In my world, this news is certainly bigger than the removal of effective crushing blows or even Blizzard’s promise to release Wrath of the Lich King during the fourth quarter of this year. Last night, Lycentia asked me to marry him.
I said yes, by the way. More to come—much more!
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When I’m not fine-tuning my gear, farming or leveling a plethora of alts, I enjoy collecting non-combat pets. A waste of bank space, right? With at least six different gear sets on my druid, I couldn’t agree more, but somehow I’m attached to all the critters I’ve accumulated over the years.
Inventory woes, however, are going the way of the buffalo in Wrath of the Lich King. According to a blue post on the General Discussion forums:
Players will be able to “learn” a mount or non-combat pet much like learning a spell, recipe, or new ability, and these creatures will then show up on a new Pet tab within the Character Info section of the interface. Players will be able to access and preview their learned mounts and vanity pets through this tab.
I imagine this has a lot to do with the new “achievement” system; if certain achievements require you to collect a 50+ non-combat pets, where are you supposed to store them? Regardless, I’m not complaining, and I feel a lot less pressure to get rid of the not-quite-so-special animals in favor of the rarer drops.
If they’re all “summons” in a similar vein to the paladin and warlock mounts, I anticipate making a ridiculous /castsequence macro to bring up a random pet every time I hit the button.
Something fun like that anyway.
For those folks who have any experience with insurance, July and December represent the lion’s share of the year’s workload—new groups go out to bid in the summer and old groups renew in the winter. Anyone who happens to be involved in either of those processes ends up getting slaughtered with inescapable deadlines and unpaid overtime, and beyond keeping house, working, and farming Amani War Bears on the reset, I’ve been sleeping.
That’s not entirely true. With the help of Phaelia, my internet help guru, I’ve been making some invisible changes to this site that will hopefully improve things in the long run. Somehow, in my search for a layout that I felt accurately represented what I was trying to portray, I picked out one of the most stubborn, finicky, widget-drive bitches out there, and when I say I’ve been hung up on my sidebar for weeks trying to fix it, I’m not kidding.
But that’s been sorted. I finally upgraded WordPress after being made to feel like I was semi retarded and totally out-of-date for worrying about losing anything—I had a backup, right? (For once, I can say that was something I figured out how to do on my own.) So I’ve eliminated a few security issues, allowed for the installation of some handy plug-ins, and fixed my blogroll. You know, the abomination of links that I threw up and had to manually edit every single time I needed to make a change.
With a quick trick from BlogAzeroth and Phae’s help with manually overriding my category widgets, I’m now capabale of editing links strictly from my site’s backend. This is fantastic, and I feel like less of a slacker for not having things properly updated.
More to come soon!
The long awaited 5-7-5 results are here!
I apologize for the delay, but with the storms in the Midwest, finally starting my shiny new job and making some other, tough decisions, I’ve been busier than anticipated. I received a wide variety of haiku, some from folks I know and bloggers most readers might recognize, and also from some pretty cool people I haven’t had the opportunity to meet yet. My mailbox is still bulging with the surprising amount of entries, and Bellwether even managed to e-mail me at 11:59 PM EST last Friday, when the contest officially ended. I’d like to thank everyone who contributed or mentioned this little endeavor to friends, and I hope that you either had fun participating or will enjoy reading them today!
Congratulations to Eustashius of Faux Paws fame for winning the main event (and gift card)—and giving me a good laugh!
Here are just a few of the other great entries!
Edgeworth from LF3 More actually submitted a haiku in Japanese that follows all the original rules, and his inclusion of the kanji and hiragana really allows for a visual experience of how the haiku reads.
Aeolos from Wanderings of the Meandering Mind offers a feral druid’s summer safety wisdom:
Phaelia from Resto4Life submitted a series of Northrend themed haiku and took the “seasonal” or “nature” theme to heart:
Ahmen from Moonguard offered a whimsical view of the giant, lumbering bear, and I’m reminded of how totally sweet it’d be if Dire Bear form displayed armor. Or, you know, at least a cape.
And finally, Korryna, also known as Valenna from Parry! Dodge! Spin! pays homage to the Darnassian deity:
I suppose I need to submit a few of my own, and since I’ve been accused of hopping on the anti-boomkin bandwagon, a few fat-bird flavored haiku:
Additionally, Lycentia wrote a Rawrberry flavored haiku-chain that I’d like to share but couldn’t justifiably “consider” in the contest.
Thanks again to everyone who participated, and I promise more updates soon!
Just a reminder that the 5-7-5 Summer Haiku Contest will be ending tomorrow, and the last submissions will be taken at 11:59, EST on Friday the 13th! Get your submissions in soon so you can be eligible for the prize!
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