Another slow one at work.  Finding that knight guild progress is much slower
at lvl 2 for valor.  What used to easily raise it by a quarter point now no
longer advances it.  I'm worried what lvl 3 is going to be like.  I'm also
finding that spell parry at 50% sucks, hard.  So far, out of 20 spell attempts
to block, 0 have been blocked.  Chatted with Shin. and he mentioned that a
bastard sword is smaller than he thought, which was hurting my chances as
well.  Hoom.  Well, as a dwarf I'm sure as hell not going to be wielding a
blasted 2-h sword.  Guess a shield is needed to make this skill work better is
my guess.  Got first class ship assembled today, and did a sailors quarters
quest as well.  The other quests are not looking as much fun though.  Class 2
looks to be a pain to gather materials with an alloy and cloth being 2 of the
fun ingredients to obtain.  

Annoyance of the day (from last evening), if you are at a gym locker room, and
there is limited bench space for seating, please be considerate and move your
bag that is covering up half a bench.  I'm sure your stuff is valuable, but I
think you could put it another foot lower to the ground and still not damage
anything.  Besides, the extra inches you stretch to get stuff will help you
out in the long run.  Thank you.    

Oh yeah, sword of wonders is a funky thing indeed, the random +/- to stats,
and hp/sp/ep bonuses is interesting to watch.  Only annoying one is the -50 to
spmax that hits now and again, but the +50 spmax is neat.  

Well, that's all for this evening, time to go and lift.  Tonight's blog entry
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