You know you're a veteran Neopets player when... 1. Your first Neopet is old enough to at least be in primary school now, if not secondary school... or college. 2. Speaking of which, you remember feeling absolutely certain that TnT was going to launch NeoSchool soon, and stocking up on school supplies for your pets just in case. 3. At least one of your favorite games now resides in the Games Graveyard. 4. You alternate between deeply regretting converting your pets... then visiting the NC Mall and being glad you did. 5. You have strong feelings about the Darigan vs. Meridell rivalry. You can't just like both of them, pick a side!! 6. Now that you think of it, you have strong feelings about every plot you've participated in. 7. You remember the feeling of awe you had when the back half of the Neopian globe was first revealed.

730 Days of Throwing Away Neopoints or, How I lost 19 million Neopoints over the last two years. A little over a year ago, I published an article in the Neopian Times detailing my results with spinning the Wheel of Extravagance for 365 days. In that article, I wrote in the very first paragraph that I was going to spin until I either landed on the coveted Scorchstone wedge, which would award you one rarity-100 item, or lost 20 million Neopoints. Well, two years in, and I'm close to that 20 million upper limit (and still haven't landed on that elusive Scorchstone wedge). With statistics data like this, more data points usually presents a clearer and more accurate picture, so I figured this was as appropriate a time as any to update you, my avid audience.

My name is Letty, and I fed 75 Kadoaties in a week. No, I didn't stay awake long into the dead of night, nor did I spend millions of Neopoints satisfying those greedy Kads asking for Grey Toasts up in the top row. I just wanted the avatar, and am a notoriously impatient person. Impatience is always the most risky ingredient in any goal I brew up—usually, it's something we all tell our kids and our Neopets tell their Petpets not to have.