

stuff & things
Looks like I’ve got a long weekend – no work on Monday in celebration of the 4th. I’m thrilled. I need some time off after the last week or two… And next weekend (11th/12th) is going to be spent at work. Best of all is the fact that we’ve got nothing crazy planned for this weekend… Not having any parties, not inviting folks over, no major projects, no working for free… Just a nice, relaxing, long weekend.
Speaking of plans, however, we are planning a vacation for August. We’re planning on heading out to the Thousand Islands area of New York. We’re planning on going during their “pirate days” event… Looks like a lot of fun. We’ll take a couple boat tours, tour a couple castles, do piratical stuff, and just basically not worry about work for a while. Sounds great!
EVE is kind of on autopilot for now… With my folks up for a few days, and then the travel for work, I haven’t been logging in a whole lot. I set shield management V training, which is going to take about two weeks to train. I’ve poked my head in a couple times, run some missions here and there, but that’s about it.
It looks like my alliance is declaring war on someone. I’m not entirely sure who or why… That information isn’t very readily available on the boards and I haven’t been in-game enough to figure it out. Looks like it is basically just to give our PvPers something to shoot at… But I might be misunderstanding. Maybe there’s some contested territory or something.
It seems weird to be on the giving end of a wardec, rather than the receiving end. Seems to be weird talking about actually intentionally declaring war on someone. Back in EVE University, wars were always done to us, and they were a thing to be avoided.
I’m not sure what I’ll do with myself during the wardec… There’s no talk of a lockdown or anything like that, so I suppose I could continue mining/missioning/ratting… But that seems unsafe. Maybe I’ll grab a frigate and go looking for trouble instead.
I just purchased Overlord II on Steam last night. I was waiting for a .torrent to show up on ThePirateBay, but it just wasn’t happening. And, honestly, I figured I’d wind up purchasing it eventually anyway… I thoroughly enjoyed the original game and wanted to support the developers. I just wanted a better taste of the gameplay than that short little demo, and I didn’t have the cash handy.
Well, I came up with the cash, and I got tired of waiting for a download, so I bought it.
Terrific game. Basically the same gameplay as the original, just tweaked and improved a bit. Better graphics, more detail everywhere… More things for your minions to interact with in the environment… A bigger stronghold… More of a storyline going on… Better in every way so far.
