It seems I’ve managed to piss off someone who I respect and adore a lot and rather than try to dig my way out of it with some sort of explanation, I am taking myself offline from blogging for a while until such a point that either I or this person feels that it is appropriate for an eventual return.
Until then… best of luck to everyone and crap like that. Tchuss…
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I feel like absolute shit this morning. I feel as though I could puke at any moment now but I know there isn’t anything in my stomach to return from whence it entered my body… so it would be a futile and very painful experience for me if it tried. For some reason my body just crashed yesterday evening… and there was no explanation for it. Apparently I am pushing myself too hard even though I don’t know what I was pushing myself with.
Saturday: run to grocery store for some food stuff… for some reason Vons has most of the store on sale for really insane prices. Am wondering if they are going to be closing that location shortly. Only time will tell…
Ended up playing WoW for a bit in order to skill up my mining some more. But prior to that was cracking down on all the stuff that had piled up on the DVR in the past few weeks. That was fun… *ugh*
Sunday: woke up feeling so-so… but also had woken up way too bloody early. As I had the morning before. Moved to the couch for a bit to see if that might help. It didn’t… so I gave up and woke up to play some WoW early in the morning. Milady came out a couple of hours later to inform me that there were ants all over her nightstand. So that became the quick process of clearing out as much stuff from there to see if we could determine the reason why they were all grouping there. None was found that I am aware of… still that area got cleaned and sprayed.
Then back to WoW… was doing pretty well on my mining skills and then I’ve managed to hit a nice wall. Must remember to grab my enchanted gloves out of the bank again… and then try to figure out a good place to at least get my one more skill point to push me into the next node level. And as I edge closer to 300 then I get to prepare for the shift to Outlands which will be a whole new ball of wax for me. Cache… with whom do I learn to smelt the dark iron ore? It’s not coming up on any trainer that I’ve seen… or do I have to raise my faction with the Thorium Brotherhood?
And then ended up running a rather interesting instance that I didn’t think was that difficult at first. It was meant for a 5-man group around the mid-60′s… and at the time, there were two of us who were 70. Piece of cake, right? Wrong. The mage we had brought in was a fuckin’ moron who we think was a bot or someone who didn’t know how to play their character at all. Throwing fireballs was all they knew… max DPS and no cares about taking the hate off of the main tank. So she died… a lot. Gave her the boot finally after she didn’t respond to any of the whispers sent to her… yeah, not someone I want in my party.
Got a new mage… much better but still had some difficulties. The rogue in the party refused to corpse run so it was up to our paladin to rez his ass any time that the party wiped. Sorry, but if you wipe then you run just like the rest of us have to. Don’t make us waste our time and mana to rez and heal you just because you’re too damn lazy to run back. And no… I’m not going to rez you because I can battle rez which could be the difference between a complete wipe or just a couple of people needing a rez after a battle but beating that boss. And it’s a 30-minute cooldown.
After many attempts on the final boss… no one had a clue what the fuck to do where it got to the point they asked me to tank as a feral bear. Yeah… that lasted long… though I did take the boss down further that the MT did when he was tanking it. Finally I said that was it… I was done. I think I lost more money on that run than gained. I lost on every damn roll for green or blue items… and here I am trying to save up my gold for stuff. In end end though between selling my stuff from mining and that run my profit for the day was a bit over 100 gold. It was damn near close to that before I ran that fuckin’ instance… so one can only imagine how thrilled I was to see that I at least had not lost any money during that run… I just didn’t make any money between the armor repair bills and the food and drinks I had to restock on and reagents. Less than thrilled with that group last night… might be a while before I run Mana Tombs again. At least in that kind of group.
Here were some of the problems I saw with that group:
a) the first mage… bad idea when we heard nothing from her during the waiting period. She just sat there.
b) the rogue pulled before everyone was in the instance and buffed up. I threw up my buffs right as he was pulling the mob which automatically pulled all that hate onto me. I died quickly right at the beginning of the instance. Not a good sign of things to come.
c) rogue only did one corpse run the entire fuckin’ night. That is a lazy player or thinks that highly of himself. IF he was so good then he should be able to pull a mob off of me fairly quickly… which he never did. I died a lot…
d) I informed the person forming the group that I was a ranged DPS character… not a healer. “No prob” was the response… he was going to be the main healer. Guy had just re-spec’d that day to Holy Paladin and didn’t have any of the gear for healing. Fuck!!! Guess who ended up being the main healer the entire night? I started the evening at #3 DPS and ended the evening near the bottom of that list. But damn… can I pop off heals… I am good at something it seems.
e) when they asked me to tank the end boss in feral bear. Did these people not get the idea that I was Boomkin. I can heal you… I can DPS the crap out of a mob… but feral form? Really? I have never played that roll and never plan on it. Guess who is going to tell the next group that wants me feral for fuck off?
