It has been a while since I last updated this. There are two reasons: I've spent too much time playing and doing other things to put aside 15 mins to Blog; last time I went to write an entry, the site was down.
A couple of weeks ago, a Korean lady from next door came over to ask for help with English. We are making it a weekly thing. She came over last night with a few pieces of chocolate cake, and spent two hours here, instead of the usual one. It was her birthday, which explains the cake. She also brought over a little so-ju (alcoholic rice beverage), which I hadn't had since I was in Korea - and then, only once that I recall.
WoW is just humming along. The expansion has been pushed back to at least January 2007, which means a few more months to level my rogue - who is now 30 - and to get more epics on my mage, to help with levelling her to 70 when the time comes.
Recently (from Sunday, actually), I have been playing Final Fantasy X again. My most recent game wasn't too far in, but since then I have made a fair amount of progress. Not too long until I have the airship and pretty much free reign, meaning I can really uber out my characters, play Blitzball and fight captured fiends ^^
I had an exam last Thursday. I think it went ok. I have my last one this Thursday, and then I have a week off before starting back at work full-time for the Summer. That will mean less WoW, but the ability to actually survive due to getting money. My student allowance gets cut off soon, so hopefully I can get enough hours at work from the 12th of Nov until my course starts up again next year. Speaking of which, I really must sort out exactly what I'm going to be doing next year...
I'm borrowing Lish's car this week. They went over to Fiji on Friday, with Reuben. The price I have to pay is dropping Nick at work, but hopefully I can put it to some good use by buying myself a tv whilst I have the transport - or something. Because we seriously need a new tv. Not that I use it all that much, but I do watch Stargate regularly, and will hopefully be getting into some more anime - plus, of course, there is FFX; and FFXII, when it eventually gets released.
Well, back to FFX.
-Timotheos
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Overhaul
It's been a while - yet again. So here's an update:
On Sunday night I was promoted to Mage Officer for my World of Warcraft guild, Unknown. It's a big responsibility, but one that I am willing to, and able to, undertake . It doesn't mean I automatically get better geared up, but it does mean that I am in a position of respect and am expected to assist and attend ^.^
I wrote a 2,000 word essay on the merits of a formulaic approach to genre, taking the slasher genre as the main focus and using an example of the film Scream. IMO, it turned out pretty well. Not the most solid essay, but then: it can be hard to write 2k words on such a topic and keep it interesting. It's due in tomorrow - I wrote it on Wednesday.
I picked up my Athlon X2 Dual Core 4200+ CPU on Tuesday and spent the next two days backing everything up. I installed my 7600 GT graphics card and the CPU today and formatted my SATA's. Spent a lot of time trying to get the nVidia RAID controller to work, but to no avail; so I ended up using the Silicon Image one instead, which is what I had before. As I reinstalled Windows - my legit copy of Professional - it meant getting all the up-to-date drivers for everything - and setting my preferences again, too.
So yeah, my whole evening has been spent setting my computer up. The sad thing is, a lot of the data and media that I backed up has been lost due to poor quality DVD's. I'm going to have to work my way from the ground up with a lot of things. Meh, it's only stuff. So long as I can get WoW working flawlessly, I'll be happy ^^
-Timotheos
Do over
On Sunday night I was promoted to Mage Officer for my World of Warcraft guild, Unknown. It's a big responsibility, but one that I am willing to, and able to, undertake . It doesn't mean I automatically get better geared up, but it does mean that I am in a position of respect and am expected to assist and attend ^.^
I wrote a 2,000 word essay on the merits of a formulaic approach to genre, taking the slasher genre as the main focus and using an example of the film Scream. IMO, it turned out pretty well. Not the most solid essay, but then: it can be hard to write 2k words on such a topic and keep it interesting. It's due in tomorrow - I wrote it on Wednesday.
I picked up my Athlon X2 Dual Core 4200+ CPU on Tuesday and spent the next two days backing everything up. I installed my 7600 GT graphics card and the CPU today and formatted my SATA's. Spent a lot of time trying to get the nVidia RAID controller to work, but to no avail; so I ended up using the Silicon Image one instead, which is what I had before. As I reinstalled Windows - my legit copy of Professional - it meant getting all the up-to-date drivers for everything - and setting my preferences again, too.
So yeah, my whole evening has been spent setting my computer up. The sad thing is, a lot of the data and media that I backed up has been lost due to poor quality DVD's. I'm going to have to work my way from the ground up with a lot of things. Meh, it's only stuff. So long as I can get WoW working flawlessly, I'll be happy ^^
-Timotheos
Do over
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Slayer of Dragons
Nefarian is no more. Congratulations, Unknown, for completing Blackwing Lair. We are so awesome! That's my mage right there in the middle, wearing the pink dress. I got the [Head of Nefarian] and handed it in on Monday, to receive an uber off-hand: [Master Dragonslayer's Orb].
