Maximum Damage

There really is no reason that I haven't been posting a blog entry every day. I just seem to run out of time and go to bed really late. All this free time and I got 170K PvP honour, played my warrior and hunter, and played on the PS2 quite a bit: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2. Yet, I just don't get other stuff done. Sleeping in late doesn't really make it easy to fit everything into the day, either :/

I hope that I rank up to my old rank tonight. I won't know until I log in tomorrow. With so many people PvPing like crazy, I wouldn't be surprised if I barely made it up to rank 8 again. Once I'm back at uni I won't get anywhere near what I did this last week, honour-wise. As part of a raiding guild, raids do take priority over everything. Since most of the time I'm logged in is during the times that we raid, suffice to say I just won't get a whole lot of PvP done - and what I do get to do won't be as effective, as we tend to lose a lot. I need an organised group to play with or I will never make Commander :(

Dual wielding two-handed weapons is awesome. I need to empower a couple of awesome two-handers so my barbarian is insanely powerful. So far I'm doing pretty well. I'm recalling each level in BG:DA2 as I do them. I remember when Jonny and I played together for a while. That was back when I was living with mum and dad in Taita. The days of my crazy FFX playing. I got Tidus's Celestial Weapon and could hit for ~65K, lol.

My warrior is now level 54. Not too far to go, really, but it will still take me a while. There are a lot of necessary quests / items to get by level 60 for endgame content. It really depends on how much I'll actually play my warrior at level 60. Can't dedicate yourself to more than one character, really. Most guilds won't allow for that. Still, I'm allowed to bring alts to MC, which is cool. I'll see, once Gaiwyn has all the stuff I want from there, if I can complete Elvanus's T1 armour set. Will probably just run ZG / AQ20 with Gidaeon and do a bit of PvP - once my mage has reached Commander.

The new talents look awesome - for the expansion release and levelling to 70. This is my intended mage talent build. Summon water elemental FTW ^^ The expansion is going to rock - but it's also going to mean playing a lot to level your character/s to the new cap. At least you can alternate characters to optimise rested xp, heh.

-Timotheos
learn2post

The Apocowlypse

Since blogging on a regular occasion, I wanted to keep it consistent and not miss a day. However, things don't always work out like that. It's not really such a big deal if I do miss one entry near the end of the week - not like there's much to say anyway.

We wiped three times in MC. Why?! I can't believe we wiped on Ragnaros, too. People should just not die. It's annoying when people don't play as they should. Udderly disappointing.

With work I have no time to pvp. I hope that tomorrow it will all be fixed and I can play a few games of AV, at least. Sunday afternoons are for PvP. Great.

I need sleep. We shouldn't have spent so long in MC. It's actually almost 1am. I cheated on the time again, muahaha!

-Timotheos
Again

If I Could Turn Back Time

It always gets late. However, I only just recently discovered that I can adjust the time of my Blog posts to whatever I like. So, even though the 25th has just ticked over (zomg, 4 months till Xmas!), I can make it so this is postdated the 24th ^^

Seems like a pretty good idea for all those late nights where I don't post anything until after a raid and just before I go to bed :/

PvPed a lot today. I got about 45k honour, not including bonus honour, so close to 70k honour (wow!) and almost 1k kills, although some of that was carried over from the previous day, so I need to subtract something like 277. Still, almost 600 kills in one day isn't too bad an effort. It's all about the honour, baby!

I should make my old rank again next week. Who knows, I could even reach Knight-Champion the following week, if not the week after. Commander by Christmas - haha. The expansion will come out before then and then the whole honour system will have changed completely. The world as we know it will no longer be the same.

[Talon of Furious Concentration] dropped tonight in the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj. Very nice off-hand. Another mage got it. Could be a while before I get anything decent from there. My robes set me back quite a bit.

I'm tired. PvPing really drains you. Need to sleep /yawn

-Timotheos
pvpvp

Edge of Madness

Just a small picture tonight ^^

Wow, patch 1.12 has made for an awesome change - but with great change comes great server issues. There may have been 74 Warsong Gulch games running at once but it's no good if everyone is teleporting all over the place and can't leave afterwards. Cross-realm PvP opens one up to all new experiences (playing with people you've never met) - and to the same old frustrations (organised Horde groups FTL). But I'm happy with where this has gone - and is going. I look forward to actually having a chance to rank up - maybe even to my desired rank of Commander (Rank 11). We shall see ^o^

No success so far on the Private Server, either. I spent a lot of time today trying to get two different emulators to run my second copy of WoW (patched with oldschool 1.8) so I could experience the l33tness of being a level 255 GM. But no, it just refused to behave. Might try some other time but now that the new patch has gone live I have to play the real thing: attend guild raids, hang out with guildies, enjoy this all new PvP experience.

