Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Final League of Angels Update

The other day I realized a good while had passed since I last wrote an update for the adventures of Regal D, Lady Evaine, and Lady Leona, my characters on the game League of Angels. Part of the reason is that the servers they are on have really quieted down.

Lady Leona has been retired for nearly five months now. When her husband left the server back in August for real life, I kept her active for another month or so, and then decided to check out some newer servers.

I joined one and created my first mage. That server had issues from the start having a higher number of males seeking sex talk then most. Then R2 Games gave out large numbers of experience points cards and most leveled up too quickly, unable to get their armor or good characters before reaching higher levels. In addition, after three months I came to the conclusion that I really didn't like the mage character class. Thus, I quit that server and never even went back once to visit.

Regal D is fairing well, and I check on him often. He and his online wife still exchange roses. They had their one year on-line wedding anniversary on April 6, and of course The Rose Event was on, so it was perfect.

The main character I still play is Lady Evaine. I truly prefer the warrior class, though I am convinced the archer class is stronger. Lady Evaine has now reached level 92. Though the guild is quit, as there are only four active players, she still keeps it going.  Her online husband has also retired from the game.

So, after a year of playing League of Angels, I have come to some conclusions.  As I just mentioned the archer class appears to be the strongest in the end. Servers quiet down and friends leave. The developers keep adding new tasks to do without taking away the old ones (like the new quests in divine realm), so that means more work. Yet, over time I have found quicker and quicker ways to do things, so I only need to be on a character about 2 hours a day to get all done (that is skipping most events, which most people do once a server is old).

I still have fun playing this game, but it isn't the same as it was last year this time with all my friends joining in the game.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Additional Site for my writing

Thanks to some writing information my sister sent to me, I decided to create another site to promote my writing. Thus today, I started playing around with WordPress. As I have looked around and created a page, I noticed some of the set up is similar to using Blogger, while some of it I am finding harder to locate. I spent ten minutes just trying to set the Title and finding the page to do so. Everything that I posted on there, can be found on here, but I figured learning something new would be good for my mind.

If you want to check out what I have done so far, head to:

https://thewritingsofheatherhobsonlewis.wordpress.com/

Since the site option I picked on WordPress is the free one, I think you may have to endure some ads.

Enjoy.

 

Thursday, March 16, 2017

More Foreign Coins: France and Germany

Here is another batch of coins I added to my collection as a result of the foreign stamp exchange. The coins I am sharing today are from France and Germany. I find this first one really interesting as it has a hole in the center of it. I know this was done so that people could wear their coins on strings around their necks for safety.
1918 French Coin

1918 French Coin
These three French coins (including the one featured above) are from around the time of WWI. I have to wonder if they were ever in a soldier's pocket.




French Coins
French Coins


Now these German coins are a bit older. They are from 1950. You can see the different denominations for that year here.



German coins from 1950
German Coins from 1950


Monday, March 13, 2017

Foreign Coins-British Coinage

Recently I discovered a friend of mine collected foreign stamps, while I prefer to collect coins. Once upon a time I had bought lots of foreign stamps, but had been trying to sell them for years at yard sales with no luck. As it turned out the friend had collected foreign coins that he no longer wanted. So we traded! Both of us ended up very happy with what we got.

Here are some of the unique coins now in my collection.

196h Century British Coins

19th Century British Coins
British coins are easy to identify.  The fun part was seeing the different monarchs on the heads sides of the coins. Also, I also wonder about the coins from 1939-1945 that survived World War II. I wonder whose hands they were in at that time.
18th Century British Coins

18th Century British Coins
When we traded coins I never expected to get coins from the 18th Century. These coins have certainly seen a lot of history having been around before the sinking of the Titanic and World War I.

I hope you enjoy these. Later I will post more coins from other countries.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Passing of Hero: Richard Hatch died today, February 7, 2017

My heart fell to my feet a few moments ago when I logged onto Yahoo and discovered my long time hero, Richard Hatch, had passed away today. He was only 71.

In 1978 Richard Hatch starred as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, but it wouldn't be until 1983 that I would discover the show and be hooked. To this day Battlestar Galactica is my favorite T.V. show. My interest in mythology, especially Greek, made the connection for me. After all names like Apollo, Athena, and Cassiopeia were straight out of that mythology.

My passion for Galactica led me to join a fandom group called Battlestar One International. This was before the time of the internet, when all fandom information was transmitted by the U.S. Postal service in fandom magazines and newsletters. Soon I ended up running my own little Battlestar Galactica club called Reconniassance Squadron. Four times a year I produced a newsletter with club members art and fandom stories and any information sci-fi related.  One time I was even fortunate enough to get a phone interview with Richard Hatch for the club newsletter.

Also in my early twenties I was fortunate to meet Richard Hatch a few times. Twice I attended his workshop on Acting Through the Heart at the Whole Life Expo in San Francisco, California. In addition, I was able to catch him at the two Battlestar Galactica conventions held at the Universal Studios Hilton in 1993 and 1998.

I am thankful for the chance to have met one of my first heroes and saddened by his passing.

My first meeting with Richard Hatch at the Whole Life Expo in San Francisco.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

A Writer's Life

Originally I created this blog to provide an avenue to share my writing adventures with those who might be interested. Though I don't often blog about my writing, I am putting pen to paper or keyboard to computer most days.

For those who may interested this is what I am currently working. I just finished the first draft of a legend based novel that takes place on the planet Karna (see my books Callings, Unicorn's Milk, and Revolt for more information on this planet). This new novel once finished sparked an instant idea for a sequel, which I have already started to pen. As I am typing up and editing the first legend book, I am writing the second one.

Meanwhile, I have a manuscript that I have been waiting for a publisher to print for almost 5 years now. Every few months I call and he says he is working on it or will check on it, and then nothing. Since I only agreed to the print rights for this book, I have now started to format the manuscript to be an e-book. (and yes I could yank the book from him, but what is the point as I have so many other projects I am working on?)

Those my dear readers are what I am creating currently.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Happy Dog Christmas!

Boomer and Fern enjoyed a wonderful Christmas. Their stockings were filled with many new toys that they have happily shared with each other.

Enjoy these Christmas morning photos.

Fern, Christmas morning 2016

Boomer and Fern, Christmas morning 2016
Fern, Christmas morning 2016

Boomer, Christmas morning 2016