NaNoWriMo Y4 D8: My fault I am behind. - WoW - Stories - NaNoWriMo - Games
Posted on: 2010-11-08 02:15:44

I had been planning to update a bunch on my NaNo progress, but I sidetracked myself. Just before NaNo kicked off, I started a post about all the dramatic changes Blizzard made to Holy Paladins in Warcraft. I got about half way through my post, got bored with it, saved it to draft, and never returned to it. I wanted to finish it before moving on, hence the lack of random word counts. I suck at updates anyways.

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Alt + F4 - WoW - Misc - Computer
Posted on: 2010-10-13 03:47:45

I had this fairly long post last night about my addiction to not doing anything, well, any thing significant. I talked about how I couldn't really blame a WoW addiction or internet addiction or TV, because I would always find something else useless but interesting to take my attention. Of course, while writing it, I was watching a podcast. When the podcast was over, I clicked the window, then hit Alt + F4 (my two favorite keys), but instead of it closing my media player (that is what Alt + F4 does, by the way, invokes the 'Close Application' function in Windows), it closed EVERY open window. The media player, my browser (with my post), and two file managers (or two instances of the same file manager if you want to be picky). I was annoyed, so I went to bed. I totally forgot about it until I just fired up the page to post about WoW, and noticed it wasn't there. Exciting, I know. It is so exciting, that I am not going to post about WoW now, I am just going to go to bed. Maybe I will talk about the cluster fuck that are patch days tomorrow.

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Yes. - Books - Stories - WoW - Misc - Work
Posted on: 2010-10-01 03:33:12

Yes, I have fallen behind in just about everything: the blog, the novels, my reading, the cleaning. But the bills are getting paid and I almost have another level 80 in WoW. In the last month or so, I have (re)discovered http://www.reddit.com/ and Irish whiskey (and Irish coffee), trained a couple of people at work, finished Little Brother and started Nineteen Eighty-Four. I finally threw out my old, worn, and rather disgusting Jinx AFK hat and purchased a couple of really plain hats off of the $2 clearance rack at Wal-Mart. And I have slept, at least once or twice. Speaking of sleep, I am gonna go do that now.

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In case you were curious... - Work - Computer - Annoyances - Games - Misc - WoW - Stories - Movies
Posted on: 2010-05-17 02:48:27

I am aware of the lack of posts. Oddly, it doesn't even stem from a lack of anything to post about, just nothing over exciting, or at least nothing I feel excited about to somehow stretch it out into a single post. Instead of hashing out the reason(s) I have just been wearily plodding on, just being content that I can, in fact, wearily plod on. So here is a sum up:

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WoW: Big Heal - Games - WoW
Posted on: 2010-02-18 13:13:08

I don't remember the last time I actually healed a fight on my Paly, I have mostly been focusing on my mage. But last night at work, I was obsessed with writing macros. Although it isn't anything special, this is the one I came up with:

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Twenty Ten One Twelve - Work - Computer - WoW - Stories - Family - Misc
Posted on: 2010-01-12 14:18:52

It is crazy that it has been two weeks since I posted last. It doesn't seem like that long, but a lot has happened since 12-27 (the 12-29 post was late due to a text to post error and my general lack of attention). My addiction to WoW was rekindled, the new year broke, Rook had another extended visit, I had a job interview (waiting on a call for the follow up this week, keep your finger crossed...and your toes...and children's toes...and anything else you can cross), the wife's grandfather passed away, I met a ton of the wife's relatives (most of which I had seen at least once before), and I have been heartily thinking about putting XP back on my computer instead of Win7 (at least until I get a faster proc and more ram...ie about two months after I find a job.) As far as the novel goes, I have poked around a bit, mostly seeing where I left off, and trying to find my voice again. I even have a few ideas for a possible fourth(?) novel in the series, and some expansions on the ideas I had for the third.

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WoW: 3.2 The "I'm Saved!" patch - WoW - Games - Annoyances
Posted on: 2009-08-18 18:42:43

Patch 3.2, dubbed Call of the Crusade, came out for wow a couple of weeks ago (Release Notes). From a holy paladin's point of view, it changed three things: reduced bonus intelligence by 5% dropping all of our int based stats, it halved our mana return critical heals, and it made our Beacon of Light misleadingly more effective. I am not going into details about any of these, I only brought them up because they changed some of the numbers I used for my WoW: Math Nerd post, but not really enough to invalidate the point of the post. Small updates to it would be MP5 isn't as much of a throwaway stat as it was, and while crit is important, don't bother gemming for it. What this patch has done, is made us better burst healers for areas where the party/raid takes a lot of damage, and hampered our staying power some. Not sure if the burst healing is worth losing the staying power when it comes to raids (where we still fill a single/dual target healing role), but for 5-mans the changes are very impressive.

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WoW: Math Nerd - Games - WoW
Posted on: 2009-07-23 15:01:29

I think I hit rock bottom. I broke out a spreadsheet and started doing math...WoW math. See, I am constantly going over my character. I hit forums, read guides, take recommendations, compare gear with other pallies, etc, all in a quest to be the best holy paladin I can be. Today, I decided to rock out some math to better understand the relationships between some stats, namely: Spirit, Intellect, and MP5 (Mana Per 5 seconds). It is widely held by the holy paladin community that Spirit and MP5 are throwaway stats and you should just stack Intellect until you can stack Intellect no more. Here are the basic equations that went into the spreadsheet (Keep in mind this is just for Holy Paladins with the relevant talents, it is a totally different world for other healing classes...and I don't understand any of them.):

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WoW: Imba nonsense. - WoW - Images - Games
Posted on: 2009-07-18 00:41:51

I try to keep my World of Warcraft posts to a minimum, which is why less than 5% of my posts include them even though about 150% of my time is devoted to it. I always figured that my audience wouldn't really want to read about it and, well, I am sort of embarrassed that I spend 150% of my time devoted to a game. But I am thinking that something, even posts about WoW, are better than nothing. So until one the fifty million applications I have sent out turns into a job, thus giving my something way more productive to do than play WoW to escape from a world that doesn't seem to want to employ me, expect more WoW posts.

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WoW: Introducing Eshne's Uglies - Games - WoW
Posted on: 2009-06-15 21:56:11

There were so many good titles for this pick but "I thought big shoulders went out in the 80's?" and "Thank God I am a healer because someone's eyes are getting poked out." were on the top of my list. This is my paladin, Eshne, and her new, ugly ugly shoulders. And sadly, they are some of the best in the game, so I won't get to retire them anytime soon. They are just so damn ugly I had to post about them.

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