my birthday wasn't bad i think it was like a nice little combination of my life in general in 1 day.

downers included some arguments and breaking a strict diet but i recovered the next day and I didn't have a hang over.
uppers included drinking some booze and seeing the family, and having a nice guitar pass around with my brothers.

I guess you know your 24 when the only gift you get is from you girlfriend ><,

friday was awesome though.
I wanted to help my friend kati's japanese study group to look good by having some attendence but to my suprise i got there and the room was full. I meet authentic japanese speakers who were really kind and fun to be with. I'm really glad I got the chance to meet them and can't wait to see them again.

well its my birthday and idk what to say. I guess I never thought I will gonna be this old but yet here i am 24 years old.

It's not so bad though im kind of happy. My birthday for me is what new years is for some people; a time of reflection. I plan on losing the weight i gained I already lost 10 pounds and I plan on attempting the c-set this year.

As far as my personal life goes, I guess it still has its ups and downs but I think I'm stronger for it so it can't be that bad.

funny thing all year long i see stuff I want to get myself for my b-day but here it is and can't think of anything.

well I sincerly hope today goes well though im a bit unsure if it will.

so whoses gonna wish me a happy birthday on time???

I wonder?

So I had this dream which inspired an idea for an awesome RPG but having only played a non video game RPG once I can't develop it and especially since I havn't studied enough history or geography or geology but here is what I was thinking.

you start the game off in our current time, you and your players are a family of geographers,geologist,anthropologist,biologist,chemist,Linguest, Liberal studies major! etc etc (needs development), your major ofcourse opens your skill bases so that a chemist can cure poison better then the other jobs, an anthropologist can find traps better etc (needs development)

anyway your off to explore the effects of global warming on either the arctic or antarctic in my dream that inspired this game it was the antarctic and you find that shits really bad its so bad your forced to land but to your suprise the land is alittle different then you remember, ice is severely melted for one thing and you find an ancient ship not too far from shore. Having made the discovery of a lifetime you and your family check the inside of the haul but once inside it starts to get hot like your on the equator, so you run out of the ship to discover its 100degrees outside and your complete surrounded by tropic what do you do?

now the point of the game is to figure out what summoned you into this alternate time/dimension. You'll run into indigineous people from this time/dimension who maybe able to unlock what happened to you, but you'll also run into undiscovered/already extinct animals, dungeons, other dimensional/time warps, all while trying to get everyone home safely

in my dream kacey and I got bit my scorpians as when we tried to leave the ship we zoned into a dungeon and when we tried to escape the dungeon we were back in the arctic and when we went to another part of the arctic we went back into the dungeon. With no place to go we explored the dungeon and got bit by scorpians which guarded the exit of the dungeon. we ran out but outside the dungeon non of us had antidotes, we saw my brother albert but he was only an english major and couldnt stop us from dying.

if your reading this and can help me develop it into a decent RPG we can play lets do it!

so much to remember since its been a while. Um first off


expansion was easy, last part of expansion you climb delkfutt as a lvl 30 with no xp loss for dying. So all you do is go whm with reraise sneak and invis and touch a ??? on each floor till u get to the top to fight in the bcnm. before the fight u can switch to any job u want but unless you got 1 pld 1 stunner 1 healer and 3 smns you prolly gonna lose. People sometimes win when they replace smns with rangers but they tend to have a much less success rate.

I recently left my hnm because one of the officers tried to mpk during campaign. But its not because he tried to MPK me its more because if someone on the top hates me its not likely I'll be seeing anything good for a while so might as well not waste my time.


so with nothing to do I've been working alittle bit on the TOAU expansion I put off forever. Its not so bad either fairly easy with a tinge of challenge towards the end and a great storyboard.

Finally I unlocked the Paladin class. Here's some picks of me soloing my first mob as PLD, (a lvl 65~ colibri)

solo'd khimara 13 was kind of fun

the expansion came out and to tell the truth its kind of lame. IT's really short it doesn't live up to COP in anyway and the missions are not challenging just time consuming and repetative. Also to mention the expansion is not working someone broke it but I'll get to that in my walkthrough / review:




so essentially you walk into lower jeuno and everything is pretty normal except that its not abandoned anymore. Suddenly a big crystal appears in the sky and everyone is like wow oo ahh and then they forget about it and go back to standing where they always do. Well then this young boy says you gotta do something the worlds in danger and he says his name is aldo so now you must travel around the whole world looking for dragonballs... er spellseeds. the first quest lands you in pash marshlands, meripatod mountains, and jugner forest killing quadavs yags and orcs. you basically kill and kill and kill for hours heres some pics.




well it wouldnt be so bad but after you find the seeds it gets better or should i say worse. the boys like hmm that was completely useless i guess you'll have to get 3 more from goblins in rolanberry, saurumouge, and batallia downs. to top it off this quest doesnt just drop the seeds like the last one no it drops goblin food which u take to hnm locations in those 3 zones to pop another goblin that u kill for a seed in each area. for those unknown to hnm each hnm area requires like 30 mins of walking give your take if you have warps and know the way. I don't got any pics from that one but afterwards you take the seeds back and thats when the expansion is suppose to take off, or atleast not suck but then SE had to screw that up cause somehow people were doing all that seed hunting to find that the ??? you trade them to was taking their seeds but not giving them the next CS. Indeed the emptiness is consuming vanadiel or at least the ??? we need to continue the expansion. after this im told you gotta kill some mandies in qufim go to other far off dead zones like fei yin fight some bcnm there then to finish the expansion u just gotta climb up delfukk tower in a lvl 30 cap alliance and touch the door where you fight sailor moon in zilart mission. inside you will fight the last boss who has the ability to charm your whole alliance and clone members down to a T. One lS mate said her ridill was cloned and used against her lol.
Soo till SE fixes its ??? here's a special pic we might never see again.


