I edited my template again to make it somewhat wider. Reads a lot better on 1024x768 and there is also some good news for people that still use a resolution of 800x600 or lower(!) to view this blog; You FINALLY have a valid reason to buy a new monitor!
I watched some CSI: New York Episodes this weekend. You gotta love it ;) I like the series because of Gary Sinise . He's just one of my favorite actors because of movies like Forrest Gump, The Stand and Of Mice And Men although when you see many episodes his role (as all roles in a series) seems kinda limited, as in, the character he plays (of course) always stays the same. The little twists in these series are always the coolest parts (like why he still wears his wedding ring while his wife was killed years ago in the 9/11 WTC disaster).
I also watched Save The Last Dance 2 with my wife yesterday. They would've done better to call it Save The Last Dance; The Remake. The story is exactly the same as in part1. It's even about a white girl and black boy again, bleh.
We went to 2 birthdays this weekend. Saturday we went to see my youngest sister. She's 24 now. We brought Y and had a nice afternoon in Groningen. I installed Heroes Of Might And Magic V for my brother in law F. He's a master in HOMM3 and I hope he'll like this new version too :)
Sunday we went to Landal Greenparks De Witte Bergen in IJhorst to celebrate the 26th birthday of I. Her parents rented a house there and she came over with her husband V, a good friend of mine from Dordrecht. His family also lives up north so this was a great opportunity to get the whole family together. I have to say we had lotsa fun. All very nice, normal people. There was also a baby there from V's little brother and his girlfriend. And all we grownups could do, was watch her and my daughter Y :D Y had a great time. There was so much to see for her and also a lot of noise of course. She smiled a lot. At the end of the day she was wrecked and went to bed without crying :)
Really cold here at work. I'm having some trouble with some muscles in my neck lately. I've got an infection in them the doctor said. I wonder if it's from not sleeping completely under the sheets . My wife says she covers me multiple times during the night. And I do wake up with a kinda cold neck. Ah well, during the day I wear a scarf at work and in the car, that should do the trick.
I missed the lv52 sos+3 sword I mentioned in my previous post because I was unable to login for 2 days and the guy sold it for 32M. I'm lv55 now, w00t. Still grinding Sonars. 7800+ SP now, 4200 to go. Leveling is sloooow now, because of the 6 level gap I got now. My guild mates have a different tactic. They remain a 0 gap until they reach lv61 and start to SP farm from there till lv70. I warned them, it will be so boring to grind at lv60+, but of course they don't listen. Fact is, I'm now the lowest high level in the guild. My friend Exile stormed past me and is now lv56, while I was, at one point, 3 levels ahead of him. 2 other members who have more time to play are now lv59 en lv62. Darn, I'll never catch up with them :-/
Grinding Sonars with the lv52 sword+5 was not cool. I missed my lv52 sos+5 sword so I bought one yesterday :D 30M it cost me. And I spend another 10M to make it +5 and apply stones to it. Yes, it was a strange evening. But my oh my, do I love that sword. It only has crit6, so I'll up that, but ever hit, every blow gives so much more damage and also my nukes are stronger. I love it. Playing the game like this makes it so much more worthwhile IMO. I'll prolly won't switch it for a lv56 sword, but only for a lv60+5 or +7. We'll see by then :) Tonight my 52sword+5 got sold right away for 12M while I had it for 12M for 3 days before and I only got an offer for 10M. So happy me, I got about 45M again. I'm still trying to get my lv56 shield block 18 to +7, but so far it has been +4 only twice while applying about 80 elixers to it and I wonder if I should just stop at +5 and sell it. It already cost me more then I'll gain with it when selling.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Goodbye and good luck my friend
Yesterday we were visited by our friend R. He's going to China. Not just for a holiday but for good. At least, that's the plan. He met a cool girl on his previous trip and she also visited him for about 12 days. They really like each other and they will live together in Hong Kong in a 4mx4m room :D
We are very excited for him, this is a great adventure! He'll have to have a decent job within 2 months, because by then his gf will have a project that will take her abroad for a few months and thus he'll have to pay the rent by himself. Luckily for him, Hong Kong is a metropol and a lot of people speak English. Not that he doesn't understand and speaks a little Chinese, it's just that he's learning Mandarin and in Hong Kong everyone speaks Cantonese, d0h!
