Reality Clashing With Fantasy

Wow.

2010-12-15T05:13:00.000-08:00

Okay. So I've REALLY neglected this blog. Well... with my life changes I'll be updating this blog much more frequently.

I'm currently separated, in the middle of what's about to probably become a messy divorce. I can hope that it won't... but my pessimism is coming out in force these days. I've got my own apartment, and I'm still working on unpacking slowly. One of these day's I'll actually "move" in, and settle. It's hard unpacking all my things, because it makes this all so... REAL, and permanent. I don't deal with life changes like this so well. I've also been having a hard time living alone. I've become very intimate with my bedroom ceiling. I've spent many an hour staring at it contemplating my life, and where I'm at now. I'm really working at channeling my time into something more positive, and distracting... like WoW!

I have switched mains... I'm now rolling a Resto Druid instead of my hunter. At times I miss my hunter, I really enjoyed playing such a awesome utility class. However I hated the change to focus, and the mechanic changes. I will level her up to 85, eventually. But I doubt I will ever play her like I did before, which makes me sad. I REALLY enjoyed huntering. I healed through 8/12 in ICC 10/25. I enjoy the challenge of keeping the group/tank alive, having everyone depend on my skill and judgment for the success or failure of the group. I'm also very much enjoying Cataclysm. I am only 4-5 bars away from dinging 85 on my druid. I've finished Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir, and Deepholm. I'm currently working on Twilight Highlands, and exploring all the areas before I ding 85... the more exp I get now... the more gold I can get later. I've found that the quest lines, the new zones, and everything flow so well. The cut scenes also help break up the grind of questing, and the new, unique quests, have kept my attention, and I haven't been bored once. I've been leveling as moonkin... just because I don't want to take 9 million years leveling as resto.

I haven't healed any of the new instances yet. I'm slightly scared until I've hit 85 and have better gear. I've been reading some of the other resto blogs, and how hard the new instances are... and how OVER tuned they've made them compared to WoTLK faceroll AOELOL instances. I'm excited... but also scared of failing, but this is the same way I felt before I healed my first instances. So I just need to suck it up, once my gear is half way decent enough, and having tweaked my resto spec, I had specced into efflorescence, but from everything I've been reading it's not doing enough healing to justify the talent point expenditure. It's better to spec into mana saving talents (which I'm not a 100% sure what they are at the moment... I'm writing from work, and they of course block EVERYTHING here). I'm also hoping that by waiting a little bit, more people will have experienced the instances and know to CC, and focus fire the tanks target, and not to AOE or pull threat. I've also read that DPS are going to die, especially if they are stupid, and that I'm going to have to get used to letting them die, if I have to. I LIKE that Blizzard has moved to a more Vanilla/BC style, for the dungeon content. I LIKE a challenge, but I also don't want it to be impossible. I remember a Shattered Halls Heroic that I was doing for 5 hours... before we finally gave up. I don't miss thoes days, at all. I do however miss the challenge the heroics presented in BC.

Lissanna of Restokin and Keeva of Tree Bark Jacket have some great guides... better than I could write, since I haven't healed anything yet. But I REALLY liked how they both covered healing as resto druids, and from what I understand, pretty much agree with each other about how to heal groups and raids. It's going to be hard.

Lissanna also talked about a new Druid centric podcast!! I am really looking forward to that. I loved listening to all the hunter podcasts out there, but now that I'm no longer playing my hunter as my main, most of the information in them, doesn't really apply to my focus anymore. I can't wait to hear the first episode.

Maybe some day I can be on it... here's to dreaming!

Anyway, my night is almost up, so hopefully I'll be able to hit 85 today sometime, and start working on my JC'ing.

I've also been contemplating switching out my mining for alchemy, and using one of my other alts (DK, or Warrior) as a farmer with mining and herbalism. Stupid only having to main tradeskills....

Jolly Roger

2010-08-22T15:18:00.001-07:00

Jolly Roger, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

Ain't so jolly since he broke one of his two only bones. I STILL can't find the missing piece.

PAPR hood training

2010-07-31T20:45:00.001-07:00

PAPR hood training, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

PAPR (Positive Air Pressure Respirator) hood training for isolation Patients... Even though I don't go into patient rooms... Was sooo pointless. But oh well, half hr of pay!

Run!!

2010-07-28T06:32:00.001-07:00

Run!!, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

The sun is rising. Time for me to get home... before I burst into flames!

A day at the races.

2010-07-25T21:12:00.001-07:00

A day at the races., originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

Went to the fair today. Was an interesting day!!

Big paws

2010-07-25T00:47:00.001-07:00

Big paws, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

I just couldn't resist!! He's so cute!! It's going to be hard to give him and his brother back on Friday. :/

Kitten and a plastic bag

2010-07-25T00:07:00.001-07:00

Kitten and a plastic bag, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

Video counts for 365... Right?

The dawn of a new day, the end of mine.

2010-07-21T07:48:00.001-07:00

The dawn of a new day, the end of mine., originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

Taken on a whim as I left work this morning. I found a irony in that the sun was rising behind the ER sign, just as I ended my day.

First of the 365

2010-07-21T04:05:00.001-07:00

First of the 365, originally uploaded by Levi.Gadbois.

I'm not looking forward to my meeting... Can you tell?

Flickr

2010-07-21T03:34:00.001-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

365 the first.

2010-07-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

So I uploaded my first picture to the flckr account I created... now to figure out how to link to it?

It's an unhappy face that I drew on a piece of paper because I have a meeting with my interim manager and manager that was out on medical leave. I'm absolutely DREADING it. I have the feeling I'm about to be chewed up and spit out, and I'll be lucky if I still have a job at the end of it. I also feel like I'm getting hung out to dry. Which is a real great feeling.

Morale = whats that?

Well I'm off to my meeting.

Wow... it's been a year... really?

2010-07-07T05:26:00.000-07:00

So I figure if anyone still links/reads/follows/whatevers me still, that you're diehard. Or slow. I'm not sure which one.

So it's been a year since I last posted. The wedding was beautiful, and was excecuted almost with out a hitch (he he) pun intended. We just celebrated our one year anniversary. Everyone always says the first year is the hardest, which I don't doubt. Between medication changes, bouts of depression, and lots of self examination, we've had a rough go of it some times, but, we've made it, and we're stronger for it. I think I have to be the lukiest guy in the world. My wife is loving, long suffering, and perfect for me in every way. I don't think I could ever gush about her enough.

Something that I recently read on lifehacker about doing a photo a day for 365 days... which I think I'm going to start doing. It's called project 365. I really like this concept. How do you sum up a day with one photo? I've got the new iPhone 4, so I wanna play with it, and I think this will be a great way to use it. I've also purchased my name as a domain, which I think I'm going to incorperate my twitter, facebook, and blogspot all into a single place. I'm looking at the future when I'm looking for a programming job, I need to be able to represent myself, and show examples of my work, and what better way than a website?

