Happy Easter Sunday.
There was a perfunctory collection of eggs left out for the family which received good natured thanks, but we are past any excitement for such things. The only “child” left in the house is 17 and earns good money at her casual job, so can buy chocolate whenever she might have a craving. In fact, her job has already given her easter chocolate.
Like with hot cross buns, I never have easter eggs before Easter Sunday. It is funny how the scarcity in my youth still reaches through time to influence my thinking today. There are still a couple brands that have that original smell and flavour which sends me back to those times.
Growing up my dad was on an average sort of working wage. We always had a roof over our head, food on the table and bills paid, but with four kids there wasn’t a lot of luxury. Mum, however, always found routines that made the treat days special.
Over the course of the Gallente Presidential event I moved a Procurer mining barge, Kikimora Destroyer, Executioner Frigate and Exequror Hauler into Sinq Laison. The destroyer and frigate were new.
By the time I earned 1,000 points I had operated out of 3 different stations. While I had sold off the more expensive rewards as their value dropped day by day, I still had a messy collection of general loot and ore which I have now collected over two days and also sold off.
While I normally salvage most of my PVE, I did not do it for the level 1 missions I ran as part of the event. I fitted a T2 Tractor Beam (a recent skill) to the Kikimora and just grabbed what loot cans were within range as I was moving about.
I keep Trade goods (for no reason, I just do) and Tags (the ones agents want). I refine all modules worth less than 25K ISK and sell everything to buy orders if they are within 15% of current average market value. Anything left over I check, generally putting them up for sale, sometimes storing them to sell later, or sometimes refining them if they will take too much effort.
As I expect there will probably be an event stretch goal, I have left the ships in location, retained some favour for quick trade points, only did one tier of the ore task, and am ready to run the trail task which I had not started – to make that whole extended process a bit easier.
I did make use of the much healthier wallet to take the opportunity to upgrade a new clone into +2 learning implants, and I have shuffled around and added to the training queue.
Speaking of training queues, TACN posted about a possible replacement for EVEMon called EVELens.
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I used EVEMon extensively for years until its development fell away. I have played around with EVELens with my new character, and there is a nostalgia hit, but I am not sure it will become a tool I stick with.
Last, I have swung back on the side of the Xenon Edge. I have started using it to display other small programs – such as my media player, or the task manager when I have it open, and the Simple Sticky Notes that cover my tasks for the current day. It is working rather well for those things you want to be able to glance at quickly, and of course the performance statistics.
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