The Realm update was up to 3.196, I was so hopping that smithing would be brought back, but that dream was crushed as soon as the whats new popped up. The cool thing about this patch was it allows a new playable race! Thats right now you can play as an orc, so I gave it a try, and in a few short hours I was already level 30, they are pretty strong and have lots of health.

   Finally my hero made level 20 I haven't yet did the mission to allow for any new costume, but I'll get it done soon (I hope).  My Villian hasn't moved much he is almost level 16, I know I've heard it before I'm the worlds slowest person at leveling. 
   
   Almost level 13 in FFXI damn that game takes forever to get anything done! I got a new controller that looks a lot like the PS2 controller now I play it with that and I'm starting to like it better then the keyboard.

So I guess thats about it for what I've accomplished this week (excluding work).