Navyfield (http://www.navyfield.com), I'm sure I mentioned it before. It's become my one real true source of relaxation lately. My fleet in game, VetS (http://www.vets-fleet.com), had a Harbor Defense tonight. Tokyo, at 2 AM PST, against Red Sky, a fleet I'm told is filled with lots of high level, high skilled players.
It was a glorious battle. Completely one sided really though. They would never have had a shot at our port itself if we didn't decide to give it to them. My performance was less than stellar personally, though I made no real mistakes. Or rather the mistakes I did make couldn't be helped.
That always puts a nice spring in my step. It's definitely a fun event, one of the few times the fleet gets together for a truly organized battle, and you really get a different sort of game play, where you're not just rushing out to grab whatever experience points you can but thinking in terms of objectives and goals. It makes me wish they could come up with some "Tactical XP" system for the normal game modes. So you get rewards for doing things like screening carriers from submarines and destroyers instead of just rewarding you for getting even an inconsequential amount of damage on a higher level ship. The very system that makes certain people like to just rush Battleships in their Destroyers because even one shell barely scratching the paint gives them massive rewards.
I really gotta thank the Boss Man though for his superb leadership, and those that stepped up on the squad level, such as Uncle Kami and Brazen. Really did a great job directing the fleet.
Other than that? Well, today my roommate finally got his new TV, his second one, the one he actually bought for a 3 year payment plan. Some 46" LCD Hi Def TV. Its stand doesn't look stable enough for the screen. Keep wondering if one of our cats will get frisky one night and manage to knock it over. It wasn't exactly cheap.
Course it was hell to load into the car. 16 degrees out, ice covered cement, and a Volvo to fit in that, a blue-ray player, and home theater speakers. The loading dock personnel and my roommate fought for 12 minutes trying to figure out how to get it in the car. Trying about every illogical, clearly never gonna work way they could. Never mind I mentioned right off the bat how it was going to be loaded. No one listened.
12 minute later with them having almost fell and dropped the stuff 4 times, cold, sweaty, and frustrated they were willing to listen to my elegant answer, which got everything packed int heir just perfectly. No need to jimmy things, no need to strap anything down, no need for someone to walk home or ride stuffed between boxes.
I volunteer every other week for a food bank here, see. Our vehicle is a Volvo station wagon, same model, different year. My boss there and I manage to fit three pallets worth of food in that Volvo. The TV and Theater was easy by comparison. Makes me wonder why they refused to listen to the guy with the experience packing in that type of car.
Yet another day with no work, no paying work that is, done. I did a lot of household work I had been putting off as long as I could. Course I had to load, unload, lug, and set up the electronics. Go figure, the guy buys me a MP3 player can't leave it alone, buys a TV and Theater set up, and can't be bothered to work on it himself.
Only other thing of note? It seems my suggestion for an Omega Chart and Play Aid book for Star Fleet Battles (http://www.starfleetgames.com) is in the running for printing this year. I kinda hoped it would be, sure, it's not something that's absolutely vital, but it'd be useful. And probably easy to do from their side. Only thing I ask for is that they manage to come up with some tables they'd have to make as everything else has already been done in separate books, to help record some information.
A good day all around. Not too much was done, but I had some minor successes at fun things.
Til next time,
Grind Away
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