Blandness

Not much going on. Again.

Well, I'd like to tell you that life has been amazing, but it's still pretty dull right now. Life is continuing on it's 'Bland' theme. Yawn. However, all is not lost. I've *finally* got off my butt and got hold of a 'How to program in C++' book, which is nice, because I've always wanted to learn a fairly new computer language. Back in the day (Which is approximately 10 years ago now) me and my buddy Ceej used to program in BASIC on the C=64, and it's nice to see that a lot of themes within BASIC can be found cropping up in C++. I just hope I have the ability to get to the end of the book and start doing my own programs! Who knows, might lead to a new career one day.

The Cook's War on Annoyance

With this weeks paycheck I've declared WAR on the rat that's been having the gaul to try and live in our kitchen. I've shown it that we Cooks don't approve of vermin by laying down some innocent looking poison which will hopefully put a stop to all this nonsense.

My Virtual Life

The Way of the Blade

While not much has been going on in the real world, there's been a fair bit of activity in the virtual world of Vana'diel, in which Final Fantasy XI Online is set. My character has reached the lofty heights of a level 28 Samurai, not much of a jump since my last post, but I've been doing other things to offset the monotony that levelling up parties can bring. I've been trying out some of the various crafts in the game, such as Woodworking and Fishing in order to make a wee bit of cash. Also on the cards have been a spot of levelling some other jobs such as Warrior and Thief, two jobs which compliment Samurai. Warrior is now at level 19, so I'll be using it as my support job until Samurai hits level 38. Thief I can't really use as a good support job for Samurai until Samurai hits level 60, but it will certainly have it's uses when Samurai hits level 30. Then I can take advantage of Thief's Treasure Hunter ability to help me obtain items from monsters that I can use when I'm trying out new crafts- one of which is Leather Working.

In other games news... I've been having fun on Kingdom Hearts 2. So far I've met Captain Jack Sparrow, Mickey Mouse and even Tron. Next stop it seems I'm up for a bit of a battle.

Updating joy

I'm feeling satisfied with Astris: Bandit today. Managed to do some updating on the site, including updating the home page (at long last) and updating the archive. I appear to have lost page 13 though.. spooky. I think I know where it got to. Guess I'll have to fish it out next update.

As for JOTCG though.. that's still a work in progress at the mo, might spend some time on that this week too. I have at the very least begun the draft of the next post though.

Well, that's me for now. Peace!