Year: 2006

To shamelessly steal a phrase from someone 🙂

On the one hand, I’m at the point of tired where I could quite easily put my head on the arm of the sofa and snooze until morning. But on the other hand, I’m getting the kind of energy that makes me want to jump around like a mad thing.

Hence the boingy, boingy.

I can’t figure it out … and I’ll bet that when I try and get to sleep tonight (when I eventually go to bed), I’ll be awake for a while. We shall see. Maybe it’s what I’m eating, it was another hectic lunchtime today (meeting through most of it). Maybe it’s my body doing its usual thing when faced with a problem, which is go nuts with adrenaline to keep me on my feet.

Hmm – I’ve got the England v Uruguay match on at the moment, that’s highly likely to send me to sleep. Mind you, Saturday will be day 4 of the Test Match, so if I wake up at normal time on Saturday, I’ll be able to fall asleep on the sofa in front of that :-). Back to the game !

Think I need another holiday !

Today was, getting out of bed a little earlier, which is no great hardship. So that’s me in work at just after 8.30 … (I sleep late)

Lunchtime, clocked out bang on 12.00 (earliest possible) and dragged my ex off to the solicitors so she could sign away her claim on me house. (She’s getting lots of money for it). So that’s me and her at the solicitors at 12.30. Leave there about 12.50, drop her off (I was nice, I took her back to work) and then leg it to the bank … Get lots of cash from the bank, rush back home to pay some builders who are turning my “garden” from Jungle into no maintenance. So that’s me home at 1.30. Drop off cash, back into work. The garden bit will take a while to pay off but at least the house saga is coming to a close. That’ll help.

Hectic ! Oh yeah, back home, leaving work at 4.30 to get set for another evening in Zul’Gurub. To be honest though, I’d been looking at finance stuff all day and couldn’t face the sight of spreadsheets any more.

Think I overdid it yesterday, it wasn’t a good idea to do Zul’Gurub after playing cricket. I can make myself do it but I shouldn’t really make myself focus like that after I’m already physically tired. But they needed me and I was available. Think I’ll need a night or two away from WoW though.

Hmm. It’s Pancake Tuesday today but I’m just not feeling hungry at the moment … I had a packet of Mini Eggs beside me all the way through ZG tonight, plus a packet of Chocolate Hobnos, yet I’ve not touched them. Am I ill ? (ear’s still bothering me a lot, messing up my balance, plus voice has gone) So I’m going to break all religious tradition and have my pancakes tomorrow. Muahahaha !

Another game tonight, this time versus Ex Disablers, which is a team that is also mid table to lower end. Translation – a team we need to beat … because we aim to be no lower than 4th of the 10 teams.

We won the toss and fielded first, which means we know how hard to chase down the runs. Full teams on both sides, so it’s down to how you play as to who wins. Steady bowling from us kept their scoring opportunities down, although we didn’t have our two terrors, Lee and the Brain, here tonight. Plenty of wandering led to plenty of stumping opportunities for me, plus a catch behind. Proud of those when I get them as I always stand up to the stumps, which makes for far less reaction time.

They did get a flurry of runs from their last batting pair though, ending up with 68. Not much … but you still have to knock all of those off … My bowling was as bad as usual (for my standards) but I did actually get a few on the mat. Will have to get my shoulder looked at sometime. It’s still good to know that I can still turn the game around single handedly with my keeping though 🙂 I must have had at least another 5-6 stumpings tonight out of 11 wickets that they lost. Plus the catch behind …

Batting from our side was very steady, we didn’t really need to go nuts. We’d passed their score by the time Dennis and I started, so from there it was make sure of no disasters … Hmm – with work’s current opening batsman and an opening bat from 10 years ago, you’re not going to get disasters. Finished on 119 for a comfortable win.

PS Also hit Zul’Gurub after the game tonight, 4 bosses down in 3 hours but far too much wiping on the trash mobs … Some tanks need to learn to tank mobs where they want the mobs tanked, instead of tanking them where the mobs start off. Ho hum. (on one spot, we had several wipes due to many adds joining in that didn’t need to be in range of joining in). No more good stuff for me but my character did make a bit of a profit on the night. Will see if I’m needed tomorrow as I got in tonight (after making an original team and then being dropped !) due to a few people letting us down due to late unavailability.

Well, we just came out of the new, shinier Guildlink’s first Molten Core run and what an excellent weekend :-).