We hope it all works out as planned and that he'll have a great time in China, which BTW, will be the next world power in about 8 to 12 years. So he couldn't have found a better time to go economically speaking. His plan will be to go up north (into the Mandarin part) as soon as possible, but I guess that will also depend on the wishes of the lady :D
Silkroad status: Patch 1.065 wrecked havoc on the Silkroad and today another patch was released to fix it all. I had a problem when suddenly the 'Bloom Effect' corrupted my textures and I couldn't see anything lol. Other players lost crit and block on their equipment, aargghh. Didn't play much. 92.50% now with 7200+ SP. Because of the problems with the patch, the event started today with the fix-patch, so it's time to grind myself to lv55 :) I also saw a nice lv52 sos sword+3 int4 crit9. It was 32M and I offered 30M, but now I think I should've just bought it, cause I can prolly loose my current 52 sword+5 for 10M. Ah well, we'll see what's in the silkroad email when I get home.
This concludes my blogging for today, see y'all next time!
We are very excited for him, this is a great adventure! He'll have to have a decent job within 2 months, because by then his gf will have a project that will take her abroad for a few months and thus he'll have to pay the rent by himself. Luckily for him, Hong Kong is a metropol and a lot of people speak English. Not that he doesn't understand and speaks a little Chinese, it's just that he's learning Mandarin and in Hong Kong everyone speaks Cantonese, d0h!
We hope it all works out as planned and that he'll have a great time in China, which BTW, will be the next world power in about 8 to 12 years. So he couldn't have found a better time to go economically speaking. His plan will be to go up north (into the Mandarin part) as soon as possible, but I guess that will also depend on the wishes of the lady :D
Silkroad status: Patch 1.065 wrecked havoc on the Silkroad and today another patch was released to fix it all. I had a problem when suddenly the 'Bloom Effect' corrupted my textures and I couldn't see anything lol. Other players lost crit and block on their equipment, aargghh. Didn't play much. 92.50% now with 7200+ SP. Because of the problems with the patch, the event started today with the fix-patch, so it's time to grind myself to lv55 :) I also saw a nice lv52 sos sword+3 int4 crit9. It was 32M and I offered 30M, but now I think I should've just bought it, cause I can prolly loose my current 52 sword+5 for 10M. Ah well, we'll see what's in the silkroad email when I get home.
This concludes my blogging for today, see y'all next time!
Monday, October 23, 2006
Don't you just hate mondays?
Hi ppl,
Time for some blogging :)
This weekend I spent a lot of time with the family. We celebrated my grandmother's 84th birthday in her hometown Ede on Saturday. I went to see her on her birthday, October 17th, too. We ate at a Japanese restaurant, which was good, and had lotsa fun. We dropped our daughter Y off at my wife's sister and her husband. Y has a rather tight feed/sleep schedule and she doesn't really sleep well if she isn't at home in her own bed, so it wasn't all that nice for her as it was for us. We picked her up at about 23:30 again and she slept in the car and she went to sleep at home after 10 minutes of crying.
My parents were also at my grandmother's the 17th and the three of us visited my other grandfather in the hospital. He had a few months of illness after he went to the hospital for a rather simple surgery. The hospital personnel made a number of stupid mistakes and they needed 2 more surgeries to properly close his thoracic diaphragm. He also had pneumonia as a result of mistakes by the hospital personnel. They also managed to mismonitor his glucose level 2 or 3(!) times which also didn't do him much good. What a bunch of idiots. I want to warn people who read this to be sure to never wind up in the hospital Gelderse Vallei in Ede, NL.
Not much time for Silkroad these days. I successfully applied a 20% crit stone to my sos+5 sword and I managed to get a new crit rating of 14! Lucky me :D Although crit doesn't do a lot more damage because I'm a nuker hybrid, it's still lots of fun to constantly see the crits flying of monsters when grinding. I hadn't had much time to enjoy it though, because some French dude bought my sword the next night for 52 million gold! That left me with 102M, w0000t!
