Adam's D.E.F. Grafton weekend

[yendi]

Yes, not only did I finish the Trek book I mentioned last week, but I downed three Grafton novels:

D is for Deadbeat
E is for Evidence
F is for Fugitive

I liked 'em all, a lot. Yeah, when I get a reading addiction, I feed it. :-) Just checked G is for Gumshoe out of the library (yes, the Emory library has the whole series, including the latest).

Watched a bit of TV this weekend. Caught the latest Ghost in the Shell, of course, which had me very much shouting "holy shit!" Watched the two new Simpsons, which had one good episode's worth of jokes between them. Barely. Caught the latest Andromeda, which was most enjoyable simply for the scenes of Rommie and Doyle (is there any pairing more in need of femmeslashfic on TV right now?) And when 'song got back, we watched the latest Desperate Housewives, which was fun (and actually, for once, had all four leads involved in real plotlines).

And between that, I got crap done around the house (laundry, upgrading memory on both computers, cleaning my room), and played Diablo II for a bit. Have I mentioned how much I hate the online faqs that all assume you're playing on Battlenet. "Oh, you should make sure that you get two Stones of Jordan and the Buriza-Do Kyanon." Yeah, right. God forbid some of us just enjoy single-player gaming. Wankers.

Elsewhere: I may think that George Lucas is a wanker, creatively, but there's no doubt about his commitment to charity and to education. And events like this, if insanely out of my price range, are still a good leveraging of his name and products.

And a robot is attending nursery school. Kids today get all the cool toys.

Over in KOL, there's a nifty new quest, and skill updates to Saucerors and Disco Bandits, but no sign of the long-promised Seal Clubber updates. :-( But I finally got my Failure to Communicate trophy. :-)

More later, when my brain wakes up.

Comments

[jocosa]

I am stumped by that new quest. Been "poking around the Plains" for days now and gotten nowhere. How does the trophy thing work? Some of my clan mates have tons. And yeah, us seal clubbers seem a bit left behind. Even my clan has a buff bot set up and even there, there is nothing for us clubbers.

[yendi]

Have you been to the clouds yet?

[jocosa]

Yeah I re-got and replanted my bean Saturday I think. Only have two areas open to me up there right now though. The creatures on the ship kick my butt pretty badly still though. *grin* One fight = 3 adventures to heal after.

[yendi]

*nod* that's what my early adventures there were like. Now, I kick ass and only get scratched if I fumble. :-)

Once you've been through there for a while, the next area of the sky is where the quest is at (but you need to be tougher to not get your ass kicked).

[jocosa]

Ahh ok :) Thanks!

What are your thoughts on stores? If I ever get enough meat I want to buy one, but are they worth it?

[yendi]

I've had one for a while, and it's been a nice source of income. Since you can sell your store for 30K meat, you've effectively broken even once you've hit 20K in sales. If you papaya farm at all in the Palindrome, it's not hard to get there. Ditto brownie mix from the Island.

Oh as to how trophies work, there are various threshholds/actions that will allow you to buy certain trophies. You can find a spoiler link listing them at kol.coldfront.net if you want.

[jocosa]

Yeah, a clan mate told me as a Seal Clubber it would be well worth getting a store, since i have that smithing skill. Only being a dumb newbie, I bought it and now cannot figure out how to use it. When I look under my "skills" I do not see it. Plus I have tons and tons of items and no idea what to do with them or what is junk.

I may go look at that link, see what else they have cause making meat is a bitch right now and I'd love a store to get some income going. Thanks again. :)