07-08-09

Ahhh, real life. Not as good as some would like it to be, but we are surviving. The boys are absolutely huge. Nathan just turned 7, and Trenton is about to turn 10. They really are quite a pair.

We have been busy running them around to baseball games and tournaments. Unfortunately, Nathan broke his foot the other night (playing the Wii of all things), so his baseball summer was cut short, but he will be up and ready to go for Hockey this fall.

Trenton will be going in the fifth grade (/falls over) and Nathan will be making his way into the second grade this year.

Scott is Scott. He is still unemployment and that is not from lack of trying. The job market around here sucks ass and well, what do you do? He has decided to see about pursuing a career in Radiology, which would require one year of school and a couple years of internship. So, let’s keep our fingers crossed.

I am still in school. I will graduate with my Associates of Science in May 2011. After that I will be heading to NIU to pursue my degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. It has been a hard road so far and will only get harder, but I will make it!

EQ 07-08-09

Am I back?

I don’t know yet. I was reading a bunch of stuff earlier and it made me think of this lovely blog that I haven’t touched in a while. Thought maybe I would start it back up and see what happens.

Figured I would also start with EQ2, as I am still playing. Not as diligently as I was before, but I am still there.

I am not sure I like this expansion much. I know TSO let me down. TSO was fun at first and then went downhill. I ended up cancelling my account for about 6 months. Came back and leveled up a coercer, as I really didn’t want to play Krys as much. I began to play Krys again with SF came out, although, again, I am not sure I like this expansion. I am waiting for the announcement from the fan faire about what the next expansion is. (/whispers Velious) I hope we don’t have to wait until February for it either. And I do hope that there is a level increase. The expansion after Velious can go with no level increase but I would like one for Velious.

As for my lovely toonage:

Krystalea: My wizard. She is still my main and I really enjoy playing her the most. I have to say that she is really starting to gain some power. The other night in the library I think I had a 14k parse. I need to pull up ACT and will post the screen shot. That was an awesome feeling. I am also sitting consistently at around 7-8k zonewide on the parse. That is so nice. The only issue with that is of course if you have a crappy tank in front of you. At any rate, Krys is level 90, a 90 sage, 450 transmuting and adorning, 50 tinkering (or something like that) and 213 AA’s. I have yet to finish all the quests in Sundered Frontier or the Moors of Ykesha. I missed a lot of zones in TSO as well, and only have two updates left for Chapter 5. (ya still working on that, lol).

I have been running battlegrounds with Krys and having a blast. I really like those and it makes for a nice break when there are no groups to be had and when I really don’t feel like questing, which is often. I have 5 pieces of the BG armor right now, and am working on the last two pieces. After that I will be saving my tokens for my other toons, to get them geared up.

I would like to raid, but unfortunately I cannot find a guild with the time slot I need, and between working full time, going to school part time and two boys to run after, I think my raiding goals will have to wait until my life calms down some. Although I would be up for forming an alliance with another guild to get some raiding done here and there.

Gonna do just a quick rundown with the other characters.

Zymeria: 85 Defiler, 90 Provi, 160 (?) AA’s and 400 Tinkerer.

Zephina: 87 Bruiser, 90 Jeweler, 166 AA’s.

Arzania: 81 Swashy, 80 Woodworker, can’t remember AA’s.

Calipso: 81 Coercer, 66 Tailor, 160-something AA’s.

Attalyne: 30 Trouby, 90 Carpenter, maybe 15 AA’s. I rarely adventure with this toon.

Rysina: 19 Ranger, 45 AA’s and no tradeskill class yet. I was thinking Alchemist, as I have zero desire to do weaponsmithing or armoring ever again.