I also recently turned 28. It's scary getting older. I'm done with it. I can't believe how fast this year has flown by. It's already July! What happened with the last 7 months?!

On the WoW front I haven't been playing much, if at all lately. Between life, work, and school, I haven't had any time to play like I used to. I want to... I just haven't had the time. I'm also kind of waiting till Cataclysm comes out. I'm SUPER excited about all of the hunter changes coming. The class is being completely revamped, which I personally thing is a good thing. For too long hunters have been push macro button easy. Hunters can be one of the most complex classes to play, with the most theory crafting, to the easiest macro x shot and push button over and over. I look forward to re-learning my class, and enjoying the balance again.

Well my shift is almost over. Hopefully I'll be able to post a picture later today starting my project 365.

Wedding fever

2009-06-16T12:20:00.001-07:00

So I'm stressing. 4 days left. I know I haven't posted in a while. Other than wedding planning and working I haven't been doing much. I've played wow for all of about maybe 45 minuets total over the past 2-3 months. I'm hoping that once we get back from waikiki things will be better. I'm really missing the wow community. I miss reading the blogs, and following closely on twitter. Soon... Very very soon.

Posted from my iPhone!

Blue Screen of hate

2009-03-05T02:04:00.000-08:00

So there I was. Sitting at my computer this morning, I had gotten home after a long night at work, I let my fiancee know I'm home, and I sit down to work on my Hunter Survival Island submission. I work for about 2 hours researching weapons, and what's best for what spec, PvP vs PVE. I'm mostly done, just down to my concluding statements. I had been listening to iTunes, I just recently bought Kanye West - Love Lockdown after having heard it on America's Best Dance Crew. Then the music starts skipping and repeating the same 2 seconds over and over, and my computer stops responding.

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Yes. Out of no where... BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

I

Hate

My

Computer.

With a passion.

A deep writhing hate.

Blacker than my soul.

I lost almost my entire submission. 4+ hours of work... just... gone. HHHHHAAAAAATTTTTEEEEEEEE.

So in order to blow off some steam I log into WoW to kill things. I still have the cooking daily from a couple days ago, the one where you need the rino dogs... only I don't have any rhino meat. So I go beat up on some rhinos. When I get back into lagaron I see a tank that I've run with before and was great was avdertising for a 10 man pugged OS run. I figure... that's like 4 emblems... I only need 3 more for my chest piece. So I get in on the OS run. I turn in my cooking daily and DING exaulted with Kirin Tor also! MMMM BOOTS! So I go pick up my Boots of the Twinkling Stars from the vendor, and I've got to get it enchanted before I go on this raid, so I go hit the auction house, and pick up the agility enchant for my boots. I was checking Beimba the other day, and had found out that with Focused Aim and how much hit I was running with, I was 33 hit over what I needed to be. So I went with the +20 agi to boots, and while I was at it I got the +20 agi (I belive) to gloves, because I hat a +hit enchant sitting in my bank, but didn't need to use it anymore. So spend nearly 300 gold to enchant my gloves and boots. I hearth and get my butt to wyrmrest temple. I try doing the daily there while we wait for another healer. Which I can't do for some strange reason... I need to look into that more, but it won't count any of the kills I make, or using the device thingy in the rift. We quickly get our healer and I head down to the stone and start the summoning. We do an almost flawless run. We only wipe once on the third drake when the pat came up, someone accidently pulled the drake instead of targeting the pat. We all run back and buff up, I'm about 4-5 on the damage meters right now. I'm doing okay... around 2.1k dps.. which for me is amazing. I'm doing some really good trap dancing. I'm doing (to quote BRK) MQOSRDPS. ES proc after ES proc. Things are going AWESOME! DPS... DPS... and MORE DPS! All the drakes are down, I've got the 3 badges I need for my chest piece! Yeay! All that's left is Sartharion. I've done it once before but died pretty early, so I was looking forward to doing it and not dying.

I normaly (untill recently) I would run up, plant my immolation trap, and disengage back, figuring the faster I got back to range the better. But I read somewhere that that isn't how you want to trap dance, it takes too long to get back close to plant your next trap, you want to plant, and shuffle back just far enough to start shooting again. This has seriously helped my DPS.

So what did Sartharion drop? Gloves of the Lost Protector!!!! So in one fell swoop I get my chest piece and my gloves. I then spent another 400 gold re-enchanting and gemming my new pieces.

That felt really good. I can't wait to see what kind of increases I get from it!

It still didn't offset the upset from loosing all my work on the hunter island submission, but at least I felt a little better about the gear I got. My next purchase is going to be a Mirror of Truth at 40 emblems. Hopefully it won't take too long to get them. It only took like 40 minutes to do the run too. We BLASTED through, and if I remember right, no one died in the flame waves. I couldn't believe how well it went. One wipe, and it was over. And I was #3 on the DPS meters. It felt great to do so well.

I think that's why WoW can be so addicting for me. The addiction to feeling good about myself, about how well I was able to run a heroic, that I was doing a GOOD job. I don't get that much elsewhere in my life. Infact I don't think I get this feeling ANYWHERE else in my life, and not for lack of trying, but I think I've got blocks in place to allow myself to feel good about my life. So when I do get that feeling from WoW, I don't want it to stop, I don't want to spend my time doing other things that don't make me feel as good as that feeling of acomplishment. Just some random thoughts late at night. Maybe I'm right... maybe I'm wrong, only time will tell.

Vacation

2009-03-03T01:39:00.001-08:00

So I've been on vacation for the last 2 weeks. I went to the Oregon coast, and it was fun, but rainy. I got a picture of me in my BRK Gorillidin T-Shirt attempting to tank the ocean. It was too cold and I didn't have enough frost resist gear so I gave up and called it. What you cant really see in this picture is the 20+ MPH winds I was trying to face, and keep the shirt from flapping so I could get a decent picture, the horizontal rain, and the amazingly biting freezing cold.

I'm working on my last submission for the Hunter Survivor Island contest. I can't believe I made it to the last round. I'm pretty happy about that. I'm working on what the best end game hunter weapons are. It's going to be a huge, hopefully informative, post that will help me win! I also started writing an RP post with my hunter for this blog. I don't know if I'll post it or not. I don't know where to go with it. I've got the beginning written, but don't know where to go with it. I've never done a just for fun RP story before. All the stuff I wrote in the past was always for a creative writing class I took in High school, and that was at least 8-9 years ago, and none of it was fantasy, it was all Sci-fi at the time, so this is a new experience for me.

