A New Challenger Approaches

So, it was nice to finally update for the first time in a while yesterday. Only thing I forgot to do was remember to post last night so I could start getting into the swing of things. Sure I do get some time at work here and there, but I cannot think of it that way. I need to collect my thoughts at the end of the day and post it then, and if I think of things during the day, then I could jot them down to add in my entry at night. So I’m going to make a short post now in case I do end up forgetting to say something tonight.

Let’s go backwards and see how that goes: The night ended late with me winning a warsong gulch on my druid (spec’d boomkin). I originally rolled the druid in BC to get into some arena teams with friends back when resto druid / anything was the way to go. Luckily paladins have come into their own in this expansion and this arena season specifically, so I had been playing the paladin more. Having already grinded all the gear I could with honor and arena points available to me (only having a weapon/shield/libram left to get before I’m pvp gear capped), I decided to level the druid and do it all over again. I’m leaning towards still being a healer, but for now, I’m boomkin and enjoying it.

Before that, we were running Brandon (one of Goochy’s friends) through The Nexus and Azjol’Nerub. He recently hit 70 and we thought it’d be cool to run the instances on our available level 70 toons with him…but after some problems in Utgarde Keep the night before (last boss), we decided it’d be easier to just run him through with 80s and be done with it (except Jace who was on his DK). Right before helping him out, we had finished a Wintergrasp and AB, which gave me enough honor points to snag up my hateful neckpiece.

Recently we had regrouped our 5s team HUGAG with Carl (Grizzlylimon – DK), Jace (Errand – Holy Paly), Goochy (Hunter), Will (Ret Paly), and myself (Holy Paly). We did our last few matches for the week last night, starting with a match where Jace was actually bugged out with a death grip. It was in everyone’s favorite buggy arena map, Orgrimmar Arena. The pillars that come up and go down now and then will cause people to disconnect from the game if they are feared near them, or in my case just walk near them to get out of LoS. Jace however was death gripped and somehow pulled down into the elevator that normally brings the teams up to the actual arena. It was the first time that I’ve ever been in a 47 minute long match, and the reason we took it out that long was because the last patch put into place the “45 minute rule”, meaning any matches that reach that long will automatically cause both teams to lose 16 points. Why it went over 2 additional minutes is beyond me (I guess the initial minute pregame and for the elevator to rise up?).

Ugh, I can’t stand some of the people I work with.

I have a few movies I’d like to watch this week, at least one tonight after raid. Last night’s The Big Bang Theory wasn’t too bad, I always enjoy Sheldon and Howard, they’re my favorites. Ooh, I was able to use my Circuit City gift card last night after work. I got a pack of 4 tapes for my camera, ended up being like $19.50 or something, so the entire card paid for it, leaving a whopping $0.50 left! They had an H30 at the store (my camera is an H20) for like $720-ish. Not a bad deal if I do say so myself, but let’s go check Amazon…Hmm $615-ish. Maybe I’ll wait to see if the price goes down anymore. Either way, If I do or don’t pick up the camera (which I would really like to, especially since I’m getting $500 for the gig anyway, it’d be a nice investment), I’m gonna need additional batteries (ran quite low last wedding). And if I do get the camera, I’ll need to not only still locate the attachment piece to my current tripod, but purchase another tripod for the new one. I could theoretically use one on the tripod (new cam) and the other on my shoulder mount…that wouldn’t be too bad.

Ahh well, that’s it for now.

*listening to The Bird and The Bee – Again & Again*