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There are going to be new gutters installed to the house. The length of the house is 40 feet and there are two simple lengths to cover, meaning no corners or other complex structural concerns and a minimal cost. The cost was $3700.00. I love debt.

If that isn't exciting enough for you, there's the latest D3 happenings which I can talk about.

One of the two co-workers who was more or less my original "team" logged in to play last night for the first time since late August. Since then I have established a list of 30/40 contacts, several of whom play daily as I do. He logs in, I join him in A1 because that's as far as he's advanced. I call upon one of my friends to join. Another quickjoins out of nowhere. They both start throwing free stuff at him left and right. Later, another good player shows up who has hundreds of millions of gold in supply and mains a 200K DPS barb, and he gives him even more free stuff and basically tells him exactly how to play the game properly in Inferno. It was amazing to watch happen. The guy was overwhelmed and it took upwards of an hour for him to sort through everything and figure out what to equip and use for a build. This is the kind of generosity and communal feeling which I was expecting from the game at the outset, as I said in a post here some time ago. However, I can't help but feel a bit annoyed about it. While all of the free things given to him were hardly God-tier items, it's still irksome to me how people can be welcomed in and assisted essentially by strangers, and not have done anything to really earn that kind of respect or treatment. We're the people who have evolved with and through old gear, we're the people who have played every day and hung onto scraps like that, we're the people who did the work, and he got to skip all of that and take in all the gifts regardless. I think what's at issue for me about this is that it was such a long absence in which he failed to play and then before resuming, sent me a text earlier in the day asking me if I could "look over his gear", with the obvious implication of expecting some handouts and help. Wouldn't it be somewhat expected that I would do that kind of thing in the first place? Is that something that needs to be asked for?

Oh well.

Extra Mode. BOF 2012 Part 1. No random modifier.

A lot of pain was expected and delivered. I like Abstract Matter more upon my second hearing.

Code:

			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+ 	date
abstract matter		62.48 B		1456.F	532.392.152.11.86	0112	1165	0973	019.73	2012-10-09T23:01:28:642Z

aeventyr		54.50 C		2466.F	895.676.424.75.357	0137	2262	1677	034.88	2012-10-09T23:06:41:142Z

ancient blaze		53.82 C		2336.F	895.546.409.107.405	0104	2170	1764	023.01	2012-10-09T23:10:04:988Z

are u ready		50.05 C		1938.F	720.498.319.95.522	0121	1936	1210	060.00	2012-10-09T23:14:54:441Z

at the end of memories	47.90 C		2581.F	942.697.563.195.632	0079	2694	1747	054.20	2012-10-09T23:18:44:604Z

blood blood blood	35.53 D		1717.F	584.549.555.221.934	0035	2416	1305	085.13	2012-10-09T23:25:44:221Z

bohemian chic		39.64 D		2296.F	748.800.730.226.824	0055	2896	1873	054.61	2012-10-09T23:29:49:688Z

carefree		51.19 C		1630.F	580.470.308.99.308	0131	1592	1001	059.04	2012-10-09T23:36:49:943Z

code elixia		33.26 E		2050.F	681.688.838.320.1195	0027	3081	1873	064.49	2012-10-09T23:41:04:926Z

cube of mind		45.07 C		1794.F	635.524.492.139.448	0098	1990	1173	069.65	2012-10-09T23:59:56:491Z

death waltz		37.54 D		1900.F	629.642.650.179.814	0078	2530	2165	016.85	2012-10-10T00:04:13:141Z