I've also been having some REALLY wild weird dreams lately. I should write about some of those.... Over the past month or so I've begun having really WEIRD wild dreams. Before this, for the past like 15 years I wouldn't remember my dreams. When I was 16 I was in a roll over car wreck where I nearly died, and had vivid nightmares about my death in that car wreck, but other than that since then, maybe a dream here and there, but for the most part, nothing. I believe that with my starting counseling I've begun to delve into parts of my psyche and sub-conscious that I've never faced. Now I'm beginning to experience the emerging feelings from those locked away emotions. It's really weird, for me, and sometimes disturbing to recall these dreams when I wake up, having never really remember my dreams before. I've gotten so used to not having dreams. What do you do when you have weird disturbing dreams? Do you just write it off as a random conglomeration of your sub-conscious, or do you vest more weight into what your dreams tell you?

I hate when I loose a whole bunch of stuff that I just wrote.

So I finally got my Plunderer's Helmet on this random PuG'd UK run that I did. I've also now got 70 emblems... so close to my chest piece. Then I'm going to get my gloves, and then a Mirror of Truth. Now I don't know where to go for more upgrades... I need new Shoulder... Boots... ring... trinket... waist... neck (I've got the PvP one... but it's just cos it was WAY better than the one I had)... AND weapons. I was able to get a Titanium Impact Band from our guildie JC'er for having given him about 2k gold to help him get his epic flyers on 2 of his level 80s. I think my next big post on here is going to be a hunter leveling gear guide. I don't know where to go from here, so I'll write about what I find out and where to get it from.

So that's it for the moment. Now that I'm back I should be posting more.

Alas!!

2009-02-10T10:32:00.001-08:00

I, against my better judgement, checked the standings of the hunter suvivor island standings. When I checked I was in the lead with 9 votes. Normally you'd think having the highest votes would be a good thing. Not so in this case. I'm getting voted off the island I fear. It's like in golf, he with the fewest strokes, wins. He with the fewest votes, moves on to round three.

Ahhwell. Such as life. At least I have this blog all to myself.

Oh, I also signed up on twitter. I'd link to myself, but I'm posting this from my iphone, but I believe I can be found at www.twitter.com/sabiba. Amazingly my name wasn't taken. Normally it is, strangely enough. So feel free to add me, send me a tweet, and I'll add you back.

Ciao.

Thoughts

2009-02-09T23:39:00.000-08:00

Naxx!

So I finally got to experience Naxx and Saph! I joined a PuG on Thursday night and we cleared the spider wing of Naxx. It was an amazing run. We wiped very few times surprisingly with the fact that it was a PuG, and we were all doing rather well. I didn't get any drops out of it, other than the emblems, but it was very fun. Saph was also quite fun. One of my fellow guildies got to go, we cleared all of the trash and Saph without a single wipe. I was QUITE happy with the entire run. I wish I could do that more. I just don't want to give up the fantastic friends, and the fantastic guild I have, for raiding. It's not worth it to me.

Asshats galore!

On another note, I <3 Hannelore from The Egotistical Priest. She warms the cockles of my heart Hannelore's posts always entertain me. She beat me to the punch of this one. I recently posted about some of the other bloggers in the "blogosphere" in a recent post about the "asshattery" occurring lately in game. I wanted to state my agreement with BBB in his posts about people in game. BBB talks about, what his expectations are of people, and of a positive experience he had. I particularly liked his expectations:

I have set an expectation, in my mind, for other people to live up to.

And that expectation is, to my mind, very simple.

I expect people to behave in the game as they would in person. I expect people to be polite and considerate of others.

Someone doesn't have to ninja loot to get on my mental shit list, my friends.

They just have to act without consideration for someone else's feelings, or be rude or selfish.

...

But on the other hand... I have my standards for what I think is appropriate behavior. My minimum standard is that you treat other people just like you'd like to be treated.

HEAR HEAR! Preach on my BROTHA!

Every time I log in, I just want to play with people that are respectful, and know what they are doing. You don't have to top the damage meters, or be the best on the server. In fact, the best of any class are probably (from my experience) going to be the asshats.

If I had a choice between the best player of X class, but he/she is a selfish asshat, versus someone that may be in mostly blues, but is respectful and kind... who do you think I'm going to pick? I'd rather have the lower DPS, but the positive experience.

"TAKE THE PLAYER NOT THE CLASS." Quoth Blizzard.

Uh-huh.

BBB then talks about a POSITIVE experience he had, where a player was respectful, and helpful with a group quest he and his wife had. Then when the group that this player HAD been a part of came back from being AFK he helped them finish the quest, even when he didn't need to. That's the kind of thing I like to see. I wish MORE players were more respectful, but like BBB says, when you put a bunch of 15 year olds behind a monitor with the anonymity of the Internet, they're going to be asshats. That's why I'm glad my guild is mostly adults. Adults = more respectful players. I've found that more alliance are the younger "asshats" and that there are more adults playing Horde side. For the Horde!!

For me, when I come across a good player from a PuG, I like to add them to my friends list, and with the ability to add notes to players names I put "Great healer" "Great tank" ect.. That way when I'm looking for more people for a PuG I have a pool of players that I know are good to draw from. Thankfully I haven't come across too many asshats. Other than the ones in my own guild....

Hunter Survival Island

So round 2 has come to a conclusion. The summary post is here, as is the voting. I honestly don't know who to vote OFF. All of the submissions have been absolutely stellar in my opinion. I'm only just beginning my own blogging career, and I've learned a huge amount from submitting posts. I'm working on incorporating more pictures in posts to break up the wall of text, bolding important items so if someone wants to just skim the article they can get the key points, linking often to other sites for reference, and making sure not to just regurgitate other people ideas. Blogging WELL is a difficult ART. I salute the many successful bloggers out there. Blogging is a difficult and demanding job. It's not just a hobby, or a pass time. Good blogging takes research and dedication. Even if I don't make it through this round I hope that I can continue to grow and flourish as a blogger.

Cheers!

Fanboy Squeeeeeee!

2009-02-03T21:46:00.000-08:00

So I got linked by Kestrel, of Kestrel's Aerie. I hard a hard time not squeeee'ing for joy at work and garnering weird looks from my co-workers. I did however have a huge grin on my face, and was quite bouncy. It's the first time I've ever been linked by anyone!! I also liked how he said "Risky, mixing your reality with my fantasy, but let's see what happens." That made me laugh out loud :)

So if you're coming here from Kestrel's link... Welcome! hopefully you like the place! If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to give them to me, I'm always open to constructive criticisms.

I'm such a fanboy! I've followed Kestrel for a long time now :) Long time reader... never commenter... his site is blocked from work :/ in fact 99.9% of everything is now blocked at work. They haven't blocked google reader... yet. Or blogger... yet. I'm waiting for the day. With everything blocked I never get to leave comments on stuff.

