April 21, 2008

  • and again.  eight days fly by as if nothing in the world can possibly restrain them.

    my horrendous week wasn't all that horrendous.  monday was an average day.  tuesday was somewhat stressful, as i had my midterm, but i thought it went rather well.  the milestone was kind of rough but that happens.  wednesday was pretty okay, midterm went fine.  thursday was kind of hard, we had a presentation for our project but that went much better than i expected it to.  turned in all of my assignments and felt pretty good.  i am very thankful i got them done ahead of time.  and this weekend...i did absolutely nothing.  seriously.  not a thing.

    in fact the only thing i can say was truly bad about this week was waking up with a bunch of itchy spots on my body.  there are a couple in my armpits :/

    this week is going to be kind of rough.  i have a second presentation for CS 158A (professor moh noticed a big problem with our program, so she's allowing us to resubmit on the 22nd with no penalty.  she actually gave everyone an extension!) on tuesday, and yet another presentation in CS 161 (once a week jesus christ microsoft would probably pay us to use powerpoint less at this point) on tuesday.  on thursday i have a midterm in CS 149.  not too rough of a week, especially considering i'll have no more tests until finals.  the weekend is going to be rough, though.  i'll have to spend most of my days getting my CS 149 project written, since it's due a week from thursday.  that will be time consuming, but not exceedingly difficult.  i've covered the subject before.

    and...i have a confession to make.

    the other night in #/v/, the discussion came around to MMOs.  at one point, people began discussing FFXI.  i remembered the time i spent in Vana'diel.  it was kind of frustrating, but fun at the same time.  in the back of my mind, i had always regretted not sticking it out and getting stronger.  but after talking so much, i decided to give it another go.

    i dig out my discs and pop them in.  i spend some time installing them, and then it comes time to log back in.  i dig back into my mind and finally bring up my old account info.  i plug it in and get an error.  then i remember "oh right i deleted my account."  so i go to the "new account" screen.  it asks for my reg code.  i look around for one and there's nothing there.  then i remember again: amy gave this to me because she only wanted the expansion.  so she must have the regular reg code.  i try the friend registration code but it's invalid.  so i start digging around on the help site.  i find out that if you delete your account, it can only be recovered within three months.  after that you have to buy a new copy of the game.  so i uninstalled it and put it all away.  the game is fun but i'm not going to buy a second copy.

    for a fraction of a second i considered getting back into cabal and/or mabinogi.  i immediately shut that down.  i have some good memories of cabal, and i'll hold onto it to relive them, but the gameplay is too unbalanced.  but then i remembered what my friend alex said, about how cabal is trying really hard to be WoW.  so i did something i never thought i would ever do.

    i downloaded the free trial.  i played for a day.  and i then signed up for the game proper.

    i spent most of yesterday running, questing, killing, and dying.  so far i'm enjoying myself, but it feels kind of weird to be playing a game i more or less swore to myself i would never touch.

    i've added my player info to the online activites thing.  i will add my friend codes one of these days, i promise.

    i hope i haven't disappointed anyone ;_;