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Wrath of the Litch King 13 November 2008

Wrath of the Litch King 13 November 2008

Oh, my goodness! Early this morning I found two websites that had leaked the information prematurely on their sites. It took four and a half hours for Blizzard to officially confirm it. I knew the new expansion was going to be released around the winter holidays. I'm going crazy not being able to get my hands on it sooner. On the flip side, that gives me approximately two months to level my Protection Paladin who I want to take up the new proffesion Inscription. Meaning her Herbalism needs to be maxed out as well as have stacks upon stacks of saved up herbs stored to be used in the new profession. I'll need to add First Aid to the list of tasks to skill up. The most dreaded task of all will be saving enough gold for The Burning Crusade Ridding Skills. UGH! & Ouch! I will be completely broke before another expansion hits. I'm going to pre-order the game sometime today at Game Stop.

Pre-Expansion Goals:

1. lvl Prot Pally to 70

2. learn and lvl Herbalism till maxed out

3. learn and lvl First Aid till maxed out

4. save as much Gold for Riding Skills

Wish me luck, I need to get my level 31 Protection Paladin to level 70 as quickly as possible and haven't a moment to spare. Cheers mates.

Looking for the Perfect Tank

Looking for the Perfect Tank:

http://sheepbreaker.blogspot.com/2008/08/tanks-make-lousy-boyfriends.html

Death Knight Talents

Death Knight Talents

Blood:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/deathknight/talents2.html?tal=2335320530333312513125031351000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Frost:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/deathknight/talents2.html?tal=0000000000000000000000000000325253500353311213310151313510000000000000000000000000000000

Unholy:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/deathknight/talents2.html?tal=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002332323315032115251131023133151

I think that will work.

New Talent Builds

New Talent Builds

Since Wrath of the Litch Kings seems to be looming ever so nearer, it seems Blizzard has found it fortuitous to post the new talent builds for all the classes including the new Death Knight class. I have been looking at the new builds for Paladin and put the points where I thought they would work best. I would try with the other classes but I have very little experience playing anything but all three specs for Paladin. Blizzard has removed cross-tree spec talents from the Paladin trees, therefore each branch's talents is devoted specifically for their own uses. Here is what I have decided would be the best use of the points.

Holy:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/paladin/talents2.html?tal=52352152322132253132531251000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Protection:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/paladin/talents2.html?tal=00000000000000000000000000250050335233215252155312321000000000000000000000000000

Retribution:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/paladin/talents2.html?tal=00000000000000000000000000500000000000000000000000000552350510020313533135101351

I need to get back to the game and level my toons to level seventy as quickly as possible. I think the best way to do that is respec my Holy and maybe Protection Paladins to Retribution until they reach the Burning Crusade end game content. Then I could switch them back to their original specs and finish the end game stuff before the second expansion. Not to mention trying to farm reputation for factions on much needed profession and gear items.

Well I guess I'm going to look up some more information in the mean time. Cheers mates.

Happenings

WoW has started to annoy me... again... i ran into another old friend who had gotten into the game... we started playing together... he being the ring leader of our group along with two other friends... then one night he decides to ignore my advice that was a in all reality a request... which i had been offering upon a deaf ear... with no response for 30 minutes before i exploded at him... then he declares i'm not worth playing with... so that is the third character i've been fucked over with in my gaming experience... first my 62 destruction lock... next my 70 retribution paladin... and now my 52 holy paladin... which is the hardest thing to do in the game - level a healer... what's a person got to do to get people to continually play with him... so i started a tank - a protection paladin... i actually am enjoying it... i'm learning all the intricate skills... yes it will be slow to lvl a fourth toon... but at least i will be wanted... and needed in groups... the upside is that i can do quests without needing much help from other players... the downside is i'm starting all over again and need to get her to level 70 before Wrath of the Litch King comes out... which i surmise is the end of the year... ugh... i'm feed up with playing and having nothing to show for my hard efforts but a toon who no one wants to group with... then starting over again from scratch...

i've been reading a lot as well... trying to keep my mind busy... i'm rereading books i've read countless times in the past... the harry potter series is what i'm currently working on... i need to pick up a copy of the lord of the rings series...

i started knitting a sock at the end of april... i've only worked on it twice... most of it on the first time... and all i've managed to show for it is part of the toe... lol... i'm slow when it comes to something i'm not sure of... mainly if i have concerns if it's nothing going to turn out perfect... i have a pattern for a beret i want to make... i have the yarn... but not the correct needle size to start and finish it... that is mainly tha case...

i've been wanting to sew again as well... but no money to spend on it... nor the talent to draw it out for anyone to tell me if there are patterns similarly available... i'd like to find a professional seamstress to teach me about producing items that look professionally made...

i rearranged the living room... it looks a lot nicer than it did in the past... before: everything was up against the walls... with a large open space in the middle... now: there is a distinct sitting area... making it feel more cozy and inviting... i wish my mother would get the city to lower her property taxes by looking at how crappy the inside of the house looks... then maybe i could start ripping out the old carpet and refinishing the floors... that's the easiest thing to do to the place other than painting it... at least it would be a start on making the place look nice... some new paint would be next in line once the floors were done... crown and base moldings... more lighting in both the ceiling and on the walls... the biggest projects are the ones that worry me the most - the kitchen and two bathrooms... aside from money being the first obstacle to overcome... i'd never know how to do all the plumbing and electrical in there...