I missed the train today - it came early >.< So... I had to take the next one to get into town, to hand my assignment in. At least I got it in ok.
Still not sleeping well. I got up in the early hours of the morning when I couldn't sleep and logged my rogue for a while. No idea why, but I felt that playing was better than staring at my darkened curtains for an hour and a half.
Now it's getting late again and I have some Smallville and Stargate Atlantis to watch. Oooh, and I'd better try and download I Know What You Did Last Summer, so I can do a good job on my film research assignment ^^
-Timotheos
Master Dragonslayer
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Stealth Fighter
It's been a bit of a strange week.
Firstly, I haven't been able to sleep. Since daylight savings ticked over and raids go later for me, I've been going to bed quite a bit later than usual. This has had an adverse effect on almost everything. Not only have I found it incredibly hard to even get to sleep but I'm sleeping very little each night. This has caused me to get up late - a choice, but still very hard. Perhaps I currently lack the determination to force myself to get up at a reasonable time.
I've missed all of my classes this week. Nothing was due in - except my weekly film thing, but I emailed that through. I've spent a good deal of time playing my rogue - it's slower to level when you aren't rested, but I'm making reasonable progress.
Today was no different than the rest of the week. Not only did I miss all of this week's classes, but I also missed work today. However, I really haven't been too well. It could be related to my odd waking hours coupled with psychological stress - or something. Nick suggested some medication he came across but I'll have to wait till Monday, when the Pharmacy is open.
Music practice on Thursday night was a little different. We have a guest worship leader for tomorrow's morning service, so his family is going to be playing and singing as well. But hey, I'm still playing the drums. Couple of songs I like too; one of which I actually heard for the first time. It's in 6/8, though, which means that I'll have to really think about what I'm doing :p
To top everything off, last night's Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (40-person) raid was called due to insufficient numbers - some of us did the Ruins (20-person) instead. Eh, more Cenarion Circle rep FTW ^.^ Then, we didn't get the numbers for BWL tonight, so yet another week where we didn't get Nefarian down. We couldn't even push him to phase 2 because of a lack of AoE (mages and locks). Oooh, but I did get my NR pieces made (crown, shoulders, tunic, and cape). So greeeeen :s
So here I am, ready to play my rogue again before I go to bed. I've levelled her to 20 already, and will no doubt play quite a bit after my exams - that is, if the expansion isn't released right then. Because the first thing I'm doing when I get my Collector's Edition of The Burning Crusade, is to run to the Outlands on my mage and go into the five-man dungeon in the first zone (after respeccing, of course) XD
Gogo stealth powaaaa!
-Timotheos
Generations
ps. I watched Smallville tonight. Still slowly chugging along there ^L^
Firstly, I haven't been able to sleep. Since daylight savings ticked over and raids go later for me, I've been going to bed quite a bit later than usual. This has had an adverse effect on almost everything. Not only have I found it incredibly hard to even get to sleep but I'm sleeping very little each night. This has caused me to get up late - a choice, but still very hard. Perhaps I currently lack the determination to force myself to get up at a reasonable time.
I've missed all of my classes this week. Nothing was due in - except my weekly film thing, but I emailed that through. I've spent a good deal of time playing my rogue - it's slower to level when you aren't rested, but I'm making reasonable progress.
Today was no different than the rest of the week. Not only did I miss all of this week's classes, but I also missed work today. However, I really haven't been too well. It could be related to my odd waking hours coupled with psychological stress - or something. Nick suggested some medication he came across but I'll have to wait till Monday, when the Pharmacy is open.
Music practice on Thursday night was a little different. We have a guest worship leader for tomorrow's morning service, so his family is going to be playing and singing as well. But hey, I'm still playing the drums. Couple of songs I like too; one of which I actually heard for the first time. It's in 6/8, though, which means that I'll have to really think about what I'm doing :p
To top everything off, last night's Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (40-person) raid was called due to insufficient numbers - some of us did the Ruins (20-person) instead. Eh, more Cenarion Circle rep FTW ^.^ Then, we didn't get the numbers for BWL tonight, so yet another week where we didn't get Nefarian down. We couldn't even push him to phase 2 because of a lack of AoE (mages and locks). Oooh, but I did get my NR pieces made (crown, shoulders, tunic, and cape). So greeeeen :s
So here I am, ready to play my rogue again before I go to bed. I've levelled her to 20 already, and will no doubt play quite a bit after my exams - that is, if the expansion isn't released right then. Because the first thing I'm doing when I get my Collector's Edition of The Burning Crusade, is to run to the Outlands on my mage and go into the five-man dungeon in the first zone (after respeccing, of course) XD
Gogo stealth powaaaa!
