OCT 23

2023

Monday: in FFXIV last night, I got sucked into doing maps with the Free Company, so I didn't finish the Eden series, yet. What I DID do was finally unload a bunch of my furniture into my FC room.

Work was fine: mostly project stuff. Listened to a lot of Ryan Veeder podcast episodes when I had the opportunity. We went to Quizzo tonight, but it wound up being preempted by the baseball game (as there were only two or three Quizzo teams even present), so we just ate dinner. (Repeated the crab fries from last week with our usual soppressata pizza.) Back home, I played more FFXIV, and I've now finished both the Warring Triad and Eden series. My goals now look something like this:

  1. Level up Sage with daily Frontline PvP queues.
  2. Level up Red Mage (and Machinist (and Summoner)) with daily DPS roulettes and Wondrous Tails turn-ins.
  3. As Sage and Red Mage get to level 80, use each one to complete the Shadowbringers Role Quests I haven't been able to start since I didn't have a healer or magic DPS of sufficient level.
  4. Once all of the Shadowbringers role quests are done, finish the available 6.5 Growing Light Main Story Quests.
  5. Continue leveling Blue Mage and tracking down new Blue Mage spells when I cannot progress on any of the above.

2022

This was the day we saw Metric at the Fillmore. I was very excited. We really warmed up to the opener, which is kind of ironic because they never introduced themselves, and when somebody shouted "Who are you?" at one point, the singer just whispered into the mic: "It's a secret." I ordered some tasty pretzels. I don't want to suggest that the show wouldn't have been worth it if they had chosen not to play "Synthetica," because it still would have been a great show, but I was still very very glad that they played it.