Back to work...

Wonder what it is that makes returning to work after a long weekend so hard, stomach was churning all morning as i was desperate not to go in. But as per normal by the time it hit 12 i realised i had no choice.. i managed to delay that moment by another hour (thank god for flexi time!) but i went in eventually.
Another dull day... same people, same problems, same answers... despite opening late to cover "customer requirements" i didn't speak to a single customer after 6pm... frankly i think they've better things to do.
The thing i hate most about late night shifts is that when i get home in an evening i don't seem to be able to switch off my mind. Tonight was no different, i sat awake until 4am wednesday morning. i suspect Apocolypse Now: Redux is partly to blame for that, but it's the same every night i work late, even if i don't throw a film on i end up sitting in the dark wide awake.
Oh well.. i'll post todays later...

Toodles

Bank Hols!

Yay!!

A day of sun, fun and joy.... or maybe not. Spent the whole day bored stiff, jumped on and off DAoC on occassions but couldn't find much to keep me entertained.

Ended up with my hands under the floor helping the in-laws with rebuilding our central heating pipes.

Well that'll do for tonight, i'm knackered and filthy!

G'night

Warhammer Online & PoE2

Well had an interesting day today, The in-laws were visting to do some work on the house and were quite happilly eating us out of house and home all day. Not that it bothers either of us, we're grateful for their knowledge and labour to help with fitting the new central heating. ;)

I spent some of today playing the Point Of Existence BF2 mod that was released on friday with my ~SiR~ clan mates on the Cannabis City server. I haev to admit i was impressed with the mod, but after a few hours i can be certain that i far prefer vanilla BF2. PoE is good, but preferably (for me) in small doses.

After messing around on PoE i went and joined my guildmates on DAoC for a few hours of hunting, The Hibs had truly buggered up the Alb frontier overnight and were pushing to take our relics, so a CTA was called and we helped resecure the homelands. Afterwhich i spent a few hours (unsuccessful for the most part) hunting targets around Beno, Bled and DF before finally getting frustrated and logging for the night.
Before hitting the sack i decided to take a look at what Mythic has been cooking up with Warhammer and after watching the trailer i find myself eagerly looking forwards to this new MMO. Though i suspect it's likely to be late 2007 or even 2008 before it's actually launched, it is looking bloody fantastic! The trailers appear to be FMV rather than actual game screenshots, but i dont mind, i've seen some sneaks from E3 that were uploaded to youtube and i hope this game lives up to expectations. Mythic did well with DAoC's RvR system and i hope to see more from Warhammer.

I'll update this with hyperlinks tomorrow, but for now i really need to get some sleep (2am!!)

g'night!

Grey hunting..

Well i spent a lot of Saturday evening hunting players in Darkness Falls. Much of it using my scout.
I've spent years playing DAoC and up until today i've NEVER questioned the fact that a level 50 player can sweep in and kill a new player just for shits and giggles. The lowbie doesn't even stand the slightest chance. Frankly having played the game so long i've been on the receiving end of "grey" hunting more times than i can possibly remember. I've always treated it as a "well i was in an RvR zone, it was bound to happen". But today having spent four hours making a few lowbies lives miserable i finally got to see the side of the hunter.
In honesty i always thought it'd be great getting just desserts on all of those bastards that did it to me. But something didn't quite sit right with me. I had an awful distaste for what i was doing. So much so i even posted a thread on the "Critshot" forum To be honest it's starting to look like most people try to leave the lowbies alone and i very much believe i will in future also.
Although on that note i just found out a few minutes ago that killing the lowbies still counts towards your kill statistics, so despite not earning realm points for killing them you can still earn the special titles for deathblows or solo kills. Pathetic.. yes, i think so..

just a quick one..

Went to the petrol station at the local asda this evening. Thank god the petrol prices are finally dropping again. cost me 91.9p a litre tonight, which is better than the 96.9p i paid last week.
That alone knocked a few pounds off the final price for filling the tank. Not a lot, but enough to buy myself a bottle of Leffe blonde, which i drank a half pint of tonight.
Haven't played BF2 tonight at all, despite receiving a few texts off Loosehead asking me if i'd be on, i'm glad i spent the night with Billie though, she's been getting a little annoyed at work and it was nice to cheer her up a little.

G'night!