A whole new world...

A new fantastic point of view! Noone to tell us no, or where OK OK OK. Just kidding. I am mostly writing about recent wow news today.  Hopefully enough interesting things will happen that I wont have to mention WoW too much in the future.

But seriously I found a guild to raid with on World of Warcraft. We only do 10 man content on main raid nights (though I imagine others run pug 25s). They are a laid back bunch of guys who have been playing together for a while. They invited me to their 10 man run last week and we did really really well. We made it to 9/12 heroic 10 man ICC in the first two nights and cleared Lich King, earning me "the Kingslayer" title on my second toon.

For about 3 months previous to this I had been raiding 25 mans with an old guild Exhumed, back on Argent Dawn. Schedule conflicts and my general lack of interest in 25 mans and Mage cut that short unfortunately. Good luck to them though, they are a good group. With the cataclysm changes to raiding only months away (wishful thinking eh), I really wanted to get into a group that I can grow with in the next expansion.

With that, as my new banner suggests: I am playing a new toon. By new I mean a character which until now I havent raided a whole lot with. I did a little Ulduar hard modes about a year ago, but after that this was my main pvp character earning rival in season 6 with very little experience (about 2150 in 2v2 after about a month after hitting 80) and even worse gear.

So right now I am plugging away at that ICC10 Frostwyrm. Very excited at the possibility of raiding with a solid group of 10 people.

Onto RL news: The house is going well. Jackie, I and her grandparents painted the living room. Its half green and half yellow. Not unlike a nice plate of peas and corn (good old dad taught me this delicious combo). They are not bright vibrant colors, but more mellow which I think is good for this room. This color scheme I believe will be emulated throughout the household. The bathrooms were already painted yellow and the guest-room green.

Work is going well. I wont get into too much of what I do (its confidential). But I help people with their problems. Its actually pretty rewarding (albeit sometimes mundane) when I can genuinely put someone's mind at ease with my expertise and knowledge. The worst part is when I know there is nothing I can do to help and the person on the other end just thinks I am the worst person in the world. I wish I could tell them:"It really gives me no satisfaction to be telling you this" but my psychology background and general knowledge tells me that would only fire them up more.

In other news: BP is still struggling with this Gulf of Mexico oil spill. I fear it will be one of the most devastating environmental catastrophes the world will ever see. Hopefully BP will turn this thing around and prevent it from happening again.

I try to watch the happening around the world at CNN, and it really keeps you informed on how BAD the weather is. Last year seemed like a HUGE year for earthquakes, but maybe its just because I didnt hear about the year before? That is actually exactly the case. This USGS table shows that there were more high rated earthquakes, but FAR less overall.

Thats all for now, thanks for reading. The word of the day is: parsimonious.

Updating

I almost forgot I had this blog! I recently purchased a house so my time has been mostly focussed on work, house, jackie and Wow. In that order? Maybe. So what I am thinking is I want to start posting again. Will follow up with more in the coming weeks. I will update the banner and perhaps attempt some intelligent posting. Who knows!

New job, new lots of stuff

Of course it's been a long time since I posted! Do I look like the type of person who does not keep his word? Apparently I do because I tell myself I am going to post more and I never do. It just slips my mind, forgive me. I am still working at the Zoo and enjoying it (I have read 3 books in the past 2 weeks at work alone). I was offered a job at a major credit card company in their call center which I happily accepted. It pays 50% more than the Zoo and has benefits etc, plus after a year there are lots of opportunities for career advancement. I am really excited to start working (This coming Tuesday my training for 11 weeks begins) at a real job. I still feel like I have never actually had a real job (no offense to people in food industry) until now.

My little kitten Bella just got spayed so she is being weird, but hopefully she will get back to her normal rambunctious self soon enough. I recently server transferred (and faction transferred) my rogue and priest to play with some college friends. My old server was getting pretty stale and lots of my buds had already left so I figured it was time to move on and get back in touch with some friends. I am enjoying it so far. Horde-side is not the rosy picture most alliance players picture it to be. There are still idiots on both teams obviously.

I guess you might be asking yourself what books I read recently? If that piqued your curiosity I will let you in on it. I read "The Shack," "Native Tongue," and "Redwall" (still working on this one actually). Three very different novels, but nonetheless I enjoyed all of them. They are all very worth your time.