galilae

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:24:16 GMT

Long time no update....

So, the big thing going on is mostly kara. Had about a two week spell where people weren't showing up and trying to proceed with 2 healers and four tanks kinda thing. Then we get a good group setup, and one of our warriors goes afk for 45 minutes. We tried to kick him out of the group, but it didn't remove him from the instance. Talked to a gm who said that if they are saved to our instance, there is no reason that we should remove them. The nice thing was the next day, this retard didn't even apologize. We asked what happened and after 10 mins he was like oh, my power went out. I said that usually when that happens you get dced, but apparently he had a battery on his computer that kept him in game... yeah, whatever. So he hasn't been invited back.

Scott (Aquinon) switched his pimped out pally over to Cenarion Circle and started running kara with us. Before I started, they were stuck on Curator and now we are downing Prince, so I'm pretty happy. Have gotten some nice loot and been working on my alts.

Three tests this week, one test last week, presentation next week. Meanwhile, Jason is at home sitting on his ass. He quit his job almost two months ago and has yet to find a replacement. Called off the wedding until he learns responsibility.

PATCH DAY

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:57:26 GMT

Woot! 30 minute blessings!!!

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:45:34 GMT

Heroic Durnholde.... not good. We wiped 4 times in the first twenty minutes of the place. Seriously, not good.

Working on random heroics and Honor Hold rep. Spending several hours a day (when I should be at work) doing fucking dailies. But, my mount is paid off so yay me! Went to Ramparts and BF yesterday on Kori. Nothing too exciting until we get to our second BF loot run. Burniate was on his baby shaman and had a guildie come tank. Level 70 tankadin with okay gear... well, we are doing the whole instance with no CC until we get to the demon part. There are a bunch of imps and a warlock, pally goes in and is tanking, but a couple of the imps go after the healer. I banish one. He messages me something to the extent of "WTF, I can tank multiple mobs, stop banishing because I'm not waiting for it." Fine... whatever. Keep them off the healer and I won't banish. We get to groups of two felguards and a warlock. Anyways, I don't banish. Then in party chat he was like you know, you CAN banish. Jackass. So we get to the next group of two felguards and a warlock. By the way, these are like level 61 felguards and he is a 70 paladin. My fucking healadin could tank two damned felguards. Anyways, he said to enslave one, banish one. Except enslave demon kept breaking after about 30 seconds, kills the healer while I'm reenslaving at the same time the banish comes out which kills me. Yeah. Anyways, class time.

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:56:44 GMT

Galilae -- 70 -- Human Mage
Senika -- 70 -- Blood Elf Paladin
Koriea -- 64 -- Gnome Warlock

Played Kori for the first time in a very, very long while today. Got her a level, ran a couple instances, etc. Both guilds did Kara tonight, but I'm not attuned yet on Senika and there were 4 mages online in Dark Mercy. I'm very slowly paying Nesari back. Only 400 more gold to go.

I had a random thought today. You know what my most thoughtful/meaningful birthday present was last year? An Ony cloak with +15 FR on it from Burniate. It's strange how you can be really good friends for such a long time with someone you have never met. Anyways, it's midnight and I'm getting old and my eyes are blurring so bad I can't see, so I guess off to bed to do it all over tomorrow.

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:35:23 GMT

Logged on to check my auctions this morning, and Galilae was invited to join Dark Mercy. They have about 30 or so level 70s and are raiding Kara and doing hard-core heavy heroics. Basically, I joined because there are a few people from my Second Dawn days in the guild who remembered Nesari and myself, so it's someone to talk to.

In response to Aless... Yeah, basically I did the same thing. I have a huge list of all the healadin gear I want, I just haven't had a chance to go get it yet. Most of my gear is from pre-70 questing and off that, all the good stuff is tankadin gear. I've only done two or three instances as a healer.

Anyways, cume tonight and lots of homework and grading due tomorrow.

To Burniate, I was going to call you, but I don't think I ever actually transferred your number into the phone so...

