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It's May for cripes sake!! I am NOT supposed to have to de-ice my car on Jedi-day!! And to boot it didn't even work to telepath the snow away :( Anywhooo: Happy Jedi-day everyone. May the fourth be with you

Awwww, so glad the mommy found her baby again <3: Always great when these stories have happy endings.

I'm considering to go. That is, as long as Katla stays asleep. Not sure if I could face 27h of straight driving (thank you googlemaps) just to get there. But should be fun to meet up with some of the people from here. And Rach, if you're worried about your parents, I'll be your chaperone. I'll be 33 by then, and I'm a *erm* responsible adult :P

As Racheya said, the DYK's tend to run out quickly. Also, it isn't necessarily that obvious seeing how you cannot trade charms outside of dungeoneering. I for one didn't even think about trying to sell them before I had it pointed out to me.

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I ground up my own pork meat and added 2 different spice mixes. One heavy in pepper, garlic and paprika for a spanish chorizo-style sausage, and fennel and coriander in the other one for a sweeter, italian style sausage. They were both tasty, but the spanish one was the bigger hit. I can't wait to try out sausages with about 40% fatty bacon and some shredded Jarlsberg cheese. And eventually, when I become more experienced I hope to delve into the wonderful world of cured sausages :) Can't wait for fall when I plan on buying half a pig stright from slaughter :D

That was a close shot :D I'd be mad if I had to re-type all my eloquent statements... :P

Oh boy. Suddenly I hadn't posted here in 3 weeks. I blame RS. And RL. But a lot of fun stuff has happened both places so it's all good. And so on to the elephant in the room, or should that be dungeon. Dungeoneering. Well, my first impression is that I cannot bring myself to think of it as a skill. I mean, what's the skill part of it? picking up different keys and unlocking doors? That's questing in my book. Killing various monsters and bosses? Well, ain't that combat/fighting? Solving various puzzles? Again, questing. And Jagex, there IS a reason why I have so many undone quests.... However, in general I like to DO dungeoneering, whether it should be called a skill, minigame, activity or just a fun way to train various other skills. I like that I can toddle along and train pretty much every other skill in one way or another. I like the sound of the gembag and the bonecrusher (although at the rate I'm going it'll be christmas before I get enough tokens). I like that you can, but don't HAVE to play with others. (If Jagex had forced me to socialize I would probably had to kill myself.) I see great potential in the fact that the skill goes to lvl 120 instead of 99. I'm guessing Jagex may be preparing to launch the other skills to 120 aswell, now that so many players are maxed (pre-dungeoneering maxed, that is. I still chuckle when I think of Trixstar who maxed the Sunday before it came out =D> ) My heart also bleeds a bit for our wonderful crew. They have been slaving away with the new skill, working all hours to get a skill guide out and ready. This is a massive update, and they've done a fantastic job. However there is still a lot of work to be done and I urge each and every one of you to visit the update forum: W U&C and see if there is some bit of info you have that they need. If your submissions are used you will of course be credited on the site and have eternal web-glory \:D/ In RL I have discovered a new hobby. Sausage making! It's actually a lot easier than it sounds (and I thought). It requires a bit of work, but you get to work with pigs intestines (or hog casings which is the slightly more PC term.) And you get to decide what to put in your own sausages. So I'm guessing next week I'll be testing bacon and cheese sausages. Mmmmmmm.......

It's almost like you're just out to cause trouble. It's interesting you've removed your stat signature and all mentions of your RSN from your profile in the last 5 minutes, presumably because you knew you were going to try and stir something up? I don't think Jagex are going to ban you, lol. Actually no, I did it before I even knew that he was going to post. I mostly did it for when I have to go under a different name because I get banned for using an adult, if not profane word, on what is apparently a kid site. <_< And like Qeltar said, you guys are being rather hypocritical. Tell you what, be "Just about the Gaming Experience" and we'll be "Just about the community experience." Just a quick note here. This is NOT only a site for kids but it's a site for ALL, that would mean including kids. And I'm sure now that you're obviously very much aware of it you'll do your best not to use profanity or other language not suitable for kids. And I'm also sure you've read the forum rules and are aware that should you happen to get a ban it would be against the rules to create a new account, and would only lead to a the original ban being lengthened. :)

Hey Storm, aren't you in the south-ish? Got any good bbq-sauce recipes to share? =P~

Excellent. Thx a bunch. I'll still keep collecting pieces tho. As I like the incentive I get to train rarely-trained skills :)

