Contemplating getting ready for work and dreading spending another day in the booth. Our booth people get laid off way too soon. Not even the 3DS can save me from the wretchedness of being trapped in a little box and having to smile and be nice all day. It's exhausting.
Now I'm going to go cry in a corner. 
I tried reading the Heaney translation, but I still like the Donaldson translation I had to read for my college Beowulf class better. Heaney is one of Jason's favorite poets.
You may have just made my year with that bit of news.
Cook was extremely useful, because all those dishes restore either HP or SP, usually with added buffs to various attributes. I don't think I've bought a single healing potion since trying out the Cook Life.
Amusingly enough, Cook was the first one I mastered. Followed by Paladin, Blacksmith, and Hunter. I'm at Hero with Paladin, and I've hit master for all the others except Mercenary, Wizard, Angler, and Alchemist. I find Wizard to be the least interesting to me.
I'll send you a PM tomorrow after work. Been in your shoes, and it's no picnic.
I love the cartoony graphics. I've mostly been wandering around trying out different Lives and advancing them as far as I can before I need to open up the next area by fulfilling Butterfly's quests. So far, Blacksmith is my favorite. Maybe because I lived down the road from a from a real blacksmith when I was small child and who used to let me come and watch him work. Dmitri has made blacksmithing an art, and if you check out the link, you can see some of what he does.
I'll probably fire up the 3DS here shortly and go adventuring.
I actually played that Pirates of Darkwater game. Being as I don't recall much about it, it must not have been all that great.
Ooooh! Mothman got a new toy!
