Posts Tagged ‘ WoW ’
Hello! Well, there’s not too much dust on the old blog, but it has been a fair few weeks. I should update more simply because I don’t want to bore my wife or Rob with too much, and I do enjoy the ‘sound’ of my own words too much to not post!
Be warned, there’s a lot of waffle here! So much so I think I’ll have to insist you click to see more…
I read a fair lot of blogs and I do it through Google Reader (Or NetNewsWire when on my Macbook). It’s a fairly clean interface and I like it, but how hard would it be to add the ability to add comments directly from the reader? A huge number of blogs are powered by WordPress or are on services like Blogger with standard forms to fill out. Even if you need an account with the website to post it’d be nice to be able to tie it to your Google Account and then comment directly, and have the ability to load up others comments from Google Reader.
Yeah I can understand the counter arguments. Centralising everything to Google creates a monopoly, less visits to the actual websites means less revenue from ads etc. But still, it’d be cool. Perhaps make the feature optional? Commercial websites could make it a perk of being a paid subscriber? I don’t know.
In other news, I’ve got my MAC code from Virgin and going begging back to Zen Internet. I got pissed at Zen when I went over my limit and they charged extortionate amounts for additional bandwidth. After months of shitty pings and streaming video using Virgin I’d gladly pony up the extra £10 for top quality service. Despite the price, I always had a great connection with Zen and they have won multiple awards for it.
This should mean more time for WoW, rather than the roll a 6 system I’m going through. I don’t get huge amounts of free time (even less as the work from my OU course picks up soon) and when I do I like to play WoW. There’s nothing more annoying that logging on to see a ping between 1000-20000ms before being disconnected. I’m really enjoying playing my druid and I dinged 75 last night making this the highest character I’ve played. I’m about 500g off Epic Flight Form (despite having to wait to lvl77 and another 1k to use it in Northrend) and really enjoying the lore in Northrend. I’m looking forward once I hit 80 to taking my time to find read all the little interesting books and doing missed quests, fishing in Dalaran for coins and doing all the obscure achievements.
Warcrack indeed 
Two notable things for October. Firstly, the WoW addiction has really took hold. I love the game more than ever. Me and Rob started characters together in September, Tauren Druid for myself and Blood Elf Paladin for him. For quite a while Rob was ahead of me, but recently he’s taken a break so I’ve managed to soar ahead to lvl 72 while he’s at 65. This past week I’ve also joined a guild, Feel Good Inc. Seem like a nice bunch.
A little bit of druid love then. I love this class. You can do pretty much all the main play types with one character (with dual/re-spec anyway). Want to be a ranged DPS/mage? Normal or Moonkin form. A warrior/tank? Bear form. Rouge/melee DPS? Cat form. Healer? Tree form. Added to that the greatness that is instant cast travel, flight and aquatic form and you have what is pretty much the most versatile class in the game. I spend most of my time in Cat Form doing PvE, and have dual talent specced as a restoration druid that I use mostly in instances.
So the second notable thing, and of course the best, is the fact that Hannah can now walk! Nursery phoned one day to say Hannah was projectile vomiting and needed picking up. I was off work with the same illness so was the one that went to pick her up. When I got there they asked if she was walking at home, to which I said no of course. She had taken 6 unaided steps at nursery that day! Then at home she did it again, all the while being ill. As opposed to me who was a useless lump on the sofa most of the day. She usually walks for at least a little bit every day now and she’s building up confidence. It was brilliant that first time we saw her do it, both myself and Kat got very misty eyed when she did it! It’s amazing how proud you feel at each milestone they meet.
So that was October then. We’re now just a month away from Hannah’s 1st birthday which is unbelievable. That year has gone REALLY fast and she has changed so much. It’s been a fantastic year because of her, and the first of many.
I have just convinced my wife to try World of Warcraft! Even though I’m fairly sure she won’t enjoy it all that much, the prospect that she might is very exciting!
Through my own fault I did let my OU work drop off my radar for the first month after Hannah was born so I’m a wee bit behind. I only have the final question for M255 to finish and I’m up do date with that, but with M263 I have I think 4 books to read and an assignment to get done before the 2nd Feb. Ouch. This one will be a seat of my pants one I think and there shall be a fair lot of skim reading going on. I am not too bothered if my score drops on that one, the M255 one I’m confident of a good score. Once that’s over I’ll be caught up and I shall attempt to stay on target after that.
So due to all the work I’ve been doing recently I’ve had little play time. WoW is calling to me. My copy of WOTLK arrived today. My character is 68 now so I can technically go to Northrend but I remember going to Outland at 58 and not really being prepared enough. Not only that, but I have only experienced 3 zones from BC so far and feel I’d be missing out as the BC content so far has been quite enjoyable. Plus I need to get all that gold still for a flying mount and the training that goes with that. In aid of this I’ve decided to use my lvl 20 warrior Moonrock as a banking character. I’ve kitted him out in a nice looking cloth outfit and positioned him in the very quiet city of Exodar. I am trying my luck with Auctioneer, finding bargains and selling them on for profit. I shall see how that pans out, it’s another activity along with fishing that I can easily do while holding Hannah, or if I just need a quick break from work.
Website wise I’ve changed the theme. I like the background but it makes everything too dull. I do want to play with it as I like the layout of this theme. I’ve also added a Twitter sidebar. My Tweets have been updating my Facebook status, but the two don’t really mesh well grammatically. Facebook really is for your status, Twitter is a little more flexible. So I shall split the two. I’m sure nobody reads this website anyway, I don’t publish it really. I might start adding a link to it and a Twitter box in my signature on various forums.
Well I suppose I’d better get on with some work, it won’t do itself.
Oh before I go, I’d like to say Lost returns tomorrow night for a double bill.
There’s no other word for it really than *SQUEEEEEEEE!!!*
Ok been a fair while since the last update. In brief, notable events have been having the 18 week scan (which was amazing), Joanne is now also pregnant and I went to visit Rob last week where we were joined by Matt who I haven’t seen in about 3 years.
It would have been better if I’d gone and posted directly after said events to go into detail but never mind. I’m actually working on getting up a website for the baby related stuff. I’m playing about with coding it myself but if I can’t cobble something together myself by November I’ll either go for WordPress or (if it’s a boy) I’ll use iWeb. Yeah not everyone in the world will want to know about our kid but it’ll be an easy way for Kat’s family especially to keep up to date with what’s going on without needing a Facebook account. I’ll try and be sensible with privacy though.
Work wise it is the last week this week, YAAAAAY! Finish on Thursday. I’ll be a little bit sad as I’ll be saying goodbye to my form group. They’ll still be there, but I’ve got a Y7 form next year. On the one hand I’ll miss my current lot, but on the other they’re becoming a pain in the arse, have been since Christmas. They’re all getting their rush of hormones and it’s really changed them. Still love them though.
Got back into WoW recently. Today I’ve re-rolled because several SCM folk (under the guise of Velocity Gaming) have started up. It’s nice actually as I’ve known a few of these people for years via the SCM forum. Perhaps I’ll manage to get a character past lvl 42 this time!
Plans for the summer hols are basically to get the house ready for the baby. Within the first couple of weeks actually we expect to have decorated the nursery and at least bought a pram, if not the whole shebang.
Anyway, I should perhaps go to bed now.