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Got to play Final Fantasy XI for many hours and got my Warrior up to level 16, also got the attack skill Iron Tempest, which does extra damage. Techno gave me a little help in the beginning with 20,000 gil. I am relatively well armored but can't get my hands on a better weapon. They are having a return to Vandiel program and everyone is reactivating their characters. So the auction houses are practically devoid of weapons and armor. Now I am just stuck on a mission trying to rescue a missing soldier. No matter how slowly I take it, and I am doing it 4 levels higher and with much better gear and abilities and knowledge than the first time. I still can't do it alone. I will probably need Techno to change to a White Mage and heal me as I go through it.

Ran some errands with mom this afternoon. The roads had finally cleared enough she felt safe driving, but claims she had anxiety for not driving for a week.

Then this evening I went out with Kelly and Dee to celebrate Kelly's birthday. We went out for steak and then to Dairy Queen. I gave her my 1st gen 2 gig iPod nano as a present, she's buying an FM tuner for her car so she can listen to mp3's on the way back to Florida. When ever that is.

No sign of my disability money yet. Checked three times in the last twelve hours. I did however use my unemployment check to pay off $157 to JC Penny for the wedding gift I got Techno and Catrabbit. So no more credit card debt. As soon as the balance is reading 0 I am closing the account.

Downloading is frustrating me. I am trying to get the entire first season of Damages before the new season airs and am stuck on infinite time for download on episodes 8 and 13. Also after removing software deleting files, moving files. I still have a mostly full C:\ drive. I can't figure out why. I did disk clean up and defrag, which did help with some of the slowness. But can't find what's filling the drive. I wonder if torrent files are accumulating somewhere I just can't find them. I can't find a spot they would be going to in my bittorrent client so I might have to ask Squidget if she has an idea.