I have sort of been in a funk lately. I haven’t been posting as much as I would like.
The reason for this is because I had a follow up visit with my doctor. He wants to put me on an ACE inhibitor for my heart. However, the radiologist that I work for said that I should have my kidneys checked out by a nephrologist first. He thinks that the ACE inhibitor could cause some damage if my kidneys are already messed up. And yes, there is reason to believe that my kidneys are messed up…
My fun with Nutrisystem is put on hold at the moment until my health gets better. I wish I could still do it, but the doctor wants me to worry about everything else first. He said that the way my thyroid is right now, I would only get frustrated anyway. There is no way to lose weight with how far off my numbers are at the moment.
Anyway, on a more positive note, I have been voraciously reading through the Stephanie Plum series. 
I just finished Plum Lovin’ yesterday. Now I need to get my hands on Lean Mean Thirteen. That is still in Hardback though. I hate buying hardback since they are so expensive and I read them so quickly. I will probably use one of my credits over at BOMC2.com. That used to be Zooba. It is a neat place if you have a few extra dollars a month. Basically you pay $9.95 a month and they ship you a hardcover book that is on your list. Its sort of like Netflix, except you don’t have to return the book. And if you are in a real hurry to get the book, you can choose the purchase now option. I like it since I can pretty much find most of the books that I would like to read there. Plus it isn’t expensive at all. I just checked and Lean Mean Thirteen just shipped on Friday. So hopefully it will get here soon and I can start reading it!!
At the moment, my SOE account is suspended. I didn’t have the money this paycheck to renew it. 
In the mean time, I am keeping myself busy with City of Heroes. I might even check out Guild Wars to see what is going on over there.
So Friday night, I was extremely determined. I had gotten my chardok library update for my fabled a few days earlier. I had made a few attempts at Phrotis, but I was extremely tired at that point.
Friday night after raid, I figured that I would give it another shot. I don’t even want to think about the amount of attempts I made. I also don’t want to think about the amount I spent on mending. I think I may have bought the mender a new level 80 mount or two.
I had a dogged determination towards getting it. There were a few times that I had him down to a few percent. I know that you have to hit dominate at 1%. However, something would invariably happen that would cause me to wipe. Especially when he is spamming the elementals.
I ended up respecing my aa’s to how I used to have them before being in a raiding guild. They were set up so that I could off-tank since our real tank was pretty shitty. I went back to that and was able to keep pet & me alive long enough to complete it.
Now I am not looking forward to getting the epic updates. From what I understand, we are supposed to be doing VS on Monday. That sort of sucks since I need to complete PB before moving onto VS for my updates. Oh well. I guess I will catch it on the second time around.
I do have to say that the weapon really looks nice! I love the effect it has going of looking like it has lava flowing. Plus when the effect proc’s, it looks like I have fire raining down on my head.
I am so happy that I got the fabled. When I was back in Essayons, I basically had no hope that I would even get the fabled version. Now I actually have hope of getting the mythical!
Well, I finally made it to level 80 in Everquest2. I was the first person in the guild to hit it too. It’s a close call as to who will come in second. It will either be Jenili or Krystae. Neither one has been on at all today. Krystae and I were running around last night. It is a little difficult for me to help her with some of the quests because I don’t want to mess up faction.
Here is what I don’t understand. In every other expansion, I was always the one begging Krystae to help me. She was the one that was able to solo very easily. I always had trouble. My pets could never keep the aggro off of me. Now, Krystae is the one asking me for help. It just seems odd. She is even asking me for help on stupid easy mobs.
I am just so glad that the maddening dash to 80 is over. Now I can relax and enjoy the content. Actually being 80 will help me complete quests that I had issues with before. Now that several heroic zones are grayed out, I should be able to solo them with no problem.
My best friend Krystae is being bombarded by a crazy person with messages on x-fire. That person has he confused with someone else. Krystae Lunalupus has been my real life for almost 20 years. They are saying she is someone named Kristin or something like that. Krysta has never lived in Titusville, South Carolina, California, or anything other then where she is currently living.
This person quernica33 or guernica33 has definitely mistaken her for someone else. In a matter of 2 days, she received 54 messages from that person.
I was born in 1971 and Krysta is younger then me. Whereas the person they believe her to be was born in 1967.
She is actually getting fearful for her life since this person is threatening her. I suggested she call the police but since we don’t know anything about this person, we can’t.
He is quoting information off of her website and her myspace page. He really thinks that she is the other person.
Does anyone have any ideas of what we can do?
So I spent a nice quiet New Year at home. I wasn’t feeling all too well. My brother-in-law went over to a neighbor’s house for a party. My sister went to sleep really early as she normally does. I spent the evening/night playing Everquest 2.
It was really nice. I was able to get my toon leveled up to 78 and I also got a few old quests out of my journal. I hated To Speak As A Dragon. When I originally got the quest, I was on a much older computer and I zoned way too slow. So I gave up after only getting a few of the runes I needed. I just never got around to completing it once I got my new computer. The reason I finally decided to get this one done was because I wanted to get my claymore quest line partially done. Now that I am 78 I was soloing in Sanctum of Scaleborn with no problems at all. It was weird being in there. The times that I was in there before it was all insane. I was lagging really bad because of the old computer and all the people in there. Now I wasn’t lagging at all. Mainly because I was the only one in the zone. So I was able to run through claymore quest line in Sanctum from start to finish in only a few hours. I was doing the side quests in there as well.
