Winter is coming

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.