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Ding 22; Loving Teleport

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/played:  20h 36m @ level 21.

After picking up my Staff of the Sun in Deatholme with the help of Jikksta and the willingness to take a zep by Kelthias, I finished out the questline by going to UC after I turned in Kel’gash’s Head. Of course, being in the mage quarters in SM simply meant using the orb to teleport to UC, walk over to the portal trainer, and learn the UC teleport spell.

After speaking to Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, I needed to go speak to Warchief Thrall in Org. Hmm…how should I best go about that? I opted for the instant teleport rather than waiting for a stupid blimp and all of that running involved. Then he wanted me to go back to SM! LOL. I teleported again, with much glee and delight.

I’m up in Ashenvale for now, but not for long, I think. I’ll get some pretty good questing done in The Barrens, I’m sure. What did you do last night?

WoW Toons are Glorified Tamagotchi

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I was discussing games with a co-worker yesterday and was mildly disappointed that he doesn’t play the best game ever, but…I overlooked that point in the interest of the conversation. His love is Grand Theft Auto, and he plays it a LOT.

I really don’t have any experience playing it, although I got a GTA 3-pack from Best Buy about 2 years ago to play on my laptop because of its limited gaming ability. I think he’s a few releases down the road from me, but at least I know what he is talking about.

What got him about the latest version was the constant need to take care of his guy. There was food, and clothes, and sleep, and all kinds of stuff that he said belongs in The Sims, not in a car-jacking game. [Read more…] about WoW Toons are Glorified Tamagotchi

Ding 21; Exalted with Tranquillien

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It was a fine time doing stuff all by my lonesome doing questing and following Joana’s Horde Leveling Guide pretty closely. There are a couple of times that I’ve done a quest that I didn’t need to, or gone to a trainer when he didn’t say, but then again, I can teleport. When you aren’t playing straight through, too, you can use hearth more often to fly to a city and then hearth back when he says in the guide.

Kelthias asked me in guild chat last night how I like the guide. I LOVE it! I have all of the maps I need, all the paths to take, all the areas to find kill quest mobs, videos for help, and it’s all in an organized manner to eliminate backtracking.

/played:  18h 28m @ level 21.

Where’s Frostr?

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Frostr hasn’t seen much playing time this week because of all the crap after work that’s been going on. I got him to X-roads and Camp Turajo last night and completed 2 quests this morning. I’m still a ways away from leveling, so it looks like it will be more than 2 hours for this level. 🙁

I logged in Deadr this morning to make Frostr a pair of Spidersilk Boots and enchanted them with Minor Speed before sending them away. They were for sale for 12g, but I made them for 8g. Yay for uber alts. He still needs to get the staff from the Ghostlands quest in Deatholme, but I can always teleport now. 🙂 That may save as much time on the guide as not having Aspect of the Cheetah. I have access to Org, UC, and SM. I believe TB is at level 30 or 40.

Get Linked: A Contest! Comment or Lose…

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After receiving comments and several private e-mails, I pared down my link list…a LOT. Some of you will notice that only a few remain, and it looks like I probably deleted a few that I want to put back up (sorry Problogger!). Looking at other blogs, the list is still too long and needs to be cut back some more.

I propose a contest. We all like sales, shows, and contests, right?

I will be deleting links to blogs that don’t leave a comment to this post. Some will stay just by virtue that I love your blog, but if you read on, you will see a bonus to commenting and such. There are some rules, of course:

  1. No gold-farming, pay-to-level, or questionable sites will get a link.
  2. It must be updated at least weekly. If I go there and the last post was December…well, get on the ball.
  3. Follow rules 1 & 2.

IF you write a review on your blog of my blog, or especially your favorite post on my blog, then I will assign you a higher rank than the others and will see about displaying the list according to rank.

The deadline is Monday morning when I come in to work around 6:30am.

EDIT: I don’t want anyone to think this is being harsh. I loved having my link list, but it was the longest thing on my site. This excellent comment by Josh was what pushed me off my butt to do some house-cleaning:

Your page shouldn’t be 2/3 links, 1/3 content at any viewing “angle”.

While horizontally, this will still be the case, it won’t have the amount of content to scroll through and detract from my writing.

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Registered and Booked for SOBCon 07

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I got all of my ducks in a row yesterday and got my plane ticket, hotel room, and registered for SOBCon 07!

I’m a-goin’ and I’m gonna love it! My plane arrives barely in time for the grand opening on Friday night, but I’m only doing a carry-on, so it will just be a matter of notifying the hotel of my flight for the shuttle. I leave at 7:00 the next day, giving me enough time to get back to the airport and through security to be home a mere 30 hours after I left the day before.

I have several parties to thank, though I did not give permission to use names, so here are some generalities:

  • For sponsoring my admission costs, I thank one of Liz’s readers who is unable to attend.
  • For sponsoring my plane ticket, I had 7 contributions that came out to $5.30 more than what I needed. Nothing wasted at all, as I’m sure 2 Cokes at the airport will take care of that. Thank you.
  • For sponsoring my hotel bill, I thank one of the speakers who has bestowed some tasks upon me in preparation. What I most love about that deal is, despite needing to complete work, I am taking what I was asked to do as an honor and a privilege.

I know this blog isn’t about blogging or writing, but those skills play a major role in the content that you read every day, and I hope that when I return your experiences will all reap massive benefits from what I learn and experience in Chicago.

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