Back at Miami

Yeah. Short trip.

Right now I sit in Matt's car on my way home. The trip to NC wasn't exactly what I had in mind. We didn't go for new year's, instead we went to spread Matt's dad's ashes into the lake.

It's nowhere near as bad as it sounds. The trip to the lake with Matt's family lasted all of 30 minutes tops and had a nice dramatic monologue from Matt's mom to nobody's surprise. Lol

This was followed by pizza and Guitar Hero III at Matt's brother's house.

That was Saturday. Sunday was pretty much a lunch at chilis and a flight. We should've flown in on Friday but Matt and I missed our flight. Like I texted Jahziel: well ooops. Ended up flying in on saterday morning.

Oh! My luggage was found and delivered to my hotel! Yay!

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Joy

I'm in north Carolina now. Airport lost my bag.

Rage.

I liked how I was told that I could call a 1800 number if I don't hear from them in 5 days.

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Le Sigh

I'm not sure how is it that in 23 years of living, I always get stuck in the same exact cycle when it comes to people. Sure, some things are different, but the core ends the same way.

Why is it that nobody thinks that maybe something they say or do may have a negative affect on someone else? Yet, they expect you to do this. It's cool for them to call you an asshole, but lord forbid you return the favor.

I'm gunna get wasted this new years. :D

On a FFXI-ish note, I'm ridiculously addicted to Campaign Battles. It's pretty much like Besieged, only not as laggy and with a greater XP return. Made of pure win, really.

Merry late Christmas!

....and all that jazz. :)

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Blah

Another droopy Sunday. Sitting at my mom's place waiting on her to finish cleaning so that I could get some stuff out of my old room for the new place.

She has two small dogs of which she cleans after...sometimes. Eww.

After that I'm probably (hopefully) going to hit up a Dynamis run today. That should be amusing.

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:D

Well, follow-up on the Turkey Dinner with the co-workers; wasn't so bad when I actually got there. I think I was just cranky since I was sleepy as hell. After I posted that other blog, I blinked and we were almost at the other office. Sure enough, the ride back felt awfully familiar.

Speaking of the office, I gave my two weeks notice this passed Monday. I was thinking for a bit if I should do this or not. After my trip to the Fan Festival then returning back to what felt like a worse hell than before I went on vacation, and the realization that Tax Season (Satan's 3-month holiday) was right around the corner, it made my decision all to easy.

For now, job wise, I'm going to focus on Allakhazam. It's about the only place I ever worked that I'm incredibly content with. Other than that, I'll activity seek out a new job next year (ain't like this year has much left on it.)

Just need to get all of my personal shit off of this computer! x_x

On a more FFXI related note:
#@#@$@#$@

The journey to unlocking Scholar is a long one.

Monday? I get home and the net is down.

Tuesday? The net is STILL down. Spent 30 minutes trying to get Technical Support on the line (they kept hanging up) then another hour on hold. By midnight, I had net and also had to go to bed.

Wednesday? The Mog House, so no FF for me (dispite a certain Taru-taru throwing parties and binge drinking in her mog house while on air.)

Thursday? I think it's finally it. I get home, log in, change jobs and head for the Cavernous Maw. Get there and wham. System Maintenance.

I shut down the game and decided to nuke some pissed off hotdogs. You always know a hotdog is pissed off when it shrieks inside of the microwave.

Le sigh.

Joy

So my office is doing this dumb thanksgiving thing in the other office that I would've been happier skipping. I'm only really going to avoid annoyances if for just a little bit longer.

You would think I'd be a lot more chipper after coming back from Fan Fest, but I digess.

I'll probably make a better post when I get more motivation. There is much I want to talk about and I'll definitly get to that.

For now, I'm going to continue sitting in the backseat of a coworkers car and at least happy I'm saving gas on going to hell-if-I-know-where.
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I fail

Yeah. I tried to blog from my phone and failed so I didn't bother blogging during the trip.

Here is what I tried to blog:

I've arrived at California for the SE fan festival! Right this moment, I sit in a shuttle van with a spooky driver heading towards my hotel.

Yay for cell phone blogging!

Ack for the psycho driver almost getting me killed! Again!

Not 100% sure how my day is going to go, but I do know that I have to go register at the festival, meet up with the rest of the crew, and setup both the Allakhazam booth and OGR. Stay tuned to www.onlinegamingradio.com to hear me and the rest of the wombat crew have a blast at the festival!

If you are actually there and somehow reading this, drop by!
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First!

So I finally decided to make a blog on this site. So far, I can see why it's used by alot of peeps; very cool site! I like it and will definitely keep it nice a tidy (specially since I can just e-mail post my blogs! :O)

I'll start out by mentioning that yesterday was the debut of "The Mog House", a radio show hosted by Online Gaming Radio that talks about FFXI. Hosts of the show was Pikko, Imperial Ninja, and myself and ran for 3 hours.

Needless to say, the three of us were incredibly nervous! We just sat counting down to the time the show started (which was yesterday at 9EST) and prayed that we'd make it out alive. I think the peek we hit was about 130-140 listeners and the IRC channel had 62 people just typing away.

Umm. Wow. XD

Right now, Pikko is editing the podcast to make it downloadable. I can't direct link just yet but I probably will for my next blog post. You GOTTA hear it. It had alot of funny moments where I was truly laughing my ass off. It had it's offtopic moments and annoyingly we suffered some technical difficulties, but hey...the next one will be more fine tuned and even better! ;P

To download the podcast, just go to the OGR link I posted above. :)

That aside, next week I'll be attending the FFXI Fan Festival up in California. Allakhazam.com will have a booth setup which will sit Pikko, IN, two Allakhazam team members, and myself. We'll be hosting the radio show live at the booth, taking pictures, letting people make Allakhazam accounts, the works. I'm excited beyond imagination!!

I'll keep you all updated. =)