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I'm sure there must be a few, I just haven't met 'em.

*sigh*  Anyway, td;lr version- I want to Arena for fun, my friends just want Welfare epics.  What would you do?

Kij from the guild <KillSwitch> has been hacked.

If you're in Kill Switch, or know someone from there, or can even just get anyone from there to listen to you please let them know.

I've tried warning them in game and on the forums, but it's pretty much fallen on deaf ears (ignores/rude language).  I like to think there might be some POLITE people in the guild, and would hate to see them get their stuff stolen.

The original keylogger posts in the forums have been deleted, or I would link them.

(I hope it's okay to post this here)

I have a few very low clothie alts, and I just wanted to ask:

How vital is it to have tailoring?

It seems like it would be a necessity to me, but I don't know  for sure, as I've never gotten a dress-wearer past 25 or so.  I know Blacksmithing isn't important at all for most classes (I have one-so I know why no one wants to take it, heh),  Leatherworking isn't bad, but Tailoring seems to be much more useful than either of the others.

I mainly ask because alchemy seems pretty fun and useful for a caster, too.  Perhaps even Engineering with the goggles and devices and whatnot.

Anyhow, and advice in that area would be very much appreciated.  Thanks!  ^,,^

For the first time ever, WoW has been really, truly depressing me.

I am what you would call a "casual player" by no stretch of the term.  I am home all day, but I have a small child, and thus can't get any real playing in anymore unless everyone is asleep.  I like to play for two or three hours most nights, sometimes more if I get a good group going.

I rolled on a PVP server a little over a year ago with a gaggle of rl friends, and it was awesome.  I started later than they did, and was way behind in level.  It was a little discouraging at times, but the game was fun, and I had my gchat.  Sometimes vent, too.  And grouping with their alts (especially after BC).

But, as most of them were working on their 2nd 70 (while I and a few others were in the 50's), the guild slowly began to die.  Some people got bored and quit, others wanted to raid and left for raiding guilds.  I stayed in the guild until there were only four active members left.  But, after not seeing another living soul on for nigh on two months, I /gquit.  I'd made a few  pretty cool friends in outlands, though.  And I got into a casual raiding guild, too (even if I not ready to yet, and would actually almost prefer arena). I hit 70, and was ready to devote some serious gaming time to battlegrounds.  Endgame was finally more than just a dream.

Now, the majority of my guild is back on WoW.  I was ecstatic to hear it, but...they've all rerolled on another server.  I was kind of bemused at first, but the full weight of having to do everything all over again (I made another undead warrior, of course) finally hit me this morning.  Normally I love making a new, cool guy.  But now I just feel like I could cry.  And again, a lot of people are already ahead of me by like twenty levels (it goes fast on PVE, if you have a lot of time to play), and I just want to scream.  I suppose I could try another class (I have been wanting to make a warlock for some time), it's just I've FINALLY gotten a lot of my "altitis" to pass, and am actually rather sick of the start zones.  For the first time, I find myself contemplating just straight up quitting WoW.

*sigh* If you're still reading, thank you for letting me get this off my chest.  I'm sure I'll get over all this and get back "in game", it's just rather daunting for me.

Man, I don't know what happened to Jaedenar forums, but the love is just GONE.  Seems to me that any post made by anyone is instantly flamed by someone else.  I miss when we had threads about Piecake, and Trogdor....now it's just "You suck", "No, YOU suck", "Go die in a fire", blah blah blah....

At least the Ravenholdt ones are cool.  Even if they've been a little on the dramatic side the last couple of days, too.

Maybe it's planetary influences.  Even my NWN server's forums have seen a been bit of drama, which is no easy feat for them...they're all pretty mature players for the most part.

Oh well, I have better things to worry about.  At 62, back to arms, and got some good gear. Enchanting's finally up in the 300's now. The last few active members in my guild are all around the same level now, so we can start getting ready for endgame.  We're not hardcore players really, so I'm guessing we have maybe a couple of months till Kara?  But who knows...it might go a lot faster than that.  I just wish our core hadn't got bored and quit WoW...but they had been playing since launch, and all had like 2 70's who were doing Kara once or twice a week for awhile, so I can see that.

Anyway, off to bed goes I.  I just hope I can bloody sleep...

I respecced to Prot.  I had to.  Everything just kept swarming me and killing me. In Hellfire Peninsula.  Oh yes, that's right

I AM NOW IN THE OUTLANDS!  FEEL MY MIGHT!

I miss endless rage and second wind, but, DAMN...I used to be able to take a punch, now I can take a SEMI TRUCK FROM GNOMER!!

