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In honour of what I felt like when I was ill, this is now my MSN picture as well !

We took Guildlink into the Molten Core again today … but with a difference !

Because things had reset when they weren’t really supposed to, we couldn’t make the attempt on the big fiery fella Ragnaros like we wanted to. So we took a beginners group in to get more people some experience in there. Which included me … I took in Bashara as the second main tank. Big responsibility … I learned stuff too.

How did we do ? Not too bad. I saw some things that I’d never appreciated before, mainly that the tanks get bounced around a bit again. Bashara is only a slip of a troll, so she gets bounced a fair amount. I was the first one to die – my own fault really, I dragged the giant back to where the healers had to be on top of the second mob in order to be in range of healing me. My bad.

We steadily made our way through to the first boss, Lucifron. Took us about 3 attempts here, which was what it took to get the decursing and dispelling sorted out. Also needed a crash course in how to keep Lucifron’s guards attention as my job here was to look after one of those while people hit it. Didn’t do as well on that as I’d like. But we still got the snakey guy tamed.

Next step, core hound packs – I learned something else here – you need to hit your mob to keep it ! Was pulling the mob off someone else who started the combat, so I needed to manually start hitting after taunting in order to get the rage I needed to keep the mob on me.

After that, the big dawg Magmadar, who makes everyone run away roughly every 30 seconds. So the job of the tanks is to make sure they are ready for that with an ability that stops them running away. We struggled on that early but pretty much had it cracked on the attempt where we took him out. And the big dawg Magmadar is a boss that’s given us an awful lot of trouble in the past …

We didn’t take out any more bosses than that, people needed to start leaving. Hell, I’m pretty tired too after being in tank mode for 3 hours … We did good in there though. Good enough to get two bosses tamed 🙂 And good enough to truly earn the loot that they had on them.

We’ll be back in a few days, not sure if I’ll be tanking again but I hope so. I have a lot to learn and the best way to learn is by doing. Need some better gear for my warrior though.

Struggling to think of something for today, so I’m going to indulge in a little bit of larceny 🙂

How did you get the idea for your profile name? I like the name Sleepypete, it sums me up pretty well sometimes … But it was already taken, so I had to use the name of my World of Warcraft main character instead. That would be Iceangel the crazy frost mage …

What song are you playing now, or wish you were playing? Since listening to Madonna’s Confessions on the Dancefloor again, probably Jump. Otherwise, Incidentals by Alisha’s Attic.

Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry? Think I shed a little tear on Eric Morecambe as well, he was special.

Do you want a baby? Couple of years ago and my last partner ? Poor kid. Now, I don’t think I’d mind too much. Would need bigger house though, wouldn’t even have a pooch here cos the house is too small.

What does your dad do for a living? Chemical engineer, makes industrial coolers.

What does your mum do for a living? Nursing.

What is/are your pet’s name(s)? Ben and Goldie, although they live at mum’s & dad’s place.

What colour are your bed sheets? Blue and white

What are the last 3 digits of your phone number? 359, 587 and 290

What was the last concert you went to? Think the last concert I went to was at university, on the Downs behind the Halls of Residence

Who was with you? People I knew from the university hall I lived in.

What was the last film you watched? Hmm – am I giving secrets away if I also say I went to the Inside Man ? Smart film, we enjoyed it and it kept the attention. Maybe a little long but I thought it was well paced. Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. Oh, it also had the Operative from Serenity and Willem Dafoe.

Who do you dislike most at this moment? Think I’d say El Tony as well, for the amount of lying he does. But Gordon Brown lies with bigger whoppers and more often.

What food do you crave right now? I’m currently looking at a chocolate brownie cheesecake that will be devoured rather rapidly after I finish this meme.

Did you dream last night? I have World of Warcraft dreams at the moment. Sad I know … Curious how they seem to be emphasizing teamwork though.

What was the last TV show you watched? Currently have Match of the Day on but I’m paying my usual amount of attention to it. (Not much – it’s football)

What is your fav piece of jewellery? Don’t think I have much jewelry, although sporting trophies may count. On that, probably the bowling (cricket) trophy for being the best bowler in my first year with the men’s team.

What is to the left of you? Sofa, 4 cuddly mini dogs and the pooter. (Sitting on sofa cross legged tapping into the laptop)

What was the last thing you ate? Chocolate hobnobs but in half an hour, it’ll be that cheesecake.

