The Deathgnome Strikes Back

The Deathgnome lives!

Yeah, now that I'm getting paid regularly again, I can finally justify renewing my Content IDs, and thus Satomi the Deathgnome (and Lifegnome, and Chefgnome, and All-Singing, All-Dancing Buffgnome) is now running rampant through Bastok. Why Bastok? Well, mostly because of the old "bug broth = monumental gil return" dodge - Deathgnome was also Skintgnome. Again. Still. Whatever. So now I'm currently ensconced in Bastok making bug broth and earning vast amounts of gil for it (2.5k to 12.5k in about a half-hour? I'd call that a win) so that I can afford spell scrolls and suchlike. Then I help dodgyhoodoo get to Jeuno (I know weaselbitch did it on her own, and dodgyhoodoo could probably manage equally well, but it's bound to be easier with three, particularly when one of them's using Sneak and Invisible for the last leg of the trip; for me, this is a farming mission, plus with the three of us we can nuke those bloody tigers and get the stone monument impression we need in Jugner Forest), and then it's back to Bastok and into that bloody tunnel. Deathgnome will advance past level 30, godsdamnit! Someday, I'm going to have to advance Bard past whatever the hell level it's at, but not right now - I want to level Black Mage, then White Mage, and get to a point where I can do the whole Telewhoring thing, and then I want to go and camp out in Buburimu, nuking leeches for that damnable ruby for the Summoner quest. Plus I could do with a Buburimu farming excursion anyway - nuking Bull Dhalmel for meat and giant femurs tends to be a good thing.

Today was nice and relaxing - mainly involved me giving Deathly Hallows a second chance (I didn't want to punt it out the window quite so much this time, but I still don't think it's a particularly good book), cooking steak subs for dinner and watching a few episodes of Buffy. It's so much more fun watching it with dodgyhoodoo than alone; laughing's always better in company, and I really had forgotten how good an episode "Doppelgangland" is. On the whole, a nice relaxing Sunday. Just what I needed, really. Must do more of that. Tricky sort of thing to manage, what with rediscovering Sims 2 and FFXI at about the same time, but I'm sure I'll sort something out.

Speaking of Sims 2 - Sims 2 Bon Voyage looks like so much fun! I got into the Sims quite late, all things considered; after I lost interest in consoles (at around the original Nintendo stage) I wasn't much of a video game person for quite some time. When I did get into the Sims, I pretty much stopped at Unleashed but always rather wanted to have a look at Vacation, even if Superstar and Makin' Magic didn't really do it for me. Then Sims 2 came along and kicked the living crap out of the original, and I'm not even sure I could take original Sims graphics anymore. Still, I did always want to send my Sims on holiday, and now I can! And I bet you can build your own resort hotels and stuff! Whoopee! Though the new 'Stuff' expansion coming out amuses me - Teen Style Stuff. After the horrendous disappointment of the H&M Fashion Stuff EP, this looks like it should at least be more fun, and the outfits shouldn't be hideous this time. So yay! More things to spend my paycheque on.

There's not a whole lot to say about stuff like work - it's ... well, not all that much like work, really. It's nice to have a reasonably low-pressure job for a change, you know? Without total fuckwits in the workplace? Most of the time? Seriously, if the worst I have to deal with are a couple of secretaries who don't keep me appraised of what's going on in my bosses' diaries, then I'm doing very, very well.