Looks like my warrior will be level 53 for quite some time yet. Ah well. Better to spend this time getting as much honour as possible and seeing if I can't make some decent progress towards getting my old rank back. Yup, I ranked down to Knight-Lieutenant (Rank 7). Pretty disappointing but not really any surprise.

Did I mention PvP? Yup, thought so. This is the extreme edge of some sort of midnight madness pitiously playing tiresome tricks and sending swirling serenades cascading calmly into the necrotic nether. Tabards of victorious proclamation and an honourable call to arms ensures victory.

-Timotheos
haX

Be Your Own GM

Blogger was playing up last night :/

Spent a couple of hours finding out about setting up a private World of Warcraft server. It was a real mission tracking down an emulator and reading up on it. I thought I had it all sorted but then I just couldn't connect - so I figure that you need to install WoW somewhere else and have an earlier patch - plus, I found what looks to be a better emulator anyway, so I'll suss that all out this morning, hopefully before I sort the real game out - since patch 1.12 was finally released during mainenance last night! Servers are still down, though, which is why I'm installing WoW again and will give this emulator another shot.

So what if I go down a rank - I will make up for it by cross-realm PvPing like a crazy-man. As for my private server, I've always wanted to just do what I like. It would be cool for so many reasons - one-manning Ragnaros; getting to secret locations; giving yourself uber items to play with... and so on.

Well, enough about that. It may just turn out to be a great waste of time - imagine trying to get my addons to work :/

My warrior is level 53 now. Yay ^^

-Timotheos
Rawl

Do Something

Whenever I play too much, my brain shuts down to the point that I think and think - and just can't think of anything to put here. I sat on my chair, heater pulled close and just thought for a few minutes about what I could possibly write about. Nothing came to mind. What does one normally put in a blog, anyway?

How about my day:
Got up later than usual and had a headache from the previous day - Sundays have always given me headaches; I don't know why, but I have headaches 85% of the time on Sundays :/
Played my hunter for a bit - mostly trying to farm stuff.
Watched Die Hard 3: With A Vengeance.
Played my warrior.
Played my mage. Did Maraudon with Nick and his druid and then Zul'Gurub with my guild. It's our night off but we still did something - go figure.

So it got late and I had to write a blog entry. Here it is. Hope it was insightful and... something. Must get 16 Living Essences...

-Timotheos
Line-out

Picture This

An image much like this is easy to conjure up in a fantasy setting. A castle with high walls, surrounded on one side by a tall cliff. Travellers, making their way towards that castle. A description of these travellers and their purpose for such a journey. The residents of the castle, the type of world that it's in - it's much easier to build a world with words and then paint it visually than to show a static image and try to describe a scene - at least, that's my opinion. Artists may think differently ^^

Of course, the best descriptive setting is in a 3D game or a movie - moreso a game, where you can explore and experience everything; whereas with a movie, you are restricted to what the director allows you to see and hear.

Got some good NR* gear for my mage this afternoon. No PvP, though. It just won't pop. This new patch is so going to change that. I raid more now, though. Only really started PvPing because I wanted something else to do in the game when I was unguilded ^^

*Nature Resist

-Timotheos
/cheer

Starfire, Light From Without

Gems seem to glow from within. Perhaps they could be said to contain some form of life. Of course, life comes to some people's eyes when they rest on the glitter of a beautiful stone ^^

My video card arrived today. It's not going in until Tuesday - and I'm not formatting my system until I have my new cpu, which could still be a few weeks away. I bought a new keyboard today - it's a black Microsoft one. Very comfortable. My sales today were the highest ever, too: $7,600 O.O

Nick transferred his druid. I was unable to do mc with my guild due to connection problems when running instances. Instead, after watching MacGyver, Nick and I ran Maraudon twice - he with his druid and me with my level 51 warrior, which I am so going to try and level this coming week.

