Of course, I don’t know if it’s a white, black, or little black dog. Well it’s August anyway, and time for another blog post.
There hasn’t been a whole lot going on for me lately – well, not on the game anyway. Microsoft was nice and sent me an update that was genuinely useful. Several months ago some friendly website decided to send me a nasty piece of “ransomware” – my Norton Security program caught it right away, but while it was able to keep the virus from activating, it was unable to get rid of it. I tried their suggestions, which failed miserably, the turned to my trusty Malwarebytes software. It got rid of most of the nasty, but my machine was flaky afterwards – most stuff ran fine, but a few games didn’t seem to work right. After a while, I realized they’d work if I was patient enough to let them sneak past whatever was the problem. Of course that meant clicking on the program icon, going downstairs and getting something to drink, then coming back up and maybe it was ready to start. And Microsoft would occasionally send an update that would get to 67%, then fail and have to roll back. But then it sent me the latest malicious software tool and “YIPPEE!” the nastiness was gone and everything runs right. That meant I could run Sims 2 properly again – so I’ve been spending a lot of time in River Blossom Hills growing my various teenagers up and sending them to college. I’ve also been doing some real world stuff – our church’s praise band did a big concert in the park, which I not only played in (bass, keyboards, and guitar), but built an upright electric bass for. And after using it for the concert, I’ve taken it back apart so I can put an actual finish on it (red dye on the the front with the nice grain, red paint on the rest of it). BUT! I still find time to sail the waters of the Emerald Ocean.
I’ve been on several cit runs, and more cit sinks (not the funnest things, to be sure), a few Kraken Hunts (none with Platia, I am persona non gratia with him now – at least that’s what Bonna and I think), and several Haunted seas voyages. The ringers said that they had adjusted the payouts for the different monster hunts, and it certainly seems that way. I had already been getting mostly (still useless) trinkets from KH and poe, so not much really changed there – but the HS runs have been a little more generous with both the poe and the (actually valuable) trinkets. And yes, I did get enough to grab a night blue chroma, now all I need are a bunch more (bill says as he grins to himself).
I was in the inn the other night, and someone was trying to sell a golden turtle shell. I have all the trinkets but a turtle shell, so I asked what he wanted for it. He said make an offer, and I told it wouldn’t be nearly enough. He persisted, and I told him that most people want more for the shell than you can sell the turtle for. He claimed the turtles sell for 600K or more — something that surprised me. I’ve certainly never seen anyone buy a golden turtle for that much – maybe one of the more rare ones, but not golden. To make a long story shorter, he asked 450K. I said not interested. Then he started trying to sell me a turtle. I’ve already got one I told him. He tried a few more times to get me to buy something, but stopped mere moments from me muting him.
Rikko put a post about my tshirt on his page (see the link over there at the side to visit him). Bisca asked about getting one, something I wasn’t sure anyone else would be interested in – particularly someone I only knew from reputation. If you’re interested in getting your own “Lillythanne’s Harley Davidson” tshirts, I can send you the link you need for customink.com. It’s going to cost you as much as a real Harley tshirt though – they charge $34 (including shipping) for these low volume shirts. Of course, you can opt to use the artwork on a different shirt, but it would cost you more.
Saw Pegasiswolf’s new gallery (but then again, who hasn’t – she got so excited when she finally got it), and Meijinn mentioned something that would be really nice. She’d asked about smaller ones, and I told her there wasn’t any – but then it occurred to me, why not? Pirate Halls have 4 different sizes (and prices), why not different sized galleries? Not all of us have as much stuff Peg, but we do have some surplus, and maybe we’d like to show it off too. You could pay 512k/512 for a Grandiose Gallery, 256k/256 for a stately Gallery, 128k/128 for a fine gallery, and 64k/64 for a modest gallery. That way us poor folk could still have a nice little space to show off our goodies too. Maybe someone with the Ringer’s Ears can mention this.
Of course, you can’t put one on Admiral, because they’ve built another @&^$%& tailor shop.