Has Jagex stated so? Haven't seen anything about it, but again, I shun RSOF so could easily have missed it. :)

The last few weeks my RS life have revolved a lot around non-cbt skilling. I am actually enjoying shattered hearts more than I thought I would when I realised it meant training stuff like agility, hunter and *shudders* RC. It has even gotten me a hunter lvl (now 81, only 3 more lvls and I can pot for zombie implings. Of course, by then I won't spot a single one...) I am currently working on my 3rd statue, and I'm really wondering if the finished in-house statue will have any special rewards. I am also closing in on levels in RC (82), construction (83) and ranged (96). :) Out in RL it seems that spring is finally on its way here up north. Yesterday the bf and I started the bbq-season (I even made my own bbq-sauce for the very first time!!) out on our balcony. In the sun it was a whopping 12C so we ate inside, but it was so nice to be able to sit outside while the food was cooking. The sun is also visibly higher in the sky and the snow and ice on the sidewalks is steadily melting away. Wonderful!!! However I had a major realisation yesterday when I saw that easter is THIS COMING WEEK. I was so sure it was one more week away. So now it was time to end all procrastination. Panicky message to my sister-in-law to organise my nieces birthdaygift (money, as she's going to London for a longweekend over easter). Thank god for internet banking as they're leaving this sunday :oops: Wild search in the attic to look for thermal underwear, thick sweaters and the likes for our own easter vacation, as we on monday (yep, Sio. *This* monday, not in a week...) are travelling further north to where the bf comes from for a week in his family's cabin up in the mountains. No, I'm not gonna ski at all, but snowmobile here I come :D Only drawback is no net up there. So I'm packing 2-3 kakuro books, my ebook, mp3 player, one of our laptops and possibly even moar books :)

Lol. Trust me. It gets old really quick imo. I'm just extremely happy I live in an apartementbuilding so that someone else has to shovel it all away from the driveway. What I wouldn't give to be on a tropical beach somewhere now.......

So, the bonus xp weekend is over, and I did manage my big goal! After about an hour of play on friday I finally reached that elusive level 96 summoning \:D/ It's so awesome to finally be able to use that amazing familiar. So far I've only tested it on a trip to mith drags (had an assignment of 11), but it was wonderful not to have to leave a single mith bar or bury a single d-bone. Bring on the addy drags Jagex, I'm as ready as I'll ever be . The rest of the weekend was pretty ramshackle. Didn't get another level, but I did get some xp in a couple of not-so-favorite skills. So I'm now 100K or less away from levels in ranged, construction, RC and hunter. All skills I rarely train :D Yesterday I also did my first quest in ages. I'm not a big quest fan, but I did make myself run through the blood pact. And I was then promptly kidnapped by Crew to help them with fixing some images and getting some lunar scans. Well, as their quest guides and skill tips have helped me out on numerous occations, how could I resist. <3: In RL this week has seen snowmageddon here in middle parts of Norway (probably elsewhere too, but I've only been here so.) I was starting to hope for spring. That should teach me a lesson. Aparently we're suppposed to get around 70cm this week. I'm pretty sure about half of that already has arrived. If I liked skiing I guess I would be extatic....

People in general can sometimes really make me chuckle. I was driving up to work today. As I entered the highway I ended up behind a uniformed police car. No problem, I'm generally a "nice" driver, and pretty much never go over the speedlimit anyway (and, yes. I have checked my speedometer against 3-4 speed checkpoints and a GPS). Anyway. As I don't go over the speedlimit I always tend to get passed by cars in the left lane. Fine by me. I'm never in that much of a hurry and I prefer to spend my money on travels, books, eating out etc rather than speeding tickets. However, when people (and, it seems, Norwegians in particular) see a police car they are gripped by this collective, existential angst! I saw car after car come in the left lane, drive beside me and seeing the police car. BAM! On with brakes, and promptly get the car over into the right hand lane (aka straight in front of me). This happened with every single car! In the end there weren't any more room in front of me, so it ended with both lanes going bumper to bumper at approximately 70-75km/h (the speed limit there is 80, my speedometer showed around 77-78 and it's off by around 10%). People are in general weird. :D