Lots of grinding ahead :/

-Timotheos
Glimmer

Pewpewpew

Back in the day, we used to play Counterstrike all the time. It was as close to realistic - but fun - military operations as you could get in a game. First person shooters, as action games, have always been a huge thing for me - but with WoW taking up most, if not all of my free time, when can I ever play them? There really are some cool games coming out still - nothing that stands out for me right now, but I'm sure that within the next year some awesome titles will be released. I'm just hanging out for the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW ^^

Two weeks off now. I've got to get through work tomorrow and playing the drums at church on Sunday night - then it's freedom for a whole five days. I'll try and get my warrior to level 56 by the end of the week, lol.

-Timotheos
Caused

More Than Meets The Eye

When am I not tired. Still watching MacGyver but mostly playing my mage. Our net is uncapped from Monday so that's when I'll be able to do everything properly again. Time for a format then, too. Handed in an assignment today and started a new character: a Night Elf Priest. Must get a priest past level 25, lol.

-Timotheos
Knowledge

Shear The Love

Tick - tick - tick - BOOM! The old exploding sheep trick gets 'em every time, eh.

Got my test mark back for ENGL112 - I got a B+, but I guess that's not so bad. If I improve with the rest of my marks I could be looking at an A- or even an A for this paper - if. Now I just have to put in the time and effort to try and do that or better on my other papers. Guess we'll see this week how the group assignment for FILM101 went and, hopefully, how well I did in my ENGL114 test on poetry (traditional ballads), Romance (Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) and the Gothic (Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey). Then there's the FILM101 essay that's due next week; but which I will hand in before this week is out. Sif go into town during my break :p

That exploding sheep pic is from a cool art site: http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery.htm

I also read an article this evening. I think it's pretty stupid, actually. Europeans ever were too emotional and high-strung. It's all about moderation and prioritising, son. Learn2notplay, pfft. Oh, here's the link.

Didn't play WoW today. I'm gonna go see Pirates 2 with Ben and his little bro Sam.

Posted ^^

-Timotheos
Daring

Time Is Never Time At All

Like the gears of the mind that spin when you try and think of something to say, this picture is a stationary representation of the thought process. I really can't think of anything to write tonight. I still have to do a scene review for my film paper. Instead, I spent most of the afternoon and all of this evening doing stuff with guildies. It was kewl, but very time consuming, and I didn't get anything done that I should have got done - save for the dishes :p

We failed on Firemaw last night, but at least we gave it a go. I really have to get my mage's Fire Resist gear up, but it's harder than just spending gold on some substantial pieces. There is some stuff I'm relying on the guild to provide. At least I was able to send myself a particular cloak from my hunter, as I never equipped it, having got it from his old guild.

I'll most probably rank down some more this week. I'm more or less waiting for the new patch - and besides, our guild focusses a lot more on raiding, which doesn't leave much time for me to PvP when I play. There just aren't enough hours in the day...

-Timotheos
Bending

About Time

Despite our net having been capped since the start of the month, I am now finally able to load the Blogging site - and even post an image! There must be a reprieve in our slow speeds - and I'm going to take this opportunity to finally catch up.

Yes, I haven't posted an entry in five days - and yes, that's teh longest time I've gone without having posted a single thing, since I began posting on a daily basis back in... March or whatever. It was during my "time off" WoW. Now I'm back into the swing of things and am trying to do too much at once /sigh

I have a test tomorrow. I was supposed to work today but they sent me home so I could go to church - well, it was a little late for that so I grabbed some groceries and came home to study for tomorrow's test. I couldn't help but play a little bit but I did sit down and go over my notes in preparation for whatever is thrown my way tomorrow. Meh, I should do ok ^^

My intention was to go to church tonight - but after studying, and watching King Arthur (the latest movie, with Keira Knightley), I'm just too tired to walk in the dark and cold to make up for having missed this morning's service - which I was going to miss anyway because of this silly grand opening. Nothing grand about it, actually. It didn't even get much busier than a regular Saturday yesterday and I'll bet the same was true of today :p

I'm just going to eat my tea and try to kick Nick off the game. Sif he can play his druid O_o

-Timotheos
Ready

Ryu no Shin desu

What's so great about fighting Onyxia? Only the chance to get my Tier 2 head piece: [Netherwind Crown]. And a chance to get an 18-slot bag and the [Head of Onyxia], which, when turned in, yields a rather respectable item: [Dragonslayer's Signet]. We do her every reset, which is every five days. It could be months before I get the head.