I bought myself a lv52+3 crit9 sword with int5 and 70% mag attack for about 2.6M, but I noticed i got a real problem. The difference in attack power between a sos+5 and a normal +3 is so big, i couldn't normally grind on the same monsters (Sonar) anymore! I tried hard to find a nice +5, but I couldn't find one and eventually I had no other choice then to try and +5 my sword. Lucky me, I only needed 2 wep elixers for that! Now, at +5 I can reasonably grind Sonars again, and my sword has this nice purple glow again :D
I spent some gold on elements and stones and got a 80% dura increase, 20% attack rating incease and 60% block parry ratio on the sword, so it's pretty nifty now. I'm 82% now with 6800SP and still have to grind to 12000SP. Luckily a compensation event starts tomorrow with a 30% exp increase so I'll level somewhat faster. The event also covers a 100% drop rate increase and a 50% gold drop increase, what a fine time to grind this week :D
Enough now, ttyl.
Time for some blogging :)
This weekend I spent a lot of time with the family. We celebrated my grandmother's 84th birthday in her hometown Ede on Saturday. I went to see her on her birthday, October 17th, too. We ate at a Japanese restaurant, which was good, and had lotsa fun. We dropped our daughter Y off at my wife's sister and her husband. Y has a rather tight feed/sleep schedule and she doesn't really sleep well if she isn't at home in her own bed, so it wasn't all that nice for her as it was for us. We picked her up at about 23:30 again and she slept in the car and she went to sleep at home after 10 minutes of crying.
My parents were also at my grandmother's the 17th and the three of us visited my other grandfather in the hospital. He had a few months of illness after he went to the hospital for a rather simple surgery. The hospital personnel made a number of stupid mistakes and they needed 2 more surgeries to properly close his thoracic diaphragm. He also had pneumonia as a result of mistakes by the hospital personnel. They also managed to mismonitor his glucose level 2 or 3(!) times which also didn't do him much good. What a bunch of idiots. I want to warn people who read this to be sure to never wind up in the hospital Gelderse Vallei in Ede, NL.
Not much time for Silkroad these days. I successfully applied a 20% crit stone to my sos+5 sword and I managed to get a new crit rating of 14! Lucky me :D Although crit doesn't do a lot more damage because I'm a nuker hybrid, it's still lots of fun to constantly see the crits flying of monsters when grinding. I hadn't had much time to enjoy it though, because some French dude bought my sword the next night for 52 million gold! That left me with 102M, w0000t!
I bought myself a lv52+3 crit9 sword with int5 and 70% mag attack for about 2.6M, but I noticed i got a real problem. The difference in attack power between a sos+5 and a normal +3 is so big, i couldn't normally grind on the same monsters (Sonar) anymore! I tried hard to find a nice +5, but I couldn't find one and eventually I had no other choice then to try and +5 my sword. Lucky me, I only needed 2 wep elixers for that! Now, at +5 I can reasonably grind Sonars again, and my sword has this nice purple glow again :D
I spent some gold on elements and stones and got a 80% dura increase, 20% attack rating incease and 60% block parry ratio on the sword, so it's pretty nifty now. I'm 82% now with 6800SP and still have to grind to 12000SP. Luckily a compensation event starts tomorrow with a 30% exp increase so I'll level somewhat faster. The event also covers a 100% drop rate increase and a 50% gold drop increase, what a fine time to grind this week :D
Enough now, ttyl.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Time passed :)
Hi y'all!
Yes, time passed without me writing. My wife nagged me about it yesterday, so here I am :D
Lots and lots has happened of course. We had a real traditional Italian wedding in Montalbano, Italy. Wonderful. Our friend R made the trip with us. We flew to Napoli on Friday and arrived the same night, after a 4-hour train trip, at the hotel at about 22:00PM. The next day was the amazing wedding. It was like in a movie :D Of course there was a lot of eating to do and we enjoyed a 8-way meal with lots of fish food, yummie! There was a special meat program for my wife because she doesn't eat beasts that come from the sea except for kibbeling. We added an extra relax-day at the 4-star hotel where the wedding was at. There was a nice pool there, little chilly, but that was OK.
Next day, we missed our flight, ... BUMMER! The train we were supposed to take, didn't leave at 08:15 according to schedule (at least that's what made of it) but at 10:45! Seems it had a different schedule for weekdays, aargh. So we took the bus to Salerno and got in the train to Napoli. We seemed to be going to make it, but then.... the train stood still a the for last station for 1 hour due to a signaling error, AARRGHGHH!
