The One where I behave like a gibbering star struck idiot

I had a, good, shock the other night when I was in need of some locators run on people I needed to find.

 

So I entered the Locates R Us channel and requested someone to help me. It took a few minutes and I received a convo request and I was about to click to accept when I finally registered the name.

Zedrik Cayne

 

OMG... it was him.

 

The writer of the first EVE blog I started reading, the person who helped get me into EVE via his blog when I was but a newbie. Here was the character who I'd named one of my characters in honour of.

 

He was convo'ing me to help me.

 

I had spoken to him once before, I happened to be flying through the system of Amdonen when he popped up in local and I said hello.

 

I composed myself and asked for the locates I needed and thanked him for his help. I even remembered, a little slowly, that I also needed to pay him for his help and transferred the required ISK. He provided details of the location of the people I was trying to find and I did manage to compose myself and I hope not come across as either a dribbling idiot or star stuck imbecile.

 

Meeting and getting a chance to speak to Zedrik Cayne, albeit for a locator run, once more made my day.

Long Term Achievement Almost Achieved

Overnight today I finally had Battleship Construction IV complete. Not an especially important skill to most people but it is the culmination of nearly 6 weeks training for me that finally means I can build Paladin's.

 

 

This ship was one of two (the other being the Archon) that I wanted to fly since the first time I used EVE Mon and was able to look at the various ships in game. Since mid-August I've been training skills on my industry character in order to be able to build this ship myself, I've had the components needed since that time so I've just been counting down the days until I could put 'it in the oven'.

 

I've had the BPC (an ME -1, PE -1) for two years, I was given it as reward for taking part in a wormhole eviction when I was living in a WH in 2011.

 

Well, in two days three hours it will complete and I finally complete a long-held goal.