WOW

Was running with a warrior in 2s and he really seemed to like playing and he seemed determined to get up to 1800. We played a few games one night, played again a few nights later, then he never came back on. I found a mage for 2s and he's seems like a decent guy. He likes to play and I hope he doesn't get fed up with losing. Our record is about 30-30 and we haven't broken past 1400. He's not the most skilled player out there and neither am I. But i'm definitely learning things while playing and the experience isn't a bad thing. Having fun doing it too. There are some matches that were absolute bullshit like Enhancement Shaman/Dps against us with the wolves raping me and there's a Ret/Rogue team that we're having difficulty with but we had some fun games like Ret/Holy which lasted 15 mins and we should've won and me vs Rogue which lasted quite a while (of course I died). I got up to 1470 in the rated BGS and am pretty much done with them and am not going to get invited back. We were fighting Gilneas the other night and I couldn't interrupt the other team from capping. I got kicked from group. The next night the same thing happened, except that we couldn't get down a target. Guy came out and said "I didn't even see any warlock Dots on the target" and I pretty much yelled at him in vent asking if he knew how the dispel mechanics in the game worked. I was on the target, spamming incinerate but I there was no CC on their healers, which allowed them to get cross healed pretty well. With them taking out 15v15, the rated bgs are kind of boring anyway. Looking to get onto a 3s team that has the same kind of laid back mentality as I do and am going to start spamming about it the next few days. Got the mage to 84 and Jeremy has been grinding out BGS for me. The rogue is 65 and I was toying around with him when I was bored the other day. We'll see what happens with all this. I hate leveling these stupid characters but I really do enjoy Arena. I really should just get into Street Fighter or buy Marvel vs Capcom.

Eve

5 days left of game time. Probably going to resub for the 3 months to build up the character. I feel like I'm headed towards the game sometime in the future. Finished up Small Energy Turrets, Mechanic 5, and am training Repair Systems 5 right now. Will train Amarr Cruisers 4 and that'll finish out the sub. After that, the long plunge into :

Amarr Cruisers 5 (22 days)
Spaceship Command 5 (4 days)

I am looking towards the Covert Ops Cruiser but plenty of options open up after Cruisers 5, with all kinds of different Cruisers available, not to mention the goal of the Legion. We'll see what happens with this all.

Other Games:

Been pretty bored with the other games. I started Killzone 2 and am not impressed by it much. I still have Uncharted 2 to play, Assasin's Creed 2 to start, Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2 and I can't seem to get into any of them.

Eve

I haven't undocked in weeks. I've been thinking about it and reading about it but haven't put any time into the game. I've gotten the urge to do so but then I always wind up playing Warcraft. I've trained my Medium Energy Turrets to Level 5 and am now training my Small Energy Turret to 5. If I don't start playing the game, I might cancel the sub or I may just keep it for a month or three to get this guy adequately skilled up so if I do decide to come back, I will be good to go. 39 for three months, which is the cost of one night out to Old Country Buffet or if Holly decides to go buy a pair of pants at the mall. Training plan:

Small Energy Turrets
Mechanic 5
Repair Systems 5
Amarr Cruisers 4

This should take out the remainder of my game time.

Warcraft

I found myself in a Rated PVP guild and they run almost every night. I didn't think the rated Bgs would be fun but I'm having fun doing them. I can't do them for the hours every night. The core players on the team and in the guild seem good. I haven't really played any arena. I found one rogue and he was a decent guy but I think I annoyed him or he got pissed because I was sucking. I don't like they took the arena skrimishes away. They would at least allow me to play some games to get ready with positioning, macros, etc. I'm going to start spamming looking for someone to play with for fun. Hopefully I find some down to earth people to play with. I started leveling the mage one night while bored. I've been letting Jeremy grind out BGS with him to get some honor and XP. He was also killing some mobs today while he was waiting to get into a battleground and perhaps he can help me gain some more xp. The burst damage with the mage is pretty incredible and I find myself just grinding around instead of running missions. I don't mind taking a few minutes to shoot down some mobs. I'm about halfway through level 82 and it will def take a long time to get to 85. Then comes the whole grinding out honor.

It looks like I'll be sticking with this game for the short term at least, until I get fed up with arena/not finding players. I've already been fantasizing about getting the rogue leveled up and I just don't want to do it, but I want him at the max level. I even toy around with the idea of having every class at the level cap which is just crazy, thinking about how much I have leveling. If I can get the kid to do most of the grunt work, I would love it but he's still limited in what he can understand.

Rift

I put about four hours in the beta events, it doesn't seem like a bad game, it's just WoW over again. Without something competitive like arena or some kind of fun PVP, I wouldn't get the game. Plus holding a membership for three games is just crazy.