-Timotheos
Generations
ps. I watched Smallville tonight. Still slowly chugging along there ^L^
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Sword Complexion
The family went back up north this morning, taking Nick and Laurelle with them. I guess they're all staying in Hamilton overnight and travelling the rest of the way tomorrow. I gave Jonny his birthday present just as they were leaving - some Seinheiser earphones. His birthday isn't for another four weeks but I won't be seeing them till Christmas when I go up north with Matt and Lish - and get some trout fishing in while I'm at it ^^
I hit 60 with my warrior yesterday. Gametime: 9 1/2 days. That's my best yet; but really, I'm not surprised, considering I have levelled two Alliance characters to 60 prior to that. So yeah, three level 60 characters. I used to think that anyone with more than one end-game character played too much :/
I played my sexy human rogue today. She's level 10 now :p I originally intended the character as a bank toon but gave her a proper name anyway. Now that I have a dedicated gnome bank I can play my rogue as a regular character. I may never level her to 60 but I can at least try to get as high as I can before The Burning Crusade is released; because then I'll be trying to get my mage to 70 XD
We managed to get Nefarian to phase 2 on Sunday night, finally. It took us three weeks just to get this far, but at least we now know that our method works; apparently the next two phases are easy compared to controlling the first part. Phat lewts, here we come!
Saw an awesome mace-specced rogue video today. With mace spec, the rogue has a chance to stun their enemy, therefore giving them yet another advantage. This guy was pwning two Horde players at once, regardless of class - yes, even locks and shammies :s GG Alliance rogz ^.^ Too bad he was beaten by a friendly mage, hunter and paladin, each duelling separately. It just goes to show that even skilled players don't always win - and this guy was employing every trick available.
There's an early maintenance tonight. The servers shut down much earlier than usual. I didn't get a chance to pvp with Nick's rogue, Zanith, again. He wanted me to get some more honour to push him through to rank 8. As for my mage, since I haven't pvped in like a month, I should rank down to rank 6 this week. I'm not fussed. PvP is a thing of the past. I really need to grind out as much Cenarion Circle rep as I can to get my sword ^o^
Essay writing tomorrow. Yay. Actually, it's good to plan assignments like that. It's a goal to work towards and allows me to really focus on what I shoul be doing.
Stargate Atlantis is going well; I'm up to episode 9 of the first season. But right now, it must be time to go watch a movie. Or something :p
-Timotheos
[b]-Gaiwyn[/b]
I hit 60 with my warrior yesterday. Gametime: 9 1/2 days. That's my best yet; but really, I'm not surprised, considering I have levelled two Alliance characters to 60 prior to that. So yeah, three level 60 characters. I used to think that anyone with more than one end-game character played too much :/
I played my sexy human rogue today. She's level 10 now :p I originally intended the character as a bank toon but gave her a proper name anyway. Now that I have a dedicated gnome bank I can play my rogue as a regular character. I may never level her to 60 but I can at least try to get as high as I can before The Burning Crusade is released; because then I'll be trying to get my mage to 70 XD
We managed to get Nefarian to phase 2 on Sunday night, finally. It took us three weeks just to get this far, but at least we now know that our method works; apparently the next two phases are easy compared to controlling the first part. Phat lewts, here we come!
Saw an awesome mace-specced rogue video today. With mace spec, the rogue has a chance to stun their enemy, therefore giving them yet another advantage. This guy was pwning two Horde players at once, regardless of class - yes, even locks and shammies :s GG Alliance rogz ^.^ Too bad he was beaten by a friendly mage, hunter and paladin, each duelling separately. It just goes to show that even skilled players don't always win - and this guy was employing every trick available.
There's an early maintenance tonight. The servers shut down much earlier than usual. I didn't get a chance to pvp with Nick's rogue, Zanith, again. He wanted me to get some more honour to push him through to rank 8. As for my mage, since I haven't pvped in like a month, I should rank down to rank 6 this week. I'm not fussed. PvP is a thing of the past. I really need to grind out as much Cenarion Circle rep as I can to get my sword ^o^
Essay writing tomorrow. Yay. Actually, it's good to plan assignments like that. It's a goal to work towards and allows me to really focus on what I shoul be doing.
Stargate Atlantis is going well; I'm up to episode 9 of the first season. But right now, it must be time to go watch a movie. Or something :p
-Timotheos
[b]-Gaiwyn[/b]
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