Oh I’m still around..and around..and around

0 | August 20th, 2010 | Posted in General

Ok so it’s been a crazy summer and didn’t get a chance to write to you all and I do apologize for that but, I know you understand with sons that play baseball, and work it was crazy I didn’t even get a chance to take the family on a vacation this year.

So here are some updates on what is going on with me and my Vida loca…

  1. I completed the Lore Master Title and according to several different web sites and pod cast if you are going to do it get it done before Cataclysm because it’s won’t be there.
  2. Picked up Star Craft 2 and let me just say awesome RTS if you like type of game get SC2 even if you didn’t like SC1 which I didn’t but however I love SC2 go figure.
  3. Got a new boss and so far so good seems to be allot nicer and has a present disposition.
  4. My oldest son is now in 7th grade how the time flies.
  5. One more year of coaching pee-wee basketball and then I’m done, I think….

Well that pretty much sums up my summer and all that, I hope you had a great summer as well, until next time you take care.

Less is more, or is it?

0 | June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Have We Lost Our Minds?, Real Life

Ok let’s break this down shall we?  I try to be green, but hey I’m no Ed Begley Jr. or for that matter who would want to taking it to that extreme is insane if you ask me.  Having to ride a bicycle just to make a piece of toast?  Enough with chasing rabbits, and back to the reason for my post.

/soapbox on

All right so I try to drink allot of water and do get most of this from you every day run of the  mill water faucet, however sometimes this is not practical and I have to buy a bottle of water.  I know that allot of people buy it by the gallon, or even 5 gallon because the water they have access to at home is not really drinkable and I understand this.  However some great mind decided to come up with the idea to reduce the amount of plastic in each water bottle made.  Now I don’t know who this egg head is but, I’m tired of trying to open a water bottle and it being so damn soft and flexible that when you try to unscrew the lid it will actually put so much pressure that water will literally explode out of the mouth once the lid is removed.   Next you can’t leave it open and sitting on your desk because the damn things will literally collapse dumping water out all over the place. 

I understand we need to conserve our resources, but tell me why in the hell can’t we melt down the used water bottles and recycle them?  Could we then maybe spare a little more plastic so I wouldn’t have to get doused with water?

/soapbox off

I don’t know if you have experienced anything like this or not but please share you stories with me if you have.

Lore Master

0 | May 24th, 2010 | Posted in World Of Warcraft

Well to pass time between dungeons I decided to get the Loremaster Title, so as most of you I have been playing for several years and so when I decided to undertake this task I was a little perplexed because first off which toon do I take, I have a plethora of toons.  I decided to go with my Pally since he was the first and I felt it was only right.  I then began to wonder about what quest had I done and let’s not forget that I have been playing this toon for over 5 years!  I started looking around and found these two mods which is helping greatly.  I was able to complete the Eastern Kingdom Sunday evening and have started on the Kalimdor.  If you’re wanting to get this title as well I suggest picking up these two addon’s.

Loremaster <–Great tool you can actually poll the server and see what you have completed.

Everyquest <–You can get a list of every quest out there compare to what you have done in Loremaster and bing bang your done.

Everyquest Quest Giver Database <–Database of all quest givers in the wow.

You will still want to beat your head against the wall when you get to Kalimdor but these two addon’s will help you stream line your time there.

The Big Tease

0 | May 13th, 2010 | Posted in World Of Warcraft

As I have discussed here I play wow, not as much here lately with the son’s playing base ball my afternoon’s and a couple of nights a week are taken up with practice, and games.  I’m even lucky that some of the games fall on the weeknd’s, oh the joy.  Anyway I still read a few of the different blogs out there that concern wow to try and keep a some what educated idea of what is going on.  Over the last couple of days one of my more frequented blogs has had some interesting comments and dare I say almost in a giddy state, that possibly a return of BRK?  Daniel, BRK’s alter ego has made a couple of post with banter between him and GhostCrawler.  You can find that conversation at Daniel’s current blog.

Now I don’t know exactly what Daniel/BRK and GhostCrawler have going but, I have to say I have greatly missed the writings and style of BRK and his way of explaining hunter data to us.

I know that I totaly sound like a mark or a BRK groupie but, I don’t care I have missed the little drunken dwarf known as Big Red Kitty.

She Tried To Kill Me

0 | May 12th, 2010 | Posted in Before I was crazy

My wife tried to kill me, I swear to you all she did!  It was June 18, 1996 and my wife and I had been married a total of 3 days, so technically we where still on the honeymoon right?  The company I worked for at the time was not family friendly so I basically got the weekend off for my wedding and that was it.  I had been out working in the hot sun all day so I was hot, tired and sweaty when I got home, and my new bride wanting to be the “Betty Crocker” of house wives brought me a tall cold glass of iced sweet tea to me. 

Now I was over joyed at this point, the apartment was clean, supper was cooking on the stove and smelt wonderful, so other than being hot, tired and sweaty life was great, I was married and out of the rat race that is the whole dating scene. I was sitting on the couch and sharing with my wife the hellish day I had.

Then I took a drink of the tall, cold glass of sweet ice tea my wife had brought to me.  This is where it all came crumbling down around me friends. 

At this point you need some history, in the south we pride our selves on the making of our sweet tea and let me just say that no two peoples tea will ever taste the same, the chemical make up is different from tea to tea and, in some cases a person’s sweet tea recipe is a cherished and well protected secret.  The tea make up is affected by different things such as brand of tea bag, how may tea bags you use, the water quality that you have access to, type of sugar that is used, amount of sugar that is used, when the sugar is added.  Bottom line folks it’s a complicated process and I will argue that when you order you ice tea at a restaurant and you attempt to make it sweet tea by adding 10 million of those little packets of sugar it is not sweet tea it’s tea with a mound of sugar slush at the bottom of the glass.  So as I was stepping out of the door, my wife again wanting to be the the perfect southern wife asked me how did “I” make my sweet tea, ok for me to tell this I will have to divulge some of my secret tea recipe however I will not tell all.  My reply ” In the coffee maker just put a couple of bags in the glass thing with some sugar and run a full 12 cups of water thought it, that will make a gallon. 

Ok so my wife does this, can anyone guess what step she forgot?  The sugar some of you might say and you would be wrong, did she forget to put two bags of tea in the coffee pot? Again you would be mistaken, she forgot to remove the filter and coffee grounds from that mornings coffee!  So when I took my huge drink of Sweet Iced Tea expecting great things I literally got a double shot of caffeine that almost caused me head to explode not to mention the taste was well let’s just say not good.  I would like to say that this was a isolated event but, it wasn’t this same thing happened a couple more times. 

Good news is that she has come up with her own process, and I no longer use sugar but have moved on to a substitute in a attempt to remove sugar out of my diet and all is well and we are still married, that’s all that really matters isn’t it?