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Few quick blurbs today, then I have to start a rather large malware cleaning project.

- Girlfriend is back home now. Her next visit will be for Thanksgiving while I'll be going up to Maine for Christmas.

- For those of you curious, yes I did get Girlfriend to see Transformers 2. She hated it. She almost made it through the entire trip w/o seeing it though. I was going to pass on taking her to see it cause of how adamant she was about not wanting to see it. She made one big mistake though...

...she turned on reality TV while I was in the room.

She got to "suffer" through 2.5 hours of craptastic Michael Bay directing and awesome visual images. I let her pick the next movie we went to see as a bit of a make-up since she was pissed at me the rest of that night.

That movie?

Julie and Julia.

Q Rating: 18 Middle Fingers up.

- Einherjar gave us one of those rooms that don't use lube on Saturday. 12 Clots, 12 Clusters and Golem boss. Let's just say we didn't even get halfway through the clusters. It was very nice to us yesterday though giving us 12 leeches, 12 big bats and the corse boss. Two Odin sets completed. Also picked up our second abjuration from a non-odin room in there. Phantasmal Abjuration: Head. It's a piece of shit, but hey...it's something different and is entertaining.

- I got a PSP with Dissidia and Crisis Core. Found the latter on sale at Toys R Us for $10.

- Barring something extremely stupid for my guild point item today (Veteran pattern), I should pick up my Boneworker's Signboard.

- I've managed to pick up a few comments on my 0-60 Series on Ring's blog since it started. I'm happy people comment on those as there are a lot of different opinions to share and one person is not capable of writing a perfect guide. I seriously think the 3 guides that have been posted have picked up more comments than the rest of my articles combined. I've always viewed crafting as a bit of the elephant in the room. No one really wants to talk about it, but they don't mind reading about it.

- Fish Ranking stopped taking entries late last night. I spent a good chunk of time fishing with Kaelis, Erimentha, and Kaylea over the course of the past couple weeks trying to come up with fish that would win. They wanted the skinniest Giant Catfish. Wiki had smallest on record as 224pz. FinalFishing had smallest at 190. I was guessing it was somewhere in between.

The first night that Kay was here, we weren't having much luck getting anything below 300pz. The smallest I had fished up at that point was 222pz. I figured that would definitely be a winner if wiki was right. It was reported to me that Mav had fished up a 220pz one and had seen one in a bazaar that was 204pz. Knowing I still had work to do (goal was to get all of my friends some pelican rings), I kept plugging away. Between Kaelis, Eri, Kay, Suraph and myself, we probably yoinked up somewhere around 2000 fish. The final tally was:

Kaylea: 195pz
Suraph: 215pz
Kaelis: 220pz
Erimentha: 222pz
Lectrikelion: 222pz

All 5 of them won rings. 4 of the 5 up there were fish I had yanked up. I owed Suraph a ring for spending time fishing during the last ranking contest that got my ring. The smallest Kaelis had fished up was 224pz. Lect's 222pz one was an extra one that Kay had fished up. The cutoff ended up being 222pz. Congrats to all 5 of you (6 if you include Mav, but he fished his own fish up and congrats to him anyway :D)

Anyway, back to work with me. Hoping I can update this blog again sometime this week, but it's not looking good.