I poop gold coins

I poop gold coins in WoW. Yes, I do. That ‘poop’ is my work I do in the game– it’s the auction house with “Pinkney” working the trade floors, posting the most sought after and obscure items in the game. It’s farming. Farming and more farming to shit gold coins. I’ve said before I don’t usually buy items from the AH as prices tend to be inflated, especially on this server. However, this weekend I contributed to the spreading of wealth (Obama – praise the Lord- would be proud) by spending around 1200 gold on various mats, gems, enchants all for Wootbeer. She is officially over the 540 cap (543) with the following gear on the ARMORY.  I now have the Titan Shield Wall, Armor Plated Combat Shotgun, Red Sword of Courage which I was able to get after my first try. She still needs a Chest Piece, trinkets & rings plus waist gear but all in all for being less than 2 weeks old I’m a proud Papa!

The Old School guild was alive and kicking yesterday with over 8 people online at once??!  WTF Jim!??!  Colleen came back, Estrazil hit 80, Pathe was having fun, Sokym was getting some time in before the Overlord kicked in, Fredler was “…”- very cool seeing some regulars playing with the TOS tag.

Many already know of the expansion for WoW announced at BLIZZCON this weekend-“.  2 new races- Worgen for Alliance, Goblins for Horde plus new 85 level cap and Profession: Archeologist. For me that’s all fine and dandy but I’m excited about being able to FLY in Azeroth. I’ve always ‘flown past’ areas I wanted to explore but couldn’t. =D

Tank You

I’m almost at the level of being able to tank heroics. I have the Titan Shield, Helm, Cape, Necklace. I’d post the Armory link except it’s listed with me in my shitty DPS gear. Murder has been berry berry good to me with Heroics and allowing me to ride the coat tails of their 3500-4000 avg. dps groups. They have also helped with the created gear. It’s awfully weird not being the GM of a guild though and I mean that in the most nicest way too, I don’t have to cater to people, help them with a guildy talking down to them incessantly- online bullies = small cock & balls. lol , hold hands of new members who feel they weren’t part of the strong clique which in turn makes the regret being in the guild. It’s a lot less pressure to be sure but with that is I have to step my game up and be a part of the guild in that I do need to do my homework, be on time with events. I have to do my part. I don’t miss being a GM I do miss certain former members…funny how one THINKS they’re friends with such and such then some drama happens and they drop you from their proverbial list of online friends. Not even a ‘hello’.

I hope to be able to TANK for the guild soon- just need 2-3 more pieces and I should be good to go — good to go in an Off tank position– our Main Tanks are nearly geared to the teeth– I’ve some catching up to do. Sunday we did clear all but 2 wings of Naxx 10m– lastnight I believe they finished- I had some kid stuff to address (son’s in HS now)- we also attempted to clear OS with one Drake up and had the Dragon down to 30% before we wiped– we attempted it 4 more times but the timing of the tanks was off as well as key healers being chewed up. A lot more dancing involved with leaving one drake up.  Also ran the Vault which was fun. Good times again…

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Wootbeer my lil extended gnome goil hit 80 2 nights ago. She was soloing NPCS in IceCrown. She giggled when she did it. So now I have 2- 80’s. Priest & Warrior. What’s next? I’m thinking a Druid. Besides Wootbeer, I don’t like leveling toons who can’t heal themselves….seems…like a lot of downtime and waste and need to get some reaaaallllly good gear to survive.  I now am working on getting Woot enchants and soon some gems – as she has NO tanking gear sans one that has sockets. She obviously needs to do a shit load of heroics. Murder- the guild she’s in is more focused on those who are in heroic gear already and not so much helping fresh 80s’ get gear. I understand 100%.

So, with that if you are need of a cute gnomey tank plz give me a pst. Thanks for offerings of Gems and recipe usage Moon, appreciate your offering of help in that regard. Wootbeer is in all blues though– mostly made by me. I need more ORE (Saronite) and some Titanium (who doesn’t?)  I did make her the tanking Ring and Neck last night. =)

THe Old School guild itself is pretty much slowed to a crawl. Meh. lol Funny how things change and don’t change. I thought about making a Horde toon on our server – a DK but can’t think of a good name…I’m picky on names. I’d prolly go with a COW DK too…I like the whole Native American nuances of Taurens. Nice.

