IC: Floating in Evati

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RANDOM HAIKU

wtf tackled!!!

must be hax cuz i was cloaked!

or...uhmm...maybe not.

29 July

YC116

#podjournaling break is over!

Recently I've been doing well on the poker tables. It's my habit to find somewhere interesting to sit cloaked up in my beautiful Astero and simply enjoy the scenery when I am not focused on a hand. I found an old battlefield in Evati that had glorious colors emanating from the structures there. My ship sensors didn't complain so I sat a long while and watched a few faction ships on their rounds. 

Evati brings back a lot of wonderful memories of running with the Bastards when Hellcats was in its heydey. Glad to still be in touch with many old friends from that time.

Speaking of old friends, one popped up out of the blue and managed to convince me to join him in RvB [Red vs Blue]. I keep my ties to SF [Stay Frosty] but RvB is a very good fit in terms of "action when you want it". 

Slightly Tuned Out

My YC116 Expedition has been somewhat on hold in the last few weeks.

First of all, work life is busy. When you're a self-employed artist, it tends to be feast or famine. I went from having almost no work to having a couple of months' worth of commissions and a few teaching obligations in the space of a couple of weeks. While I have some control of how much time I actually work, I like money. Which means that when there is work in my queue I prefer to get it done before flying around in Internet spaceships.

Secondly, it's summer and that means more time needs to be spent on house/farm projects. And it means there is more stuff I'd rather be doing outside...like trail riding or gardening or dragging my plein air gear out to the woods to paint there.

And third, we're having summer frigate smackdown matches in Stay Frosty and I've been hanging around Ishomilken to get my matches done. This kind of slow-motion obligation kinda grates on me...but I hate to forfeit just for the sake getting on with my expedition. Considering who my Round 2 opponent is, I'm pretty sure I'll be out after we have our match. We'll see! We were joking the other day that our mutually shitty internet connections might be the real deciding factor in who wins.

On a side note, an old Eve friend resurfaced recently. He tells me he is having a grand time with a new character in RvB and suggested I join up. It sounds like a fun thing to do with my cyno/hauler alt Sera. She's got about 4M SPs and can fly Stealth Bombers and T1 frigs okay. The question is, does it offer more fun than I'm already having in low sec? Maybe, if people aren't as risk averse. And it will offer regular PvP fixes once Mynxee resumes her wandering. Something to ponder...

See you in space...more #podjournal posts ARE coming...eventually.