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Spending a lot of time on Final Fantasy XI. Which is my new job. At least until I balance out enough to get a part time one. I don't remember where anything is anymore. Techno who encouraged me to play the game again isn't being much help. Although I did go up 9 levels on my Warrior yesterday. 2 more levels and I will be level 30 Warrior with 15 Thief sub job. 15 Thief gets me the Treasure Hunter ability and the Sneak Attack ability. Sneak attack I especially like. Instant critical damage. Which from a Warrior enhanced with food and Berserk will be a lot. Right now I am trying to reach a town called Jueno. The recommended level to do this is 20. Which I did 5 years ago. I think they upped the difficulty since then.

Other things more important. Filed my taxes today. Despite only paying $56 in taxes this year and not paying any taxes on my $8000 of unemployment I am still getting $124 back. What a wonderful country we live in.

Also keeping tabs on the news. Obama has made several decisions of the first two days of his presidency that I approve of. Ending the war in Iraq in 16 months. Closing Gitmo and stopping waterboarding and torture. Even if the Gitmo thing will be in a year. I really can't imagine anyone in there knowing anything of any value after 5 years.

Another thing confusing me a social worker with the county encouraged me to apply for medicaid, even sent me forms. I haven't submitted them yet. But today I got a letter saying I was denied medicaid despite being disabled (which is taking some getting used to officially being disabled). So gotta call on that tomorrow.