Some more insights into the life of Redlac, also known as Matt.

Whoo-sha!

It's finally confirmed that our rodent problem is over, so I can go about filling up holes, tidying up, and returning the house back to the way we wanted it in the first place!! This ol' place of ours has needed some work before we moved in, and now I can get around to doing something about it.

Work is, well, work and I'm not particularly bothered by it at the moment, although the amount of hours I'm doing is starting to grate a bit. I could do with a holiday, a week off where I can just play games, catch up on stuff and generally rest up and take a week off. Looks like I'll be having the week off alone as Bexs has used up her holidays on an upcoming trip to her parents in a few weeks. Today I went on a fun training course to learn about range cookers. I cooked some cakey things, went on a tour of the factory and even won a branded apron. Even got a mug too. Gotta love freebees. Shame I had to get up at 6:30am for this thing.

Talking of said holiday involving in-laws, it looks like I'll be joining Bexs for the last part of the week in order to wish her mum a happy birthday. Oh, and while I'm at it, a happy birthday to my sister Sarah!!

Gameage!

My Online shenanigans are going quite well. I've not played Phantasy Star Universe much, as it's begun to get a bit stale. I'm hoping the release of the new expansion pack in the next few months will stir it up a bit. It looks good and it seems all the bad points of PSU are being cleared up. Well, only time will tell.

Now Final Fantasy, that is a different story. Since my last post I'm now a level 34 Samurai. I've been working on making a bit of cash with a spot of Crafting, or for the uninitiated, making things and selling them. To this end, I've created a mule, or storage character, where I can store resource materials and finished products and so on.

The other big news regarding Final Fantasy is a) that there is also another expansion set coming out for it in November and more importantly b) That I achieved rank 4.
So what? You ask. Well, in Final Fantasy you can become famous in two ways. The first is to do odd jobs for the citizens of the cities which will give you a good reputation amongst the common folk, who will in turn give you discounts at stores and will trust you with more taxing errands. The second way is to raise your Rank. Rank is to do with you're actions on the Political scene, and is determined by doing missions for your country. These missions are usually quite tricky and can require help from other adventurous folk. Raising your Rank can bring some sweet rewards. For instance, if I raise myself to Rank 5, I'll receive an Airship Pass which will allow me to travel from city to city in minutes, not hours.

Anyways, I teamed up with my two Linkshell pals Leelu and Mantra, and together we stormed a monster infested tower to find a missing ambassador. It wasn't difficult but was time consuming, so thanks to those two for sticking with me for the three or so hours it took. >.>

On another note, my clan has returned from their hols and whatnot and it's time to return to them. Tonight will be the first night we've met up in a few weeks, and I'm looking forward to it. On tonight's agenda: Shooting things and making them explode. Also, some light Bad Guy exterminating. Nice.

Updating stuff

As mentioned above, I've had some trouble updating stuff. Astris: Bandit has taken an unfortunate back seat and I'm hoping I can get that updated as soon as possible. I'll probably put some work into my gaming blog too.