Well my submission for The Hunter's Mark will go live 2 days from now it looks like. I'm so NERVOUS!! When Matticus did his So You Think You Can Blog? series I thought about submitting, but I'm not a hardcore healer type. I've got a Druid that I eventually want to make a healer, and I've got the druid pair that me and my Fiancee started, and I heal her while she tanks with her face ;) but they're only to like level 18 I think, but I'm going Resto with that druid all the way. I didn't feel that I was in a place to write about healing though. I don't have a high level character that even can heal. But I really enjoyed the SYTYCB series, and have used the information provided there to hopefully improve my own writing.

I still haven't been able to log in to wow... stupid reality encroaching on my fantasy. The first time I'll probably get to is Thursday night at the earliest when my Fiancee has class. Sometimes it sucks working long night shifts, it makes it really hard to play on the days that I work. Especially when my Fiancee has had to go more towards a day shift due to having to go to school, so when I work, if I play I don't get to see her, and I want to see her damn it! ;)

I've been thinking lately that I also have been wanting to call in to the twisted nether blogcast, The Instance, and writing a letter to .BRK, the three that I really have time to listen to. I really want to start listening to How I wow, but I have a hard enough time keeping up on the three I regularly listen to. I wanted to ask them all how much time, on average, a week, do they play WoW. I'm curious what the average time that the "non-hardcore" player spends per week playing. I play, on average about 4-5 hours a week, usually on Thursdays when my Fiancee is in class. And with TNB doing a round table this week, I just might do that.

Update

2009-02-03T01:18:00.001-08:00

So I'm still in the running for Lassirra's Hunter Island. It's now week two, I've posted my article, and am just waiting for it to get Lassirra's approval. I had some problems with wordpress, as I've never used it, and I don't know how to post pictures to a blog in wordpress, so hopefully if I make it through this round, I'll figure out how to post pictures and be able to put them in future posts.

You can find my post at The Hunter's Mark.

I've recently gotten re-addicted to reading. I read all of Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule in about 4 days. 800 pages. It was REALLY REALLY good, I can't wait to get the next one. If you haven't read his sword of truth series, READ IT!! I'm now starting on R.A. Salvatores' Forgotten Realms series. I've started with the Icewind Dale Trilogy, I just started it, and it's fairly interesting so far. I read one of the books about Drizzt A LONG time ago, and I'm not sure which one. I think I read it back in like Middle School maybe High School, so at least, 13-16 years ago. So we'll see what I remember. I think that's where I got my affinity for the ranger/hunter archetype.

I haven't been able to play WoW at all lately. I tried a couple times to get a Ahn'kahet run together for my Hunter Island submission, but I could get neither a PuG or a guild run going. Then Reality has encroached on my life and hasn't allowed me to get on otherwise. Hopefully with my upcoming vacation time I can get some good play time in, and work on getting more pre-naxx gear.

Unfortunately I found out from my guildie and friend that I work with that we had 3 of our core members leave the guild for a larger casual raiding guild. It makes me sad to loose them, but I wish them the best. The guild I'm in isn't really even a casual raiding guild. It's a guild for friends, that maybe raids if we get enough people. Recently Matticus made a post about Loot Council in his raiding guild and he made a statement that really struck home with me.

"Loot is the single biggest headache involved with raiding. If you are a person that values yourself over the guild, then you want to reassess why you are in this guild, or why you want to join this guild. Ask yourself 'do I want to gear to raid, or do I want to raid for gear?' Hopefully, you are a person who will choose the first option. If all you want is to raid for gear, then Conquest is probably not for you."

This really hit home with me. It made me really think about what I want out of the game. Do I want gear? Or do I want the friends that I've been running with for almost 2 years now? My friend made these same points today when he was telling me of the guildies departure since he had also been invited to the raiding guild. He turned it down. For him, being with his friends is more important than being in a raid guild. I feel the same way.

Having been reading so much, it's giving me the itch to write again. I used to write all the time when I was younger. Nothing any good, but I really enjoyed writing. I think I might do a story about my hunter. I don't know I'll have to think about it. My friend recently posted up a story he wrote a long time about about some of our guildies. You can find Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here, and Chapter 3 here. He's got a great sense of humor, and represents all of these guys very well! They are all such characters, and it's been great playing with them these past 2 years.

Naxx Report

2009-01-27T00:23:00.000-08:00

So... Naxx... yeah... that was unfortunately a disaster. Our druid healer (who doesn't want to be a healer, he wants to DPS) got himself banned the day of our first ever guild raid. What praytell did he get himself banned for? Being his asshatty self. There have been multiple posts by other bloggers about asshats in game. I really enjoyed the post by Matticus about his "No Assholes" policy. This REALLY struck a chord in me, because this is what my guild is dealing with right now. I personally feel that this perticular individual should be /gkick'd from the guild. I know this sounds harsh, but this, to me, is the straw that broke this camel's back. He has had a history of just being a general asshat. I don't know who originally invited him to the guild, or if he knows someone, but he's an asshat extraordinaire. He utilizes many of the "12 Common Everyday Actions that Assholes Use" that Matticus points out in his post. He is rude in guild chat and vent. He is rude in pugs. He's just an asshat, and if it were up to me, he would not be representing the guild. But it's not up to me unfortunately. I do know though that he's upset quite a few people in the guild, and there's A LOT of drama over it. Which sucks, because I've really enjoyed being in a mostly drama free guild.

Anyway, on to Naxx. We were finally able to PuG another healer, and unfortunately our main guild members, and the one who got this naxx raid going, was having Internet problems and was unable to make the raid that he organized, which really was saddening to a lot of us, so we had to pug in another hunter from another guild. So out of 10 people, 2 were non-guild. We cleared the trash up to the first boss of the spider wing, and attempted him about 6-7 times. We unfortunately don't have the DPS yet to quite make it. I think some, especially myself need more gear from heroics, and badge rewards. I was second on the damage meters, below a mage friend that's part of our guild, but also part of a raiding guild and has gotten A LOT of epics on this toon already. I felt pretty good about my respec to SV, and having worked on my shot rotation, and continually working on my trap dancing. *gotta remember to trap... gotta remember to trap... gotta remember to trap* I'm getting better!!

We attempted some of the plague wing. But tensions were running high, and the offtank "accidentally" said something over vent that really upset the main tank. There has been drama there also apparently about who's going to main tank and off tank. SO MUCH DRAMA! What's with all the asshats, and all the drama lately?

I just want to have fun, and want everyone else to have fun also. I really wish I could get to my guild website from work. I'd love to post a link to the no assholes allowed post matticus made... just to see what kind of reaction I get.

I also am participating in The Hunters Mark's Hunter Survivor Island blogoff. You can read my submission here. You can read a over view here and it has links to each of the articles and a poll to vote the TWO that you don't like and want to vote OFF the island. So don't vote for me! ;P

Work has cut my hours by 12 hours a pay period. Every 2 weeks I'm loosing 12 hours. Two hours a day. It really sucks. This economic crash is hurting EVERYONE. Everyone I've talked to is freaking out. Some people in the department have had their hours cut by 6 hrs a day. It's crazy. Thankfully I have enough paid time off to be able to cover me for now. Unfortunately I've got a wedding coming up in less than 6 months. That's 3 weeks right there that I need off. I'm also taking time off in February. Hopefully things will pick back up soon and things will get better. *crosses fingers*

That's my update for now.

