved. Hardware mouse, crafting and selling, it's all so much more fluid. I'm glad for that. There are some additional leves - or perhaps I didn't notice them originally - and crafting for some reason seems a lot easier than it was beforehand.

In a day I've managed to get Marauder, Miner, Botanist, Carpenter, Blacksmith, Armorer and Alchemist all through to level 5. I'm very happy with that. My physical level got to 12, too.

It's lacking in the social side at the moment - I must concede, I miss the amusing antics and silly banter that Danielle and I got up to in FFXI when playing alongside the likes of Lev, Kentarou and Shawtiie. But it's still early days and I'm planning on getting a few more people into our LS than just the four of us that we have at the moment. Fingers crossed, everything will continue to improve on all grounds.

What else? Not much to say, really... it's an MMO, it's not supposed to move that fast, really. ;) Danielle and I plan on going around and getting all the Aetheryte we can soon enough, and then there's also regional leves - of which I've not done any outside of the one given to me as part of the storyline. I don't think Danielle has either. So that's sixteen quests for us to do as a duet, which is great. :) Maybe we'll find a nutter to bring along with us. xD Who knows.

Anyway. Day one over, maintenance on, and time for a nice break to focus on other things! I haven't completely lost my life just yet... :p