Patching the shadows
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Patch 5.3 hit Final Fantasy XIV yesterday, so ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee and I spent a bunch of time playing. Mostly sashagee ferrying me around, now that you can fly in old zones. ![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
aaron.hosek also started playing again and transferred his character to our server, but he's 80 and sashagee has a bunch of high-level jobs, so while they ran exciting raids together I ran around collecting 12 bear asses. They revamped the original quests a bit, but the A Realm Reborn main story quests are still pretty basic most of the time. They doubled the XP story quests give, though, and apparently took some of the more blatant run back-and-forth ones out, so I'll have less tedium on my way to finish the story. Which is good, because sashagee is waiting for me to get to Heavensward where the story (she says) gets really good, and where she never did any of the raids.
Haven't raided in nine years since that last Ragnaros kill in Firelands, but the time has come again.
I also got to the Eternal Magical Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger yesterday, one of my favorite settings in a video game, on the 25th anniversary of Chrono Trigger's North American release. I have a poster map of Zeal on my wall in the office, along with a map of the Tyr Region from the Dark Sun D&D setting and Vvardenfell where Morrowind takes place. Add in the map of Exalted's Creation out in the living room and that's all my gaming setting influences all together. Also, I like maps.
Just an easy meal this week because it's been a bit since I got a premade meal--teriyaku tofu salad with shiitake mushrooms and sesame seeds from Phoenix Bean Tofu with zucchini salad from Sausage König on the side. The salad lacked the tang that the carrot salad I got from the same people for the dinner two weeks ago had, but it had a fresh kind of taste.sashagee described it as a pasta salad sort of taste, clean and vegetal. My tofu salad was a little salty and had mushrooms in it, but otherwise it tasted much like a non-spicy version of the tofu salad from the first farmer's market dinner this year. And I can confirm that because Sasha got the same thing I got then I tried some of her meal.
I ate everything, but she left some of her tofu salad for later. It's spicy.
Strawberry rhubarb mini-pie from First Slice Pie company!sashagee and I split it, so here's my half with the vanilla ice cream that I put on every desert that could possible use it. As soon as she saw strawberry rhubarb on the menu, she asked me to order it, and listening to her was the right decision. It was amazing, possibly one of the best things I've ever gotten from First Slice. I don't usually think of myself as a strawberry rhubarb pie person, because I remember my grandmother making it from rhubarb that grew in her yard and I didn't like it then, but that was decades ago. We all learn.
Other than gaming I haven't been up to much, though last Saturday I went out shopping for patio furniture and to drinks withbritshlez. I've almost entirely avoided restaurants except for takeout because even if eating outdoors is pretty safe on a per-incident basis for me, it's much less safe for the servers who have to deal with dozens of people every day. However, we went to Vincent on Balmoral and they had set up outdoor seating on Balmoral itself near the curbs, with some smaller tables in the middle of the street. The servers never got near us at all--they took our order from further away, and then brought the food, drinks, and check to the smaller table and it was our responsibility to go over and get them once the servers had left. It's more dangerous than getting takeout, but not by much, but we were able to enjoy drinks in the shade--britshlez got them to move the table over closer to the curb and into a tree's shadow by pointing out our mutual pale redheadedness--and I didn't feel like I was endangering someone who had no choice but to come to work or face eviction. Not going to make a habit of it, but it was a lovely afternoon.
sashagee and I spent a bunch of time playing. Mostly sashagee ferrying me around, now that you can fly in old zones. sashagee has a bunch of high-level jobs, so while they ran exciting raids together I ran around collecting 12 bear asses. They revamped the original quests a bit, but the A Realm Reborn main story quests are still pretty basic most of the time. They doubled the XP story quests give, though, and apparently took some of the more blatant run back-and-forth ones out, so I'll have less tedium on my way to finish the story. Which is good, because sashagee is waiting for me to get to Heavensward where the story (she says) gets really good, and where she never did any of the raids. Haven't raided in nine years since that last Ragnaros kill in Firelands, but the time has come again.
I also got to the Eternal Magical Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger yesterday, one of my favorite settings in a video game, on the 25th anniversary of Chrono Trigger's North American release. I have a poster map of Zeal on my wall in the office, along with a map of the Tyr Region from the Dark Sun D&D setting and Vvardenfell where Morrowind takes place. Add in the map of Exalted's Creation out in the living room and that's all my gaming setting influences all together. Also, I like maps.
Just an easy meal this week because it's been a bit since I got a premade meal--teriyaku tofu salad with shiitake mushrooms and sesame seeds from Phoenix Bean Tofu with zucchini salad from Sausage König on the side. The salad lacked the tang that the carrot salad I got from the same people for the dinner two weeks ago had, but it had a fresh kind of taste.
sashagee described it as a pasta salad sort of taste, clean and vegetal. My tofu salad was a little salty and had mushrooms in it, but otherwise it tasted much like a non-spicy version of the tofu salad from the first farmer's market dinner this year. And I can confirm that because Sasha got the same thing I got then I tried some of her meal.I ate everything, but she left some of her tofu salad for later. It's spicy.
Strawberry rhubarb mini-pie from First Slice Pie company!
sashagee and I split it, so here's my half with the vanilla ice cream that I put on every desert that could possible use it. As soon as she saw strawberry rhubarb on the menu, she asked me to order it, and listening to her was the right decision. It was amazing, possibly one of the best things I've ever gotten from First Slice. I don't usually think of myself as a strawberry rhubarb pie person, because I remember my grandmother making it from rhubarb that grew in her yard and I didn't like it then, but that was decades ago. We all learn.Other than gaming I haven't been up to much, though last Saturday I went out shopping for patio furniture and to drinks with
britshlez. I've almost entirely avoided restaurants except for takeout because even if eating outdoors is pretty safe on a per-incident basis for me, it's much less safe for the servers who have to deal with dozens of people every day. However, we went to Vincent on Balmoral and they had set up outdoor seating on Balmoral itself near the curbs, with some smaller tables in the middle of the street. The servers never got near us at all--they took our order from further away, and then brought the food, drinks, and check to the smaller table and it was our responsibility to go over and get them once the servers had left. It's more dangerous than getting takeout, but not by much, but we were able to enjoy drinks in the shade--britshlez got them to move the table over closer to the curb and into a tree's shadow by pointing out our mutual pale redheadedness--and I didn't feel like I was endangering someone who had no choice but to come to work or face eviction. Not going to make a habit of it, but it was a lovely afternoon.
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Date: 2020-Aug-13, Thursday 03:38 (UTC)