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:08:43 GMT

Got Senika to 70. Hordeside, joined a guild that's running Kara so I need to get her keyed. It's somewhat fucked up that Galilae is in the best gear (for the most part) pre-Kara, but she can't get a Kara group to save her life. Now, I pug on Senika and get a ginvite.

Galilae has a couple applications in alliance side, but nobody seems to want her much. So, I guess if after a week or two I can't find someone to do at least 5 mans with, I'll make Seni my main. Oh, I also spent the money to get Gal's epic flyer, so if I don't play her anymore, I'm gonna be pissed.

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:26:19 GMT

Burniate pwned Kael'thas in the face last night. Neatness.

I've been working from 7 in the morning until 8 or 9 at night for the past week or two, so I haven't had much time to play lately. The pally is 68 now, and Galilae is about 1000g from her epic flying. She only gets played two hours a week or so, so that 1K could take a while.

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:01:28 GMT

Galilae -- 70 Human Mage
Senika -- 65 Blood Elf Paladin
Koriea -- 63 Gnome Warlock

Senika got her mount last night. Booyah!

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:28:16 GMT

Played WoW for the first time in weeks yesterday. I have been waiting on my mount until Grok has enough money for his epic, but he's almost there so I spent about 5 hours sitting in the city looking for help. All I have to do is two bosses in UD Strat and then summon a pally dude and kill him and his friends. Everything I read said it's really easy, but even with me at 64 and Grok at 63 we would need at least one other person. We aren't exactly all-out dps.

I HATE having my pally horde-side (or my mage ally-side). It is like leveling my first character with no help and not knowing anybody. And with Azeroth instances a thing of the past, well...

I suppose I can wait until Grok and I are 70 and two-man it.

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:35:59 GMT

Kaelin's first day of first grade today. Her best friend, Drew, is in her class this year and was looking all spiffy this morning. His mom spiked his hair and he looked like he was outgrowing some of his chubbiness. Tons of kids and parents crying, but Kaelin is an old pro and wouldn't even kiss me.

The school called at 2:30, though. Apparently she had pooped all down the side of her pants. It was even on her shoes too. What a way to start the year.

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:04:28 GMT

Kaelin's birthday today!

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:27:33 GMT

Haven't been playing much due to personal crap. Grok did hit 60 and we have ventured to Outland but only played for a few hours before I got pissed and logged. Anyways...

Galilae - 70 Human Mage (Cenarion Circle)
Koreia - 63 Gnome Warlock (Cenarion Circle)
Jenipher - 62 Blood Elf Paladin (Thorium Brotherhood)
Jagerkuh - 60 Tauren Hunter (Firetree)
Rahbekkah - 34 Draenai Priest (Thorium Brotherhood)
Kaet - 26 Human Rogue (Cenarion Circle)
Embry - 24 Dwarf Warrior (Thorium Brotherhood)

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:13:33 GMT

Didn't play a lot this weekend. We went to see Harry Potter on Sunday. Great movie, but I was a little disappointed that the trailers didn't show how blood/gore it would be compared to the other movies. Kaelin was okay for the most part, but about half the kids were crying and had left by the end. Anyways, after having the ending of the 5th and 6th books ruined for me, I went out and bought them. Planning on starting book 3 this week after I finish Dracula.

I got so pissed off this morning. Anyone who knows me knows what kind of Simpson's freak I am. Obviously, I can't take Kaelin to the midnight showing, but I promised that we would see it on our usual movie day, Sunday. But Jason got upset when I asked if he could watch Kaelin Thursday night so I could go see the first showing. First, it's at fucking midnight, and we are never awake after 11 on a weeknight. I could just get up and leave and he would never notice. Secondly, I should be allowed to have my own life and events that don't involve him. I can't play WoW unless he plays with me. I can't go out to lunch with anyone unless he goes. If I want to read alone in the bedroom, he gets irritated. I can put in a chick flick or turn on some reality tv show that he hates, but he has to watch tv with me. I mean, it's not like he prohibits it. He just gets this sad, puppy face when I try to do anything on my own. Yet, he complains that he never has time to write or do anything he wants to do.

