This week's un-achievement:
Got 250,000 to synth melon pie +1 for a great guy (woofthekiller), so I tell him I'll give him a crazy rebate and make him ten stacks. As I warped to Jeuno to airship to Windurst to do guild points, during my sixth or seventh stack of HQs I noticed that there was literally no Melon pie+1s on AH and they were up to 60K/stack. The guild points were about to change, so I hurried to Windurst. Sweet rice cakes. I muled to get some, sent them to my main character and ran to the guild. It had changed!! Sent the rice cakes back to the mule again, warped to Jeuno, airshipped to Bastok and kept synthing pies. When I had the ten stacks of melon pie +1 covered for my friend, my old chap Portland had abused and undercut the (all right, 60K IS a bit steep I guess) price on melon pies. Now the pies are going for 42K and are probably going to sink further. Grrr.
Well, at least I got enough pies to counter the next outrageous price increase on melon pie+1.
To rub it in further, I made a bet with a real life friend in LS today... "I bet $20 that Portland is in Lower Jeuno synthing and undercutting melon pies, sole sushi or meat mithkabobs." He wasn't there! The first time EVER that he hasn't been there, I had to make a bet about it. My friend was as smart as doing a /sea all portland, noticed he was in Qufim Island and gladly accepted the bet. So, I've lost $20 and an insane opportunity for profit on AH this week hehe... and a chance to get 3000 guild points cheap.
What else? I spent 490K on Erase for a friend. 490K loss hehe. Well, guess I achieved gratitude. (^o^)
Other than that, I got a question, which can be answered in private messages instead of here, so as not to hi-jack the thread's original topic, hee hee... I would be interested (maybe) in buying whole stacks of dragon meat. If there's any linkshell that slay mobs that drops this on a regular basis and would like to sell me large quanta of it, I'd like to get in touch with you. Single dragon meat goes for about 100K at AH, I'll pay the going price x12 for the stacks, and you'll save quite some cash from putting it up on AH. I'm not going to level cooking off of it, I was planning on producing Arrabbiato. Pimp stats: HP+12% (cap 150@1250 base HP), STR+5, VIT+2, INT-7, ATT+22,5% (cap 120@533 base ATT), Store TP+5. I would also like to get in touch with people that would like to use this food. (80K @ AH, lasts 30 minutes. (yes I know, it's sorta steep)).
Just didn't feel like making a whole new thread over some food issue. ^^ To answer the original message, though: Yeah we all have bad days! And to be honest, you deal with yours with a great deal of humor and self-irony, which makes it a) entertaining to hear about your *****-ups and b) so much easier to deal with for yourself ^^
/salute