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“Live life like you’re gonna die, because you’re gonna.” – William Shatner, You’ll have time
Brief moment of honesty, when I was a teenager, I was convinced I wouldn’t survive to see the age of 30. I now turn 30 in fourteen days, which will mark another point at where I was completely wrong as a teenager.
Recently, a friend’s friend passed away, and their discussion about death got me thinking about death.
I’ll admit, I was already on the fence about whether to continue playing when Cata came out. I have a guild I lead, and I was interested to see the new starting zones. On the other hand, I’ve killed Arthas, and The Old Republic is on the horizon. Still, I figured I’d reel it back to extreme casual for the expansion, try out the new areas, quest through the new stuff, maybe raid one night a week.
Now?
Fuck ‘em.
Continue reading ‘Heavy Lies the Crown – Giving up on the world. Of Warcraft’ »
With Arthas down, our sick healer has put in their two week, we’ve lined up a replacement, and are ready to continue on.
But what to do?
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I got in one day of swimming (20 laps of our pool), and one day of biking (8.5 miles) this past week. Unfortunately, for most of it I was in a bit of a depressed funk. More after the break.
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Stop trying to hit me and hit me!
When it comes to WoW, I’ve always been a healer. But, between constant absences, people quitting, and other conditions, I’ve now become a tank. Which is well, odd, but I’m getting used to it. It’s nice, because I had a fair set of Feral gear at the time, so I was quickly able to re-gear my character. But now that that’s been completed. I find myself worrying about threat. Specifically, which buttons to press in which order. But much like I have trouble prioritizing cat DPS properly, I find myself falling back and wishing that there was something I could fall back on for optimal threat on the druid.
So, I wrote my own OVALE script.
Basically, I took the existing bear script, took a chainsaw to anything that wasn’t a bear. Wondered why the heck that thing wasn’t working properly, removed a few more things, and ended up, with this:
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So, I promised an explanation in my last post. The QQ parade can be found behind the cut.
I play WoW for one reason and one reason only.
To kick Arthas’ ass up and down Icecrown Citadel.
In doing so, I recruited friends across the states and from the local area to help me out. From that start, of the original nine people I recruited, two remain. And I can fault none of them for leaving.
I’ve recently gotten into the Touhou project series of games, and I have to admit, I’m enjoying them. Now I just need to figure out a way to order them so that the one-man team gets his pay.
The reason I bring up zen is three fold. First, the person who creates these games goes by that as his name. Second, I recently finished reading the Tao Te Ching, and I found it an interesting counter-point to The Analects that I’ll go into more detail later. Third, played without firing a weapon, I find these games to be very relaxing. I consider it a type of zen-like meditation. Which is odd, considering it’s not the proper use of the word, and really…
Taken from the2bears.com
Dodging all of that can be quite focusing. And I would say that when I’m focused I’m more relaxed. So with that out of the way, here’s the progress update.
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Image taken from Penny Arcade
From things I never expected to say volume twelve:
“I really missed working out these past few weeks.”
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