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WoW

Last night I finally got to level 70 on Calandria, my main in World of Warcraft. I started playing last January, played for two months, and then started playing again at the end of July. Calandria is a gnome warlock who is also a tailor and enchanter. Right now she has a long green ponytail but she started out with two pink puffy ponytails.

I’m enjoying playing right now because we’re in a pretty active guild that is also doing something. I’ve been on several raids and in a lot of instances. I also like the holiday activities and collecting pets.

I haven’t abandoned EQII completely. I still love that game but the fact that I never have anyone to group with is the main thing keeping me from playing.

November 5th, 2008 - Posted in Games, Life, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments »

WoW

Last night I finally got to level 70 on Calandria, my main in World of Warcraft. I started playing last January, played for two months, and then started playing again at the end of July. Calandria is a gnome warlock who is also a tailor and enchanter. Right now she has a long green ponytail but she started out with two pink puffy ponytails.

I’m enjoying playing right now because we’re in a pretty active guild that is also doing something. I’ve been on several raids and in a lot of instances. I also like the holiday activities and collecting pets.

I haven’t abandoned EQII completely. I still love that game but the fact that I never have anyone to group with is the main thing keeping me from playing.

November 5th, 2008 - Posted in Games, Life, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments »

Hmm

I need a new layout for here and I have one in mind (and an istockphoto for it too) but I lack the actual inspiration to make it. Soon maybe.

I have something new to occupy my free time: World of Warcraft. I’ve always been a total EQII fan and had no interest in playing WoW. But the tier 8 pets from the expansion really made me upset: so upset that I didn’t want to play my Conjuror anymore, which was my only character I played to level 70 and was my main. Plus, as I haven’t been feeling well I wanted something I could play on my Powerbook while laying on the couch. I started playing about two weeks ago and I now have a level 30 hunter who’s favorite pet is a big pink flamingo-type bird. She has mining and engineering as her professions and the same name as my Mystic from EQII. Joe and I play on the Sentinels server with some friends of ours we met in EQII.

The holidays were pretty uneventful. We did the usual Christmas Eve with my parents and brother’s family at my parents’ house and then Christmas Day at my brother’s house. We went over to my aunt’s house for New Year’s Eve. Last weekend we had a game night at my brother’s house which was fun.

The only thing not so fun has been my health. I’m still having coughing fits and difficulty breathing, especially at night. You know, I’m wondering why my family doctor hasn’t tested me for asthma or anything. I told him about how when I was undecorating the tree, I had an episode where I could hardly breathe that lasted about 20 min and then I was still wheezy and coughing for several hours afterwards. I just saw him last week and will see him again in a month.

I go to see an allergist next Tuesday for a consultation and allergy testing. I had testing done years and years ago but I want to see about getting allergy shots so they need to do it again. I wonder if an allergist can diagnose asthma?

The rheumy I saw back in December increased my Lyrica dosage to 150mg twice a day instead of once. Speaking of medications, generic Ambien is not working for me. If I take 10mg of it I throw up. If I take 5mg nothing happens. If I take 5mg of the real Ambien, I get visual hallucinations after about 15 minutes and become very trippy. I don’t see how they can say it’s the same as regular Ambien.

The doctor I saw last week gave me some samples of Singulair (the medication he wanted me on last month but the insurance denied but I don’t think he filled out the paperwork properly because I fit the qualifications). I’ve been able to actually breathe at night so I think it’s helping. Now I just need to get the insurance company’s approval because it’s too expensive otherwise. Maybe the allergist would fill out the paperwork?

January 12th, 2008 - Posted in Everquest II, Health, Life | 4 Comments »

Cranium

Last night we played Cranium, Pop 5 version. We had played it before with them and had also in the past played the regular Cranium with his brother and sisters.

In this one, the opposing team looks at the card, puts tokens of the various things you can do in order from easist to hardest (easist gets 1 point, hardest get 5), then one person on the other team looks at the card and chooses what they want to do. You can draw, sculpt, act it out, hum it, or use letter dice where you can say a word that starts with a letter on the dice (as many words per letter as you want). It’s lots of fun.

Some highlights from last night were sculpting a pair of lips and a man, then shoving the man inside the lips for the song “Maneater”. And trying to get Joe to figure out that an oversized happy human vegetable was the Jolly Green Giant. Joe sculpted a very good George Foreman Grill but I didn’t get it since the category was Fad and that threw me off.

November 11th, 2007 - Posted in Games | 3 Comments »

SOE Needs a New Marketing Team

There’s been a lot that’s annoyed/upset me over the years I’ve played EQII because of choices made by the devs. This is the first time that it’s been the marketing team that has done so.

It’s been known for several months that there is a house pet only available to preorders. What hasn’t been known is how exactly we receive the preorder. A preorder box at pickup? Or what? There’s been many posts about this on the forums. EB Games website stated, up until today, that all preorders will receive the pet. SOE’s website also stated that (as far as I know). Myself, and many others, preordered the game in-store at local stores.

Today, someone posted on the forums that EB Games website now states that the pet is only available to ONLINE preorders. A dev then posts the response that it’s true, with a quote from marketing that says (and I don’t remember exactly) “we’re trying to make this as easy as possible and we informed retailers and they should have informed the customers, blah blah blah”. Hah. Many people have asked at retail stores and NONE of them knew anything about how preorders would be delivered. I’m sure people who work for SOE have seen all these posts over the past few months wondering about the preorder and seen the people believing that all preorders will get the pet. And they wait until someone not from SOE sees that EB Games updated their information to post the correct information about how to get the pet, 5 days before release.

There are going to be a lot of people unpleasantly surprised on release day I think, when they pick up their games in the store and they find that won’t be getting their house pet. And it’s not just a regular house pet, it’s one that will occasionally find collection items for you. There won’t be anything they can do about it, since it will be too late to preorder online.

I’m going to be canceling my in-store preorder and preordering online. But I’m not happy about having to do so.

November 8th, 2007 - Posted in Everquest II | 6 Comments »

Everquest II

I finally got into the Rise of the Kunark beta and that’s downloading at the moment. I’m looking forward to its release on the 13th. Calandra’s been at the level cap for awhile now. I’ve been leveling her up as a sage and she’s now a level 54 sage. The other character I’ve been playing the most has been my wizard who’s level 55 now. I also have two low-level Faes (a Warlock and a Coercer) and a low-level Arasai (a Fury), plus my level 59 Mystic that I don’t play much anymore. I still have fun playing but no else in the guild plays anymore really so it’s kind of lonely sometimes.

November 3rd, 2007 - Posted in Everquest II | 4 Comments »

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