In The Home Stretch

Right so not counting today I've got 4 more days to slug it with judicial. Wednesday we have a meeting with the nut job that runs this department, so that will be a late in and an early out :). I'll be meeting with the HR person from the new job on Thursday, doubt I'll even turn up at the old job. Then there is Friday, pretty much rounding up what belongs to me, and turning in what doesn't, then will most likely call it a day :). So all in all not a bad week ahead. So in an effort to fight off being totally bored (pretty damn quiet at the old job) I spent the moring typing up a long assed email to Sy, had totally forgot that I hadn't told him about the job change or how the new house was coming along. I was pretty sure that I had sent him an email right back about 2 weeks ago, but it appears that it didn't send or I just spaced and saved it without sending. Either way it needed the latest news, so there it is.

March 26th is our offical closing date on the new house, I just want the movers to turn up, put all of our crap on the truck and get it there. While I'm totaly psyched about getting the new house the hassle of moving is just well suxors. I'm very curious about the new job as well, I'm pretty sure that I'll be writing my own ticket there and can't wait to get started, fingers crossed that I will like it and make a good go of it; we shall see.

Life in the EQ2 world: It truely amazes me how this happens. Basically I was getting a bit bored and directionless in game, reading the comments that other players are making in chat channels about this or that was getting a bit depressing. After the insodents of the other day I had started on a program of not taking the game too serious anyway. So I figured I'd spare myself some greif and turned off the chat channels for my past levels. Then I went about figuring out what I wanted to do next. I decided that this weeks obsession would be leveling my Fury, the week end was great! I got 3 of possibly the best PUG's I've had in game and Ratius just went along his way to leveling. What I discovered is I'm not too bad at the healing thing. I managed to solo heal 3 instances (all a few levels higher than my toon currently is)and got alot of things done for myself and others in the group(s). To me that is what game is truely all about, having fun with others who are having fun. No one pointing fingers when a death/wipe occures and folks genuinely having fun and not trying to lewt whore or accusing others of lewt whoring. Good runs, good exp and a renewed out look on game. I guess without a few lows, the highs wouldn't be as fun.

I also noticed that running my own guild is way better than filling in a spot in someone else's vision of a guild. Crimson Corsairs pretty much proved to me that guildies aren't always your friends, and some folks when you try to be a friend to them are nothing more than lecherious bitches in the end. Shut up and go with the program or you are nothing more than drama to them. In The Order we don't do that, everyone is always willing to lend a hand when needed but still independant enough to go about doing their own thing. We haven't been busting balls to level the guild but in a steady pace have managed to hit level 29. Big deal you say? Well it is, figuring I dug the guild out of minus 15 levels, then brought it up to level 19 before reopening the doors. So really in 5 months time just being steady we have gained 10 levels. Kudos to me guildies for that, there are about 10 of us that are on steady, more or less 5 of us (not counting all my alts that get in a shot here and there)doing the majority of the work, we have not done bad at all. Ryuuza (my senior officer) has really been good about reminding me that The Order is a no pressure guild and that she wouldn't want to be guilded anywhere else. OK sure alot of it is that I have a crafter for every need that keeps most around, but I think the fact that I have shown that a guild leader can be more than the figurehead of the guild, will turn up to help out the guildies and also make crafted items as fast as the can request em has helped quite a bit as well. I realize that alot of the pressure from game I put on myself. I won't be the first level 80 on either side, many folks have beaten me there quite steadily. I don't have to be anything except another pixel runner having fun. I feel pretty good about playing again, I always enjoyed the paper and pencil D & D that Sy and I played for so many years. I like doing something new in game, not all of my toons have done the exact same thing, not the exact same way. Some toons have done this raid or instance or finished that quest or the other. Each one has it's own personality and own set of experiances, in total I've experianced much of the games content, I'm sure with getting a few toons into the 80's I'll have seen alomst everything in one way or the other. All in all a good experiance (a big time sink) but a good experiance over all. Everything in life has it's ups and downs, much like life you brush yerself off and carry on. I managed to move on from GP and have pretty much become a distant memory to them and think I feak out Kouric, Rone and Koram when one of my alts runs past them, stops and bows or waves. Yep think I've been erased in the memories of my old guildies; that in itself is kind of fun :). So then on to CC, still get a tell or two from a couple of the nicer folks, but for all tense and purpose I've been written off from their end to. I've made alot of contacts getting out in the big bad world of Norrath, lots of folks wanting me to join their guild or just adventure and group. It's a nice feeling when you can happily accept or decline at your own leasure. Yep it's good to be guild leader, sometimes it's really good.