And now we are to Monday morning… I feel like shit… I want to go back to sleep…
WrathGlory… IM me at some point please… I have a question for you. Or else I’ll just harass you via email at work :P
and later… if I have time and am feeling a bit better, I’ll start going over the interesting people that I get the pleasure of viewing on a daily basis while taking the bus to and from work. Oh OCTA, what a colorful and scary group of characters you allow to ride on you…
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Friday evening: watched/assisted CacheCrash with his raid group by listening in on the raid and watching and calling out certain things for him…
Saturday: flew out of Long Beach Airport around 10am up to Oakland for a family function (Milady’s family)… then drove around the area for a bit before heading back to the airport for an 8:15pm flight back south.
Got home… and then slept…
Sunday: supposed to be relaxing but it wasn’t. Woke up to find out that my WoW account had been hacked in to, and thankfully I managed to rest the password on my account before all hell broke loose and I only lost about 1,200 gold on one character. Got lucky because they were on a second character when I did the password reset which would have been another 3-400 gold. Ran a scan on the computer… turned up nothing of importance.
Then off to go grocery shopping for a bit. Ended up buying dinner while we were there… corned beef… potatoes… and cabbage. Then swung by Weinersnitzel because I was craving corn dogs and chili cheese fries. Chili cheese fries great… corn dog, not so great. Apparently still cannot bite into certain things and that was one of them. Nearly tore up the inside of my mouth trying to bite into a corn dog. Not happy…
Watched/listened/assisted Cache with another raid group in WoW… a lot of deaths… but it’s a learning thing. Just need to figure out how to deal with certain bosses in the right manner.
Got a call from Clinton… we needed to talk… so he came over a bit later in the afternoon and we talked and we all ended up eating corned beef and having a couple of beers. Then it was time to sleep again…
and here we are… Monday morning… not happy to be awake… and not happy to be at work… *sigh*… at least it’s air conditioned at work though…
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Last night the last of the dishes and other kitchenwares moved back into their appropriate places. My kitchen has been ant-free for the past few days with the occasional one that wanders in scouting around and is immediately killed.
The front room is still sort of a mess but we are working on it while trying to also stay as cool as possible. Saturday nearly had me keeling over from all the heat and the Simple Green fumes I was inhaling… yesterday I refused to have to subject myself to such torture again. But mostly the front room is good to go. Just need to finish moving some crap around and then I can attack the floors, ceiling, and floorboards.
What else is there? Oh yes… a new chair for the computer desk. While out at Staples yesterday morning for some other things, we decided to take a look at office chairs for that desk. And we found what we wanted… bought it… brought it home and I assembled it. Thing has three different levers on it… and a nice high back for those of us who are tall. Here is our new chair… hopefully it will pull up properly, if not it’s the Staples Safford Multi-Function Task Chair.
The eventual end result is that all of the actual chairs in the apartment will be replaced with something better and more comfortable… then we will move on to the other pieces of furniture in the apartment (couch, recliners) and over course the new bed and all that stuff that goes with it.
And in going through everything this past weekend I am about ready to start looking for a new refrigerator too. The one I have now has been around for WAY too long. It is older than CacheCrash if I recall correctly. So yeah… time to get a new one of those possibly this year. After that then we can look at other things… but that fridge is by far one of my personal top priorities. That will be a fun one to try to deal with… up the stairs… into through the front door… and onto a floor that is already pretty torn up from the current fridge being moved around a few times.
and other than that… I am back at work today and things are a lot less stressful than they have been over the past few weeks. Such a nice feeling… ^_^
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So… it has been over two weeks since the third annual OMGWTFBBQ which for the most part I think was a great success with some let downs in the food department.
Most of the proteins (the meats) went over really well and the shocker that was announced at the end of the roast was the surprise dish that we just called beef tacos throughout the evening. Some dishes never managed to hit the table because there was a clusterfuck happening in my kitchen and I refused to be part of it anymore and I walked out with meats to hit the grill. But I will go into that more later on in the entry.
Kimmie and Frank flew in from Texas for the event… it was great to see them. They came the furthest for the event though there might have been one person if he had shown would have come further as is lives in Florida.
The roast was great… apparently I have a lot of friends who think well of me. Funny, I don’t of them… kidding folks. Some moments were funny… some not so funny. When a younger brother says that I’m not even worthy to wash dishes in a restaurant that bothered me a lot since I got to witness him become a complete prat in my own kitchen to the point of talking down to me like I was an underling. Sorry, but you’re a guest in my kitchen… you don’t treat me like shit especially when I paid for the fuckin’ ingredients. If you bought the stuff then you can say what you please, but you didn’t and it will not ever happen again or else you are not welcome in my kitchen ever again.
Friday morning comes along… we have our printed out schedule… and are making plans. Up to the ACC we all walk and see a cluster of people all congregating near Hall A… it is past 9am… the doors should be open. Nope… not yet. Finally the doors open and we allow for people to get in before attempting to make our way into the convention area. We walk into the hall into darkness. Not a great thing for those who had been outside the hall where it was bright and sunny. Milady is thrown off by this almost immediately and I don’t blame her.