Ok, I give up. I keep getting disconnected. We had some nice PvP going in Silithus and I kept lagging out and disconnecting from the server. So much for sneaking in that last little bit of honour before maintenance tonight. Why, oh why, did my brother have to blow the cap this month?

I took today off as well as yesterday. With the weather the way it is, it probably wouldn't have helped with my recovery - actually, going out at all, regardless, wouldn't have helped. I'm not 100% yet, but I'm definitely going to have to go in tomorrow. Missing three lectures, a tutorial and two movies isn't the best way to start any week.

-Timotheos
Cards

No Hoot

No pictures tonight. I found a good one - of an owl - but our net has been shaped (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_shaping). Can't do much and don't have much to say. In fact, I can't even change font colours / style in this entry or link words at all.

I took the day off, having laryngitis at the moment. Played WoW and not much else.

That about sums it all up. It was a good day. Cold outside but I kept myself comfortable. May have to take tomorrow (today) off as well, but I'll see how my throat and head are when I get up.

-Timotheos
Suggestive

Turtles Are Green

Lizards are too
Molten Core gets boring
At least I got three pieces in one run XD

I'm sick - laryngitis or something. I'll just cough myself to sleep and pray that this headache eases up. I also hope that this bed will be more comfortable than my old one ^^

-Timotheos
Coughing

Food For Thought

All ph34r the mechanical squirrel. I've lost my voice - can anyone help me find it? It's kindof important. But hey, power is in the fingertips - with this keyboard and this text box I can create and destroy with just a few strokes. A bubbling brook and rolling hills get pwned by a lavaspitting arachnid and firebreathing drakes; a gentle touch is overshadowed by explosive content; a sighing wind drowned out by a raging hailstorm.

Life spits golfballs, one after the other. Man dodges what he can, catches what he can, knocks aside all that he can and gets hit in the face with the rest. An endless drive forward, deciding to do; to say; to ignore; to live up to; to attempt to overcome; to build upon; to push against; to scream at: wordlessly, soundlessly, triumphantly.

Pain, sorrow, struggle - relief, joy, achievement. Balance what you can on the point of destiny and pray that fate is in a favourable mood. Accomplishment comes from trying - success comes from wise decisions - happiness comes from being able.

Reflect not so much on the past; it heralds the now but tries to hold back. Dwell somewhat on the present; it is where you are and plots where you are going. Think on the future; unless you plan ahead you won't get there.

-Timotheos
Rasping

Case Closed

The mystery has been solved. Secure data was retrieved earlier today and reconnaissance reports state that the goods are in possession of another. This investigation is officially over.

The inevitable hit him like a shot to the head. His heart was ripped out and left to drift on a sea of forsaken desire, devoid of feeling. Such happy days and seemingly positive coincidences led to regret and negative consequences. Life bites and hopes shatter. What thoughts; what feeling; what, but numbness and reflection?

The Greatest of These
1 Cor. 13:13 – “There are three things that will endure – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.” (NLT)

Empty
Isolated
Alone
Yearning for closeness
Companionship

Unspoken
Tired
Withdrawn
Looking for something
Salvation

Escape
Internal
Afraid
Hoping for adventure
Action

Broken
Tiered
A pawn
Dying for recognition
Realisation

Eternity
Inside
Altogether
Praying for freedom
Faith

Woken
Tried
Torn
Longing for life
Love

Tim JM Gough, 02 August 2006

Have a good weekend, world.

-Timotheos
Shattered

Mythtery

It's always best to write down what you are thinking, as close to the time you thought it as you can. This is where a dictaphone would come in handy - could endeavour to be a little embarrassing, if you're in a public place and decide to have an epiphany ^^

Today was a good day. It could have been better, but it's better to say that a day was good than focussing on what could have improved it. University seems to be full of coincidences - or at least events seem to point to a divine hand that is guiding things in their course, ensuring that all goes well according to a higher purpose.

For example, I left a lecture this afternoon and began making my way to my film tutorial. I bumped into a classmate who was heading in the wrong direction. He'd just had a test so was a little frazzled and had completely forgotten about the tute. What would have been the result had I not spotted him? It's interesting how events come together like that.

