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Archive for January, 2008

Scurvy Dogs

Ay Carumba.    Still dealing with the new system at work, which occupies almost all my thinking time, leaving me little energy to blog.
Over the last week, I got into POTBS a few times and slapped some pirates around.    My boy, it turns out, loves the game.    (My daughter could care less)    I [...]

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Pirates of the Burning Sea is very, very good so far.
Angus McSwag, British naval officer, is currently level 11 and chasing various pirates around the safer areas. Upgraded his starter ship to a Dolphyn Ketch, giving much more firepower and a visually larger ship. It’s a [...]

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Yaaarrrr !     Last night I took a break from work stress long enough to log into Pirates for the first time.     I had previously looked at the list of server names, noted a lack of consensus among the blogger community about where to play, and decided to just pick Bonny as my server.     Bonny - [...]

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Horses Online

The only gaming I managed last night was patching Pirates of the Burning Sea. I’ll have time to log in tonight I hope.
So I’ve been checking out gaming for my kids, as my daughter begins to seem more interested in playing computer games. (My boy ? Pfffft. [...]

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Sorry - Real Life Stress

Have you ever had *all* the responsibility for something difficult ?   The only thing that could make things worse would be, also having *No* control or ability to work on the difficult task.
Yeah, that’s where I’m at with my ERP project.
Seven days into the new system, we didn’t test, and now we’re late with the [...]

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Too many deaths

Tezcatlipocca : 25% XP. Guildies cheered me up with words of encouragement about the blog tonight. Which got me motivated to go back out and knock more quests down.
First one I worked on required killing Taskmaster Orthiss. Now, this is an iksar near Dalnir’s wheel, and [...]

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Two Thousand

The stress of the new ERP system go-live has sucked all my enthusiasm out, and left it in ashes on the floor.     I don’t feel much like writing, or playing either.    Having a big day with the live system on Sunday the 6th.     God but I hope the thing actually works; the worst part is, [...]

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