I'm still not over the whole thing from a few weeks ago. I told him I'm going to need some time, and he says he's ok with that, but then he gets all bitchy with me. Oh well.

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:48:37 GMT

Great BRD run last night. Now, I just need to go back and save the princess.

Made 60 last night. Did the first few parts of the quest, but now, I'm lacking about 75g or so. A day of questing and possibly LBRS awaits so hopefully, I can make what I need.

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:15:13 GMT

ST last night. Full clear. Finished up the remaining quests I had there.

Tonight, planning on BRD.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:30:15 GMT

Got Jenipher to 59 last night. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I had no less than 6 people message me, "Why aren't you in Outland?" Because it really matters to them. First, Grokthol is too low to go through the portal and we spent a good part of the weekend trying to get him a port or summons which never happened. So, when he hits 58, we may go to Outland. Secondly, I fucking hate Hellfire. I have leveled two characters there and it's not very fun. When I leveled Galilae, it was so crowded you couldn't do quests because there weren't enough mobs to kill. It was still pretty packed when I took Galae through. Whereas, there is nobody in the Plaguelands or Winterspring. Lastly, I want to finish the quests in Azeroth. They give experience and money. Galilae hasn't even started questing in Shadowmoon yet and almost has enough for her epic flying from questing alone. Whereas most of my guild claim that they have done all the quests in Outland and have 400g. Of course, these are the people who haven't quested in most of the upper level zones in Azeroth. I plan on hitting 70 before I ever make it to Netherstorm.

Anyways, I hope to get her to 60 either tonight or tomorrow. Planning on ST tonight with Grok. If we can find a group, we will do a full run, otherwise just the bottom statue thing. And I still have a butt-ton of quests for BRD. So, tomorrow night we will head there. Then we still have all the quests for LBRS (which doesn't exist to Galilae) and UBRS. Plus Scholo and Strat. Add DM into that and Jen can easily hit 62 before she ever goes to Hellfire. Galilae never did any Outland instances (aside from Ramparts) until she hit 70. I now know the best ways to do the instances and quests for the maximum amount of rep, so I should be able to get all my keys when I hit 70.

So Bored at Work

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:35:29 GMT

I know that I keep posting today, but I am really, really, really bored with nothing to do at work. Eventually, you read all the literature that pertains in any way to your research and just have to wait for the optics company to get off their ass and fix your fiber.

It became apparent today that RL friends are reading this journal so I went back through and did some selective editing after the fact. I know that posting anything on the internet makes it fair game, but it was a comfort to know that I could write anything and it would only be read by strangers (and by strangers, I mean game friends...). I actually have four blogs. One for WoW, one for my running, one for my ED, and one that is just random every day personal crap. WoW is the only one I upgrade more than once a week though, so it tends to get pieces of my personal life injected into it. I suppose that I could make my journal private, or friends only, but I like talking to the random trolls who come across my page.

So, I don't know.

Kaelin's party is less than three weeks away and we haven't invited anyone yet. I can't find her class directory, so I don't have numbers, addresses, or last names of any of her friends. She still has like another month before she goes back to school too. She's pretty upset since Margaret and Mary Jo will be going to public school in the fall. At least she still has Drew. Drew cracks me up. They are such dorks together. Drew is what I imagine Jason was like as a kid. At their school fair, he ran up to me and said, "Dragons are real!" and ran off. Then the next week we ran into him at the Play McDonald's and they holed up in the corner with Drew being a dragon and Kaelin being a sorceress sent to slay him. I imagine him coming over to play, then Jason, Kaelin, and Drew playing D&D at the kitchen table.

