I'm beginning to understand the geography of Skyrim. I haven't explored many places yet due to work but it appears that this is a simple East vs West map, in which Windhelm on the eastern edge of Skyrim is dominated by the rebel Stormcloaks while the westernmost city, Solitude, is the stronghold of the Imperial forces.
I'm not actually too interested in their fight nor their cities.
Instead, for some reason, I'm curious about the cities between them on the northern border.
What would they look like after adapting to the cold of the permafrost of Tamriel?
More importantly, why have they remained more neutral than the two I mentioned?
Apparently every single guardsman in Skyrim used to be an adventurer who took an arrow in the knee.
Every. Single. One.
Archers in Skyrim must specialise in knee-shots or something.
Giants. I got pwned so hard I flew. Or at least my corpse did.
How the heck was I supposed to know they were hostile? In one quest I was even told I sold a sheep to one. How do you do that if they kill you on sight?
Holy crap! Now that I have over 85 points in Sneak, I'm practically invisible when crouching. Just realized that I've been underestimating my Sneak ability until just now when I got ambushed by the robots in the buried Dwarven city under Markath, the one past the Excavation Site.
The two robots rolled out behind me about a meter away and I didn't move. Not much of a choice there. The only way to go further away from them was to go through the two, so it was either do that or stay still and hope I remain invisible this close.
And... I was never seen even when I went past them after watching them for a while. I was heard when I was almost right beside one of them but all it did was move towards the direction I was at.
By then, I was already far enough to become undetectable again.
Also noticed a few bugs by now (lv21).
First is the bug which makes it hard to click on the dialog options. I have no idea why it's so insensitive sometimes.
Second is at the temple near Dawnstar during the quest to get to the Skull, where I have to kill the final two monks. If I let the NPC do the deed while I sneak away, the quest remain incomplete even though they're both dead. Fortunately I save all the time so I could just reload to just because I entered the room.
Third is Belethor (IIRC), the trader guy at Whiterun. For some reason he exits when I do, and locks the store behind him. Then he walks back in and the store remains locked for hours. Annoying when I have to get something from my chest in Breezehome and I can't sell it when I get back.
Strange. While making several orders yesterday, I discovered a dilemma - should I listen to what my mum taught me months ago or should I listen to the buyer?
I chose to adhere to what my mum told me and what was written in the documents she left behind when I requested for adjustments to the samples in my orders.
When I told her that today, she told me I should listen to the buyer.
I am now confused.
I'll not change anything for the orders I have emailed, but I'll do that in the future.
What I'm confused about is why she said that.
Did she realize something? Or did she lose her confidence in herself so much?
I was so wrong when I thought I could sleep late in this job.
Looks like I must conform to the norm and be awake during the hours when people are supposed to be out of bed every weekday.
Gah! I've been having a string of cooking failures lately after I started to try new things.
A few days ago I tried to make soup out of soy beans and pork bones. Too thin. I even added half a cube of chicken bones to the small pot of soup but it still tasted like I added too much water.
It wasn't so only the next morning.
Next time I'm going to need more than 300g of bones.
Also realized I've bought the wrong gourd the last time. I wanted to buy 节瓜 (jie2 gua1) but due to my mum's confused memory just before she was hospitalized, I've been buying some unknown gourd that was supposed to be for soup. It's a light green gourd of similar size but with a smooth skin. I still don't know what it's called.
Anyway I bought the right one today when I googled the name and learnt that 节瓜 (jie2 gua1) is also known as 毛瓜 (mao2 gua1). Fortunately I know that the latter is supposed to be fuzzy, so I bought the only fuzzy one I saw.
Apparently it's also a variant of 冬瓜 (dong1 gua1), or at least that's what all the Chinese websites say. Wikipedia says it's an immature winter melon. Don't ask me which is right.
My life has formed routines again, although they are going to be quite temporary.
It's just work, visiting my mum, Skyrim, handling meals and maybe LoL and blogging.
As you can tell, I really don't have much to blog about from this routine. My mum's deteriorating condition is gradual but steady. At the moment she's still the same but definitely bored. I worry she's falling into a depression due to the dying patients coming in and out of the ward but I have no idea what to do about that.
The most I can do is spend at least an hour there everyday except for days when I'm particularly occupied with work or when she tells me not to go. She doesn't want me to visit her everyday but I don't want her to be as bored as she is now.
As for work, I'm not exactly putting in my best efforts. In fact I think I'm slacking. This is so bad.
Unlike employees, I can't slack around. The only person whose income is affected by laziness in my business is myself. I'm just cheating myself.
Yet I find that I simply cannot go through a single day without playing Skyrim as long as I have access to my PC.
Now I'm also told to go to a certain city overseas. I don't have to buy anything; I just need to see what is available and how things work outside of the Internet.
I've also request my bro to go to Europe with his girlfriend after he graduates. I'm not sure if he understands that in my line of work there's really no such thing as a long holiday, unless a week is considered long because that's the longest I can push things away without someone else handling my work.
It will also help him learn more about winter fashion if he goes somewhere in northern Europe.
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