Level 12 Tauren Warrior

Exploring: Still in Mulgore

Accomplishments: Made it to Far Watch Post and Crossroads, but hearthstoned back to Mulgore to finish quests.  Made some pants, bracers, and an axe that he cannot use yet.

Goals:  Journey to the weapon master in Orgrimmar to learn how to use his axe.  Complete quests for the lazy people of Crossroads.

Dungeon Alert:  Wumpus is ready for Ragefire Chasm.

Wumpus is a Tauren Warrior on Wyrmrest Accord.

He is a blacksmith/miner and he is now level 11.

Exploring: Mulgore

His goals:  Make own pants, weapons, and other coverings out of metals dug from the ground.  Soon.

His accomplishments so far:  Near genocidal encounter with Quilboars in Mulgore.  Honored with Tauren.  First aid, cooking at apprentice level

Most hated enemy: Harpy
Most hated by: Harpies

Using: Two-Handed Mace

Motto: Eat more two-handed mace!

We are playing Arkham Horror right now, so I can't read this comic to see if it is good, but here is a Lovecraft webcomic:

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/vault316.html

Team Fortress 2 is $2.50 until 5pm EST today...  on Steam, I assume.

I want to get it!  I didn't want to get it again (I have it for X-Box 360) for $20, but I will pay $2.50.

Lisa, do you want me to get it for you too???

E and M, you guys still play this?  Plan to?

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=61061

Hey!  Thank you for replying, everyone! To my last post.  I have added some of your sites to my daily checklist and checked out most of the others.

Merlin is up and walking and making me let him out of the bathroom we've been keeping him in.

Technically he is about the same, except less tired, as he was when he got home.  I say this because he still wants to eat but can't figure out how to use his mouth to eat... he just licks the food and slobbers... and he is still drooling a lot... but it is nice to see him wanting to get up and explore instead of just sleeping all the time.

I think he'll be able to eat and therefore have his feeding tube removed.  It is encouraging that he is even interested.  I just hope he'll get better.

At work I have A Million things to do.  See how diligently I am working?  sigh.

Werewolf discussion and character creation tonight sounds fun, and I am excited, but logistically?  I hope it will work out so we don't have to wait until next week.  We still haven't packed for our trip yet.

Halo 3 multiplayers are CREEPY.

So I haven't posted in a long time.  I need to add some people to my friend's list.  I think John, Mallory, Emily...

I am not even sure who is ON my friend's list!  I will look and fix things.  Sorry about that everyone.

In order to post more... yay?... I am not going to think too much about my posts.  I used to overthink things before trying to post.  I am just going to ramble.

I am procrastinating making phone calls that I deem to be borderline ridiculous in premise.  I am calling people who wanted to be signed up for a class at the school I work at months ago that got cancelled then but now we have a class that is about to be cancelled and you know what... just nevermind.  It is a stupid thing to ask people and I don't want to do it.  If I can busy myself for 40 minutes, I can do it tomorrow.

Yay?

I need some new websites to check daily.

So far I have
Everything from Here to There
Non-Adventures of Wonderella (recently added)
Penny-Arcade
N4G
CNN
my e-mail

occasionally I check Metacritic and confirm suspicions
occasionally I check World of Warcraft to see if something changed to entice me to spend more time playing

Can anyone make any suggestions?  I specifically want something like N4G or CNN... something with daily news.  I sometimes check Science Daily, which used to be my homepage, but something felt depressing about seeing scientific breakthroughs every day but not hearing about them coming to any fruition.

So, suggestions??????????  I am soliciting YOUR comment.

the pisces
and the elephant
the goround
the nightshade

carefully we wreak
and toil
serf side

tasting dips in the sun
tithing in subsidence

mouth and madness
into that great scape

disaster shine across my hearth

found and drowned in oblivious reenactment

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killed froth
forgotten lengths
verity insured
depths absolute
taste felt
licking wounds

It's still cool that they used math and stuff to quantify it...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090728/sc_afp/sciencearmsoffbeat

Hi folks (L, M, E),

It looks like the time period we chose should be interesting.  Lots of things are going on with the Mandolorians, Sith, Republic, and Jedi.  Not all Jedi adhere to the Council's wishes in this time period.  Some have aligned themselves with the Bounty Hunters Guild and others are doing their own thing.  Beyond that, smuggling, piracy, and mercenaries are common, as are Jedi, Sith, bounty hunters, droids, explorers, colonists, and so on.  Almost anything you can think of should be possible regarding stance in the universe politically and your character's past and occupation.

