Wednesday, November 29

Okay. I suck

But since theres only the one reader as far as I can tell, my motivation hasnt been as high as it could be. So heres a quick recap of the last 20 days for yall
GenCon SoCal - "The Best Four Days of Gaming!" and they were.. except I hardly had a chance to game since I was working the show. I was judging the D&D Minis events for Wizards of the Coast for the event and had a spectacular time. I met a bunch of great folks - some for the first time. I didnt make any significant judging errors and felt I was fair and reasonable. No one died or was otherwise maimed by me in a moment of rage. I saw the worst comedy show in the history of man (that had nothing to do with Michael Richards). I didnt drink, eat nor sleep nearly enough. I got a fair amount of product, saw a bunch of new games and well - I had a kick ass time. But that was 6 days without WOW, Email, web browsing or free time.
Thanksgiving - I had dinner at my sister's group home with her, my uncle and A (my wife). It was completely stress free and enjoyable. Having a handicapped sibling is hard as hell most of the time but the unconditional love you share is awesome. After dinner we went out to the movies and saw the new Bond film, which was great.
Wife - A's dad is on vacation in India with his brother and that leaves her to run his company while he is gone. So she is burning vacation time to keep that going while he is away so Im not seeing her as much as I could and that bums me out a bit. But I was in California having fun - i need to take her on a vacation somewhere soon.
Work - Im a network security engineer by profession and these past two weeks have been busy as heck fighting a virus in one of our companies. Lets just say that theres alot of stuff I would rather be doing than dicking with this stuff for 2 weeks.
Upcoming weekend - I will be down in Maryland to judge another DDM limited qualifier. So I will be gone Friday thru Sunday.. only two nites, but still.. A and I have both been away and busy too much lately..

Then theres WOW. God Damn WOW. Its all I do. I cant stop. About the only thing I can say is that I needed a break from Alliance so I went back to Horde to "play around a bit".
13 Warrior
23 Rogue
Transferred a 60 from Hellscream over to the new server
Ive joined up with a few friends to a great guild of folks. We swear, joke around and try to have fun swording with other jokers. Nothing serious. No overarching goals, no drama (in my limited view), no loot whoring. And Im having fun playing a rogue.. back to back same class alts have been bad for me in the past but this time is kinda cool. Im currently doing Combat w/ Daggers but as soon as I can get better weapons off the worst AH in the game (seriously - this server seems to just vendor all their greens! and then they want like a billion gold for a mediocre blue) I will probably switch.. unless I get a Meteor Shard out of SFK. But the rate at which I am levelling is kinda scary. Course, Im playing more than I should and work is suffering for it to a degree.

But all that - December is coming and my druid is still 44. I need to get her up to 60 and get some gear for the 60-70 march in January and beyond. So my rogue might be shelved or put on part time status while I spend more time focusing on my druid for a bit. Hell, I just need a bit of a push past where I am to get into the next range and start my climb again.. but alts getting to 60 arent a common occurance for me.. I'd like to fix that and finish both toons.. but that wont happen before BC. And since i already have a 60 on both servers Im playing on the pressure just isnt there to really drive me to complete a goal (another issue I have).

Today's useful tidbit will be a link - http://www.wow-loot.com/ - just click your class and it will show you what instance / quest gets you the nice items for your level. They might not be the "best" but damn its useful. Mitigates some of the search times thru Thottbot that I used to do trying to find what weapon is available and how to obtain it. Maybe this week I will cover Auctioneer finally. And possibly pimp this site out at a few of the podcast / wow sites.

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