Gitr Knows WoW

I remember back in the day, when subwoofers were the newest craze, that I got a 3 speaker system. It had 2 small satellite speakers and an 8″ subwoofer.

I was all excited hooking it up and went to play my favorite game at the time: Warcraft 2. My parents were in the living room watching a movie with the sound up pretty loud, and my subwoofer took over the entire house… on volume setting 1. I LOVED THAT BASS!!… my dad made me return it the next day 🙁

Blizzard has incredible soundtracks and the movies have always played on any system I have, no matter how out-of-date it has been.

For those of you who are staying up late, far past when your wives (or husbands) go to bed, what are you thinking? WoW does not even compare. This is one WoW’er that will at no time compromise that for new bracers, a ding, or even taking down Rag. Never. 

I got some good play time in yesterday during a very miserable NY/TB game with winds so high that there wasn’t any offense. No offense is fine, if the defense is good, but geesh, make something happen on the ground if your arm is too pansy to throw the ball in the wind. Then to make matters worse, they pulled my Tiki Barber out to let someone else score on the ground when they decided to take my advice and start running the ball.

So, with a game like that, it’s easy to get distracted and play WoW. Granted, I was doing it on my laptop, so I didn’t partake in any killing or anything that might get me killed when the hard drive decides to chew on new landscape data at the most inopportune time. I got some shellfish to get some Bloodbelly fish to go back to the tauren by the Kodo Graveyard in Desolace. Then I delivered a letter to a tauren at the Great Lift.

I think Deadr is up to about 40% through level 33 now, and I’m sure he has the full 30 bars of rest built up from my honeymoon. The only thing I did most of the week was mail and auction hall. I’ve got over 120G in auctions right now, and I suspect I’ll have a lot of mail when I get home from expired auctions.

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.