Despite having literally half the raid group being newcomers to Molten Core and the pecularities of the bosses and mobs, we completed all of our objectives and blew through all the rest of them as well. I only expected to get about 3-4 bosses down but we actually got through 8. Which means lots n lots of nice shiny loot :-). (My main character is up to 5 epics now)

A lot of the new people got the shiny stuff as well. Which is fantastic. You should have seen some of the quotes that were cropping up in Guildchat from the new people – Molten Core is to be seen to be believed … They enjoyed it and we enjoyed having them along. Just have to get them trained up for dragon hunting. (You need an amulet to get in the front door.) Lots of good teamwork shown over the weekend too.

Last word goes to the person who brought all this together – lots of patience from our raid leader over the weekend. Very clear instructions of what happens with each boss and what to do about it. Means we’re ready for what happens before it happens. The patience and determination makes us more positive too. It’s not “We’ll have a shot at this”, it’s “He’s going down and I want to steal his stuff.” Heh heh heh – mobs soon learn to not get in the way of Guildlink.

Zul’Gurub is the target for Guildlink tomorrow, although I’m not likely to be there because I’ll hopefully be bringing my readers a cricket match report. (crosses fingers for a healthy shoulder)

I’ve talked about World of Warcraft a lot lately, time for something a little different …

Ok. Not so different.

One of the early games I played and one of the few real time strategy games I’ve enjoyed was Warcraft : Orcs and Humans. (Humans and Orcs doesn’t quite sound right does it). This was one of the early RTS games, so it was nice and simple. I like simple ! It was also one of those games that gently leads you into the variation of units available through an interesting storyline.

It had the cartoony graphics that fit the world it was set in, plus it had plenty of character in there as well. There’s the hidden touches like what happens when you repeatedly click on a unit. Do that with an orc and you go through a sequence like “Zubzub”, “What?”, “Whaaaat?”, “Whatcha wanna kill?”, “Stop Poking Me!” and so on. It made me smile :-).

It allowed for decent tactics, although it was of the early days of RTS’s, so no 3d. Basic tactics of the ranged firing squad being the good ones. Although you could rock-paper-scissors that. Still, top game and I’ve wished that I’d taken up the chance to play Warcraft II and Warcraft III. Still could play Warcraft III, it’s still available in the shops on budget.

Blizzard (the developers) came up with a rich, interesting world, with plenty of character. Lots of history too, built up within the various Warcraft games. It’s now at the stage where you can play a single character within the world, with World of Warcraft. But it all started way back with Warcraft : Orcs and Humans.

Lol Mrs A 🙂

Add Mini Eggs to that list of things that they put by the counter to torture people.

Blimey … what a day in WoW that was …

The earthquakes started around lunchtime when one guild decided they were leaving. Fair enough, they had a lot of dangerous people in there and a raid leader who basically wasn’t doing the job properly. They threw their teddies out the pram bigtime when our Revered Leader and Overqueen defended one of the Mercenaries (my guys) over what he said on Wednesday’s failed Onyxia run. He swore over the voice comms because someone was being insanely dangerous. Ah well – the dangerous person is not in Guildlink any more. He was part of the triangle that led to Valhalla leaving.

Then a little while later, the Withering guild announce they’re going as well. So we were left in a big hole, with a big raid due later and plans in absolute chaos … Heh. So they thought ! Several hours later, we were back organised again (that’s why we revere the Overqueen) and had a full balanced raid group going into Molten Core. Which was the first time for many of the people going in.

How did we do ? It helped that we got epic loot (da good stuff) really early and that the loot went to new people. That helped settle people down, reminding them why we were there. We died a few more times than we’re used to but that’s fine … Lot of new people. We still got 3 bosses down, which is fantastic for a run with so many new people.

So, Guildlink’s lost a few people. We’ll miss them sure, but I personally won’t miss the cluster of extremely dangerous players that have gone as well. That’s dangerous in terms of being stupid and indisciplined and causing problems for the raid. We’ll bounce back, we’ll grow stronger. We’ll definitely keep enjoying our relaxed attitude to raiding. As we did tonight. Lots of good stuff tonight and we’ll be back for more tomorrow.

Time to move on, wave goodbye to the elitist people who will now try and rub in what fantastic players they are. We’re better off without them. As long as we have the Overqueen, we’ll do just fine. (We better look after her !)

I am still successfully not buying choccy – not that you guys are helping much!

And it ought to be illegal to put creme eggs on the counter where you pay!

Maltesers are good. And Tesco’s have a 2 bags for £2.20 offer going … Highly dangerous. Muahahaha !

No hobnobs, I’m afraid, dearheart..

but I have Malteasers left from when I fell asleep during AeonFlux! 🙂

my TT is up 🙂

cq