I meet with Father Mick next week to talk about the annulment. The paperwork is all filled out and I'm just waiting on Brandon to get back from deployment. After he gets back and signs the papers, it should only take a month or two for everything to be final. ABOUT TIME!!! The annulment; however, could take up to 18 months or it could not be approved at all. We set our date with hopes that the annulment would be complete by then. Hopefully, Fr. Mick will tell us that it should only take a few months to get everything settled and we can move up the wedding date. I am ready to get married and ready to have more kids. The Church frowns on doing the latter before you are married. Or, since I am technically married, doing to the latter with someone to whom you aren't married.

To you warlocks

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:51:48 GMT

Felguards can cleave. This means attacking his target and another mob nearby. A felguard can aggro a yellow mob by cleaving it. And if that yellow mob is aggroed, other mobs linked to it will aggro. For instance, the scarabs in ZF or the Grim Patrons in BRD.

Learn to play your class or shut up.

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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:21:46 GMT

So, I found a rock radio station in Berlin and by rock, I mean 80's hair bands... but the funniest thing:

About every thirty minutes or so they have a news segment or something. My German is sucky at best, but LMAO... they are talking about Davif Hasselhoff. OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! That makes three times in four hours of listening to this. HILARIOUS!!!

Anyways, I'm wondering about Burn. I haven't seen him log on in a very long time, not that I play Gal all that much, but still. He hasn't updated his blog in months and hasn't called me in weeks. If I had the slightest idea where my phone was, I would check up on him. I really, really need to make the time to go to Seattle to see him.

Dog has private training tonight until about 9 and I have the urge to watch Advent Children after that. I have my stupid therapy group at 6, and I have a polarization modulator to pick up and test sometime after 4. So, no WoW again tonight. =(

Looking at my profile picture makes me laugh now. I was wearing a mix of ZG, MC, and BWL loot. I think I was sitting at +500 spell damage or something like that. Prior to Naxx, you couldn't beat that.

Radical idea, but I think you should have to stay at level 60 for at least a month before you can continue leveling. Long story.

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:04:09 GMT

Didn't play yesterday, but while at work, trolled the thorpact forums...

LOL

So, Stag is the new raid leader which is OK. But, they have had at most 23 people vote in any polls about what to do next. Seriously, at this point, I would call it. But rather....

He wants to go to Naxx. LMAO!!!! Seriously, this is the group that at level 70 with 30 people couldn't get past the first boss in BWL. So, Naxx? Yeah right. Even with 40 level 70's it's not going to happen. At least not without months and months of work. Not like they have 40 people, but still...

Anyways, seeing as how my one friend horde side isn't talking to me anymore, I think I'm going to transfer Jenipher to CC this weekend.

Also, since I have had emails about it... I'm fine. Things with Jason are strained but I'm working on it.

One more side note: German radio sucks! When I went to Germany a couple summers ago, all I heard was Hoobastank and Backstreet Boys. Listening to a couple of Munich stations online today and it seems that they are about two years behind American music. I didn't want to listen to fucking Jack Johnson two years ago, and I don't want to listen to him now. >.<

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:15:50 GMT

Took Galilae into BRD and pwned the place just to feel better.

Got Jenipher to 58 last night. 18 levels in 16 days... not too bad. And that isn't even playing every night. My goal is to get her to 60 by this weekend. Starting collecting the mats for her mount quest. I'm 100g and a pristine black diamond short right now. The diamond scares me since I have seen it go for as little as 80s and as much as 400g. The BE quest is much easier than the alliance's. The only instance I have to do is Strat, so hopefully, I will be able to find a run for it this weekend... seeing as how Jeff still isn't talking to me.

Have to figure out what to do with Galilae. I want her and Jenipher to be on the same server, but not sure whether to transfer Gal back to TB or to transfer Jen to CC. TB is a shitty server. You practically can't find a pug ever and the lag times are terrible. I thought it was my internet, but I play fine on CC. Scott also doesn't play his rogue that he transferred to TB since it lags so bad. I can't transfer Gal until August 16 though. I hate having horde/alliance characters. I honestly wish I had rolled Galilae as undead.

Need an ST and BRD run bad. Not sure it's going to happen this week though. Karate and private dog training takes up a lot of time.