Plus my hunter is now 40.  With a red outfit and a black chocobo (yeah, shut up, they're chocobos).  Sexy sexy SEXY!

I also made a mage to dink around on.  My first male character, and my favorite try at mage.  Cranky old man PWNS sexy blonde any day when it comes to making chickens explode randomly.

And now, back to the pink drinks!

Sadly, though, I must give it up.  At least some of it, along with the most fattening.  Like processed cheese. And whipped cream.  And untold amounts of the junk I've been eating.  Seriously, I've never eaten as badly as I have the last few months.  At least, not since the summer before I went to college.

Between that and being completely devoid of exercise, it's no wonder I weigh 170 pounds.  A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS!! IT'S SICKENING!!

Although, I suppose it could be worse.  At least it spreads itself evenly, instead of ALL going to, say, and ass or stomach area.

I was thinking about picking up DDR and a dance pad...until I saw like 8 youtube videos of really, REALLY big people who were really, REALLY good at it.  So, I'm guessing it's not as good a weight loss tool as I'd hoped.

I want an egg sammich for breakfast, with ham.  I should probably have cereal, but...bah...I'll have it for lunch.
I'll just skip the cheese for now.

...and on an unrelated note, Annabellee is level 57.  I hope I can hit 70 before the new expansion. (Don't laugh, I level really, really SLOWLY.)

Unfortunately, not the rich, sexy night owl type.

The man is a sleep vampire. A GODDAMN SLEEP VAMPIRE.  And he's sucking out all my zz's. It's just not fair.

I don't sleep well.  But I usually go down eventually for 5-6 hours as a general rule.
But not lately.  Lately, it's been more like two hours.  Four in the middle of the day sometimes, if my son is good in his crib for awhile after he wakes up from his nap.

My husband sleeps ten hours a day.  Twelve if he can.  Bastard.
I'm SO gonna stake his ass if he doesn't get up soon so I can go out today.
I'M SO BORED!

Last night, around 9...

Me: Honey, come here...
Husband: What?
Me: Hon, look at how many ants are in the sink...
Husband: Those traps are good for three months.
Me: No, really, come here and LOOK how many damn ants are in the sink. There's like a hundred of 'em
Husband: Well, those traps are good for three months.
Me: No, really, you need to buy more ant poison. The ants have been swarming the sink for two days now.
Husband: Well, I don't know what to tell you...
Me: I want the goddamn ants out of the goddamn kitchen!!
Husband: Those traps are good for three months.
Me: <unintelligible, muffled noises>
Husband: What's for dinner?
Me: I'm goin' to bed.

On an unrelated note, Overlord is now my new favorite video game.

I am giddy with lack of sleep, although I am no longer tired.

I need a shower and clean clothes, and these I shall have this morn. COME HELL OR HIGHWATER!! BRAAAH!!

Seriously, everything is hillarious to me right now.  I want to play a video game so bad, but have temporary ADD or something.  So I'm looking up random junk on Youtube.  Man, there are a LOT of messed up Snape fans out there....I mean, you know, more messed up than me. About Snape.  I'm just messed up in general.

Anyway, I haven't thought about anything to REALLY rant about.  WAIT! Yes I have!!!

THERE ARE ^(#*&@(*! ANTS IN MY ^*&!^*@^*&# KITCHEN!!   WHY?!  WHYYYYYYYY!?!?!?   &^@(*&^#(*@&(*@&@(*&#(*@&#(*@&#

...and that's it for me, folks.

Good question...guess I've just been too busy to post.

Finally been managing to keep the living room clean, now I just need to get the kitchen done, then I can do the bedrooms.  God, my house sucks.  You think it'd stay clean for at least a few days...especially in the room no one is even USING, but NO...

I finally found a decent rppvp server on World of Warcraft (Ravenholdt), which I no longer have a character on.  Horde side is awesome, but I rerolled Alliance there, which didn't go so well (I'm guessing mainly due to my play hours).  So, I've kind of been meaning to make another Mage there, but I may end up transferring a guy or two...which I hate to do because it's so expensive (I wish you could transfer more than one for 25 dollars, I mean, It's still a straight "from here to here" transfer for everyone).  My guild on Jaednar is pretty inactive anymore...I'm guessing all the people with two lvl 70's finally got bored, at least for awhile...the ones that didn't go to other guilds, anyway.  I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, though, myself! Hit lvl 56 last week, and I get half a level with every Blackrock Depths run, so I'll be in outlands pretty soon.  'bout bloody time, too.  My Hunter is a level and a half from mail armor and a mount, too, which is pretty awesome. I just need Herod's shoulder and I'm all set with a sexy red outfit (and YES, I know that thing has crap hunter stats, but it looks so COOL).  I'm just not looking forward to all the BG's I'll have to do to get her Kodo Mount...but it'll be worth it.  At least I can do em at any level because I'm a hunter, and a pretty good one, if I say so myself.