Welp, My son starts High School this Friday- abbreviated day- then has Official day Monday and will be playing as a lineman for the school. He had his physical last week– 5’11” @ 195 lbs size 12 shoe. Perfect size for a lineman. So very happy he’s into sports, I think it’s an essential part of being a well rounded person. Someone who actually participates and is active as well as being social well help him that much more down the road. Proud Father I am. It’s also nice to work at a place where they understand family is a priority, I was able to attend all of his Track meets & Basketball games without any issues. WOOT!

Fifty Cent and less

I am so close to 80 I can ‘see’ it. 4.5 bars to go. 4.5. That’s like maybe 2 hrs. Hopefully I can finish it up tonight but just got a call to do some freelance and it’s a RUSH so…might not be til later…course I do work well under pressure (as far as designing and illustration goes).

Murder needed a healer for 10m OS lastnight so I volunteered AK. We pugged 2 spots– as I mentioned before Murder needs ranged DPS…lol..irony. Anyways, we formed up under 5 mins. My wife had ordered pizza not too long before I got invited, as I entered the instance she brought me a plate of 3 pieces and an Iced Tea to my computer. Ahhh…spoiled. As she put the plate down we pulled the first mob– I’m healing MT. By the time I ate the last piece of pizza we cleared the instance. No deaths – sans one from the pug who didn’t survive the wave. I was licking my fingers when they passed out the loots. Nothing dropped for me but we ran through OS like nobody’s bidness. We also chained pulled….amazingly fast. 25 Ulduar is this weekend. !!

The Midnight Oil

Holy cow this weekend in WoW brought back mammories. I spent a good portion of the weekend ingame grinding out my beloved WOotBeer. She’s 25% into level 79 now. That’s 2 levels over the weekend– that’s a lot for me. Now. Later it wasn’t…I used to be able to breeze through levels like a hot knife through buttah. Loaf a bread, stick a butter.

Anywhoo– Wootbeer is a member of MURDER 2.0 with Tainis, Taenis, Tainiss….lol…leading the way with a firm hand. A no-nonsense style which is refreshing but imo is a definite balancing act. We (I’m an Occifer) were able to schedule and confirm our 25 mans and have 3 -10 mans set up starting this week. We are needing quality ranged DPS, oddly enough. If your reading this and are interested in joining MURDER and are ranged please let me know. There are some distinct differences than what —– if you were from my guild—–and now Logtar Inc’s guild. (chuckle)

First and foremost you cannot be hyper sensitive. You need to man up on criticism on your gear, your attitude and overall perception on how you want to play WoW. Obviously it’s your choice where you want to be but it’s best to know upfront. You will be kept in check but also balance it with a voice (if your an officer) and these officers have the authority to make decisions without the GM being a part of it. If some recall my guild, the highest ranked officers were given the same authority but rarely used it as most if not all were not inclined to do so. Tight “cliques’ were formed and thus was the underlying demise of the ranks. Hopefully, this will not happen in this guild– I already see it (cliques) but that’s based on experience of certain play styles and gear check. Friends tend to run with ‘friends’. “T” (Tainiss) stressed a lot of socialism type (lol) views on what his guild is about– TEAM work over selfishness. No ONE person is unto himself. I think that’s a great view for MMO’s and guild..just not our U.S. Government. (chuckle).

The other major difference is MOST are already in full 25m Naxx gear and some are in Ulduar– so that means most have real experience in instances and heroics. Granted, we are not all geared where we “should” be but making our way there. This guild, while is says it’s not hardcore raiders– really IS. Just like the word “casual” is a bad word for guilds, ‘hardcore” is in the same field of bad words associated with guilds. Experience is nearly everything, with the core they currently have I think MURDER will go far in progression. I’m glad to be a part of it with Samanda, Nyghtmare, Asgade, Juulez, Peaceout & Darkscience.