i wish i had money to spend on fixing up the place... if i had a regular nine to five job i'd have some money to work on the place but no time... not having one leaves me with no money to make an upgrade and the time to dream about it... oh how the grass is always greener on the other side... lol...

i've also been staying busy by cooking... i never know how it will be received... one week i could make something and no one would touch it all week long except for me... and the next week i could make the same thing again and it would be eaten by the end of the day... how fickle people are... but then again... everyone here but me would rather go to a fast food place and eat rather than staying home and making something for much cheaper...

i finally saw breakfast at tiffanys... it was an ok movie... i'm sure i'll enjoy the book better... but omg... how hot was the lead actor in the movie... he was shirtless at the beginning of the movie for what seemed like an eternity... thank you costume department... lol... my goodness... if i looked like that... i'd have no trouble getting into a hot man's bed for the night... and how skinny was hepburn... my goodness... ah to be thin again... how i miss it... now i'm just some sad fat old cow... but back to the movie... not one i'd care to watch on a regular basis... but worth it for the hot guy... lol...

i want a new book to read... but i never know what to pick up when i get to the store... but once i've read a book i like... i know i want to read something along the same lines as the last... or at least get drawn deep into the storyline like the last... i wonder whats out there...

i've been wanting to write something for a while... but nothing good comes to mind... i know j. k. rowling raised the bar on fantasy when it comes to wizardry... same goes for anne rice and steven king for their respective genres... makes me wish i were as imaginative as i was when i was younger... then maybe i could write something that i don't think is pure rubbish...

well i'm tired of ranting... i think i'll go find something else to do around here... talk to you guys later... cheers mate...

Knit Night for 23 April 2008

we had a very successful knit night last night…

chris, the ring leader of our group was there… i don’t think he’s on Ravelry yet… but with a little twisting of his arm… i’m sure we can bribe him into signing up… he brought his sweater he had taken a break from… somewhat of a classic design… never can go wrong with those… it took him a few to get back on track to where he had left off… it took gabriel who helped him pick up some dropped stitches to get him completely back on track…

speaking of gabriel… one of our group’s knitting geniuses… brought his gorgeous green sweater he’s working on… i believe it was the back pannel… being the great knitter that he is… i’m sure it will be done very soon… he spent more time teaching the two fo us rather than working on his project… thanks…

as for me… i wish i had been working on a sweater… everyone knows how much i love them… but sadly not on my needles at the moment… well i’m starting a new project i’ve put off for forever and a day it seems… socks… i know i know… i made an aran sweater as my first real project… then gloves and hats… and now socks… i’m a bit backwards it seems… next thing you know i’ll be learning how to cast on… oh wiat that happened last night as well… hahaha… said sock had to meet my standards of my approval… so the toe, short row heel, and cuff will be done in a solid… and the body in a mock tweed… it’s mainly being knit this way so the heel will have a pretty ninety degree angle in it… compared to the heel flap and gusset look… so being the great teacher that gabriel is… he taught me what i was doing wrong with my short rowing… and how to cast on a turkish toe up cast on… and a new cast on for sweaters: the cable cast on… lots of learning going on for me last ngiht…

we had a great time… a few drinks… a bunch of knitting and learning… and catching up on each others lives… it was great to see chris and gabe again… can’t wait to do it again… maybe we should all grab lunch one day next week…

hopefully more people will show up next time… we were missing at least 3… life seems to get in the way sometimes… but understandable…

i know we have two new dallas based members that have joined Ravelry's Fruits and Fibers… maye we can talk them into coming out to knit with us next time…

well i can’t think anything else to say… hope everyone has a great day… keep knitting…
cheers mates…

Ravelry.com

i joined Ravelry today. it is something i wanted to do during beta but never could get an invite. since then i have forgotten about it. today while pattern browsing on Google i ran into the website again. i jumped on the chance to organize my knitting; well, the progress and accomplishments of them as well. i joined The Shabby Sheep group, added three friends, and filled out the Projects and Stash portion of my profile. so far the only thing i can bitch about is not having a digital camera to upload photos onto the site. Such is life. i posted on the Fruits & Fibers group site about adding our group to the Ravelry site since we have members on Men Who Knit. that way, two of the most popular knitting sites that gay men would log onto would be able to find us in Dallas. i'm hoping more of the F&F group members will join so when we aren't meeting we can at least check in on every one's projects. OMG what the hell is a RSS Feed? ok, never mind what it is. how do i get my blog page to be uploaded through an RSS Feed and onto Ravelry? i hate it when technology goes over my head. just tell me where to click and point or cut and paste damn it! ok, that's two things to bitch about. Ha ha ha !