I'M PLAYING RAVENLOFT!!!  For shits and giggles, I went online with NWN a little over a week ago, and found a gem in the "Prisoners of the Mist" server.  Back when I played years ago (and I mean YEARS ago), there were lots of Ravenloft servers, but only for modules (and a lot of them a bit lackluster).  This Ravenloft persistent world is just awesome...very true to the setting with very good DM's and plots.  If you happen to be reading this, have Neverwinter Nights, and like Ravenloft, you NEED TO CHECK IT OUT.

http://www.nwnravenloft.com/

God...I need to get a life lol.

Although, between my Son and Never-ending barrage of housework, I guess I should be glad I have time to play as much as I do.  Yay Gamers~!

I wish we had a Starbuck's in my town.

Say what you will about them, they make a damn fine caramel frappucino.  I want one.  Right now.  With whipped cream and caramel drizzled over it.  That, truly, is the ambrosia of all coffees.

I got NWN 2 finally.  Pretty good so far, but I like the first one better.  A good analogy would be NWN is to NWN2 is what Baldur's Gate is to Baldur's Gate 2.  I also liked the original BG more than BG2 (not by a LOT-both awesome games...BG just had more of what I like to call the "sheer fun factor").  NWN even has the same BG2 Travel map.  I like actually running around the open plains to explore much better, but, what are you gonna do?  Haven't tried it online yet, but maybe I can finally get a good rp fix.

I'm still doing okay on Silvemaine (Moon Guard, WoW), but I never seem to either the time nor inclination to play her during "normal" type play hours.  Ah well.  I haven't even played WoW in like a week.  Not since I got GUNBOUND!!! I love that game so much...

I feel as though I should say more, but....

I wanna go play video games now.

Our monitor had a seizure last night.  It didn't die outright, but it could no longer project the color red....except for bright, spasmodic, full-screen flashes of it.  I hooked up an old clunker monitor we had.  When my husband saw what had happened, he could take no more and whisked us off to Wal Mart, and we brought home our new baby.

I'm still getting used to the flatness of the monitor and keyboard...the picture quality is awesome, but something about a monitor only one inch thick still unsettles me a bit; it reminds me of a face with no head in back.

The body of the PC itself is AWSOMECOOLGORGEOUSSTUNNING!   If Darth Vader were a computer, this is what he would look like.  So, we decided to name our computer "Darth PC".

Welcome to your new home ^,^

On an unrelated and somewhat ironic note...

I fell asleep earlier.  I just couldn't keep my eyes open.  I was still tired when my husband woke me up coming home.  I was hungry, though, so I eventually got up to make my dinner.  I jumped on the PC for an intended 10-15 minutes...but when Jacob and the baby went to bed, the quiet set in...and PING! Awake!!

So now, I can't sleep.  At all.  So screw it.  I'm going to stay up until my husband wakes up at 6 for work.  It's almost three now, so this will not be a problem.  I do think I'm going to go down to the 7-11 to get a coffee and some laundry change (if they'll give it to me-the bastards!  I know the clerks are supposed to be rude, but these ones sometimes deny service when they get a hair up their butt.  Or they just tell you the debit card machine is "down"/"broken"  when they feel like they want to drink the cocoa you just made yourself).

Anyhow, till next time

Good morning.

Sunlight gives you tumors.

My quest goes on for a decent rp server.  So far, the consensus seems to be Moon Guard.  At least, for Horde side. Curiously enough, this was the first rp server I tried ever.  It was really pretty good, but it was just too flooded with idiots when it was first created two or three weeks before BC came out. I had a human warlock named Jain whom I (regrettably) deleted when I got disgusted with all the jerks on the server, as well as my guild that started out awesome but devolved in a matter or a week and a half.  But I have some definate ideas of horde characters I want to play. Alliance ones too.   Curse my roleplaying style!  I just love to make characters!  It's cool to make a bunch for Dungeons and Dragons, but it doesn't seem to work as well for WoW.  Why does WoW have to take up so much time?! lol 

Ah well.  Guess I just gotta dive right in.  I just don't like to waste time testing the water with servers.  You have to spend like an hour or two just to see what they're like, and if you try that on a few servers, that can eat up your week if you're like me and don't have a whole lot of time to play.

