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Ruby Sanctum was released, I plan on doing it in 10 man Thursday night, I missed it in 25 last night.
After I run it Thursday night I will post up some feral strats and thoughts (Yay for something new to write about)

I have to update my gear list, I am running all Sanc T10 264 now and was lucky enough to get Heroic hurt stick Distant Land. Incredible how good this staff is that it essentially unbeatable until a Heroic LK weapon. I think someone messed up when they let this drop off a boss not LK, Sindy, or Putricide.

The closed beta has started… I am hoping to get invited. If I do, expect ALOT of posting as I am VERY excited about the changes in Azeroth.

Please Blizzard, don’t hold it against me that last time the invite ended up in my junk mail bin… by the way, watching my junk mail bin is not fun but I am watching it hard core this time.

Just to let everyone know, I am still around. I have no plans to talk about Cataclysm until we are closer to release or I get my hand on beta and can talk about some odds and ends that I directly experience.

Vallen has a preview up here that is spot on and happens to almost be a word for word post I was debating to make.

While I wait for Thursday night and my 10 man escapades (we are down to 1 night of raiding now), I am converting my DVD collection using DVDFab and Handbrake for use on my Apple Mac Mini which I have connected to my living room TV in order to run XBMC. It works beautifully, keeps my kids from destroying their movies, and is having no problem streaming x264 encoded 720p Blu-ray over wireless… is just plain sick I tells ya. This is what it looks like on the TV…

So playlist.com now has a group playlist feature and I am asking all of you to check out some of my songs in there to get an idea of the music I like first, then search playlist.com and add some songs you think I might like.

Rules…

1. No Country
2. No Classical
3. Try to avoid metal unless it is really good and unique.

I like all different types of music but try to use the songs I already put in there as a guide to what I might like.

Here is a link to my group playlist…. PLAYLIST

I have that shared playlist up on my Hot Tunes page, I look forward to hearing your suggestions

So some of my neighbors kids ring my doorbell the other day, and the Warden answers the door.

Who was it honey? I asked.

Neighbors kids, she said.

What did they want?

They are selling mulch bark, $.25 a piece.

Hmmm, Entrepreneurs. Let me answer it next time.

Exactly 1 day later… Doorbell.

WWBRKD I thought…

Hi kids, whatcha need?

We are selling pine chips, 25 cents a piece.

Hmmm, I really don’t need any pine bark… However, If you found one that looked like Abraham Lincon, Mary (Mother of Jesus), or Obama I might be intested in buying it for 50 Cents!

The look of confusion and then excitement was priceless… updates as they happen…

Have a fun and safe weekend everybody and remember to ask yourself… WWBRKD.

Not sure if anyone will care that reads this but I changed guilds this week.

I headed back to my original BC raiding home with Aetherial Circle after raiding with Knight Watch for what I assume was close to a year.

A couple reasons why I returned…

1. The wife wanted to reclaim date night. My son just turned 2 years old and is going to start staying with the grandparents on Tue night along with my daughter. Tue night happens to be the big raiding night for KW.
2. The wife does not like me playing on Thursday nights either. She has girls nights at our house Friday’s and she likes prepping Thursday night which was difficult with me raiding Thursday’s.
3. I never lost contact with my friends in AC and I missed playing with them. I wish I could play/raid/guild with everyone I like on the server but it is just not possible.

I am going to miss Knight Watch now, no doubt about it. I made many friends playing with them and they are a great group of people. It looks like they have already recruited some folks and I am sure they won’t miss a beat.

Anyone on the Drenden server looking for a casual guild would be making a mistake if they didn’t give either AC or KW a look.

I would tell you to head over to my friends in Simplicity but I think they already have half the server worth of players already…lol. They raid ALOT. If you are looking to raid 7 days a week, 24/7 Simplicity would be the guild for you. My lock is in Simplicity and unfortunately I rarely find the time online to do much with them anymore. Uncle and Syndi do a darn good job keeping a lot of raiders happy over in Simplicity and I tip my hat to them.

You might notice going forward I am going to have a lot more kitty-centric posts due to the fact I was invited back to AC as DPS not a Tank. I do plan however on doing some posting about gear options for the solo Tank and how to improve your solo bear DPS and survivability as gearing for fighting without help can be very different than gearing with a raid of 25, 10 or even a party of 5.

Am I going to miss tanking?

Yeah, probably as soon as 3.2 and Blizzard nerfs my cat damage… damn you Blizzard.

Ok, I am hoping it takes longer than that to miss it.

P.S.  AC seemed a little quiet compared to the old days… I think the absense of a Big Red Kitty had a little something to do with it.  /sniff