I currently have 6, and have 2-3 more planned. Just need to get my rear into gear and get the apt for the first 2, but the last one I have planned will take a bit more work as it requires me travelling to South Africa/Australia or similar to do a white shark dive first :P All my tattoos mean something special to me. There is the butterfly I got when I moved to live by myself and try out this "adult" thing, the Tweety bird who I've loved for decades, the dolphin for the time I fed wild dolphins in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, the polar bear I saw in the wild up at Spitsbergen, the whale shark I swam next to on Ningaloo reef (those suckers are H U G E) and the lion I walked with and cuddled in Zimbabwe. To come is an image of the beautiful cheetas I met in Namibia, a phrase written in elvish so that not everyone can read it (it's a phrase that means a lot to me personally) and finally the white shark I'll get when I finally manage to get a cave dive done. (Sadly, when I was in South Africa the weather was too bad so the trip got cancelled :( ) If you think about getting a tattoo, make sure it is a motif you can stand by. Not just now, but also in 10, 20, 40 years. And tbh, the pain isn't that bad :)

The leprechaun can store buckets, compost, super compost and the different farming tools for you. You can buy compost in the farm shops for 20gp, or make it yourself by putting 15 compostable items into the compost bins near the allotment plots. Examples of compostable materials that are easy to get include weeds, cabbage, potatoes etc. The brilliance of this is that the compost weight quite a bit (3kg) so it quickly adds up to the balloon limit and over. If you make scrolls you won't have to worry about the balloon at all but just run back and forth between the obelisk and the leprechaun stationed at the Taverly tree plot. For the marigold you need lvl 2 farming. That's 83 xp and just by weeding both allotment, flower and herb patch in one place you'll get 48xp. Then treat the 2 allotments with (bought) compost for another 36 xp and bob's your uncle :) Marigold seeds can be either bought at the ge for 32gp, Olivia's seed stall in Draynor for 84gp or thieved from either seed stall (27 thieving) or master farmers (38 thieving).

Well. At 28 summ you can make compost mound (49.8xp, 47 shards, green charm). If you make sure you fill your leprechaun storage to the max the obelisk in Taverly could be good. Most speed would mean making all pouches into scrolls but you wouldn't lose too much time on duelling ring to CW/balloon back. Make sure you have a stack of duel rings and normal logs in that case. If you can resist the urge to use your blues, do. They're much better spent at higher levels. Tbh I don't really see any easy/good use for golds either until about lvl 40, but I *think* double xp and your greens should get you near that mark. From 32 I'd use crimsons for honey badgers until 46 when the pyrelord comes in to play. So based on these familiars, I'd spend the remainder of this week making regular compost (Remember, if you have more than 255, quickest bank-Leprechaun refill would probably be Catherbury), farming marigolds (they take 15mins to grow but are expensive to buy) plus collecting honeycomb from beehives near Catherbury and buying tinderboxes. There may very well be smarter ideas, but these are tthe ones I came up with :) Best of luck

For crimsons you have greater demons, waterfiends, nechrayels and probably others. Not really sure of anything that gives good amounts of blues besides dark beasts (90 slayer).

So. The weekend is over (yeah yeah, I know it's tuesday already). Was a nice weekend. On friday I was A Good Friend and voluntarily picked up two friends at the airport when they came home from 3 weeks vacation in the Phillipines. Was nice to see them again, but planes that are an hour late when they're already supposed to land at 11pm are not my fave! On saturday we were celebrating another friends birthday. I there cemented my image as queen of the "memory like a goldfish" club. After spending most of friday afternoon running all over town looking for her pressy we decided to write a card, explaining what we're getting her and why we didn't get it in time. And when I arrived at the party I had promptly forgotten the card at home #-o Sunday was pretty much spent playing RS and watching LOTR. Spent a bit of time chasing some of the rocks. I have now managed to get fm, cons, farm, craft, smithing and mining. I have one each for RC and wc (I *cannot* believe I made over 4K astrals in hunt for the blooming rock!!). So I'm missing herby, fletch, cooking, hunter, thieving, fishing and *GULP* agility. I think that's it. If Ihave forgotten any, please see above for explanation re: short term memory... This week will probably mainly concentrate on getting charms for the upcoming weekend. I have approx 100 blues, 600 crim, 900 green and 1,8K golds. That equates to about 1-1,1M xp when doing half wolpys and half iron titans and doing a flat double xp assumption. Aka, I should be OK for lvl 96 \:D/ Besides summoning I don't really have anything planned skill wise. All suggestions are gratefully accepted, although any regarding agility or RC will most likely be politely ignored :P I'm also thinking that stuff like wc/hunter/other stuff limited by spawns will probably be soooo crowded that I doubt I'll even bother. So perhaps I'll fish a bit, or pickpocket master farmers. (I really enjoyed the multiple pickpocket update BTW). And on the RL front, tonight is probably the best evening of the whole week. New episodes of The Big Bang Theory show, Two and a half men and How I met your mother <3: The bf and I usually go to a friend to watch it together with having a couple of beers and chitchatting. However, the friend in question is one of the two I picked up at the airport on friday, so he'll probably fall asleep at 7pm, still being on Phillipino time :lol: So we'll see..