Naxx

2009-01-22T03:22:00.000-08:00

Elemental League (my guild) will be making our first ever raiding attempt tonight. We're going to be attempting Naxx. I'm not sure which wing, but I am REALLY PSYCHED to get into Naxx and raiding. I've never really raided before, and I think it's going to be A LOT of fun.

I've been reading strat guides for Naxx, and the best one I've found has been at toomanyalts. I found his blog via Big Bear Butt's blog. It has to be one of the better (and easily accsesible from work) written and thought out of the guides. The diagrams and explinations of the fights are great. Very detailed, and not overly technical, and he breaks down the fights into roles, Tank, DPS, and Healing which is great for me. I've read over all his strategy guides and plan on finding out which wing we're doing, and reading that guide again.

I also respecced SV. 0/15/51. It's REALLY diffrent for me. I don't have my "IWIN" button anymore. I can't turn big and red anymore. I've been BM for so long, it's hard to adapt, but I'm having A LOT of fun too. I destroy EVERYTHING in front of me. I've got over 3k RAP now, which for me, is amazing. All thanks to BRKs SV Podcast with Lienna of Liennaslog.

Unbuffed I was doing 1300 DPS against the "??" heroic boss target dummy. That's also without the 5% damage buff from improved tracking. I just have to learn to throw my traps down. I keep forgetting to put my immolation trap down. But boy when I do, I do just massive amounts of damage. I'm also REALLY enjoying explosive shot, and the Lock and Load proc, when 2 explosive shots are free and have no cooldown. I just need m0r haste to get my steady shot down to 1.5 seconds.

I'm now a feared that I'm going to go into sholozar basin and see loq. I'm going to be SO upset if I see him and I can't tame him.

Well I'm off work (2 hours early every day now). So I'm off to go farm the last bit of mats for the raid. WOO HOO!!

Maybe something cool will drop for me.

So. It's a miracle.

2009-01-13T21:44:00.000-08:00

Yes it is. I'm posting more than once a month.
AND ITS A DAY LATER!

I'm bored at work.
I have nothing significant to say. So if you don't want to read this... skip it. If anyone is even reading this.

I'm in a rather morose depressed mood. The servers were down this morning. This does not make me happy. Maintance is not my friend. It's always Tuesdays (of course) and the servers are always down when I get home from work. (Noc shift, 6pm-6:30am PST)

I'm also having problems at work. I feel like I have giant bullseye on my back right now. I feel like my charge nurses are out to get me, and my nursing director is going along with it.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

But maybe not.

Maybe I'm just being "emo".

I also wonder if it doesn't have something to do with all the stuff I'm going through in counseling right now. I'm going through some heavy stuff about my childhood and teenage years. I used to think all of that stuff about your "inner child" was a load of... uh... stuff. But lately I've been reading John Bradshaws book Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child at my counselors' request. It has amazingly NAILED every single thing I'm going through. It hit home on a lot of my mental neuroses, a lot of my anti social issues, and my addiction to world of warcraft. Suprisingly I'm not addicted to illegal substances, or alcohol. Yes I do partake every once and a while of a beer, or a glass of wine with dinner, or maybe a mixed drink with dinner, when I'm not driving. When I was younger I experimented with some recreational drugs, but never really got "addicted" to them. I was always able to control when and where I did them, and when I drink. However with WoW... I can't. The other oddity about my addictions, is that my father (before he became religous shortly before he married my mother) was an addict, then after he moved out he once again became an addict, to more than just drugs and alcohol, he became a sex addict too. So I have a genenetic predisposition to addiction.

I guess for me, WoW sparks something in me that makes me feel good. Something that drugs or alcohol never sparked in me. I can't put WoW down. I enjoy reading all the blogs, theorycrafting, watching machinima, and I could play WoW for days on end. WoW is my "crack". Thankfully my Fiancèe was able to make me aware of this fact. I don't think I could ever give up WoW, which is the addict in me talking. I have however, seriously cut back on my time, I'm aware of how much time I play, and therefore how much time I need to work on other things to be able to balance my play time with my responsibilities.

Speaking of WoW... I need to figure out what gear I want. I've still got Season 3 Helm, and season 4 gloves, not only for the +35 to resilance, but because I haven't had anything better. The Swiftarrow Helm is a side upgrade, kinda, but I lose the set bonus, along with the gems, namely the meta socket. But now that I think about it, I don't know how much that really matters. The gloves are a downgrade from the brutal gladiator gloves. So... I don't know what to do. I want the Plunderer's helm out of heroic UK. But I'm begining to hate that instance. I've run it so many times. I want some VARIETY!!

Hmm the Sovereign's Belt drops out of Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle off of king Ymiron. I also want Pendant of the Outcast Hero which is a badge reward, I've got over 20 so far. But I'm going to need ALOT more for the set peices, of which I don't know what to get. Maybe the spaulders? I also want the Mirror of Truth.

So many wants....

So little time.

Well now that I've used most of my night at work to write this, I should probably publish it. I have a meeting with my director in an hour. I'm really not looking forward to that.

Just my two cents...

Blue Screen Of Death

2009-01-13T01:19:00.000-08:00

That's not good.

...

That's really not good.

For the last two or more days when I've been playing, and have
vent running with WoW I've had a Blue Screen Of Death at the absolute worst times. Right in the middle of a boss fight with a PUG. Thankfully I'm DPS and not the healer, that way when I've DC'd it hasn't totally wiped the group. It's just horribly frustrating to be focused on doing the best I can with my limited time and... BAM. DENIED. I think I've narrowed down the problem to my sound drivers, since it only happens when I've got Vent running, and the music and sound in WoW begins to sound really BAD along with whoever is talking in Vent, like part of the headphone wires aren't connected, and I change the settings in my sound menu from "Use Hardware" and the device settings it resets the problem for a little while. I've tried re-installing my sound drivers, but that hasn't helped. Maybe upgrading to Windows 7 Beta might help? I don't know, we will see.

I've been running heroics like there is no tomorrow. I've been in some really great PuGs. I've also ran a 4 hour Halls of Lightning. FOUR HOURS of wipe after wipe. 80 gold later for repair bills. I didn't want to quit, I was in the run with a guildie, and I didn't want to abandon him. We'd already gotten commited, and unfortunately the Sunk Cost Fallacy took over for me. I didn't want to waste what I'd already put in. That was a bad choice. I learned from that experiance. Never again will I throw good after bad. We had a bad tank that couldn't hold aggro, and a bad mage that didn't know how to DPS. My PET was doing more DPS than this mage. The only thing he was good for was a table. The frosting on my cake of hate? WE DID NOT FINISH. We didn't get the last boss down. We kept wiping on that damn final boss. So not only did I have the 80 gold in repairs, and 4 hours wasted, we didn't even get the extra emblems for the daily quest.