I hope to be 80 by Wed!!!!

/Lick Patch

So far so good content and nice new features. Blizzard (knock on wood) once again proves why it’s the King of MMO’s. Can you imagine working for them? No. I can’t.

Lastnight, WOOTBEER joined <MURDER> where Tainiss (GM), Juulez, Samanda, Nyghtmare and others play- we knocked out my Arena of DEATH AND MAYHEM lastnight, we (me and Sam) handled nearly ALL the bosses 2 manning the 5 grp quest. Epic battles ensued. Sam’s heals are outstanding, Tree Heals. We got to the last boss but got dead from and untimely phone call, however we called in Nyghtmare who helped me finish it off with the 100g and bottles of life & mana. I also got 125k experience and am officially over 50% to level 78. Not bad for a 1-2 hr log-in this week./Tiphat :Sam & Mr. Grumbly

I also q’d up for the new BG, seemed the Horde have their shit together lastnight as we got rolled 3 times. It was a fun BG, nice areas and not too spread out like AV or WG. It’s nice seeing a company rethink and redo their ideas when it comes to designing games. Murder seems to be on top of it’s game for being together (again) for about 2 weeks. They’ve done Ulduar 10 clean 25 m Naxx Clear- the list goes on. Hopefully I can smack down the last 2.45 levels fast and be a part of the climb.

Enjoy your weekend and always remember to be nice to the poor, disenfranchised, illegal aliens, handicapped, less than smart people out there in the world because it could one day be you.

AK/WootBeer

Waiting, patiently.

Come on STARCRAFT 2 & DIABLO 3!!!!!

Daddy’s waiting!

I wore the Patch

Twice. Twice I wore the ‘Patch’ to quit smoking, the first time was about 4 years ago, Alo and I started the same day – a Monday nonetheless, and by that Friday I had an over dose. I had to be driven home because I was too dizzy to function. I had taken the double dosage patch (2 packs a day dosage). When Friday rolled around I was in-taking too much nicotine that my body was like “Umm…no.”  After my first OD on anything besides beer/alcohol I cold turkyed it. Err…turkied. Hmm…anyways, it lasted 18 months of non-smoking. I started back up when Alo and I were visiting Omaha and I picked up a very nice Cigar, thinking “I can do a Cigar! It’s not a Marlboro!”– nope…by the time we got back to KC we had talked ourselves into justifying smoking. What bullshit. So we started smelling again, killing ourselves slowly until a couple years ago. My mother had passed from lung & brain cancer directly from smoking– while I didn’t quit *we* immediately, come September 2007 we did the patch again. This time I did the 1 pack or less dosage and was clean by the 3rd day. Alix took longer and preferred the gum, she was off after 2 months. Today, we are both smokeless. WOOT.   We also calculated how much jack we’ve saved over 2 years– she smoked 2 packs a day and I smoked 3/4 a pack a day. Doing remedial math @ an avg of 5.00 a pack rounding up for those crappy/stressful days we spent 15.00 a day. (adjusted for the Obama Socialism-Neo Marxism inflation) came to nearly $11,000.00 in savings.

Eleven Thousand. We compensated for that by getting slowly fatter. Tis true about smoking, it curbtailed hunger and you will gain wait 10-15 lbs if you quit…at least that generalization was true for us. I’m fat and not proud. I won’t dare call my wife fat because I don’t live in a foreign country like Germany. Random. Now, my self improvement beyond masterbation is attempting a healthier lifestyle of eating, my Native American family history is choc full of diabetes. Fuck that. I’m not one of those blatant hypocrits who announce they are becoming vegans or vegetarians or announce some fad diet they are starting – you just set yourself up to public failure. Or you simply never talk about it and it goes away. lol  No, I’m just saying one needs to watch what they eat and do some simple exercise on a regular basis. Recently an online friend of mine has taken this to a new level of dedication, “Sam” as we call him has started a regimine I can only aspire to and is inspirational. I met him via World of Warcraft via the games forums and one of my recruitment threads and he joined up last year, blah blah blah. He came to the mid life crisis of getting off his lazy ass and start walking, stair climbing and fuse it with a Garmin SuperMachine Watch. He details his progress and day-to-day life happenins here. Check it out, make some comments.  He’s my west coast druid inspiration.