Catching Up on the New Year

4 january 2008 my baby brother beat the crap out of me... i called up "My Giant" to quickly ask if i could spend the weekend as my mother was dropping me off to meet friends... so i could get out of the very hostile environment... he ended up calling her cell back out of concern thinking i was in trouble... damn his intuition... well she spilled the beans on what happened... and who knows what other imbarssing tidbits... so they came up with the idea that i should move in with "My Giant," "The Hobbit," and thier two straight roommates...

the arrangement was that i was their houseboy... minus the benifits of sex... untill i could get a job... which i had no problem with... i've been cleaning for years... very easy work... took about two-and-a-half weeks... almost three to get the place managable... then i started working on diffrent cleaning projects around the place...

the last week in january - beginning week in febuary is when things started to change... around both of their birthdays... slowly as time drew on... less and less was said to me... so i started hiding away in the guest bedroom that i had taken over... playing solitaire... which i had to give up at one point, because i was playing twelve hours nonstop, killing my fingers and back... very rarely did anyone bother to say anything to me... unless to ask where something was... what was for dinner... et cetera... i gave up eating on a regular basis... and by regular basis... i mean once every other day or two days... unless someone remembered to invite me to dinner if i didn't cook...

in the middle of febuary "The Hobbit" took me out and got me drunk... which i had sworn off doing because i didn't like how his mood changed after too much alcohol... so i'm drunk and pretty much end up telling him that it seems like nobody wants me around... how lonely i've been... and to come and get me out of my room if i hang out in there... since i was a bit buzzed and on an exhileration high... i do the same to "My Giant" who had been at home once there...

the next two nights after i sad my peace... i hung out in the family room with everyone... where i still was being ignored... so i withdrew back into the room i was staying in... feeling down...

i had a fever 10-11 march 2008... and felt like crap... i was getting better as the week went onward... but that thursday was the final straw... the longest running roommate of theirs is a total asshole... plays his music loudly... fucks girls who moan loudly... both with the door open... is a major slob... doesn't respect anyone in that lives or visits the house... except for "My Giant" and "The Hobbit" who own it...

so i'm still somewhat feeling bad... and he's blasting his computer game out his speakers again... i open my closed door... knock on his alway open door... and ask him to turn the sound down just a bit... since i had been there... i have asked everyone to turn the sound down... EVERYONE... that includes my two best friends... he went off on me saying i should close my door... i told him it was... and that he should close his since its always open... so i stormed off to the family room where "My Giant" and "The Hobbit" were watching tv... and asked if i was the only one in the place that his loud noise ever bothers... i got a no...

fucking a... damn it... shit... that was it... i walked back to my room... changed out of my pajammas into going out in public clothes... grabbed some ciggarets from the freezer... and stormed out the front door...

what sucks most about mesquite... there is no where to go... nothing within the area... housing areas spread out with space in between... so i walked as far as i could in one direction farthest from the house... came do dead space... where no buildings or housing was... no lights... dark... open... over grown... space... so i turned back... got to the main intersection closest to the house... and turned right... got to another dead space... turned aound... passed the intersection... got to dead space... turned around... took a left at the intersection... and headed back home... pretty much on fucking large ass cross... i walked anywhere from two-and-a-half hours... to three hours total... i was tired... and thank goodness there was no one hanging out in the common areas when i walked in...

while on that fucking long walk... i came to the only decission i could think of... i needed to move out... but not just out of mesquite... but dallas... get the fuck out of texas all together... i didn't know where i was going... how i was gonna get there... or what i was gonna do once there... but i realized i hadn't been that upset to where i had to walk off my aggression and hurt for hours... in quite a number of years... (which i didn't get rid of all of it since i was limited on where i could walk)...

i came inside... went to the guest bedroom... and packed what little i had taken over to mesquite... oddly enough... i had enough to fill my two backpacks... and one clear garbage bag... i called it an early night and went to bed...

i woke up early... showered and dressed... made sure i had everything... made sure the room was picked up and clean... then proceeded to wait for "My Giant" to wake up... as soon as he was heading out the door... i grabbed al my crap and threw it in the back of his truck... we stopped for gas... and he proceeded to drive to my mother's house... barely anything was said on the way into dallas...

he pulled into my mother's driveway... i unloaded my crap... and i opened the side door and handed him his house keys back... it took him a moment to realize what i had handed him... i shut the door... turned around... picked up my stuff and hauled it up the steep driveway...

that was it... he said nothing... he just took off... just like i had... something i never had expected from him was a silent goodbye... i dropped my belongings on the porch... unlocked the door... walked into the kitchen... grabbed a brown paper lunch bag... and walked back out to the breezeway... to where i had the most massive panic attack ever...

i have to say... that was the third worst day in my life... as of yet...

after i pulled myself somewhat together... i picked up everything off the porch i had set down... and hauled it inside... i went to my old bedroom... and proceeded to crawl into a ball in my old bed... sometime that afternoon i passed out from the misery...

i woke up that evening... having everything from the last two-and-a-half months come running back at me... and hitting me like a ton of bricks... my head hurt... my stomach churned... my body was in shock as well as my mind... i showered... dressed... and went out to drown the pain in as much booze as i could...

the plan was to get up the next day and pick up an application for my passport... look for my high school deploma... and feel as numb as possible... without thinking of how i had just left a friendship with two people i cared so very much for...

this is to be continued...