On a positive note though I FINALLY got my Drake Mounted Crossbow. It has significantly raised my DPS. I'm quite happy with it. I've ran Heroic Utguarde Keep so many times now. Now I just need is the Plunderer's Helmet from there. I really want to get my gear Naxx ready. The guild is going to start running it soon, and I want to be ready. I don't want to be the one lagging behind everyone else, even though I probably already am with how little time I get to play. I don't want to get carried either. I don't want welfare epics. I want to earn everything I get.

I'm also seriously considering respeccing to survival. I recently listened to BRKs interview with Lienna of Liennaslog on his podcast and it really intrigued me. I ran 41/0/20 for a LONG time for the traps. I really enjoyed that build, but I was missing the GftT talent, and gimping my pet's DPS because of it. I really hope they start the dual specs soon. I'd love to compare SV and BM and not have to pay insane amounts of gold to respec all the time. I'd also love to be the mana battery for the raid. I'd really enjoy that. (Strange as that is to say, I'd like to bring a buff to the raid that everyone can use)

Anyway, now that I've wrote a book I'll stop. More to come soon. I promise!

That's my two cents....

How to avoid S.O. Aggro, and still get to play WoW

2008-12-17T02:09:00.000-08:00

I've found in my juggling act with WoW and a real life that I've gotten quite a bit of aggro from my Significant Other (heretofore referred to as a S.O., in my case it's my Fiancée, but it could be a husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend or parent). Hopefully I can help someone else maybe avoid a little aggro.

I've got a very addictive personality when it comes to WoW. I fit into the "gaming addict" profile because of emotional issues, low self-esteem, childhood issues, and social issues that I'm currently working on.

My number one suggestion, if you feel you fit into a "gaming addict" profile, is to seek help. I've found that going to counseling has really helped my understanding of my addiction and myself. Unfortunately it's a continual process.

But I've found sitting down and talking with my S.O., since she had begun getting upset with my spending so much time in game, has helped greatly. Since then I've begun setting specific goals that I need to achieve each week before I can play, or that I need to achieve during the week to play the next weekend. We have a regular "date" night that we spend together, and I don't PLAY or TALK about WoW.

I've also found setting limits to how much I play helps. I used to use the timers on my phone. Now since the big B has integrated timers into the game (which I didn't know about until recently). When you click on the clock at the bottom of your Minimap, it opens up a window with a lot of options to help you manage your playtime. I've found them extremely useful. It helps when you get on, before you do ANYTHING, to determine how long your going to be playing, or what goals you have in mind to accomplish before you log off and how long it's going to take you, then set the alarm, and when it goes off make sure you're in a spot to be able to log off. Remember, "practice makes perfect" and to do this EVERY time, wether you have a time restriction or not. This way you get in the habit of setting your alarm and sticking to it.

I have also decided to mostly only play when my S.O. is either away from the house, or asleep. When she was in class, or at work was a great time for me to play. I was able to play, and not take time away from her. The caveat is that I still have to achieve my goals for the week before I can play, or if she's away make sure and accomplish something while she's gone that I need to do, so I can make sure she feels okay about my playing, and not that I was just getting my "fix" for my addiction.

The key though to anything, be it WoW, a relationship, a job, or real life, is COMMUNICATION. Communicating your needs to your S.O., letting them know "Hey, I'm not feeling real social right now, I just want to take a little while and play." or "Hey I haven't gotten to play lately and want to." Let them know your needs, let them know what your feeling and how they can help. Communicate when you're going to play and for how long, that way your S.O. knows how long you'll be playing, and follow through with what you say.

It can be very hard to balance wow with real life. To juggle all your balls and keep it all in the air without dropping something. If you're going to drop something, let it be WoW, and not your real life. Take this from someone who's been there (and still is sometimes).

Thankfully my Fiancée understands, and she too plays WoW. She however is not addicted to it like I am. We make time to play together, and we both enjoy it, but it's not a priority for her. In fact it's a non-priority for her. Her priorities are probably organized better than mine. She does not have any high level characters. For her the enjoyment is the leveling and playing. The endgame holds no interest for her, which surprises me, because that's where the game for me is at, but we enjoy playing together.

Oh another note I hit 80 last week on my Hunter. Since then I've been camping sholozar hoping to tame Loq. I'm going to farm leather probably with the gorilla, and try to make money off my time waiting. I probably won't get him, which makes me sad, but I'll keep trying. I've seen 3-4 hunters running around with him, he's a beautiful pet. Astetically he's the best pet I've seen. He's an amazing looking cat.

I've been enjoying running around Sholozar though and farming the gorillas with my gorilladin. I also ordered a couple shirts from BRK. I ordered a Northrend bowling team, and two gorilladin shirts, one long sleeve and one short sleeve. I can't WAIT to get them!! I wanna sport the BRK swag! I wanted to order them the first time around but I didn't have the cash, and now I do, and I get to SCORE!

Here's to maybe one day taming Loq!

Interesting.

2008-11-26T02:57:00.000-08:00

This should have been posted like two weeks ago, my bad!!

So I've been playing a lot lately.

Wrath is absolutely awesome. I've played all the way through Borean Tundra, and I've almost completed Howling Fjord. The graphics are absolutely beautiful. The quests are unique, and have REALLY kept me interested. I'm really enjoying how amazing everything looks and feels. Normally I play with the music turned off, and have my own music playing in the background. Not with wrath, I've had the game music on and have really felt immersed in the game play. I really enjoy how well the world blends together. No more Giant snow covered moutians on one side and desert just a little bit away. The game is absolutely amazing.

Well done blizz. Well done.

On another interesting note, I was reading through my feed reader, and low and behold, Wow insider had a small post about an article the BBC did about gaming "addiction", or the lack thereof.

I found this to be a rather relevant article, since I myself have been battiling with balancing my real life with how much I want to play WoW.

Yes I have an overwhelming desire to escape into WoW. I acknowldge, understand, and accept it. I do my best to control my game play, doing my best to not let the game suck me in too much.

I've been going to counciling lately due to some emotional difficulties that I've been having in my life, relationships, and the inablity I have to deal with them. I've realized I fit into that group of people that uses WoW as an escape from the real world. That I can used WoW to get away from what ever problems I may be having. I also enjoy the socializing that the game provides me. I have made some amazing friends that I never would have met otherwise.

WoW has also provided me the ability to disconnect from my emotions and to take a different perspective on how I feel about everything. It's been very helpful in my opionion. I haven't really felt socialable in real life, and have felt more comfortable in game. But I must be careful not to let myself to continue to use the game as an escape.