Anyways, when we made it to the airport, the plane was boarding, so there was no way to get on it. We took the train to Rome and spent the night at the airport there. The next day, we took a 09:30AM flight to Rotterdam an were picked up by our friend R's dad. We were home finally @ 17:00PM. Total extra cost for the 2 of us: 470EUR, ouch......
Yesterday my beautiful daughter was baptized. It was a service to remember. My wife's choir was present and sang some beautiful songs including the one that was especially written for my little daughter. A day to remember!
On the gamefront; I became lv54 in Silkroad :D I'm now full sos again and it's all +4 or +5, saweetah. I will post some pics soon. I'm farming skillpoints now. I need 12000 to upgrade all my skills to my current (will prolly be 55 then) level and create a 0 gap so I can level faster to 60 because there are no quests until lv60. Takes alot of grinding though, and that is boring. I got about 5300 SP now, so almost halfway. I need another 46% to become lv55 and my estimate is that I've got about 11000 SP by then. So somewhere halfway lv55 I will make a leap in strenght, muahahahaha. I've got a lv55 sos+4 coronet and a lv57 sos+5 chest waiting :) We did a 5* trade the other night. Lotsa fun and we actually made it to Hotan. I made some pretty good buys and sells this week, so I'm now at a whopping 55.899.000 gold! Still need my lv56 sos legs, but the rest is for a superb lv64 sword and shield. It will take ages though to get there and I might pick up a lv60 sword+7 along the way if i find one. Also the first +9 have arrived on our server. I got a screenie of one that I will post soon.
Yes, time passed without me writing. My wife nagged me about it yesterday, so here I am :D
Lots and lots has happened of course. We had a real traditional Italian wedding in Montalbano, Italy. Wonderful. Our friend R made the trip with us. We flew to Napoli on Friday and arrived the same night, after a 4-hour train trip, at the hotel at about 22:00PM. The next day was the amazing wedding. It was like in a movie :D Of course there was a lot of eating to do and we enjoyed a 8-way meal with lots of fish food, yummie! There was a special meat program for my wife because she doesn't eat beasts that come from the sea except for kibbeling. We added an extra relax-day at the 4-star hotel where the wedding was at. There was a nice pool there, little chilly, but that was OK.
Next day, we missed our flight, ... BUMMER! The train we were supposed to take, didn't leave at 08:15 according to schedule (at least that's what made of it) but at 10:45! Seems it had a different schedule for weekdays, aargh. So we took the bus to Salerno and got in the train to Napoli. We seemed to be going to make it, but then.... the train stood still a the for last station for 1 hour due to a signaling error, AARRGHGHH!
Anyways, when we made it to the airport, the plane was boarding, so there was no way to get on it. We took the train to Rome and spent the night at the airport there. The next day, we took a 09:30AM flight to Rotterdam an were picked up by our friend R's dad. We were home finally @ 17:00PM. Total extra cost for the 2 of us: 470EUR, ouch......
Yesterday my beautiful daughter was baptized. It was a service to remember. My wife's choir was present and sang some beautiful songs including the one that was especially written for my little daughter. A day to remember!
On the gamefront; I became lv54 in Silkroad :D I'm now full sos again and it's all +4 or +5, saweetah. I will post some pics soon. I'm farming skillpoints now. I need 12000 to upgrade all my skills to my current (will prolly be 55 then) level and create a 0 gap so I can level faster to 60 because there are no quests until lv60. Takes alot of grinding though, and that is boring. I got about 5300 SP now, so almost halfway. I need another 46% to become lv55 and my estimate is that I've got about 11000 SP by then. So somewhere halfway lv55 I will make a leap in strenght, muahahahaha. I've got a lv55 sos+4 coronet and a lv57 sos+5 chest waiting :) We did a 5* trade the other night. Lotsa fun and we actually made it to Hotan. I made some pretty good buys and sells this week, so I'm now at a whopping 55.899.000 gold! Still need my lv56 sos legs, but the rest is for a superb lv64 sword and shield. It will take ages though to get there and I might pick up a lv60 sword+7 along the way if i find one. Also the first +9 have arrived on our server. I got a screenie of one that I will post soon.
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