15 minutes then I go do some more dishes. I just finished wiping down the kitchen counters and man does it feel good to see them all clean and shiny again. There's this point with the mess that it just overtakes you and it suddenly takes a lot of work to get it back to clean again. We're coming up on clean now, and it's an accomplishment.

I bought our first real crew ship this morning in Y!PP. Well, it's ordered, we now have to wait 10 days until it's finished being built. It's a cutter, the second smallest ship in the game at 12 crew (sloop takes 7). I'm pretty excited about it because it'll let us do more in the way of forage and pillaging trips.

I was hoping to buy the ship from the shipbuilder I used to make my Sloop. He has posted in his stall that he gives discounts for crew and people that work for him. A couple days ago I caught him in his stall and decided to ask what the discount would be on a cutter. There was a bit of miscommunication, I was looking for info, he appeared to think I wanted to buy right then. I couldn't because I didn't have anywhere near the level of PoE needed, so I thanked him for his time and left.

Since then he's posted an advertisement of his stall on the forums. Included in that ad, was this: "If you don't have the poe please dont bother me."

Dude!

I ended up making a good chunk of PoE this morning on a forage run, more than enough to buy our cutter at standard prices before any discounts. So I debated buying from this guy, or taking my business elsewhere. I ran it past Mike and he said "I felt that way a lot in my business too, but I never stuck a sign in the window telling people not to waste my time."

That decided me. I know it's a game, but I'm coming up on 3 years in business offline, and I would *never* say to a customer to fuck off until they can pay. Information is free, even when it's a pain in my ass, because it makes for good customer relations.

So I quit my job at dude's stall, found another shipbuilder and ordered and jobbed there. And in 10 days, we should have our newest lady.

And that's 15.