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Having had a rather bad week a while back, this week has been rather good.

Spending Lots of Money

It first of all started with me spending 6 Billion Isk on some capital ships for myself. Its quite fun spending that volume of Isk, and losing capitals is great fun as its always in a epic fight.

Old Example: http://www.eve-volt.net/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=2075
(Results of 3 Hotdrops... Outbreak then VOLT then Outbreak)

I still tease about Dr FairosMakani losing my Carrier after being in VOLT for only two days, heh...

Over the last few months I have been working fairly irregular hours, and after a week off work too, my sleep pattern got completely messed and out of sync. So for many days in a row, I was waking up in the middle of the night, or spending ages falling asleep and in general being pretty exhausted.

Many years ago I used to have a Playstation, with X-Com: Terror from the Deep, and while it was the most ridiculously hard game I had played and took an age to load on the PSX, it was certainly fun. Always loved the music and atmosphere of the battles.

Steam in there wisdom published the entire X-Com series recently which was not special by itself, but they also did a special weekend offer of all of them for just £2. Not only that, they released it with a dos emulator so it worked straight out of steam on my 64bit Windows 7.

Having worked hard, created a brilliantly designed infrastructure for the company, patched thousands of security holes, working until the early hours of mornings. Its now the end of January 2010 when I see it paying off.

*crunches the numbers*

Hmm. It seems the myth of "working hard pays off" is a lie.

Having worked myself to death I decided to take a week break to relax and do something to take my mind off work. I decided to play Eve Online and using all my accounts make the last amount of Isk for the Nyx I had always wanted.
I have been working towards a Nyx for five years on and off, making slow but sure progress. I reactivated my accounts for my week of Isk making and started Ice Mining.
Relaxing to music, just 4 hours in, I had already made 220mil Isk, so was confident that after a week, I will be much closer to the 17bil needed for a Nyx.