AC2 Patch day!

Or, well, last night was the first chance I got to actually play it. Free XP... eh. New quests... where? 'Mute all: still bugged. Continent recall: also bugged. Beetle: NERFED HORRIBLY! Noooooo!

Beetle went from 'being able to tank through a non-group mob if it happened to get aggro' to 'dead in two hits'. It also went from doing 100 points a shot ('bout the same as me) to 30 points a shot, after armor. So, basically, it's about as useful as the frost sword most enchanters don't even bother to train, now. Thank you so much, Verant. Er, I meant Turbine.

Incursion quests IN FULL FORCE. Helmets available, but I haven't gotten a good one with either Terrarry or Arona.

I noticed Vergil being online, but I wasn't sure what level he was at. Apparently, '17'. I'm now at 28ish on that server.

I feel dirty... and the scrubbing bubbles burn my eyes...

I really loathe housework. In fact, I endeavor to avoid it as much as possible. This makes occasions such as this week when the management has given 48 hours notice of a 'fire alarm and general safety inspection' kind of stressful, because there are things in the apartment that don't bother *me*, but... well, let's just say they don't bother me.

Okay, thing 1, taken care of last night: I tend to store random trash on the kitchen counter until it piles up too high to store any more. That got put in two bags and hauled out.

Thing 2: Paper and old boxes get piled up next to the couch. It took five trash cans to clear that all away, and that's not counting the boxes which I folded up and carried down separately.

Thing 3, which is the one I *really* hate: The bathroom. Specifically, mildew in the bathroom. All over everything. Drains in the bathroom are very slow. UNFORTUNATE: I decided to see if the mold on the walls was really growing out of the paint, as it appeared to be. It wasn't. So I had to scrub down the walls, too.

Still waiting for the sink and bathtub to drain from the first pass that scraped off the main layer of scum, so that I can wash them again for real. I'm naked, filthy, sweaty, and sore.

Still, for all that, I have no regrets. It's once a year, after all. I can deal with a couple hours of work once a year.