Mallory, when you get the forums set up, please send me a link and instructions for Lisa and I to join w/posting rights.

E, M, I started researching the races you preliminarily chose for the game and I am happy to report both homeworlds and races are possible and active during the time period we chose. 

L, as you know already, we are continuing to investigate droid character progressions regarding game mechanics, but a fun droid storyline would be easy to create during this time period.

Links for info on races, just for convenience, not because I don't think you could find it yourselves...

Zabrak
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zabrak

Bothan
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bothan

That's it for now,
W

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090722/sc_livescience/strangehumansglowinvisiblelight

The article and the study really doesn't seem to think this is a big deal beyond a "huh, who knew?" attitude, but I think this is pretty significant.

This is a really big deal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131449.htm

I will post my review thoughts of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince later today.  Everyone be excited!

I was reading reviews of 1 vs. 100 Live Beta and I found this short video from inside the studio during a live show.  Kind of neat if you like the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvSSq5EXSfg&feature=player_embedded

I know I Know, this is horrible... the two people who read this sometimes that might care about it have both quit WoW and I am just being an ass posting about it.... but I can't help it!  It is exciting!

Taken from WoW.com:

"Battlegrounds will be more casual friendly: I am very excited about the BG changes that are coming up. I used to love Warsong Gulch when people actually played it. When it has a 20 minute time limit and allows for ties, I'll be back with bells on. Arathi Basin and and Eye of the Storm both require fewer points to win and less time to take over flags, so those will be quicker and probably more fun. The biggest news, however, is that completing objectives (capturing flags, winning the game) will give experience. This means that if battlegrounds are your thing, you could level up completely doing nothing but PvP. Note: Killing players will still not give XP. Also, twinks can turn off XP so they won't level, but that means they will only be playing against other twinks. In other words, your level 12 in whites and maybe a green or two will no longer have to contend with ubergeared/enchanted perpetually level 19 WSG professionals."

BGs can grant experience now??????????????????????????

Finally!  A great reason for me to return to the game.  I can quest OR pvp and still advance my character.  PvP always felt like it was a distraction, but now it is part of the character's progression!

The only punchline I could think of for this masterpiece of spam is the subject, which is at the bottom...

"time for a new spring look...
cate was so happy she began yelling "let's give a hand to springtime!
she's amazing.

4. i don't worry about a little "creative clutter" in cate's room. i say, a good
dress up/ barbie mess day better than watching tv all afternoon, right? pretty soon
i will just put my 'kerchief on again and go to town. (yes, that is what cate's room
looks like again, just over a month after the big clean. i tell you, i'm fighting a
losing battle with that girl). does that answer your question, mary? i hope it
helps! wink.
really, cate is also mexican, japanese, native american, swiss, and a lot more- a
true american- so we actually have a lot of family history travelling to do, but i
really love the romantic beauty of ireland, and have always been drawn to that part
of the world. plus i really love corned beef.

and you eat with your sunglasses on
i love the comments i get from all of you.

have you seen april's ms living yet? sax
i found that amazing old shirt (we're big fans) at the thrift store for $1 and it's
so soft.

Coco
may you always have courage to take a chance and never find frogs in your underpants.

i am going to turn on some good music and choose to be happy.
i am blocking my two latest projects today and will show them tomorrow.

wooohoooo!"
it's definitely worth the long drive,

and you are happy.
she'll be here friday and saturday april 3rd and 4th, and she'll be taking
appointments for all day/ night both days at my house.

(i hate in quilting and knitting and sewing when the designs get all fancy just
because they can).
my homekeeping secrets

(so is corned beef if you've never tried it).
in a tiny town in idaho

my happy plans for this evening include knitting and watching two favorite movies:
far and away followed by tristan and isolde.
1. in the craft room i throw everything on the homework table. that clears up the
floor for more mess craft making.

i told cate about st. patrick's day and ireland- she has a lot of irish ancestors
through me.
with the sun streaming in

back in a few days
may the light always find you on a dreary day."

SUBJECT of the E-mail: "Herpes will never play tricks with you"

I thought this was pretty funny.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/7/23/

Also they have a new pokemon comic up today.

Alright, so if you made it through the first ramble, hopefully this won't be as long.

( Second reason... ) The removal of personal guilt has helped me a lot.