Final review for first half
story 2/10 nothing epic yet still way over done
mission challenge 0/10 each NM so far died in 1 nuke was less then lvl 30
fun factor 2/10 i feel like im trying to get crawlers nest map

no pics in this version cause I backed up my pc thinking I had a virus...

recent adventures lets see

KILLED CERBY but the LS decided to sell the sword to someone out of ls. I was like sell it to me ! and they were like you get for free soon no worry ok?
It sucked cause I thought it was mine but I'm over it

LOVE HALBERD in the name of the moon I can now punish colibri with my dragoon... I got it on my first sea run out of kind of luck. Some bad translation errors and a wipe left me alive and the ls leader said free lot I only lotted it went to me. We did another jailer of love fight
and 3 other people wanted it so I guess I got lucky.

HOMAN ZUCHINI or zuchetto or in michael's terms the omega hat. it's one of those items only few have but because its rare don't make it good. I think at the least it will be good if I ever raise pld.

other then that I recently got my first 100 points for sense of the absolute which means a free 200k gil but I can't seem to log in when the LS leader does to collect my pay.. o wells.

I know I'm forgetting some stuff but next time I won't delete my reminders (pics)

last quarter went smoother then I could of hoped. I ended up getting an A- in japn 15- a B+ in math and a B+ in philosophy. I was really proud of myself but I felt like I definatly got some brownie points for being either the class entertainer/speaker in japn and philosophy.

Currently I am very sick. I know how it happened to but first back tracking... I put in hard wood floor in the master bedroom of my parents house( the bedroom I currently stay at) It took about 900 dollars including labor and needless to say despite alot of hard work it looks really good. I must of saved 2000~ by running the project myself too! but the sad part is I did it to sort of sanitize my room from the horrible smell my mother left behind in it, or should I say her pets IE 3 cats and 2 dogs. Well after moving everything back in the cpu died and I had to inspect it. by inspect I mean blow, wiggle, make sure everythings tight , kick it a couple times and work out some bugs. After a few hours I got it to work again all that was wrong was a loose wire was shorting the pc. Made it look like some sort of virus though. In the process if fixing the pc I breathed in the worst amount of dust possible and almost instantly I knew it wasn't going to be good. Sure enough I feel like I have one of the worst colds I've ever had. It might also be caused by my going back to work though.

This quarter my classes seem pretty easy. the next math, geography, and literature 170. which shouldn't be hard I already like the lit teacher seems to be approaching the class with a philosophical tone to it and having just got out of my philosophy class I feel like its going to work out like when you get a tetris in well,,, tetris.

on a sad note though, A cousin of mine comitted suicide today/yesterday. I don't know the details but I knew him to be a good person. Sadly he reminds me of my sister. I've told her a 1000 times if you don't map your course your trip will be short or sucky I'm thinking santos is proof but I really don't know.

well energy can neither be created or destroyed and we are all made of energy so perhaps his life force is already being reapplied somewhere. On another note perhaps the enternal rest is like a really nice eternal nap.

If i sound desensitized its not that I don't value life I just accept death as a unavoidable part of it.

so whats new well here's a pic of what happens when you get tired of seeing the monster pop already claimed.

needless to say i am now playing ffxi with ps1 graphics... it isnt so bad anymore.
other recent adventures include

another limbus solo... been trying to get my dang smn perpetual cost down item. was tired of waiting for a pt to do it so i decided to go solo... luckily a friend showed up and said he was gonna solo too we teamed up and were doing good till he aggroed 3 tigers... now im joining ryuhayabusu's limbus shell hopefully all goes well. problem with limbus shell is they spam temenos over and over and over might be a month before I see another temenos but atleast when I do see it I'll have a chance at smn. also i'll be getting points towards nashi hands but realistically won't be obtaining those within a year... /sigh at least the points serve as a kind of consellation prize
o and the reason why I've been working on smn gear is because ixion is a big meany. we throw melee at him and sa ws but that cost xp and there are days when we have no whm so that means -5k-10k xp... which is not my style so I've been pulling out the TITAN. Less damage but its consistent and its easy and no xp loss.

get him boy!

been basically killing fafnir/nidhogg and ixion lately. I'm still at the bottom of the point list but it doesnt seem like neptunal abjuration head will take too long to get. hoping to score that and an algol within the month but here's hoping. here's my first pic of nidhogg

So far so good in the HNM world is me fighting tiamat. :D

here's a pic of ixion, we didnt get claim but i still claimed a cool pic

and A picture of what happens if you don't use protect-ion on garuda.lol.

tomorrow cerby opens he's a pain in the butt too. cause he has a huge window.... yay....