Who is your best friend of the opposite sex? Hmm. Would be hard to choose between the IT Girl and CQ here. However, I’d love to call Miss L my best friend of the opposite sex, as I still owe her bigtime over her helping me out a lot last summer. She reawoke my competitive instinct at a time when I was struggling badly. I don’t see Miss L enough though these days since she moved upstairs. Oh – nearly forgot RCA. How ?

Who last MSN’d you? Sarai the Overqueen, although that doesn’t really count because I MSN’d her first.

Where is your significant other right now? Erm … null response 😉

Do you have a crush? Lol – often. Depends on who walks around the corner from the team on the opposite side of the wall.

What is his/her name? Lol – might detect one pseudonym from what I’ve written already.

When was the last time you had your hair cut? (Spits hair out of mouth) Too long ago.

Are you on any meds? I avoid meds like the plague, although I’ll probably have to start going back to hayfever anti-histamines soon.

Do you have a mental disease? Heh heh heh – the men in white coats haven’t found me yet.

What shirt are you wearing? I have a white T shirt on which says “Don’t ask me, I make it up as I go”. Bought in the USA last year.

Are you sexy? Nope 🙂 13 stone and ugly. Although I’m working on the 13 stone bit, it was 14 stone about 5 months ago.

What’s your favourite store? Borders for books, PC World for window shopping.

Are you thirsty? Yep. Got a pint of water next door to me.

Can you imagine yourself ever getting married? Yep. But it’ll take someone with a lot of tolerance to put up with me and a lot of intelligence to keep me from getting bored. Made that mistake with my last partner, was having to unconsciously limit my thinking so as to not upset her through being too smart. Blimey that was a relief when I didn’t have to do it any more.

Who’s someone you haven’t seen in a while and miss? Family from up norf as I haven’t been back there for too long. (Illness got in the way last weekend)

Where do you work? Heh heh heh – somewhere in the Western Hemisphere, which is as detailed as I’m going to go 🙂

So – nothing actually broken this time? No gushing blood or rushing to hospital?

You’re improving, lovey 🙂

cq

Thirteen Things about tonight’s game 1…. The two sides were Small Swings (us!) and AWS Sloggers. 2… We almost didn’t get a side out but dragged in two ringers at the last minute. 3… One of the ringers got recruited in the changing room before the game ! 4… They batted first and managed to annoy me by not giving a stumping out and by calling one of my deliveries a no ball. 5… I don’t get mad, I get even. Most of the 12 balls I bowled tonight were the fastest I’ve bowled for a while. 6… But they still squeezed 13 off my 2 overs to get a total of 87. 7… Not so many stumpings (missed a few 🙁 ) and not enough catches meant their 89 actually flattered them. 8… Blew up my right calf near the end of our fielding. 9… Batted first with Ringer 2 and carried on the get even theme with some hitting. 10… Good catching restricted that partnership to 39. 11… Our other people didn’t really get going, leading to an extremely close finish. We got 85, losing by 2 runs. 12… Things were made more interesting by the squash players breaking their windows, had to take the long way round. 13… Made the mistake of running back to the office to avoid the rain, blew both calf muscles up … They seem to have settled now, although they were complaining by the end of the drive home. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Big patch this time for WoW. The high end instances had lots of changes and were supposedly made easier. Big changes on what modifications are allowed and which ones are banned.

They took away the one that tells me how much room is in my bags ! Will have to get a way around that cos losing that one is a bit annoying.

Couple of Mercenaries felt some Bashara aggro tonight … I was tanking with Charge and was wondering why people seemed to want to insist on attacking the wrong target. If they do that, I just leave them to it.

Game tomorrow, we might need some luck because I think we may be going into it short. We shall see what happens. I still have dregs of last week’s bugs, so I’ll be ignoring them tomorrow. Trying to figure out whether to do a Thursday Thirteen match report or the gaming sights one … Think it might be the match report because I’ll need to do a little research for the gaming one. Think I have a few but need more. So far it’s : Ratchet’s tree, Eve’s space stations, looking at Oblivion’s Imperial City from the other side of the lake. There’s also Oblivion’s face maker and a few more of the WoW vistas. But I need some more than that to make up a thirteen.