Been grinding in WoW and hit 85 with the lock. Then started grinding out BG's like crazy to get the PVP gear. Too bad I missed the Tol Barad bug which would've given me thousands of honor easily. I've been doing Archeology in WoW and it's kind of relaxing, just like picking herbs would be. I haven't even tried the Demonology Spec yet and am looking forward to trying it out. I don't want to get used to it before it gets nerfed so I may just try it out for a bit. I downloaded the PTR and made a DK, Warrior, Rogue, and Shaman to try to better understand the classes. I haven't played on any of them much at all but am going to try this weekend before the PTR goes away because the new patch is probably launching next week.

Haven't played Eve since I hit 8.0 with Theological Council. I installed one jump clone and was planning on installing the others but just haven't done it yet. I want to go into Low Sec and play around there with the recon ship and I might also mine if I get bored. Possibly fit out a Punisher for PVP and lose a few ships, trying to learn how to PvP. I can probably mine on the laptop while I play WoW on the Desktop if I want to try to make some extra ISK. They offered the extension for players that had taken advantage of the return to Eve promotion and I didn't receive it and the promotion and had to petition the GM. After a back and forth conversation, I was able to get ten extra days out of it, something I was very happy about as I originally found out about the promotion through a forum post and the person that started the thread got an extra 14 days. The last few days I've been working on:

Engineering 5
Drones 5
Scout Drone Operation (1 day left)

Haven't quite decided what I'm going to skill after this. I might go for the Drone Interfacing but I don't know if I'll use it in the short run. I might just go for the essentials like Hull Upgrades, Mechanic, Repair Systems but I'll probably queue up the long training time of Medium Energy Turrets 5 which takes about 9 days.

Just hit 8.0 with Tribunal Council!! Been grinding missions like crazy and to be honest I was getting tired of it. I guess I could've payed to get into a corporation but it was interesting to work my way up from level 2 to level 3 missions. Luckily I received that 10 part Storyline mission and the last part of it bumped my rating by 16 percent, not to mention giving a million isk bonus and a 10 million implant. I learned some things while doing these missions and got fairly decent money. Lost a spaceship because I was getting warp disrupted and only had shitty drones. The annoying part was that I had a light gun fitted on the ship but mistakenly transfered the ammo into the station when I was emptying my cargohold. Going to take all my loot and salvage and take a trip to Amarr to get rid of it. I was at about 160 million isk then lost the spaceship so I had to replace the contents which brought me down about 20 million after getting insurance back. The next few days are going to be used for exploring or maybe finally joining a corporation.

Checking in

Last time I checked in, I was having trouble with a few of the Level 3 Missions. With my shitty skills, some of these are definitely difficult. I finally finished training all the skill necessary for Covert Ops the junk and I don't know if it was really worth it in the long run. The almost three week training time for Frigate 5, Electronics Upgrades 5, and Cloaking 4 has been ridiculous. However, all training times are ridiculous at this point. It's going to take me another month to train up the essentials. My plan so far is:

Engineering 5
Mechanic 5
Hull Upgrades 5
Repair Systems 5

After these, it's rime to get the gun skills up with Small and Medium Energy Turrets so I can start using Type 2 weapons. After that, it's the beginning Drone skills so I can use the tier 2 drones. We're looking at almost 2 months of training time here for essential skills but I guess all training is similar at this point.

So I'm still having some trouble with some Level 3 missions and I have to work the fit of Harbinger. Better cap Skills are essential but I also need to pick up a few rigs. The mission I mentioned last time I finally finished after hours and I was rewarded with a named Missile Launcher worth 12 million. Not bad. Bought my Anathema and have played around with it a bit but haven't gone into Low Sec yet. The thing really zips around at more than 2k a second. I'm still grinding up my Standings and I'm going to wait until I have Jump Clones before I start doing other silly things. My current standing is around 6.5 so another week or so of grinding out these missions and I'll be ready to go.

So I had trouble with that level 3 mission and then decided to make sure I would check up before accepting another mission. I accepted one after checking on it, then noticed the fucking information was wrong after having trouble with it. Now I have to make sure to double or triple check before I accept another one. I've been trying to finish this mission for hours.

Level 3 Agents

Grinded a bunch last night and hit 4.0 standing which gave me the option for a level three, quality 0 agent in high sec. The first Level 3 mission didn't seem too bad and had rewards of about 1 million isk but the second in the chain was impossible and I had to cancel it. Lost .15 rating which stunk. These missions take a LONG time. I was playing one after lunch today and I expected it to take a 10-15 minutes but it wound up taking almost an hour. Starting to get bored of these missions :). I'm going to grind them out the next few days to get my standings high enough to get some jump clones. I figure I can come back to level 3 missions in a few weeks when my skills are better or for when I'm looking for something different to do. I'll be traveling into Low Sec in a couple of days which should be exciting. I did all scanning last week, grinding missions this week. At least there are different things to do.