Mystery girl is still a strong focus for me. I'm thinking I'll just call her Mystery from now on - makes it sound a little more... mysterious XD And hey, if, by some divinely crafted happenstance, things do work out - as I hope against hopes that they miraculously do - then maybe the beat of my Blog will change. Less WoW, more Mystery. ROFL. I can't help but laugh at my own folly - if indeed it could be called that. Ineptitude, possibly.

As usual, I walked up the stairs this morning towards the lecture theatre wherein I had my scheduled ENGL114 lecture. Who should be sitting on the seat second nearest to the top of the landing, but Mystery; reading a book. And so, as fate would have it, I was able to talk to her a little before the lecture started. I even determined where she lives. And to make things even better, I had the blessing of being able to sit next to her for that particular lecture. Not a big deal, really, as I tend to concentrate on what's happening and try to take full notes. Still, it was... a start.

I expected to see Mystery in my ENGL112 lecture this avo, but her appearance failed me. It was in hope of that expectation being fulfilled that I decided to break off our engagement after the first English lecture without first procuring her number. Once again, I feel the need to slap my forehead in disappointment. It was a small oversight but one that left me feeling somewhat inadequate. Could have gone the extra little way but didn't - now I have an entire evening ahead of me where I will wonder how things would be right now had I asked. Of course, there would have been one of two possible outcomes: receiving the mysterious number or being outright, mysteriously rejected. I'd like to hold onto hope of the former. At least for now.

Tomorrow will bring the deciding factor: will she or won't she? Tune in tomorrow night to find out if he did or he didn't :p

-Timotheos
Just ask!

Grand Adventure

Though perhaps not the most vibrant, inspiring image on the net, this symbol of the big game of cinema represents a good portion of my afternoon - good and portion being two distinct words, as timewise my experience was merely along the lines of 1½ hours, the afternoon consisting of that and a train ride home, only to leave for work an hour later.

Suffice to say, our film assignment is coming along nicely. We now have all of the necessary photos to compile a storyboard - girl tied to chair, axe wielding maniac and all ^^

Perhaps an axe would have made for a more interesting header. Eh, why not:


Firewood, anyone?

We had the official store shift tonight. Our store has now moved ~200m north, to a bigger, brighter, more accessible location. Yay. Having to work six hours wasn't my idea of a wonderful Wednesday night. Of course, there are many things I'd have preferred. Had I mystery girl in my life, and given the choice not to work, I would have spent all hours of the evening with her and compromised running Zul'Gurub with my guild - as much as they needed me tonight. I will get her number!

A big congratulations to Catlord of my guild, Unknown, who reached Rank 14: Grand Marshal. That is a huge, huge effort and deserving of applause from all inhabitants of the Proudmoore realm. Well done for hitting the number one spot and the highest ranking position in all of PvP-dom.

I wrote a poem and some thoughts last night. This morning. Yesterday morning :p
May post up the poem tomorrow night (tonight) if I remember to. Friggin late posting. Will never display my close, personal thoughts on the Internet. They are for my benefit - a much needed release of emotion. The only person who may read such thoughts does not yet hold the appropriate title o_O

-Timotheos
Suffering

A Load of Bull

For a good time: click the pic ^^

Early server shutdown again. I guess I could go watch more MacGuyver - or something.

Oh yeah, and I made this animated gif this avo for want of portraying an idea I had. If you don't play WoW the joke just isn't as funny. But that's the thing with situational jokes - you have to understand the situation in order for the joke to be humourous. The same is true with culture and language. Translating a joke often loses the punchline, since many jokes are culturally esoteric.

Still wanting to catch the attention of mystery girl @ uni. She's still a bit of a mystery to me, it's true, but I do know her name and that's a good start. I'm calling her mystery girl because it keeps her identity that much more in the dark from prying eyes - if any such happen to wander this way. Those that would seek to pry into my innermost thoughts: oh, alas, it shall not be! Mystery girl's in two of my three classes, too. I never even noticed until this afternoon. I guess that doubles my chances of getting her number? And also gives me more of a chance to find out whether my hopes pay off and she is both single and available - and if she returns the interest ^^

Ah, mystery girl, your beauty doth confound this poor, wretched soul. My heart is pierced with longing for thy notice and approval. Wherever will this path lead me? Such longing is not becoming of such a sensible man as myself. And yet I can't help but take this situation and weave a web of words to suit the mellifluous mood that surreptitiously surrounds such enigmatic emotion!

Time will tell - then Tim will tell XD

-Timotheos
Mysterious