Gitr Knows WoW

Saturday afternoon I finally had enough mats to get a Lionheart Helm crafted. It’s only my fourth epic piece, after a ring, my Heroism gloves, and my gun. Slowly, but surely, I’m getting some gear.

Today I completed my last two exams for Office XP and Office 2003 that brings my total to four exams per version and gives me the right to be certified as a MOS Master in both versions.

Pending management approval, I’ll be going to Orlando in September to take a course in presentation skills that will allow me to apply to be both an MOS Master Instructor and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), both of which the Company will pay all the fees and dues associated with those.

It’s a really exciting time for our department for getting more recognition of our skillbase to justify our desires for increased compensation. These certifications are just screaming in their offices saying “competant computer engineers,” rather than simple red-line fixers that HR thinks we are.

Now that my brain is totally mush from taking 8 exams in 4 days, I’m going to veg tomorrow by playing WoW for hours.

I took a month off, and I’ve decided that WoW still has the most interest and gameplay of any of the games I have. I even dabbled in Maple Story, Entropia, and other free MMORPGs. They are either uninteresting, difficult to figure out the controls and UI, or not really free.

I created a new pally one night and got him up to level 7, but started playing Gitr again on Saturday. I’ve got him back to place where he can earn enough money to have fun. All of my toons were dead broke when I stopped a month ago. Gitr had 44s to his name.

I took him to Burning Steppes and started killing the little packs of fire demons in the lava rivers and made my way to the orcs west of the Ruins to get their money and drops. Very soon I had enough money to get a few Heart of Fires and started up with the transmutations. Then I started back up with AH scanning for deals and reselling. It really doesn’t take much when you know what you’re doing.

This morning I logged in with Grimr and transmuted an Arcanite Bar that I sent him the crystal for last night. 4 more bars to go for my Lionheart Helm.

The next thing on my list was continuing my Heroism questline. I looked all over my log for what quest I was working on. Then I went to the king’s room in IF to see where she wanted me to go. She had nothing of importance to say. After looking at the entire process on Wowwiki, I remembered that I still have to do a 45 minute Baron run. SHOOT!

I’ll get right on that.

On Saturday I proposed to my girlfriend of 3 1/2 years at the beach. She said, “yes,” and all the usual stuff followed. Nervousness on the way to see her parents, excitement when they saw the ring that they knew would be arriving at their house that day, a nice dinner at a favorite Italian restaurant, and then to see my parents.

What a weekend!

What a woman!

Sorry for the lack of posts, but my ex-roommate, who moved out of state left the cable and Internet under his name when he vamoosed. Under his name, there was nothing I could do to transfer service at our address to my name and cancel cable TV. Friday, it was disconnected with no warning. As much as I’d like to post his full name, address, and phone number, that would be wrong. 🙂 Very wrong. But it would be fun. Very fun.

I’ll be back online next Saturday when the technicians are first able to hook me up again. Until then, it’s lots of reading, Blockbuster, and sleep.

Things don’t appear to be as bad off as they seemed at first. Arguably, $15/mo isn’t all that much, so it’s possible I’ll just take some time off to finish up Call of Duty 2 and check out Second Life. I downloaded Second Life Sunday morning, but didn’t get to play past teleporting to the mainland after the tutorial.

I REALLY need an AGP card, but my motherboard somehow doesn’t have a slot. It’s a 2 year old Dell P4 and can’t imagine why the mobo is PCI only. I have an nVidia GeForce2 dual video card for doing graphic design on 2 screens, but the PCI just doesn’t cut it for high-end games. That is waaayyy down the list of priorities, though, so I’ll just have to get my Heroism set with my old card. 🙂