Epic

After becoming able to accept level two missions I hastily began preparations for running one or two of them.  In my zeal, a Vexor was lost on the first mission...which wasn't really that hard, I was just being sloppy.  My wife and first Director decided to take on a second one with me, just to see what happened.  I am ashamed to say, I have lost two Vexors this day.  The worst thing is, I didn't insure the second one.

Despite these events, I can say with complete honesty that level two missions are the bomb.  I have, until this day, never been involved in anything so epic as the two battles I took part in today.  My battle lust is sated, but at what cost?

Sadly, my wallet took an incredibly savage hit as well, this day, hemorrhaging approximately 13,000,000.00 ISK.

On mining and the gold rush I witnessed in Mies this morning:  I can tell you, polite mining etiquette goes straight out the window when the local ore is going for 6-9% over the regional average.  I have come to know some of the miners in my area and, to their credit, they all have a way of keeping a polite distance when mining operations are under way.  This includes mining asteroids that are not currently being targeted or harvested by other players to warping to another field when they see the high population of a certain belt.  Today, this was not the case.  Mining barges of all makes and models were harvesting each others asteroids in some kind of rabid frenzy.  I use the term "gold rush" but "feeding frenzy" would do well in it's place.  The most unfortunate thing about the whole event was that I didn't log on until noon and as a result only really witnesses the end of it and really never got to experience the brutal hunger that my peers seemed to have acquired.