Pitch Forks and Randomness

I think everyone should keep a pitchfork in their hanger.  And by pitch fork I don't mean a literal pitch fork, I mean a ship you will readily go out into battle to defend your system with and not care if it goes boom.  This makes it much easier when your put in the "We need shield logi's and battlecruisers ASAP at a safe POS in *-*.  Intercepting a hostile gang that is x jumps out" to respond "Ok, who has a warp in?"  Thus you get to have fun not far from home!

Today was one of those days I got to take my pitch fork out for a spin and my pitch fork is a drake.  Mainly because our fleets seem to be mostly shield/speed ships possibly because they are good at what they do but more likely because they are cheap.  I took out my second drake that I've purchased since my time in 0.0, one that has seen many engagements and made it out alive, and threw it at the Darkside gang we were engaging.  Sadly, today was not one of those times, when despite our superior fleet numbers, we still got our ass handed to us.  Well, it was probably more even since half our people will still docked or doing whatever.  So my trusty Crimson Tide III was popped due to being the apparent subject of the enemy fleets missiles, but not before I managed to get some blood and guts smeared on her hull.

So I went and reshipped into my "slightly" smaller and less reliable atron; which under gate camp situations is a fine ship for playing tackle but in the drone laden battlefield of the small gang fight is an easy target for drones.  I decided, given that T2 drones rape T1 Frigates, to play warping games while acting as an additional tackle against the speedy and hard hitting darksiders, managing to hop onto a tempest kill.  There's three more kills for my increasingly pathetic looking kill board.  I think I'm averaging a kill a day, though sadly 15 of them were on day 1 (I think).

RL fun is winding down (I've been taking SCUBA lessons for the past month), so I should have more time during the weekdays especially for more fun and games.  Along with that, I can now fly my first T2 ship: the basilisk.  So now I can play logistics with fleets who so often seem to need them.  I have no problem skipping off kill mails (See my killboard =P), but my skills are a bit lacking.  Ah well, another week for fitting them right isn't so bad.  And then it's time for my last few skills till remap!  Hurray!

Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never too far away,

Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer

Essay's!

Why is it so much easier to write about things on this blog than to write them for school?

Oh yeah, cause I consider this fun.  And there are no grades to worry about, deadlines to meet (No, there won't be a dedicated day for a post), or grammar to truly have to care about.  Sure, I take pride in my writing and try to uphold a standard for grammar (no lazy capitol letters or "u"'s instead of you), but I'm not worried about sentence structure or any of that.

I guess I'm writing this post because I'm pissed at the fact that I have to write 3 or so essays today, which means to relaxation time to either nap, watch football or play eve.  So this is my five minute break, to sit here at my laptop and type away at something I enjoy doing, rather than something that is a bit of a chore.

Anyway, tonight, if I do get on, I hope to get in on a gatecamp to get some good kills.  I hope its a corp run gate camp, because those tend to have five or six people rather than the NC ones which have 15 to twenty.  Or a corp roam, those are fun too.

Ah well, back to writing stupid essays and studying for major tests in the next week.

Hoping your days are prosperous, and that solo nyx kill is right around the corner. Heh.

Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer

Blog Blog Blog Away

Wee... I just realized I posted something like 4 (now 5) posts, mostly things that I'd had rambling around in my head as ideas for a blog should I ever start one.  Now I know my creativity is a little lacking, but I'm hoping that posting lots of "fast fictions" will help with that, and I hope to have about 1 a week at the bare minimum.

As for other posts, I will probably write a draft in the downtime between fleets or when I don't have the time to do much else.  Those will probably occur every day or so.  Though it may seem like I'm focusing more on quantity rather than quality (I noticed that it might seem that way with 4 or 5 halfway decent posts in one day), I will try to keep up a standard of excellence when it comes to grammar.  One thing that pisses me off is when people fail to capitalize or punctuate things correctly.  So feel free to leave me hating comments if my grammar should slip.  As to keeping this up, I hope I can keep this up.  It will help me to focus at least some of my thoughts into semicoherentness (Spelling?  Hell, is that even a word? Spell check says no but I'm going to keep it).

Anyway, I'm kind of experimenting with google blogger.  I've tried wordpress, but this seems to be working out quite well, and is fairly simple for me to use.  As you can see, my train of thought is wandering like a the skill path of a noob who can't decide what ship he wants to fly.  I should really go to bed, it's 12:07 (EST US) and I need to wake up early what with school and all.  Huh... I guess it was only 4 in one day.  This is technically Wednesday, not Tuesday.

Good night my 1 or 2 readers, Hoping your days (or nights *YAWN*) are prosperous and a fight is never... far... away....
*headdesk