Well, I've been neglecting this blog for the past couple months. I don't really like updating when I'm lanning. What am I gonna say? "Today, I played lots of games. Because I'm at a LAN." It would get pretty repetitive, so I don't update much when I'm lanning.
First I think I'll update you on the situation. My family is going to move to St. Louis, but I don't have a definite answer as to when they're doing it, because we need to fix up the house to get it to the point where it's sellable for a good price, and then we need to actually sell the house. This could take much longer than originally expected, so it might be more than a month. Might be more than two months. It might even take six months to a year. We just really don't know.
I've already established to pretty much everybody that I am in fact NOT moving up to St. Louis with my family, I'm going to stay here in Tulsa and start living on my own, or maybe with other people. My good friend Will has already offered to let me stay at his place as long as it takes for me to get a steady income and get on my own two feet, but like I said in the last paragraph, I have no idea when this will be happening.
I've been playing FFXI at Strikenet with Nick and Pepe, and it's a lot of fun, but I seriously think that I'm not going to go to Strikenet anymore. First of all, it's insanely expensive for an LAN center in general. 5 dollars an hour on normal days might make 3 dollars an hour look like a great deal, but the fact is that there are many, many LAN centers that offer all day passes for 12 bucks. On top of that, I noticed that I'm spending far too much money on FFXI, and pretty soon I'll have spent more money just to play it than the game will cost when it comes out, and I would rather just save the money since I'll have unlimited access to it once it comes out.
It may seem like a crazy idea right now, since FFXI is so good, but in two months when the game comes out and I have enough money to buy it, I'll pat myself on the back for saving so much money that could have been wasted before the game came out. The money isn't exactly "wasted" since it's being spent on such a good game, but we're basically paying money to build up characters that will be deleted in two months anyway. The experience might be helpful when the game comes out, but I figure that I'll have more fun learning about the game when I can play it as much as I want, rather than having to wait until the next time I go to strikenet, worrying about not going over the amount of money that I have in my pocket.
From now on, I'm not going to strikenet anymore, but I want Nick to tell me how many hours he spent at strikenet every time he goes, so I can pretend that I spent the same amount of money as him, but instead put that money toward pre-ordering FFXI before it comes out. That way, once the game comes out, I won't have to worry about not having the money to buy it, or running out and buying it in late october, because it will already be preordered and on it's way to my house with the money I saved by not going to strikenet.
Yay!
Posted by at August 13, 2003 11:21 AM