WoW-news, patch is out. I didn’t log in since they (Blizzard) is famous for downtimes, bugs within the first week but mainly I had a friend over to play some Magic the Gathering. My all time favorite card game has seen recent influx of playtime. I’ve just about converted him over to the dark side of CCG’s.  He’s leaning towards “white” and “green” w/ “red” splashed in type decks. It’s very nice to play the game with friends once again.

Hope to be online this week!  Tell me how the patch is!  God Bless Ya!

AK/Wook/Leader and Omnipotent leader of The Old School guild– where my name isn’t plastered over everything. LOLZ

My Patch HAIKU

Weekend Warrior

Wootbeer hit the 77 mark this weekend! 77 the number has a lot of meaning to me..not just Wootbeer. 1977 was the year Star Wars came out, same year I went to Kindergarten @ Boyd School! First year I had a ‘girlfriend’– named Lisa…. that was such a great year. Movies, History…but yesterday it was when Wootbeer could “FLY”! once more!22!~!!~   My god it sucks to be in WoTLK and not fly. Like. Sucks donkey dick. Dick. Yea…anyways, just prior to me hitting it (level 77 that is…) Patrick & I got invited by Fredler to run Nexxus with some peeps from the other guild, it was the NEW Theydrin, Fred & Kabara. I died a couple times due to Wootbeer’s complete and utter sexyness. NPC’s love short gnomes in plate, it’s a known fact..google it…you’ll see.  She was DPS Spec’d and at 76 was dishing out 2k damage amongst the big boys. Proud papa I am. Nothing dropped per say and at that level it would have been NPC’d but Theydrin got his level 70 some nice experience and it was great to run with people I semi-know. Semi. lol

So I get my ‘cold weather flying’ after Patrick, Fred and I clean up in the BASIN, we had some Horde loving going on and then we got outnumbered by a bunch of GAY horde. You know how I know you’re a GAY Horde? You play Bloodelves. You know how I know your a super GAY horde? You play a Paladin Blood Elf.  Anywhoo– us non- gay players kicked their asses til it 6 vs 3. I was able to clear a nice array of Nesing quests and ‘Ding’ ed. I had to wait a click as Patrick discovered FRAPS. He Frapped me lol– and emailed it to me a little later on. Good times.

Things I didn’t do this weekend in WoW.

• No Naxx 10 or 25 SOOO overated.
• No Ulduar (Samanda did !!!)
• No Heroics
• No Drama *have to have peeps in guild to have drama. Kinda like the egg and chicken thing. The people that do play in the guild are those that simply don’t care for drama or understand that it’s casual.
• Recruitment — seems pointless at this proverbial point. I added one last week but was trying to pawn him off on a more active guild. Irony.

Things I did do this weekend in WoW.

• Leveled Wootbeer (1.5)
• Hit 450 mining on Woot and am in direct competishun with Patrick on the nodes.
• Gathered my first 20 stack of Titanium
• Teabagged 4 Horde whilst in WG
• Reinstalled, Installed, Unistalled 43 add ons. Still can get Questhelper to work on Wootbeer. Works on ALL other toons….and accounts….
• Spoke at length with Chiiby. Was very interesting…lol
• Spoke at length with Sokym. He leaned on me for support. I’ve been there brotha!
• Spent an HOUR organizing my bags on Wootbeer including bank. WoW seriously needs to allow us bigger bags. 30 slots for 80’s, especially those with 2-3 specs. She has 3 sets of gear: PvE, PvP and Tanking. Makes for a lot of wasted space….and while were on the topic..make a fucking tab for one’s Tabbards!! They said they’d do this last big patch….I have like 15….lol k, I’m done bishing.
• Balling on this mother fuckin Compton Streets.