Okay, so yeah… almost a month let’s see if I can remember all the little things I kept thinking I’d blog, but then never got around to doing.
So where we last left off, our Karazhan group had just beaten the Maiden of Virtue. We’ve gone strong since then, since then beating the Wizard of Oz opera event the first time we tried, the Big Bad Wolf on our second week, the Curator, and have currently tried Illhoof and Shade of Aran once each and not succeeded yet. (And of course, Chess loot.) I’ve received a few more epics, and almost reached Revered with Violet Eye. I’ve also got 4 of my 5 heroic keys and just a bit short on the last one, and we’re starting to run those.
In FFXI I spent my first merit points in a long time, I’ve finally got Burst II. It seems like the group I was doing assaults with on Mondays and Fridays just sort of fell apart, as half of them are just not on when I am anymore…
I’ve been playing Twilight Princess again, man is that game good.
I bought Yoshi’s Island DS, and it’s bugging me, as they redid almost all of the graphics and sounds from the original — a game which is very near the top of my best games of all time list — so everything seems a bit off to me.
My contract is nearing an end, and the wheels are in motion for the next step. At the advice of my long-time coworker who is now a recruiter for Yahoo!, I reworked my resume significantly, and have started looking at other positions within Yahoo!, as well as another option which I probably shouldn’t talk about yet. Our department also moved recently, into a new building across the street from the old, right up against Great America. We’re on the second floor, which, because of the sloping design of the building, is the largest. I’m pretty much in the middle of one of the largest expanses of cubicles (mostly empty) that I’ve ever seen in a Yahoo! building. In fact, I get a vibe of the old building at 3400, the first one I ever worked in, and the second-largest expanse of pure cubicleness I’ve seen. This vibe is further enforced by the pitifully small mini-cafeteria we have here.
I’ve been seriously thinking this may be the last year I staff most anime conventions. I say “most” because I’ll still likely do AOD no matter what, but Fanime, Anime Expo, etc. are starting to feel more like a chore and less enjoyable. I used to go to conventions to see people, and now most of the people I’m going to see are working in the same department as me and I can just as easily stay at home and get my three day weekends back.
I suppose that’s about all I can remember for now.
Amen to the con staffing feeling like a chore part…
But you know, con time (AX for me) is pretty much the only place where it’s almost guaranteed that most of the current/former CAA crew will be together at a single geographical location. And that’s got to have it merits somehow, right? Right?
dude, all i gotta say is: Squid stick.
I’m absolutely useless for most things, but if you want to sit and talk shop about wow and druids or fight encounters, give me a yell and i’ll tell ya anything ya wanna know.
and just in case you didn’t have them, http://druid.wikispaces.com/ and especially http://www.gurgleblaster.net/emmerald/Bear_Mitigation/Head.html Such great resources. Unless you’re a boomchicken or treemo, then noone likes you.
Yes, squid stick. It will be mine.
And I am indeed feral, and I’ve been living off of that gurgleblaster link for a while now. It makes me sad when I look at some of the cat pages and thing of all the quest rewards that I didn’t choose because they looked innocently subpar when they showed up so I didn’t choose them and now I have to live with something else knowing I screwed up.
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uldum&n=Werehamster if you’re curious. I logged out in my solo/dps gear (which one of my more schizophrenic sets, purples and greens) , and I’m going to be tweaking my talents a bit tonight (Improved MotW will become Intensity and… well I haven’t decided the last bit yet).
It’s a great spec, as is. The only thing i’d change for my own personal uses would be the one point from nurturing instinct into nature’s grasp, and intensity to natural shapeshifter. Grasp is pvp oriented, and instinct will only boost about 300hp if you use ht. Shapeshifter’s kinda oriented that way too, since you can shift in and out to abuse furor for rage, energy, or just getting out of snares. It’s also useful when doing instances if you’re pulling fast but need quick rage in between. Other than that, very solid, i like.
As for the quest rewards, i ended up taking all the tanking items myself. Granted, i’m not a feral normally, but i knew those items would probably be the best i’d get for a long time. kinda got lucky in that aspect.
I seriously can’t STAND baby Peach’s crying in Yoshi’s island DS, I’ve totally cussed her out and purposely let her get captured so much!! It’s nice to have the option to exchange for the other baby characters…
My friend who’s staffing AX this year feels the same. I only wish she’d have donated her comp tix to me as a poor newlywed! I don’t think she’ll be doing it too much longer either for the same reason.
I’m really grumpy about this year’s AX because it doesn’t include July 4th at all. That means it is all vacation days for me. I’d just ditch it if I weren’t with people I liked.