More Maintenance, and my Post

Wizard101 Extended Maintenance

Wizard101 the game will be offline tonight

from 3:00am to 6:00am Central US Time.

Changes will not be made to your characters during this downtime.

During this time, players will be unable to log in to the game, and active players will be prompted to log out.

/\ Official word from KI /\                   \/ My thoughts on official word \/

Still, your items will likely not be returned because of the 4th line above.  Too bad for those of you who are missing mount :(  And now for my actual post.

I was beginning to get burnt out on farming, so I decided today to run around and just enjoy myself again.  I was running Tree of Life after Kagemoosha's Citrine Blade (the only balance sword I lack) and I got a lucky drop from Death Oni!  I got my little Leprechaun.  He should hatch sometime early tomorrow morning.  Now all I need is a myth leprechaun to complete my set of 4! :D My birthday is on St. Patrick's Day so the Leprechauns are kind of my special pet, I can't wait to complete the set.  The goal of the myth leprchaun really reignited my passion for pet farming.  Before I headed out though, I decided to try my hand at the arena now that there is a marvelous lack of Sniper Bolters.  Much to my dismay, I seemed to have lost what little skill I had before the Sniper Bolters were dealt with.  Oh well, I can work on it some. 

Nothing else really happened today, other than getting ALMOST to the secret life tower room only to fall short right above it.  I guess I have a challenge for later now.  And the Bloggers' Club is continuing to accumulate members, drop me a line to join if you haven't already :D.  ( /\LOOK UP/\)

I'm kinda tired so I guess I'll turn in soon.

Your Friend Always,

John Lifeglen

More Internet Problems

The minor problems I began facing a couple weeks ago have escalated to the point that I can no longer use my laptop for internet activities such as Wizard101, Blogger, or Twitter just to name a few that I frequent.  For you all, this has no repercussions except that I'll be offline for longer than originally anticipated.

As it turns out, dad called tech support this morning and got a code for me to tell them for the sole purpose of information disclosure [due in part to me being the technologically gifted person in my house...how will they survive with me at college next year *worries and forsees hammers flying at a computer screen*] so that I may try and work out the bugs with our connection while dad is at work.  Darn disclosure acts...makes working things out without the actual person bound by a contract handy VERY difficult.  Long story short, using this code they basically told me it wasn't on their end, it must be a problem with our wireless router [that I happened to receive for Christmas with my laptop this past year -urghhhhhh- great it's all my fault now...] and that we need to disconnect [scream silently in my head NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this can't be happening!!! What about my party on Wednesday /\ (Look Up) /\ ] it.  This kills my laptop's internet capabilities but I can still use the home computer...sort of.  It crashes all the time-especially trying to play online games...-and it hasn't had Wizard101 patched since Christmas. 

Well, guess what I'm doing NOW.  I'm patching this dinosaur in the basement and hoping that something will give before Wednesday June 2nd so that I can play for the party.  As I type this I am plotting ways to get dad to purchase a new router before that time so that I can fix the connection and pray for a miracle.  Don't look for me much in the game, all I'll be doing is training pets most likely. 

Your Friend Always,
John Lifeglen

BLAH...Internet Connection Failures

I would like to apologize in advance for my lack of blog updates and in-game appearances. Unfortunately our rural internet connection has been acting up and flickering between partial function and no function at all. As I type this I wonder just how long I have before I lose all connections again...


Due to this, My blog will likely come to a screeching halt for which I apologuze profusely. I am sorry that I cannot continue to update this blog frequently, as I will be waiting on the few moments a day when the little caution "no internet acess" icon flickers away from my task tray.

I will also not be playing much as that draws substantially more as far as connections go. I can barely run twitter and blogger as it is, let alone the magical adventure of a lifetime. Until my father takes a little bit of initiative (AKA he has something on eBay about to finish at auction), I am basically grounded for takeoff.

Please accept this apology and keep a spot for me until I may return, in full force.

Your [Regretful and Sorrowful] Friend Always,
John Lifeglen