Slackin’

There I was sittin’
I had a job to do
But I just couldn’t do it
And then the time flew

I tell you it’s nothin’
For you to worry about
Sooner or later
Things will work out

For now I’m just slackin’
I am taking my time
Barely giving the effort
It takes for me to rhyme

So don’t expect no workin’
I’m not doing any today
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll get moving
In a more productive way

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The above poem describes my philosophy of late and yesterday fairly specifically.  I did a whole lot of nothing yesterday.  I even avoided doing something productive in EQ that I have been meaning to do.  Part of my slacking includes this blog.  Two posts a week is terrible.  Next week I hope to do better; more on that later.

 

Meanwhile, this weekend promises to be very different.  Spiff and I are going to an anime convention in Denver with a church friend.  I am pretty sure I mentioned this last week; it is all confirmed now.  The wife of one of my coworkers owns an anime shop, and they have a booth there, so I will know at least three people there.  They are expecting a crowd of thousands, so maybe that doesn’t make much difference.

 

Spiff continues to make slow progress in school.  They haven’t had him doing any actual learning stuff, but he goes every day and they keep him occupied.  I think next week he is supposed to start actual schooling.

 

Meanwhile, we have slacked a little on exercise this week.  We skipped Monday as we walked up to the Colorado Springs Balloon Classic and back last Saturday only to find the weather was poor; it was too windy to launch any balloons.  We skipped walking on Wednesday due to weather.  We only walked two laps on Tuesday; the walk was interrupted both then and yesterday, although yesterday we did continue after the interruption.  Today we went a full three laps without stopping, although Spiff did complain about the cold (it was a bit chilly) and the fact we’re going to be doing a lot of walking around tomorrow so thought maybe we didn’t need to walk so much today.

 

Next week, I plan to walk every day of the week and do three laps each time with Spiff.  It will be a regular week; no holiday.  So I plan to get back to five posts a week as well.  We’ll see how that goes, but that is my plan.

 

EverQuest suffered an interruption yesterday due to the big power outage in San Diego and other places.  So after slacking all day on everything including EverQuest, I now missed raiding, although this wasn’t my fault.

 

On the bright side, I made some progress in the past week.  I raided every night from Saturday to Wednesday.  I did some events I had not done before, and completed the last raid event needed to have access to the upper raid zones.  I had raided in these zones before, although only by grace of having enough “flagged” in said zones to allow me access.  Five people flagged (completed the events necessary) allows one unflagged to get in.  Now I don’t have to worry about that aspect.

 

I am continuing to work on Epic 1.0 quests for lower toons, but the ones I am working on have hit small snags.  Mostly waiting on necessary mobs to be up.  One snag is a bit of slacking; it requires taking support along to help do things in a zone I really don’t like going to.  The zone is Plane of Sky; if you know EverQuest you know the reason for my hesitation.

 

All right, that’s enough for this week.  See you later!