Fated Strife

I went to bed last night pretty early, I know I fell asleep either before or around midnight which was good. I woke up around 05:00 this morning, I’ve been up since too!

It was snowing some this morning, not a whole lot but still it was visable, I thought fo sho that it would snow alot more but it hasn’t yet, it’s raining outside now with a temp of 40.1F.
I played FFXI quite a bit today. Went after those AF hands, again. I had someone who needed them also, but he had to go to work, though he went in late due to the “snow holding up traffic” Unfortunately neither of us got the coffer key or coffer today. I messaged him and asked if he wanted to try again so we’re going to try to on Friday. Hopefully we’ll be more successful then.
I did manage to FINALLY level up to level 55!! YAY About damn time too, I’ve been trying for 4 days to get to 55 lol. Now once I get to 56 I can wear my healers pantaloons! They is some sexy pants too!
I’ve worked on my Linkshell site some, feel free to join up too.

I went out and dropped off my nexium prescription and picked up some toxic hell to eat. Been talking to Gina since then. She watched the Grudge, said it was interesting. According to Fangoria magazine there is a 2nd one coming out.

I ordered some nifty things the other day, that includes my chocobo inbreeder shirt. They are as follows:

• Final Fantasy XI Atlas Official Strategy Guide Book
• Final Fantasy XI Chocobo Plush Doll Figure
• Final Fantasy XI Jilart No Genei Original Soundtrack
• Final Fantasy White Mage Pin

All ordered from GKWorld. They have some awesome stuff there! From anime products to video games, gonna be a repeat customer there too!

Well I guess that’s it for today, gonna go to bed here in a minute I believe, getting purdy sleepy.

For some unknown reason I am *still* sick. My lungs hurt so wicked bad and today I slept from 07:00 til around 20:30ish and I still feel tired.

I played some FFXI last night, almost leveled too, the bard that was with us played the wrong song and got us aggroed and 4 of us were killed. That includes me. Fortunately Spencer was able to raise me and then we got the other raised and such. I am around 3.5k TNL. I am still trying to get my Artifact Armor Hands quest finished Can’t find anyone who will help, most of the time it’s japanese people on so they don’t understand me so I’ll have to try to get on during english speaking folk time. Quite a few people I know in game are sick with some flu like crap, which is no fun. I uploaded some more pictures to the FFXI gallery.

I’ve been talking to Gina fer awhile, which is good

I am probably going to go to bed shortly, I don’t even feel like playing my game which is shocking.

I guess that’s it for now.

Well this week hasn’t been too wonderful

My illness hasn’t went away, I thought it was clearing up then it hit my sinuses and then it’s back in my lungs now My left lung has been having pain, at least I think it’s my lung, hurts when I breathe in and has been doing occasional pain. Earlier today it felt like the wind got knocked out of me and was gasping to get air in.

My internet has been having intermitten problems as well. I can’t quite figure out what is causing it either. Just randomly seems to have problems where it seems to drop the connection. Seems to have fixed itself somewhat.

I’ve been playing some FFXI too, it’s fun. Making some friends on there which is a good thing I reckon. I’ve also opened a site for my Linkshell, http://www.crystalfear-ls.com/forums, not completely done yet but still I plan on getting there.
I tried to do my WHM Artifact Armor hand quest yesterday but that didn’t work too well. Well actually it did after we got some people helping but then one had to leave cause his wife was in labor then some Quadav linked and we couldn’t take two of them on. I tried again lastnight but couldn’t get anyone to help as they already had other commitments going on. Earlier yesterday morning I helped my friend Spencer with getting some of his AF stuff. He, myself and one of his friends hit Eldieme Necropolis and got his coffer key and stuff then we went to Castle Zvhal and was waiting on one party to finish fighting the Dark Spark and then it was our turn and we were ready and his friend was coming to us then dozens of demons surrounded his friend and killed him. Pissed us off to say the least, not about the dark spark, but due to the fact that something that was NOT supposed to happen did. The demons should NOT spawn in large groups like that and they certainly don’t travel through floors.

I didn’t get to sleep until around 13:00 yesterday, I was going to go with my mom to virginia to get groceries and stuff but I was too tired by the time she was ready.

I ordered a shirt last night, a Chocobo Inbreeder shirt. To fully understand the shirt you have to view the comic and know that it is a reference to Final Fantasy VII where you breed chocobos to try to get a golden one. The comic is just hilarious, to me at least. You should also check out the VGCat’s comic archive, they crack me up.

Anyways I guess that is it for now. Finished watching Chicago Hope and talking to Gina now for some sleeps.

At the following time, we will be performing FINAL FANTASY XI
server maintenance on all worlds. During this period, FINAL
FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

*The client software will also be updated at this time. Once
this maintenance is completed, the client update will start
automatically after logging back into FINAL FANTASY XI. Please
follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

Thank you for your patience.

[Affected Period]
Feb. 23, 2005 from 9:00 to 12:00 (PST)
*Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]

- New Chains of Promathia missions will be added.

- The new region “Lumoria” and the new area “Al’Taieu” will
become accessible.

- Many new quests centered in the Chains of Promathia areas
will be added.

- Major improvements will be made to the fishing system.

- Bargain-priced multi-tickets for barges and manaclippers
will become available.

- New routes and times will be introduced for Carpenters’
Landing barges.

- Mannequins will become available for purchase.

- An NPC that will store artifact armor as a key item will be
introduced.

- The limit for adjusting existing abilities using Merit
Points will be raised.

- Additional categories will become available for the use of
Merit Points.

- Shields will reduce the amount of damage taken instead of
negating all damage.

- The white magic spell Banish will inflict more damage on
undead monsters.

- The white magic spell Banish III will become available.

- A new job trait for white mages will be added.

- A new job trait for samurais will be added.

- Logging will become possible in the Misareaux Coast.

- Logging results in the Lufaise Meadows will be adjusted.

- There will be additions and changes to some of the items
required to fulfill guild contracts.

- A new key item called “Alchemic Ensorcellment” will become
available for purchase with alchemy guild points.

- The number of guild points required to purchase the key item
Anima Synthesis will be reduced.

- The number of categories available for search comments will
be expanded.

- NPC chat filter settings will be refined.

- Various other fixes.

*More details of this version update will be made available on
Feb 23, 2005.

Today was just no fun. I woke up sometime this afternoon, well actually this morning then this afternoon but whatever. I expunged some nasty mucous and blood from my nasal cavity today, globs of it. ick
I wish whatever this crud is would go away.

Some software updates went awry today last night whenever and killed my kernel. So I had to recompile it, took long enough, thankfully most of it was salvagable. I really didn’t do much today, hurts to sit in a chair or such, makes my back and neck hurt really bad. So I layed around and played some FFXI, I’d rather have been on here chattings but no
I managed to meet a few new people and such on here. Joined a few parties and got some exp, unfortunately the party I was last with decided to disband 1500pts away from my level up!!
Arliman’s Rise of the ZIlart Photo Journal (ZM-13), one word.. AWESOME. *WARNING* DO NOT VIEW WITHOUT BROADBAND, tons of pics and it will tear your computer a new ass on 56k.

I guess that’s it for now, nothing much else to talk about. I am going to sleep for a few hours then get up hopefully during the day and get to talk to Gina and such.