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:02:15 GMT

Bad fucking night. Planned on BRD and ST last night since I had 9 quests for the former and 2 for the latter. Jeff loves BRD...offered to take us. Try to finish the group, but all we found was a rogue. So, we had

66 Warlock with felguard
57 Rogue
55 Paladin
53 Shaman

I don't know, but I guess since Jeff was used to farming the instance by himself, he kept pulling shit... and lots of shit. I think we died 3 times or so before the first boss. And lots more afterwards. The rogue was like, I'm outta here and left. But we continued. Went to the bar and while killing Ribbly, the felguard started attacking the patrons. So we had 10 or 15 mobs on us. Granted, most weren't elite, but that's still a lot of shit running around. We live... barely, and I want to kill Phlanx for some tanking gear. But Jeff had already talked to the chick and she opened the door and he pulled the first group while Jason and I were still doing stuff in the bar.

I made a comment to the extent of not fucking pulling fucking stuff until we were all fucking ready. So we run back from the graveyard, Jeff getting inside first. Jason and I finally make it to the bar; we don't have buffs or mana, and Jeff pulls a group of 4 dudes and an elemental. Took me about twenty seconds to die for the tenth time of the night, so I log. Needless to say, he's not talking to me.

I appreciate that he was trying to help us, but chances are, he was drunk as usual and we wasted the better part of the night.

Anyways, I log back on and decide to try again. We find a full group, proceed at a snail's pace, die because Jason doesn't know how to lead a group, healer quits. We look for another healer, can't find one and we all go on our way. Twenty minutes later, find a priest, go back die repeatedly again. At one point, my mouse stopped working before a pull. I tell Jason, he doesn't feel the need to tell them that I am laying under my desk trying to fix it. Wipe. My hunter friend had to leave so we did a full more pulls and called it.

Anyways, about 10 hours of play last night for 6 bars of experience and three quests completed.

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:27:41 GMT

So first off: the personal life...

Jason's student loan payments are starting this month and we needed to set up an online debit for it. But, I needed his pin which he didn't remember. I have it sent to his email and go on to check it... with him right next to me in the room. Keep in mind I have had his email password for almost a year and he's never had a problem with me logging on to check for important stuff.

Anyways, log on and no pin. But he does have 837 new messages, mostly spam. So I tell him I'm cleaning out his inbox. Still no problem. Most spam is pretty obvious. You know, grow a bigger penis, meet hot women, and crap like that. Delete. Most of the important stuff is pretty obvious. Emails from his mom, friends etc. Keep those. But then, there are emails that don't look like spam but aren't from anyone I recognize. So, I open them to make sure I don't delete anything from long lost half-brothers he never new about.

To my almost non-surprise, I find lots of emails from girls. Girls I have never heard about. Very interesting emails. But fine, whatever. They are from before he knew me. I'm just curious about why I've never heard about these people. Yeah, yeah, you don't ask about it. But every time I ask him how many people he has slept with the number changes. He claims two. But then he says, well, maybe three. I don't remember. No, it was two. Well, there was that one night.

But again, it was before me. So I don't ask him about them. I don't ask why he hasn't deleted them. I don't ask who they are. But it bothers me. He notices and asks what's wrong. I say the obligatory nothing. He gets mad so I tell him. He gets mad that I was "snooping" through his email. He was right there and I told him I was reading it. We fight, and I sleep in the kid's room.

The next day we still aren't talking. I'm so pissed off at this point, I go back to his email opening everything. Obviously, he's hiding something if he got so mad, right? Well, from aerodacky@aol.com I find quite a few pussy shots. Spread out on her bed, fingers holding herself open. I call him at work and it turns out to be Ashley. Ashley. Fucking Ashley. Let me explain about Ashley. I went to Kentucky to visit Jason last year. I'm sitting at his computer when she IMs him. Let's just say she wanted to cyber. He's never slept with her, but they had phone sex and cyber for about two years. He was dating me and still cybering with her. He promised that he wasn't, but it was completely obvious. He says he's going to tell her to leave him alone and stop calling and crap.

