Lykkes diary

[Lykke]

Yes, you heard right .. EU update ...

I agreed getting "employed" in game for a mining job. Just to try it out. Maybe I needed a little fun - and to get another view on EU.

I made the first mining round of 300 peds mixed probes and bombs. The whole miningresult gave me this:

Total spend = 311.73 peds (200x bombs, 200x probes + tool-decay)
Skill gained total amount = 145
Ore/enmatter tt value total = 196.02
Ore/enmatter market value= 257,66 (after market value on PEauction dd)
Profit: tt value = -115.71 Peds
Profit: Market value = -54,07 Peds

So all in all - I'm in minus. But then again, I'm very low skilled - and I can feel that I get more and more in return. It's very interesting. I also found a pattern in which days are good or bad for mining.

While mining I killed some corns though. I used to LOVE corns. But since my HG-skills are VERY low after chipping out (as everything else), I was surpriced to get a global of 195 peds

When I came "home" to Corinth I decided to cellebrate with a tiny crafting run from the material I looted. And nearly right after, I got a global more. I was even more surpriced, since I chipped all crafting skills out too.

You can see the globals here

Lootius is back - and I made THIS thread yesterday in his honor *G*

Running around making crazy blessings are some of the funniest moments I have had in EU. Unfortunately some people lack the ability to see the humour in it BUT fortunately a lot does .. and yesterday I had my first "costumer" - Jihad. He wanted a blessing and a "happy" moment... And gave me a "gift" with the tt value of 5 peds in return. After blessing him in the water near Corinth, I placed the "gift" on the ground for him afterwards, because I wasn't sure what kind of "happy" moment he wanted - after he placed himself in the sand and said "Now, make me happy ..." HMM, I was sure he could found another girl, who could make him more "happy" ... but he refused to take the gift back and gave me a bombardo too HAHAH .. I really hope Lootius is with him !

And to all of you with the "thought you quitted"-comments .. remember, it takes 3 months to withdraw and other than that? No comments!

Have fun all

[Lykke]

I bought a couple of new books wednessday. One of them written by a Danish girl, Karen-Marie Lillelund, called "Humor i ledelse" (Humour in management) is one I really looked forward to read. I always meant that you go further when having a sence of humour - but as I also wrote earlier in here, there are tons of different types of humour, and what is most correct? Basic rules is, that humour is not (in my world) for "all" if it's hurting others or if you think "glad, it's not me ...".

When I was the manager of a tiny ad-production group in an advertising agency one of my daily goals was to make people smile. We were 5 girls in total - and when we could smile and laugh, we also manage to solve problems easier. It also helped us improving things better - since we gained common understanding and respect for each other. To me, as the leader, it was important that I knew how my employees was feeling, if they were satisfied with their work, felt they developed personally - but also that the distance between us was minimal, meaning - if they needed me, I was there all the time. Basicly I used humour for that. Humour makes it easier to talk - and I'm not talking about girlish giggling all day or enourmous fit of laughter were you loose the seriousity in what you are doing. But about replying and asking, giving a nice pat on the shoulder and telling how to do things differently with a smile It is also about not taking one self so seriously. I hated the bosses I had who had no humour whatsover. Somehow I'm sure people stepped away from them and was afraid to ask about even simple things, because you never knew how they would react! It's a common misunderstanding that looking angry and too busy all day gives respect - it only gives frustrations and fear!

Back at that time I enjoyed working in the same department as my employees did - with my own tiny corner - but still only a few steps away and the possibility to keep the view. I asked my new boss if I could have it the same way in the beginning at the new job - even though I also have my own office. I need to be near the girls to feel their reactions, ways of working AND learn to know THEIR sence of humour!

To me management is about listening, get hands-on even the smallest things (because how can you lead if you don't know what to lead about?), and common respect for individuals! But also humour. Those things makes it so much easier to lead and effectively produce!

It is fun how this book exactly said all this - and also how it made me smile to see, that I have been working like this for 10 years! It was very much confirmatory of my own methods - which is not methods really, but how I am!

Sometimes we need to see beyong titles and education papers - and when we do we realize that the person we stand in front of - employee or boss / colleaque - is just as human as yourself - and even the strictest person needs to smile sometimes. It's relieving and healthy

Laughter and humour has always been easy to me - it made me through rough times and helped me keep me positive ... But not everyone was "born" with humour. One more important thing this book said was;

You might not have been born with humour,
you might feel you are not funny at all
- but humour is always there and it is never too late to learn to smile

[Lykke]

It's not a secret; I love elephants! And an article today on a Danish newspaper site really made me sad and Angry

Originally Posted by Politiken.dk the 31th of August 2006

100 elefanter massakreret af krybskytter

Krybskytter har slået omkring 100 elefanter ihjel i den afrikanske stat Tchad.

Resterne af 100 afrikanske elefanter er fundet i den afrikanske stat Tchad ikke langt fra grænsen til den urolige Darfur-region i Sudan. De fleste elefanter har fået fjernet deres stødtænder.

