Did you hear a tree fall in a deserted forest?

03.14.2010

After a week and a half you would think there was something noteworthy that happened in my life.

There's not.

That's ok, it's a side effect of low-stress. I liked low-stress.

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41.0

03.04.2010

Last year on my birthday I went shooting and killed paper target people. This year... I'm staying home!

I had all sorts of little ways I thought about celebrating today, as I'm taking today (and tomorrow) off from work. Originally I planned a little shopping day-trip to Nashville since I hadn't been for a visit for a while. I had also thought about running around Huntsville to possibly pick up some things that I could tag as birthday loot. I thought about all of that, but when it comes down to it, there's nothing in Nashville nor Huntsville that I really want to go and get/look at.

Gina says I'm hard to for, which is true since I tend to buy whatever it is I want for myself. I gave myself a good Christmas (which I think I may still be paying for) so there's not much out there that I really want, much less need. Since my last birthday I've gotten a new car, 2 new TVs, new bed, had Handyman Mike do some remodeling, new computer, new laptop - I didn't know I was going to make this list before I started typing, but looking at it there's no wonder there's nothing I need!

I started my birthday celebration at lunch on Tuesday when Jer and I went to the Newks and I partook in some pizza and chocolate cake. I seldom have cake, but I wanted a piece of birthday cake and Milner was nice enough to force Lindsay to bring me a piece. God bless my little the Newks family and how they take care of me. Wednesday I worked from home and watched a movie I had been looking forward to since its theatrical release: 2012. There are certain genres of movies I enjoy, and I loves me some good disaster flick! Chock full of unrealistic special effects that are just fun to watch.

Today has been low key. Fiddling with the computer, playing some random Warcraft when the internet is behaving, straightening up around the house. The perfect amount of excitement for me. I'm old and 41 now, after all. Tomorrow.. not sure what I really have planned for tomorrow yet. More than likely a Publix run for some asparagus at the very least. Yessir, I've got 41-year-old excitement NAILED!

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80

02.25.2010

Monday I mentioned my journey through Warcraft and how I was reaching the final level. Tonight, I finally made it.

I didn't know I was going to hit 80 when I started playing. Of course, I didn't know I was going to get wrapped up into it and play for 5 hours. About the time I was ready to quit I was only 8% away from level 80 - I think I was about 40% away when I started. So I decided to just kill and maim until I got the points needed.

So now I have a level 80 main. I've never wanted to do dungeon raids, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. If nothing else I'm going to keep raking it in at the Auction House!

More importantly, I need to slack off playing and get to work on MuchachoQuest!

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Old Attitude

02.23.2010

Sometimes I miss the good old days.

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WoW: 79.3

02.22.2010

Sometime last April I started playing World of Warcraft again. I had tried it out sometime in the previous year, but my character had stalled out around level 51 and I decided to take a break. It wasn't until the Lich King expansion came out and various people repeatedly trying to talk me back into playing that I finally gave in. I had 4 friends trying to get me to play, each on a different server. I started a warrior, the only thing I know how to play, on each server and, depending on who would play with me at any given time, I tried leveling.

Jason (there were 2 Jasons trying to get me to play, so that doesn't help... Work Jason!) on Antonidas hooked me up with some gold, some bags, and held my hand through some dungeons and low level quests. Before long, Antonidas became my server to play on and I forgot, ro maybe just ignored, the rest. After playing for at least 10 months, I'm nearing level 80 - the highest you can currently reach. I'm at level 79, just a whisper from that that goal.

Some people are all about leveling. Power leveling, get to the end game content and go do raids! I've played my main guy for over 500 hours over the past year. It's easy to see I'm not in a rush to reach the end. I was shocked to see I've actually spent that much time playing. But I enjoy playing, I enjoy questing. Heck, I've caught myself plenty of times just looking around at how the game is put together.

I do lots of low level quests that don't net me huge amounts of XP. Part of that is from enjoying questing. It's also because I hate to die. If you do easy quests, you don't die as much. There's no penalty for dying other than having to run back to your corpse, but I still dislike it. Right now I have another 70% of a level to complete to reach 80. The first thing I will probably do then is go back and do the really low level quests I skipped and see if I can fly through them!

I've been through some dungeons btu not many. Jason took me through some where he would kill everything with his 80 Death Knight and let me grab all the loot. I took Jerry through a lot that I could mainly solo and let him grab lots of loot. Last week he and I went through one where he had to help out now that he's leveling up higher and we're entering bigger dungeons. Jason also took me on my first 5-man raid last week. I didn't like it. I had no idea what I was doing and was afraid I was going to be screwing everybody else up. Unless I find 4 other people wanting to do a raid, I think I may just skip those.

As I near the end of leveling, I still enjoy the game. The economy has been a source of fun for both Jerry and I. We'll send each other texts of how much money we made in the Auction House overnight or over a really good weekend. Gathering items for auction (from mining and skinning) is still fun, too.

Ideally I'll start some other class once I reach 80. I've got a paladin leveled up to 20 that I've infrequently played. The problem is I seem to have a warrior mentality when I play. Rush forward > Smash > Kill > Continue while bad guys stand. It's different from how I see myself day-to-day where I [try] to methodically think things through. I've tried playing a Death Knight before, so I may give one of those another whirl. But all that is for later. First, I have to reach 80!

Sometime in the next week or two. Probably.

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