Monday : 17 July 2006
It was a Monday.  Despite that, I didn’t have any problems with my fav’rit monkeys today (although MFM2 did catch Jason with a “problem”).  It was like chocolate sprinkles on an ice cream cone.  Yeah, it was that good.  (Great… now I want a double-dip cone from Friendly’s.  *sigh*)

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It was a pretty low-key – but high-temperature (between 102 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday) – weekend.  The main highlight of the weekend was a trip to the Utah Hogle Zoo.  They have done some upgrades to many of the animal pens – the “Asian Highlands” and the new elephant areas were rather nice.  They have also added a few more kid-friendly “attractions,” including an “elephant” that “sneezes” on guests.

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The post-work day has been pretty quiet.

The Adventures of Indigo Bolt
I went to Founders Falls to speak with a contact.  I needed to follow-up on a mission that I had run on Friday; she had another mission ready for me.  But I wasn’t ready for it.  It was a timed mish… and I didn’t have any back-up.  Well, I had Sparky, but for what she was asking, I would have needed more warm bodies.  Not to put Sparky down, mind you.  He’s the best little ball of lightning a guy could ask for.  If.. he was… so inclined…  to ask for one, that is. 

Then, I bought and sold a few enhancements.

After that, I headed to Talos Island and on to Brickstown.  No sooner had I stepped off the train in Bricks, was I contacted by Emilia Rhetborn, an occasional teammate.  She was getting a group together to go and break some heads in the southern section of Brickstown.  I signed on to help out.  While she was recruiting a few others, I went sightseeing.  And by “sightseeing,” I mean that I wandered through the neighborhoods, looking for citizens in distress… and criminals to beat down.  They weren’t hard to find.  We took on the mission in Brickstown (find some data in a Crey lab), followed by ones in Dark Astoria, Peregrine Island (actually we hopped a Portal to… “somewhere else,” to fight Anti-Matter and his robotic minions) and Independence Port.  By the time we were done, we had fought The Council and Praetorians, along with a few Malta thrown in for good measure.

The missions weren’t cake walks.  The rewards – aside from keeping the citizens of the city safe – made the risks worthwhile.  I started the night about 15% of the way through Security Level 38; by the end of the night, I was about 65% of the way to Level 39.  And that’s a good thing.

Stray Toasters

That’s close enough for jazz.

Namaste.