I think I’ve figured out when I’m going to upgrade the pooter …

And I think I’ve gotten into a spending mood … Telly’s good. I’ve just watched Sin City and it definitely gets the seal of approval. Sound is pretty naff but then it always is. It’s there for the picture though and that’s impressively sharp and well defined. And that’s on a stark, visual film like Sin City as well. The sound is only needed for watching stuff off air anyway as I have my surround speaker set for everything else.

Been looking at upgrading that as well though … It’s good and it has done the job adequately for many years now but it has “disagreements” with some of my cds where it just really struggles to play them without audio confusion.

Anyway, the pooter … It’s going to get its money spent at Easter, which will be when I’ll be able to be in for long enough to be able to pick up the bits that’ll be coming through. I’m having about a week off at Easter. For the why, I’ll blame Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion, which I picked up on Sunday. My Thursday Thirteen this week is going to cover beautiful sights in gaming and Oblivion has already accounted for a few of those. And I can’t run it like I’d like to because my current machine can only handle it at reduced resolution. To be honest though, it’s an absolute cracker visually even with the really pretty stuff toned down.

World of Warcraft is pushing me away a bit at the moment I think. Or maybe it’s the people. There’s only so much ignoring you’ll take before you start ignoring back and I feel a little ignored at the moment.

This is the kind of night when I’d have probably looked to watch a dvd with a pizza … Well, I’ve had the pizza (just about managed) but dvd watching is on hold until Monday when I get a telly that’s up to it …

I’m still giving the dvd player some exercise though, I’m just keeping Cyberkitten up with it :-). Madonna’s newest album is very dancy and can be rather loud, especially if your subwoofer shares the neighbour’s wall.

CD Change time ! Now on my third cd of this session. The second was Seal’s greatest hits and there are some very, very good tracks on that one. Now it’s Alisha’s Attic Illumina (their second), which is an album that is far too good to get the limited playtime I give it. I don’t play it enough because I have only so much time to split between the 4 Alisha’s Attic albums I have, plus my singles collection. I’m not counting the “Greatest Hits” album there, those don’t really count. The fourth one I have is from their rares collection, Attic Vaults 1, which is perhaps better than their other albums. But then you’d say that about all of the AA albums after hearing them.

I like Alisha’s Attic :-).

Oh yeah, I’ve also been reading David Weber’s March Upcountry on and off when my brain lets me. My brain is getting a rest from WoW, as I’ve crashed through another 4 levels yesterday and this morning with my trainee hunter, Finlay. I got to the half way in levels point (30) in 45 hours, which is pretty quick. Trying to get to level 60 in 5 game days. Not getting up to much raiding at the moment, I went in at the last minute for an Onyxia run yesterday but backed out of the main Molten Core run. My health isn’t up to it yet.

I’m still running borderline starvation, with my system nudging over into collapse when it feels like it. What’s annoying though is when I try to impose a normal eating pattern on it, it doesn’t like it. Had a pizza tonight that I normally wouldn’t have noticed, tummy was complaining after just 5 of 6 slices tonight. But at least I remembered to eat and not eating is what got my body into the massive problems it’s having at the moment. (I’m still looking at my arms and thinking they’re too thin still)

Thought for a laugh I’d show people why I’ve gone for the new telly …

This is a picture of the current one.

The red lines show the borders of where it stops showing anything. It’s squeezed the normal widescreen image into about a third of the screen.

Ho hum – perfect excuse to buy another telly 🙂 This time, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to have a working TV output from the desktop as well as the laptop, because the new one has S-Video connectors, which the current one doesn’t have.

Oh yeah, as well as the assorted rubbish, you’ll also see Dino the nodding dinosaur, Norbert the telly cleaner, one or two more presents, plus my (rather small) Pocket Dragon collection.

Footnote – the picture captured shows some of the best news to come out of Iraq for probably the past 2 years. Norman Kember and 2 of his fellow hostages were freed today in a bloodless assault. Good to see they got those guys out alive and that the evil people don’t always win. Thoughts are with the family of the one who didn’t make it out.

After giving up at half time yesterday to go home, I didn’t feel in much condition to come in this morning either …

I think I know where a fair few of my problems were coming from though – the numerous days without anything significant to eat had taken a big toll on me and my body. I’ve been doing a little better since the soups and last night’s half a dinner. Although I do need to remember to eat something now.

(puts kettle on for next batch of cup-a-soup)

Might be back into work tomorrow, although I won’t be fit to do the trip up norf for Mother’s Day.