Next up is Palace of the Awakened. I am not sure how that is going to be for me to solo. Hopefully, it won’t be too bad. Otherwise I will have to drag Krystae, Brazen, or Unbound in there with me.
The guild got a new Ventrilo server. I haven’t been on it yet since I haven’t been feeling well. I am nervous about going on there though. Its funny that I didn’t have any issues with logging into Ventrilo when I was playing Lord of the Rings. I guess that was because I barely knew the people in my guild there. Whereas I have been in this guild for a few years now and it would just seem really odd hearing them all of a sudden. I guess after talking to people over the internet for a few years, you end up with a preconceived notion of them. Then to hear them or meet them in real life changes all of that.
I remember when I got the chance to meet Fig. He is one of my internet friends that I met when I was beta testing for Sims Online. We became really great friends from that game. We still keep in contact. However, after meeting him, it just wasn’t the same anymore. It actually felt weird.
I guess maybe I am just weird. Anyone else meet anyone from the internet and felt the same as me?
Well, I have spent quite of bit of time in Kunark lately. EQ2 is interesting again. At least until I reach 80 and get bored again.
Krystae and I were running around in Kylong Plains today. We did a few quests there. Then we decided to get adventurous. We started running through some of the high end zones just to see what they looked like. We had to be really careful in some spots. We were able to invis through most of it, but there were some mobs that could see through invis.
Yesterday I didn’t play EQ2 at all. Instead, I was playing Vanguard. Krystae kept telling me how much it sucked. So even though I had gotten it, I just never got around to playing it. I think its a pretty decent game. Its not as bad as she says it is. I think that she is used to the class designations of EQ1 & EQ2 so she doesn’t like this game. The Warden in Vanguard is much different then what she is used to.
I am glad that I gave it a try. I can see myself playing it more often then she does. It gives me something to do besides just EQ2. I have the station access so I can play EQ1, EQ2, SWG, Matrix, and Vanguard for one monthly fee. I ditched all my other games that had monthly fees. I figured that I would just keep the station access since its the best value and money is pretty tight right now.
Today the expansion for Everquest 2 goes live. I can’t wait. I already know how great it is since I was in Beta testing. I can’t wait to make my Sarnak for real. I had made a Sarnak named Tarmeya for beta. I will probably use the same name again. I really had liked the way she turned out.
Its sort of sad though. Krystae is still in the hospital. So she isn’t home for the launch.
I just checked the website. They just announced that it will be an hour longer then they originally planned. I might as well go play something else in the mean time.
Well, I finally got around to patching the EQ2 test server again. I haven’t been on it in ages. I think the last time I was on test was before EOF went live.
Anyway, there are a ton of new things that I am really excited about. All of you altoholics will be very happy. My friend Krystae is already salivating.
There is a new playable race coming out in the next live update. It is called the Arasai. I made one on test. This is essentially the evil fae. I put a pic up in my albums of the Arasai that I created.
Along with the new playable race is a new starting zone and new housing zone. The starter zone is Darklight Woods. It has connections to Commonlands, Nektulos Forest, and Neriak. Neriak has been revamped. On the way from Darklight Woods, you pass over a chasm, if you look down in the chasm, deep down, you will see Naggy. Apparently he is now someone’s pet. I am not sure if this is just on test or if this will be final when it goes live. I have a screen cap of him that I put in my albums section. You can barely see him since the chasm was really deep and foggy. I didn’t jump down in there since he is a level 100 epic. From what people were saying in OOC was that if you fell down in there, Naggy would bring you back up. I am not sure if I actually believe it and I really didn’t feel like finding out first hand.
I can’t believe after all that Krystae and I went through moving our toons from one house to another, they are now making things so much easier to move your toons. Basically you just go over to the house that you want and select the buy option. Your old place will be relinquished and all of the contents will be boxed into moving crates that appear in your new house for you to unpack.
Well, basically I just played games all weekend to hide from reality. Then again isn’t that what we all do anyway? Well, see you in Norrath!
One of my guildmembers in EQ2 was telling us about some cartoon that he had grown up watching in New Zealand. It was the most bizarre thing to the point that we thought he may have been making it up or something. There was just no way that there was a children’s story about trouser snakes and witches turning policemen into apple trees. Well guess what!! It is real!
You can actually read the entire story on this site here. I can’t belive that I actually read all the way through it. It is so bizarre. The pictures are equally bizarre. Wait till you see the pic of the dog playing the piano with his tail.
So I feel like crap again today. I can barely breath. Caroll was after me to get a chext x-ray the other day. I couldn’t be bothered. Now I wish I had. Oh well. Too late now. I stayed home yesterday and today. Hopefully, I will feel better by Monday.
Last night Zorah told us in guild chat that the new expansion is called Rise of Kunark. I did a little checking around. I found the same thing mentioned on Warcry. Anyway, after a quick search of the US Patent & Trademark website, I can say that yes, SOE has trademarked the name. They have not announced when the expansion will be yet though.
