Been a few days..

It was a busy weekend. Thursday and Friday we spent the night out of town for my wifes B-day. Saturday and Sunday we had guests at the house.

I did manage to sneak in gp fishing when nobody was looking ^^.

Kind of bummed I failed to hit 48 by sunday it would be nice to hit the next bracket of gp fish.
As seen below it makes for a 2k gp gap today. Those 4-5k gp days look very nice indeed.

Your Rank	Item Rank	Item	Pts(HQ) / Max / #Req	Tomorrow's Forecast
Novice	Novice	Coral Butterfly	375 / 3280 / 8.75	Tomorrow's Forecast
Apprentice	Amateur	Bibikibo	300 / 2560 / 8.53	Tomorrow's Forecast
Journeyman	Journeyman	Bhefhel Marlin	900 / 4560 / 5.07	Tomorrow's Forecast
Craftsman	Amateur	Bibikibo	300 / 2560 / 8.53	Tomorrow's Forecast
Artisan	Novice	Coral Butterfly	375 / 3280 / 8.75	Tomorrow's Forecast
Adept	Journeyman	Bhefhel Marlin	900 / 4560 / 5.07	Tomorrow's Forecast
Veteran	Journeyman	Bhefhel Marlin	900 / 4560 / 5.07	Tomorrow's Forecast

Looking forward to getting my waders soon, only 35k gp to go!

Cleaned out my MH, Locker and Storage last night. Sent all non-fishing related items to mules. I'm now 90% done with that project hopefully get to finish it off tonight. I think I hit 70 open slots even with stockpiles of potential gp fish. The jeuno mules, Xylox and Obgyn are busy selling off everything they can and I will be walking two more town mules there this week. Most likely will send my last sandy mule and my secondary bastok mule . The sandy one is almost completely full of weapons and the bastoker is 100% full of meds and foods. The last two remaining town mules will end up gardening once they are completely empty, although the windy one may become a cooking mule instead. The steady flow of gil from the liquidation should cover a good portion of my crafting.

After I get some more room on the mules I will begin my woodworking to 80. Also considering taking cloth to 30 and leather to 20ish to make my own signed fishing gear, Fisherman's Boots Leather:20, Fisherman's Gloves Leather:14, Fisherman's Hose Cloth: 23 and Fisherman's Tunic a Cloth: 30. After I get the waders I need to get WW up far enough to at least snag LumberJack seems like a nice item to have down the road.

Plan so far is:
#1 Fishing to 48+ and carry on until 70k GP for Waders
#2 Switch Guild to WW until lumberjack is obtained, stock up on crystals to sign various items.
#3 Return Guild status to fishing to obtain points for Fisherman's Apron, and alternate fishing and WW on a weekly basis until I hit WW 80.

I think the "plan" should be easy to pull off inside of a month or two, a least as far as the WW goes. After I get the apron from the fisherman's guild I may sink more gp into WW or dabble in other crafts.
I am sitting at Smithing:29, Cloth:0, Alchemy:58, Wood:16, Gold:23, Leather:1, Bone:0 and Cooking:56. It would be nice to cap Alchemy and Cooking at 60 soon just to get it done. If I end WW at 80 it would leave room for one more craft to get to 80. Taking cooking to 80 I would be able to produce Sole Sushi, but run the risk of losing WW skill as it caps at 84.
I really have little interest in taking WW to 100 or any other craft for that matter on my main. I imagine I would best be served starting to cook all over again on a mule, between that and my alchemy I can make good use of a portion on my fishing catches.




RL demands are popping up again so I will be "trying" to cut my ffxi time down to four hours or so a night. My son has started 4th grade and his bus arrives at 7am, returns at 4pm. No more fishing till 4am for me lol. His bedtime is 8pm so I figure I'll be on 8pm-12am midweek, push the limits on weekends and every other sunday its just me and him till 3pm "father and son game time" he calls it, we go to our machines and zone out on games while the wife is away at work.