Balance

2008-10-28T03:50:00.000-07:00

Balance is something that is extremely hard to achieve.

There is sleep.
There is work. Supporting yourself and your lifestyle.
There is family including your significant other.
There is the game. Your friends online the raids, the pvp, the dalies, the alts, and world events.

I have goals in game that I want to achieve. I have a druid that I've got to 35, that I'd eventually like to, now get to 80. I've got my main, a hunter that's at 70, and I plan on leveling to 80 once the expantion comes out on November 13th. I started playing shortly after BC came out. I hit 70 WAY after everyone else. I didn't really get to raid as much as I wanted to in BC. I *STILL* have not got to see the inside of Kara, and not for lack of trying. I've attempted to put together any number of guild kara runs. Nothing ever panned out because of how small the guild is, and the nature of the "friendliness" of the guild. Which I'm not opposed to. I've been in a larger raiding guild. I attemped to get into a kara run there. I was not invited because I was not in the clique. I'm hoping with wotlkee to be able to get into some more 10 man raids and set aside time to play. I'm looking forward to leveling with everyone else to 80. I don't want to get there first. But I definatly don't want to be last.

The problem is, I've got the wedding coming up in 8 months. Yeah I know, you're thinking "that's a LONG time away!!!" It's really not. It's sooner than you think. We've had to postpone the wedding once now because of difficulties with not being ready. There are so many thing to a wedding. If you havn't planned one. DON'T. That's my advice.

It's hard to juggle all these things without dropping one.
It's so easy for me to loose myself in WoW. I enjoy loosing myself in it.

With all the reseach I've done about game addiction, I've discovered that people with soscial disorders or depression are more prone to game addiction and I suffer from depression. It gives me a feeling of satisfaction. A feeling of completion. A feeling of power, when I have power over nothing else in my life. I may not be the biggest and baddest WoW player... but I'm good at it. I'm begining to wonder if I'm not sprialing deeper and deeper in a depression lately. I don't know.

Maybe I'm just over reacting.

I want to participate in the game. I want to achive my goals.

But at what cost?

Balance is the key.

Juggeling is the key.

Don't drop the balls.

back from the (semi) dead

2008-10-22T06:17:00.000-07:00

So I haven't posted in a while. I've been on a hiatus (sp?) from wow because my fianceé felt I was too addicted to wow and the gameplay so I've been on a little break from wow. I'm back to playing a little bit, with the caveat of having to spend half as much time researching game addiction as I do playing. So if I play for two hours, I need to spend an hour researching game addiction. I also have to research stuff for my wedding, that I came up with for myself.

I'm not super happy with having to have taking a break, since I lost arena and honor points. Yes it's just a game, but it's a ever persistiant game that (to me) has responsibility, friends that rely on me, things I have planned that I want to achieve.

Anyway, I'm back for anyone that cares. I'm posting this from my phone so hopefully I'll have a better post after I work tonight.

Sabiba

Erm.

2008-08-12T01:34:00.000-07:00

Yeah, haven't posted in a month.

Bad me.

I've been playing with my new iPhone (Aren't you jealous?!). My wonderful Fiancee bought it for me for my birthday present. I've also been dealing with upgrading to windows XP on my computer so I can sync my iPhone with iTunes. iHate computers.

I've also been camping one weekend. That was quite enjoyable. Lots of friends and family in the woods. We all had a grand old time.

After upgrading to XP and updating my drivers, somehow I got spyware on my computer, and whenever I would load WoW my computer would crash. So I was unable to play for almost 2 weeks. Blizzard support was awesome, but mostly unhelpful. It finally came down to my Fiancee's Sister's Boyfriend (who lives with us now) suggested it might be my video card drivers... and low and behold... IT WAS!#$

Why didn't I think of that?

So I've gotten my computer up and running, and was able to get most of the spyware off of my computer. I'm still having intermitten problems, but overall it's working well now. Except for the fact that iTunes takes FOREVER to load when I plug my iPhone in, like 5 minutes to load and then to sync. It's crazy. I'll have to make a post soon from my awesomely fantastic iPhone.

On to actuall WoW related things... I was able to get my Fiancee to finally try PvP with the Olympics rewards for doing PVP. We won 5 (FIVE) ABs in a row. She didn't die once. I died. Quite a few times. Next time we PvP we're going to do more offenseive than defensive. We would camp a flag in AB with a warlock, and allys would run up look at the three of us, turn around and run away.... quickly. It was quite amusing.

I realized how squishy my mage is though. I got the SNOT smacked out of me by anyone and everyone. I had as much armor and stamina as I could stack, and I'd go down in two or three shots. If I could avoid getting seen/hit I could do MASSIVE amouts of damage.

Then this morning I tried to do WSG on my hunter. It was an EPIC fail. We were up 0/2 on the allys then they turned around and scored three in a row after an HOUR of play. I *HATE* WSG. I did 2 AVs in like 20-30 min and got like 500 honor out of it. I got 124 honor out of the 1 hour WSG... hmmm... which was more worth it...?

God I hate WSG!!!!! It still needs to be tweaked more so that it's not lasting over an hour.

More as it happens :)

Mobile blog

2008-08-11T05:44:00.001-07:00

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Vacys over!

2008-07-17T04:42:00.000-07:00

So I'm back from vacation.

Didn't do anything overly interesting. Cleaned stuff, watched movies, played video games, and turned 26. Happy birthday to me!

I recently read through the whole archive of xkcd and it's pretty freaking funny. I've also been checking out the blag it has. While checking out the blag I came across limerickdb

My top favorites so far are (in no perticular order):

#418
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8 7 6 5 4
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(Comma tick ampersand hash,
Dollar at pipe plus dot dash.
Eight sev'n six five four,
Quote star underscore,
Question mark semi-colon bang MASH.)

#465
A young psychic midget named Marge
Went to jail with the most heinous charge
But despite lock and key
The next day she broke free
And the headlines said "Small Medium at Large"

#445
This database comes with a curse:
I just wasted an hour or worse
On LimerickDB,
Now all that I see
I read as if written in verse.

#384
A poem had readers quite smitten;
'twas the dirtiest verse ever written,
Vulgar jokes, sexy themes,
Readers burst at the seams,
But with each reading God killed a kitten.

#375
Famous books rewritten as limericks: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

In PJs, no planet, oh poo!
What is the last earthman to do?
In despair with no tea,
he's now forced to flee
as his brain now explains 42

#348
Books as limericks: Dune

There's a planet, Arrakis: it's dry,
There's melange (it's a spice, gets you high),
The plots and intrigue
Meet round Paul Muad'dib,
The sequels are poor - don't know why.

Quite entertaining I must say.

That's really all I have to say for now.

Other than that I need felcloth for my talior, and that is really freaking hard to come by.

I'm also exhausted. NEED SLEEP!!!!!