To our right is this clusterfuck of a line for Blizzard merchandise. People have order forms in hand but no one can seem to be able to locate someone who is handing them out. Fuck it… let’s walk around before the opening ceremony.
We see another line… this one for the maps and programs. Another clusterfuck of a mess. And yet another Blizzard merchandise line in Hall B that isn’t nearly as insane as the one in Hall A but close to it and at least that one is manned by a Blizzard employee who is handing out the damn order forms. We stay in that line for a short while and decide that it’s not going to get better so we are better off trying to get our programs and maps. By the time we get there the line seems to have disappeared on one side so we go for that side. Got a map, a program, and an hearthstone keychain. Where was my hearthstone last night when I wanted to actually be drinking at the Hearthstone Lounge? Bastards…
Now we are off to wander some more… we hit the Brady Games booth to begin the quest and got another bookmark. Then something about opening ceremonies. Cache had disappeared quite a while ago so I was shocked to actually find him already sitting and a couple of seats by him available. Sweet… so we get the ceremonies underway… Starcraft II… no big surprise… WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King… no big surprise considering a section of Hall B has these huge ass banners announcing it. SURPRISE!!!! This is the next expansion. Yeah, and the fact that it was pretty much spoiled a few days prior online was people were digging into the various expansion rumors. It will be interesting though as we are now going back into Azeroth for leveling which will most likely empty out Outlands. Level cap will be raised to 80… talent trees will be revamped again… a hero class, Death Knight… and apparently the first time we’ll be able to have flying mounts in Azeroth.
Now it was time to walk around some more before lunch… and a couple of panel discussions. Lunch was done at the Hilton at Cafe Oasis. Milady and I shared a bottle of wine with our meal… and enjoyed ourselves relaxing with our meal. *sigh* It was nice… ^_^
Back the mad rush of BlizzCon… a couple of panels and then we headed home for a bit to rest and relax before Milady and I headed back up for some more stuff that was too overcrowded for us to deal with so instead we walked around and saw that we could get a sample try of the trading card game (she kicked my ass) and then headed home for the evening/night.
Saturday comes… and we have a slightly delayed get-up-and-go mentality. Nothing overly major taking place until 12noon. A panel about the Warcraft movie being done by Legendary Pictures apparently planned to release in 2009. Should be interesting once they finally get the script nailed down.
then it was off to lunch again for Milady and I… this time we went to the Marriott’s Cafe Del Sol which we had never been to before and actually had a good experience there. Good choices on their menu… and they also had a lunch buffet too. I stuck to the menu while Milady tried the buffet. Another relaxing meal… with no big rush to be anywhere. Lunch was over… and wee bring Cache back a little something to munch on… beer-battered onion rings with a chipotle ranch dipping sauce. And then we are at our next panel… and then time to kill for Milady and I so we had to the bar at the Hilton for some drinks before venturing back into the convention area for the closing event… a performance by Video Games Live (an orchestra) and some other crap. What a treat I was in for on that one. We were informed that seating was limited… doors opened at 6:30… concert started at 7:00. Anyone seeing the problem here yet?
We find Cache who is in line already… this line starts from the front gates of the ACC arena folds into Hall A down towards the main stage set up there… curves back up the side of the panel discussion seating op to where the Blizzard merchandise is being sold turns along the back of the seating for the panel… then takes a turn back towards the panel stage and wraps around again to begin a line going back up towards the back of the hall towards Hall B. There are a lot of people still wandering the show floor and sitting in on the panel discussions. There is no way logistically that they can seat all of these people in thirty minutes or less. I am more than pissed at this moment. We have each paid out $100 for this convention with the promise of a concert performance by Video Games Live. It was not until the opening ceremony that they announce there will be limited seating for the concert. Had I known this I would not have put some much speculation into the concert and possibly not have attended BlizzCon ’07.
I have now ranted to Cache in front of a bunch of people that I have pretty much insulted directly to their faces calling them the ultimate losers who wank off to their female night elf characters on a daily basis. I have yet to drop my letter of displeasure about the clusterfuck of various aspects of BlizzCon but it will be dropped to the president of Blizzard which will most likely go unread but at least I can state that I voiced my displeasure.
Something we have found while we were cleaning… two cookie sheets and cooling racks in the oven still uncleaned from two weeks prior. This held the roasted vegetables and was tossed back into the oven by Clinton without ever being cleaned. Two weeks later… and they are now in the trash. The expense of the OMGWTFBBQ continues to grow in the weeks following this event. I am not pleased… I have found risotto in places I should not find dried risotto. It was splattered on bottles of alcohol. Milady has managed to step on a piece of dried shallot that cut into the bottom of her foot.
Oh yeah… you dirty rotten bastards!!! You killed my keg of Guinness in near record time… I had it delivered on the 26th of July. It died on the 31st. I have had to resort to drinking other beers… wines… and harder alcohols until last night when we could afford getting another keg delivered. :P
So now I am off to finish my cleaning process so I can try and relax this afternoon when it’s the hottest.
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