So. I have finally ventured into the world of blogging. This is something completely new to me, but I'm sure it'll be a fun experience. I plan on blogging both about my RS-life and some aspects of RL. I love food and cooking so there will be quite a lot about that I imagine. Big parts of my time are also taken up by work (I work with semi-conductor technology), travelling, TV & movies and reading. Plus of course spending time with my boyfriend ("The bf") and friends. A little about myself. I'm 32 years old, female, not married and no kids. I live with the bf and our cat in Trondheim, Norway. I hate the winters here as we rarely have snow-snow, but everything just turns to solid ice so that I can slip and fall. What I really love about living here is that it's so far north that it hardly gets dark in the summer (no, not far enough north for midnight sun) but it still stays (fairly) mild in the summer. It's also a big enough town so that we have a good amount of stuff happening (around 150K), but the town centre is still small enough to stroll around in a couple of hours. I've lived here most of my life, only with the exception of 2 years in south Norway and 1 year in the US as an exchange student. My RS life started on christmas day 2002 (yep, the day they dropped santas, and no I didn't get any :P). I was completely lost when I walked around Lumbridge. I tried to talk to a man and he started fighting me :shock: . I soon learned my way around RS and within2-3 months i had gotten members and I never looked back since. I see myself as a skiller (and yes, cbt stats are skills). I've never pk'ed, never killed a GWD boss and I do quests only when I really have to. Atm my main goal is to get 96 summoning (Hey, a pack rat needs a pack yak), and I hope to accomplish that during the bonus xp weekend. So, that was a little about me in general. Hopefully I'll keep this blog pretty up to date :)

Well, my main advice is horridly boring. Try to get a couple of allotment/flower/herb laps done per day. Pay the farmers if you have the payment easily available. For allotments and herbs, plant the best you can/have the seeds for, for flowers stick to marigold unless you have limp seeds. (They sell for 3-4K each). Always use super compost and magical secateurs if you have them (if not, do the quest as soon as you can). Make sure to do a tree/fruit tree lap once a day. I always used Miscellania for nests and tended to have more than I managed to plant. As soon as you hit cactus (if you haven't already, can't remember lvl req) plant one and slip by every time you're in the area to pick the spines (payment for yew when you get there). Bushes are also good xp and a nice earner (whiteberries and poison ivys) and there are good tele's to most of them. For my tele-rounds I ended up with this pattern (All the time I was on lunar) Allotments: Ectophial -> Cabbage ring -> ardy cape/skill necklace/fishing guild -> Catherbury Bushes: Ardy cape/ardy and run south -> combat bracelet -> skill necklace to craft guild -> spirit tree/fairy rings to etceteris (a pain without any of these two) Trees/fruit trees Start in catherbury -> lumby -> elf crystal to Lletya (if you have it) -> duelling ring to MA and spirit tree to maze, then the gnome out of maze and back in after replanting -> spirit tree to stronghold (both fruit and regular here) -> spirit tree to GE and run to Varrock (or tele, but no lunar tele available) -> ardy tele and boat to brim/karamja gloves to Shilo and cart up -> duelling ring to CW and balloon to Taverly (regular log) -> run or tele to Fally park. I wouldn't reall bother with hops unless you have time to spare (Seers and Yanille are closest to bank) or need them for brewing. Best of luck :thumbsup:

Imo Linux often require you to bugfix stuff yourself. I'd love to run it, but 1: I'm not techie enough atm to be able to and 2: I cba learning the tech stuff :P As for Mac vs PC? Imho Macs are overhyped, overpriced and underspecced. You want to pay extra for "fancy" design, be my guest, but personally I'd go PC every time.

Wow, that's awesome!!! I'm so envious of your skills in crafts like that. My RL crafting lvl is probably round 5 or so :P Looking forward to see pics when it's done, plus all future projects :thumbsup: