Gitr

I’m still here and kicking. I’m also still playing (moderately) the AH and getting a quest done here and there. It’s time to get out the door to an appointment, but then back here for some more R&R before going back to work on Monday. 🙁

The bed is made, the flowers are on the table, I’m clean and clean-shaven. The tux and change of clothes are in the car, and the best man is on his way over. The big day has finally arrived. I couldn’t even say the vows last night in rehearsal without choking. I really do hope today goes better there.

Last night’s bachelor’s party was just what I wanted. We went to a nice, dark Italian cafe for desserts (I had a complimentary groom’s vesuvio) and gag gifts. Actually, some of them were useful, and all of K’s gifts sound like, um, fun. 🙂

Why must people insist on inviting priests and warriors into groups before establishing communication with them? I can’t really speak for other classes, although Grimr as a hunter has far, far more playtime than Deadr does.

With Gitr, it was a constant stream of invitations as I was on grifs or grinding away through every level. Someone somewhere wanted a tank, and dadgummit, they were going to invite one. I can’t count how many times I accepted, hoping the best from this person, such as them actually having a full group that was going to work and only needed a tank. I also can’t count how many times it was one person starting with me and wanting me to help them fill their group; or worse yet, a group that had no chance of making it through an instance. Sometimes I would leave the group, and sometimes I worked my butt off to try to get it to work, only to have someone in an underpowered group leave.

Deadr has to be over 20 invitations without consent by now. It’s ridiculous. You wouldn’t invite someone over to your house without talking to them first. Likewise, you shouldn’t risk the gear, money, and time of you and everyone in the party by not having any more clues than level, guild, and class. It’s not like Deadr is a stinking celebrity priest that everyone wants to heal their parties going into RFK, but I sure do get a lot of whispers about it. I don’t mind whispers, it’s the invites that piss me off to no end.

I frequently have to put up my /AFK or /DND to get anything done. There are nights that I just need to grind for XP, and running around and sharing XP is not the way to level. It’s fun, sure, but not fast. To those reading this who have grouped with me, if you are on my Friends list, you are another story. Abull can whisper or invite me any time, because I know he will pull together a quality group in no time.

Enough ranting. What do you all think? Am I justified in getting my robes into a wad over invites?

I just checked the site’s stats on browser share. When I was creating the re-build here at the office with IE, it looked great. I made a lot of adjustments trying to get some things to go where I wanted them and had many, many adjustments not show any visible changes to the page.

I got home and was horrified to see the layout with Firefox 1.5. I was embarrassed that 38% of my audience was viewing it that way. What would they think? Surely, it was something like: “That idiot sure doesn’t know anything about CSS!” I would attribute that fear to some of my personal issues to bring up with my shrink, but I am still embarrassed.

I looked at the original template that I started with, and it displays fine in Firefox, so apparently some of my tweaks that didn’t make a change in IE affected the “trueness” of the code for other browsers.

Is there a way to avoid this in the future, or to just plain fix it the way it is? I consulted CSS sites frequently to make things do what I wanted. It didn’t work out very nicely, though.

Oh my!!

I’ll be a married man this weekend. No nervousness yet. I’m just glad it’s finally here. Hopefully it works out to be an entire day of everyone telling me what to do when so I don’t have to think. Then I get to follow that up with an entire week of vacation and my wife is taking two weeks off.

I picked up the tux yesterday. It fits great. It is a Tommy 2-button with square-toed shoes and a wine vest and neck tie. They should make something like that for priests to wear in-game.

Two more days, that’s all I can say about my day.

Welcome to the brand-new design. I’ve been working on it now since 7am. When I get home sometime tonight, I’m going to try to get an image in the header and some gradients in the side columns, but both of them have some strange padding and margins that are giving me fits.

Here is where this all started from: Word Press Theme Viewer.