Screaming in the night

2008-06-17T02:37:00.000-07:00

Don't drink and walk out in to traffic.

It's a bad idea.

Or if you do, don't scream your fool head off and annoy the hell out of me.

So I got my druid up to 32. I'm LOVING travel form. It's allowing me to level EVEN faster. I've been following the wow pro leveling guide. I'm just about to finish the 20-30 guide, and I'm at 32, just from running RFK twice and SFK once while in my 20s.

I also ran some more dailies on my 70 hunter and got the mats for +20 aglity to 1h weapon... now I just need to get our guild enchanter to do it.

I've created a Badge Of Justice League. It's pretty awesome... now if I could just get people to sign up and go! I need more BoJs to get more of thoes epic gems from me friend the Jewel Crafter. I like thoes +10 agility (I think) epic gems, they're nice. Must have more Badges! I also need tons more PvP Honor! Aparently, from what I've been reading Arena Season 4 stars in 2 weeks. So now I'm going to need to replace all my season 1 gear with season 2 gear. I'm just going to hit the BGs hard on the weekends for the double honor. Esp AVs. AVs are awesome. I enjoy doing them when I'm with other people that I know. Really all the BGs are easier when you've got other people with you.

Anyway I'm bored at work again. I wish I was home.

*sigh* More screaming to attend to.

So that didn't go as expected.

2008-06-09T04:06:00.000-07:00

So we went camping this weekend. We had a fantastic time camping, before it started snowing on us, and before we found out it was in the low 40s high 30s at night. It was fun rosting marshmellows and having smore's and spending time with my fiancee. We only stayed for two days total before we decided to pack up and leave. It was snowing and raining while we finished packing up and breaking down camp. I can say from experience that it's not fun breaking camp in the snow and rain.

On the flip side after we got home and unpacked, we re-packed and went to the Oregon coast for 2 days. My fiancee's Mom's work paid for most of the trip, and it was enjoyable spending time with the whole family on the coast. The weather was perfect (for the Oregon coast), we got to play on the beach, dig a giant hole, and attempt to build a sand castle before the wind drove us nutty.

I didn't get to play any WoW. Which is fine. I got to spend time with the family. I do plan on getting my druid to 30 in the morning when I get home if I can. I want travel form! Run fast = level faster.

I also really want to get a regular guild Kara run going. I think we're getting close to having enough people. I've never been in Kara, and I want to go! I can't wait to get in.

Sooo bored at work.
I hate work.

Blarg.

2008-06-04T05:16:00.000-07:00

I've got one hour left of work. This is going on ENDLESSLY.

I haven't been able to get online a lot lately due to work and sleep. Now I'm going camping this weekend and won't be on for at least a little while.

I hate people that know it all.

I work with people that know it all.

And it bugs the SHIT out of me. I'm the best because ______.

Even when *I* know better.

Rawr.. don't get me started.

I really want to get my baby druid up to 30. I want my travel form! I also want to do some more dailies and get some more gold and get my reputation rewards from the SSO.

I really don't have much to blog about.

I just want to go home. I don't want to be at work anymore!

Ahh well. It's picking up.

Time to work.

Bored.

2008-06-02T02:28:00.000-07:00

So I'm at work.
I'm horribly bored.
It's dead. (No pun intended.)

Work: I'd like to play around on Warcrafter and play with gear and spec on my Hunter and Druid, but alas, IT has deemed Warcrafter to be a "Game related website" and therefore has blocked it. Stupid Websense, blocking all my porn and internet games while I'm at work. That's the best time to look at porn and stuff like that {/sarcasm}. Ah well, I guess I'll stare at squiggeling green lines on the heart monitor.

WoW: On another note I've got my Druid up to 29. I tanked a RFK the other day that was awesome. I had this crazy Holy priest that was dotting stuff and pulling it in. I asked her if she had a death wish, and she replied "I have faith in my tank... my main is a tank and you're doing an awesome job." That made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I'm glad I'm taking so well to tanking. The only times we wiped were when we got too many add and ended up tanking multiple groups. (Stupid humanoid mobs running away...) I also ended up healing another RFK run in my DPS gear when the healer suddenly left the group and hearthed out. That didn't go so bad either, if I recall correctly we didn't wipe once. I don't know what it is about this Druid... but I'm having such a wonderful time with him.

I was playing on my Hunter the other day also. I did like 7-8 BGs. I was in at least the top 10, if not the top 3-4 on damage every time. Usually I'd only be lower if I was flag guarding or Defending. I was able to get nearly 6k Honor out of the day. I'm halfway to my next piece of gear. I would link it... but I'm at work and everything is blocked. I'm supprised blogger isn't blocked. I figure someone in IT probably has a blogger account and hasn't blocked it so they can access it at work.

Random: Have you ever told someone "Drive safe!" as they were leaving? Have you ever really thought about that saying? Are you implying that they're a bad driver? Or are you concerned with the other people that are out there? Is it more of an insult? I don't know... just a random thought at 0345 in the morning and I'm bored.

Wedding: So we haven't done much about planning the wedding lately. Mostly due to our recent trip to Hawaii, and then my Fiancee's Great Grand Mother died last week so her and her family was down in Californina for the funeral. I however, need to get back in the saddle and stark working on it again. We thankfully have the major things done. Location, and photographers, we have pretty much chosen who will be the caterer, and DJ. All we need to do is decide who will be the cake baker, where to get the flowers from, order invitations, and book rooms for the wedding party, and out of town guests. I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff but that's what I've got in mind at the moment.

Well now that I've written a novel in my bordem I'll go work on some wedding stuff.

FIRST!

2008-05-27T05:28:00.000-07:00

I plan on using this as an outlet for my opinions and my discussion on WOW and RL Related topics, and for talking about what happens to me in game, and in life.

I love my Hunter... I love doling out the MQSRDPS as BRK calls it. I love being able to trap and when needed OT with my pet for short periods of time, and tearing it up in PVP/Areas.

I also have a Frost Mage that I'm leveling with my Fiancee's Shadow Priest, and I'm really enjoying the mage. I heart aoes!

I'm also working on a Feral Druid, and I'm really beginning to feel an affinity for the druid class that I haven't felt with either my mage or my hunter. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy both, very much, but Druids are just so AWESOME. They can do it all with the right spec and gear.

I hate guild drama, so I'm in a guild with the best people ever. Zero guild drama, we're all here just to have fun! They are the most fantastic, friendly people EVER. I've been in bigger guilds that were into raiding and hardcore PVP, and people that thought they were better than you because they had the latest and greatest gear. That's not for me. I'd rather have a smaller, friendlier, homely feeling guild. Progression and armor is not my thing. Enjoying the game is. Having fun with my friends is what it's all about.

Unfortunately real life gets in the way of that fun.

That's why this is Reality Clashing with Fantasy.

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