Still Alive

It's been about 20 days since my last update, so thought I would make some kind of indication of my continued survival. I haven't been able to play a great deal of EVE lately, instead focusing on the RL stuff, but I have been keeping my skill queue up to date. My two characters are alive and well, as is my wife's, and I never let their skill queues get too hungry. Beyond that and the occasional market transaction or jump-cloning, nothing of interest has been happening. No newly lost ships, no interesting pvp (or any, for that matter), no new ship purchases, etc.

In short, at the moment I'm living up to my blog title.

Still, it shall not always be this way. I'm going to be getting a new laptop soon, as well as returning home to my glorious high-speed internet, and having weekends, and just days off in general..It's been almost nine months since I've had a weekend..Working twelve hours a day, every day for nine months, except for 4 days in a row about two or three months ago. That's about 269 days of working, give or take..

Anyway, that's enough of my self-pity.

But also playing EVE again, and enjoying that, and even getting my wife into it (hopefully.) So, I do have something to look forward to, and hopefully anyone reading this blog will as well.

Fly safe.

o7

P.S.-Warm showers with plenty of hot water..I miss those too.

An issue with planning..

So, I lost another Noctis the other day.

I had just bought it to replace the last one, made a few jumps, fitted in Hek, threw on some warp core stabs II in all three of the lows, and left to low-sec to go back to my usual area, confident in my abilities (This is what we call 'foreshadowing').  So, on the way back, I notice that I need to get some skill books. Unfortunately, Hek, as much of a market system as it may be, does not have skill books in the system for the base prices. I find a skill book system that's only a few jumps out of my way, set my course, and set myself to warp as I'm about to look at the maps to see what I can expect.

I didn't open them in time. I knew I should have checked them, but I warped before I could. In hindsight, if I had just docked up for a few minutes, or decided to drop off the Noctis and come back later with another ship, or this, or that, or all kinds of other things that seem like better ideas after the fact..

But I didn't.

I jumped through the gate to find some new friends waiting for me. An Oracle, a Legion, a Cynabal and a Hurricane all decided that they wanted to just have a rave directed at my ship. LASERS EVERYWHERE! I wish I had thought to grab a screencap of it, but alas it is a moment lost to the world now. Hopefully never to be repeated, at least by me. Unfortunately, they had at least enough disruptors and scrams to kill even my triple stabbed warp core, at least three of them disrupting my poor, poor ship. So I waited patiently as my new Noctis disintegrated around me..waiting..waiting..And then, for a brief moment it looked like they might ransom me, all damage stopped at about 15% armor and seemed to just sit there for a good thirty seconds or so...

LOLNOPE

My eve-mail starts to flash and I return to sighing in my pod and clicking the to station button, managing to escape with my pod intact once again. After that I get out of the pod and surf the internet for a bit, and then get back in my pod and check the map. In the past 24 hours, 35 ships had been destroyed. In the past 1 hour, 5 ships (Yay! I'm part of something) and 2 pods of people a bit less lucky than me taking the fast track to their station of choice, or at least the last station that they chose. After about half an hour of waiting, I decided to say screw it, and undock, setting my course back to my 'home' station. I get back to the gate, no one there. The flight home in my pod was uneventful. Mostly empty systems, no camps, and within twenty minutes I'm back to my preferred station, isk-kill ratio about 100 mil added to the red, but my ratio is possibly still green. I haven't checked recently.

I decided that I'm going to take a bit of a break from low sec, and clone jump myself into Jita to spend some time without living with risk to anything besides my wallet. I'll be back to my low-sec home soon though.

That's were all of my fun ships are.

o7