Det siger den amerikanske dyrebeskyttelsesorganisation Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Et hold fra WCS, der fløj rundt i området i et lille fly, har fundet døde elefanter fem forskellige steder i området.

Skudt for nylig
Fundene blev gjort fra den 3. til den 11 august, og i en erklæring fra WCS hedder det, at flere end 50 af elefanterne så ud til at være skudt for nylig.

De makabre fund blev gjort nær Tchads nationalpark Zakouma, der er et af de mest nordligtliggende områder i Afrika, hvor der lever elefanter.

I 2005 talte en ekspedition af dyreværnsfolk 3.885 elefanter i Zakouma, men her et år senere er der kun fundet 3020, siger WCS.

Basicly it say that they found 100 killed elephants in The African state Tchad. The elephants were slaughtered for their tusks only - and around 50 of the elephants were killed recently. There are also an english article about the elephant-killing problems here - though this is in Indonesia!

It surprices me again and again what we humans allow ourselves to destroy in return for money! It's really so sad that we don't feel more for the nature we are all a part of - but instead feel highly lifted above!

Save the elephants!

[Lykke]

--- 2 days of joy ---
12 days in pain
--- 2 days of joy ---
12 days in pain
--- 2 days of joy ---
pain
joy
pain
---

With this I just came to the conclusion that we are not meant to be apart! So there!

[Lykke]

I have a beautiful teenage daughter. She is nearly 14 - but she is a real teen. I decided to be single with her even before she was born. I do not need to go into details, but believe me, that the way I did it was for her best sake. Normally I would never keep a child away from her/his dad, but in this case NOT doing it could have had catastrophic consequenses.

When I "found" the ex - and the 6 years I lived with him - that was the closest she ever came to someone who could have been a "dad", though he wasn't that interested in her. She never called him dad though, to her it must have been weird, especially when we got Amanda, and Amanda had a dad. I'm not saying that my daughter had a terrible life because she missed a father-figure - of course not. But all she had or have was/is me. I never forced the ex to adopt her - and he didn't. Today I can only say, thank GOD for that, especially because he said he was not interested in keeping contact with her in the beginning, mostly because he was hurt about me leaving him - but still, wtf? She heard that - and even though he did change now, one year after - of course that attitude is still there and now she is not interested in him. When we married I did make sure that Sarah got the same name as me and her sister though. I did not want her with the feeling that she was left out in any ways. But I had to ask for it, it was not a thing the ex was encouraging.

After the divorce we moved from the city we lived in. I decided to move my daughter from her old school, which was a terrible place with very bad teachers, bad friends etc. Sarah said that herself, but afterwards she was angry and very upset about the movement. She stayed away from school for a couple of weeks. I didn't know about it until I got a phonecall from her teacher. It was a chok. She started lieing about even small things. She jumped out of the window once to go to a friend around midnight etc. We have had problems. And I can't stand watching my daughter being this misserable, not having anything to do with a burning decire or interest etc. So I decided to call a boarding school after long talks with colleaques and friends who knew something about it.

Yesterday we went there - it is 1 hours drive from Copenhagen. And Sarah was very much impressed. It's out in the country and there is a beach nearby. They are doing a lot to develope the young people there - and all the kids were so polite and looked like enjoying themselfs a lot. The headmaster had nearly 2 hours talk with my daughter about what she wants in her life, what she appriciates, about her forces and weakeness etc. It was really great and I am so proud of her. He told her that in the end this was her decision and he wanted her to think about it before deciding. We hardly came out to the car afterwards before she said, that this is what she wants and that she was very excited about it. And that is despide the fact that she has to start all over with German, which is a language she never had before! (My daughter is very intelligent when it comes to languages - and I know it will not course her any problems - only hard work).

She will be able to ride horses, a hobby she had when she was younger, but which interest she lost again when her friends came into the picture. She will be doing drama and probably do much with her writing (she writes poetry and stories and for a long while she wanted to become a writer or a journalist/news reporter). This will really open up the world to her!

The school will cost around 550 euros a month, which is a hell of a lot. On the other side, this is an oportunity for her I cannot let pass. I feel it is the best I can do - and investing in her life, especially when she feels it is for her own good - gives a great feeling. She will be home in the weekends, and even though I am sure I will miss her a LOT - I am also positive the weekends we will spend together will be so much better than they are now!

Peter is incredible understanding and helpfull into all this, even though it's difficult because we are not "together" (since he is in Holland - I'm in Denmark). I would have loved him to come with us yesterday, but it all was planned in such an hurry and therefor it wasn't possible.

I feel I gave my daughter a big ass-kick .. but it was with all my love!

[Lykke]

Shitty day ... needed a laugh .. these are oldies but made me crack up

Amish Paradise

Muppet Show - Mahnamahna

Simply the best

Funny cats

and last ... but not least ...

Tiny man in a jacket

Hope it brought you a little smile too


MUAhahahaha ... forgot THIS:

[Lykke]

And then I saw the parrot I want:

Einstein the Parrot awwww