On that note, my main, Annabellee, has finally hit 47.  My husband's new main, Frostblood, is 49.  He is such an ASS! lol...ah well, he gets to play in longer stretches than I do, and that seems to be the key.

...

Time to make another character.  Laters!

*side note- according to my Husband, the ferrets I showed him on petfinder were definately NOT Samus and Mouse.  He then said I was going even blinder than I already am. Stupid cheap medical coupon glasses.  I really, really need new/better ones (so does my Husband for that matter)...but I think we're getting a new computer instead.  Which I really don't want to do, but ours is on it's last legs.  It'll be a good computer to run '98 on though...to play Baulder's Gate again.... *sigh*

My sister in law had her baby last night by emergency c-section.  We went to visit, but Noah was being so cranky we didn't get to stay long... but we saw a picture of the baby and he looked fairy healthy.

Then we got Jack-in-the-Box and went home.  After a stop for gas.

Then Jacob played WoW for awhile, then I played WoW for awhile.  Then they went to bed and I can't sleep...even though all I wanted to do all day was go back to bed.  Stupid internal wiring.... I guess it's just inertia.  I need to get over it; it's killing me.  It's suffocating my insides and strangling my brain.   I get the worst headaches sometimes...

Ah well.  I've just got to get it together.  Starting with cleaning the house.  It looks like bums/college students live here or something.  Hopefully I can at least get the kitchen floor clean.

Till then,

Good Morning

I'm about 90% sure I just found my ferrets on Petfinder.  The ferrets I gave to someone almost a year ago.  This upsets me very much.  I know it shouldn't...this person had never had ferrets before, but she seemed like she would give a good home to them.  Now they're at a ferret ranch.  I know I should be happy about this (since I absolutely can't have them at the apartment-that's why we gave them away).  I plan to call the ferret ranch and snoop tomorrow just to make sure.

And good god...they were re-christened "Precious" and "Valerie".  They used to be "Samus" and "Mouse".  Seems I also Vomit on the inside, too.

We've had the game for about six months, and my main guys is level 46.  Level forty-freakin-six.

My husband just made a new troll rogue about a month and a half ago.  He's level 43.

All my guildmates want me to hit 70, but they NEVER go questing with me, let alone power level me.  I'm trying so hard to grind I don't even have fun just doin quests like I used to.  And don't even get me STARTED on those level 70 assholes who troll areas just for people to kill because THEY have all the time in the goddamn world to play (those people should get big boils on their bottoms so they can't sit down to play-maybe then they wouldn't take WoW time for granted).

I make alts, play them till anywhere from lvl 16-25, then get so freaking bored/sick of the sight of them I end up deleting them.  If you combined the levels of all my deceased alts, it would probably be in the 150 range.  Granted, it goes faster in the early levels, but still!

AND I CAN'T FIND A GOOD ROLEPLAYING GUILD OR SERVER!  WoW would be AWESOME to roleplay in...if people would STAY IN FUCKING CHARACTER!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  This wouldn't bother me so bad, but I love warlock and rogue.  Unfortunately, they are NO FUN FOR ME unless I can give them VIBRANT personalities.  Very hard to do on a PvP server.

AND I CAN'T MAKE A PALADIN I LIKE!  I play Horde, and made like four blood elves when the expansion came out. One of which was a pally.  Who I deleted because I had too many guys all around the same level and it was taking up like 3 hours a day just merchanting between them all. Now, I MISS HER SO FUCKING MUCH.  I had her to level 25...sigh...I've tried making clones, but it's just not the same....maybe if I make a clone with a different name or something....

The worst part? I CAN'T STOP PLAYING! NOT EVER!  I swear, they encode subliminal addiction code in that thing or something.

*sigh*

I'm gonna try roleplaying on Moonguard again.  And making another Paladin.  And in two weeks, I'll still be just as frustrated.

Good night. Morning. Day.  Blah.

I didn't do anything today. Not one damn thing.  I sat on my ass all day.  I suppose it could have been worse.

My husband is sick with the same stomach virus I was stricken with last week.  It's not pretty, so this sucks.  Looks like I'll have to reschedule a couple of appointments.  I just hope I can get a load or two of dishes and laundry done tomorrow.

I almost want to go to bed early, but now I can't friggin sleep.

Wait! I DID do something today!!  I forgot to turn the bloody oven off after I made a pizza, so now it's like 80 degrees in here. Far, far too warm....hopefully it'll cool down in a couple of hours.

...

What a boring damn day.

...I want spaghetti.