A month later, he's living with me for the summer. I get out of the shower and surprise, surprise, he's talking to her on AIM. After he says he's having nothing to do with her. Yeah. Maybe it was overreacting, but I was pissed. I told him I was done. He swore he would never talk to her again. (He even deleted his livejournal account because he was very explicit about her in it.)

I don't think about her again.

Until this picture. Turns out she had called him a few times and kept messaging him on AIM. Whether he ever told her to stop, I don't know. He says she's crazy and he didn't want her to send him naked pictures. Yeah. Why wouldn't he have deleted them? Is he lying to cover his ass?

Anyways, he breaks up with me on my voicemail. Then he asks for my ring back. Starts packing and says he's going back to Kentucky. Doesn't give a shit about Kaelin or the dog. Flips my mattress across the room. I go to the bathroom and throw up. Then I start with my good, good friend Jose. I came up with my elaborate plan to ruin the whore's life by sending the picture to everyone she knows and posting it online with her phone number. Jason says he can't remember her last name though. Don't know if I believe it or not. But I really want to send the pictures to her Grandma. And her boss.

***

A few days later he proposes again. We went outside and watched fireworks with Kaelin. It would have been really romantic...had he asked me then. Instead, we came back in, logged on to WoW and he asked me from across the room.

And on to Wow. I made it a month without logging on. A month. Still haven't played Galilae or Koreia. But I got a few levels on my priest and then switched over to my paladin. Surprise! Jeff logged on. I had no idea he even still played. I hadn't talked to him in over a month either, so...

Questing like crazy, lots of ZF runs, etc. Nothing special. Just trying to level her. Made 12 levels last week during my vacation. Since I'm back at work, and I really don't want to devote my life to WoW again, I'm thinking two or three levels a week on her. No desire to raid so there's not a rush to get her up.

Anyways, the lab mates keep looking at me since I'm obviously not working on my programming. Fun stuff!

Galilae - 70 Human Mage (Cenarion Circle)
Koreia - 63 Gnome Warlock (Cenarion Circle)
Jagerkuh - 60 Tauren Hunter (Firetree)
Jenipher - 52 Blood Elf Paladin (Thorium Brotherhood)
Rahbekkah - 34 Draenai Priest (Thorium Brotherhood)
Kaet - 26 Human Rogue (Cenarion Circle)
Embry - 24 Dwarf Warrior (Thorium Brotherhood)

One more...

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:00:06 GMT

Finally someone with some fucking sense...

Dr. Michael Brody, head of a TV and media committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, agreed. He praised the AMA council for bringing attention to the problem, but said excessive video-game playing could be a symptom for other things, such as depression or social anxieties that already have their own diagnoses.

“You could make lots of behavioral things into addictions. Why stop at video gaming?” Brody asked. Why not Blackberries, cell phones, or other irritating habits, he said.

Seriously... crack is addictive. People rob and kill to get money for crack. I don't see people doing that if they can't log onto a game. Sure it sucks to not play, but still. There were days when I would play 18 hours (I even logged 27 straight once), but I still manage to eat and shower. Fuckers.

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:53:03 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827/wid/11915829?GT1=10056

Joyce Protopapas of Frisco, Texas, said her 17-year-old son, Michael, was a video addict. Over nearly two years, video and Internet games transformed him from an outgoing, academically gifted teen into a reclusive manipulator who flunked two 10th grade classes and spent several hours day and night playing a popular online video game called World of Warcraft.

In a February posting, a 13-year-old identified only as Ian told of playing video games for nearly 12 hours straight, said he felt suicidal and wondered if he was addicted.

My opinion here, but fuck that. If you are under 18, you can limit your kid's time on WoW. Blizzard has that option under account settings. These parents not taking care of their kids make everyone else look bad.

galilae

PATCH DAY

So Bored at Work

To you warlocks

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