Shifting Focus

RL Invades the Blog
I have to mention this before anything else, last night my wife and I went to
Little Rock to see Robin Williams live, it was definitely an experience I won’t
soon forget. I know, there’s been no shortage of clunkers when it comes to Williams’
acting career. But, his stand up is still quite good. Dirty and irreverent as
ever, but a little self effacing. Robin talked about his experience in rehab (Williams
is a recovering Alcoholic) as well as his recent open-heart surgery. At 58, Williams
still manages to deliver laughs, though I noticed a lack of his "voices"
they were present, but not as prevelent as past performances, which to me is a
good thing. Also present in his act were a healthy dose of old jokes,
the guy’s been at it a while and I don’t expect him to bring 100% new material
to Arkansas. I overheard someone remarking on the recycled material as
we were in line for the John, and I asked the guy. Well, would you be pissed to
go to a concert and hear the band play nothing but songs from the new album, you’d
want to hear at least a couple of established hits right? Same difference.

Overall it was a lot of fun, I can’t say I’ll be going to see the Dane Cook performance
that’s coming up though lol.

Hallow’s Begining
Hallow’s End is a week away, but I’m already getting ready. I had to dig a ton
of alts out of BRD and get them moved to Scarlet Monastery in preparation for
the Horsemanl. Last year I five boxed this guy daily with my Paladin and Shamans,
my Paladin is still wearing the Helmet actually. But this year, it’s all about
my Death Knight. So, I’ve moved everyone over to my second account for maximum
summons. This worked out pretty well for Brewfest, I went with a regular group
of guild mates, and everyone (with the exception of Rukar) got a remote and
both mounts. Poor Ruk just wasn’t online when the Rams dropped. Unlike last
year though, I’m also doing the achievements. I managed to knock out all of
the Bewfest ones, so I’m going to stick with it for the rest of the year. I’m
not really crazy about the color of that Violet drake but I’ll take it.

I finally managed to get my Mechano-hog, actually it didn’t take as long as
I expected. Just a little focus. I’m also taking something of a break from the
Insane title. Right now, I’m working on getting my Argent Squire with the Mailbox
summon before I focus on this achievement further. Meanwhile, I am doing some
casual work on my Inscriptions and Herbalism on Infelice. I’ll eventually have
the achievement, though honestly I think my original estimate of New Years was
a bit over optimisitic. I am sure now that I could do it, but I’m also
just as sure that I don’t want to simply dump all of my gold into just
this achievement. Instead, I’m working on building my gold reserves and getting
the things I need to raise my rep up at a somewhat leisurely pace. I want to reach
max gold by the time Cataclysm comes out and be ready to buy anything I might
want/need once the expansion does drop, similarly I think I’ll probably
have the Insane title by the time Cataclysm goes live.

The First Mistake of Age, Giving Advice
I’m currently working on a series of guides that I’ll be releasing here on my
blog absolutely free of charge. These guides cover tanking for all four of the
tanking classes, as well as updated resources for said tanks (AddOns, Macros,
useful Videos, etc). Also I’m working on an alt and gold guide, the purpose
being to teach people to manage their alts as well as their gold (make your
alts start making money rather than being money sinks). And finally I’ve got
a guide in the works describing various philosophies of guild and raid structure.
A major part of this is excercise for my writing as I am a rhetoric student,
but I feel if I can possibly help some fellow wow players in the process then
it’s a win/win situation. I’ll have more info about this stuff soon, and expect
the blog to be changing somewhat in appearance as I add some new features.

Well, that’s about it for this week. I leave you the way Robin Williams left
us last night, with a joke attributed to recently deceased broadcast journalist,
Walter Cronkite, who apparently loved a good dirty joke.

A man and his wife are in the throes of sexual congress, when the wife hears
a noise. Both the husband and wife turn to see their son Timmy aghast in the
doorway. Young Timmy rushes out of the room without a word and the father says,
"I’ll go talk to him." The father dresses and makes his way to his
sons room only to find the son angrilly violating his grandmother, the father
says "Timmy, what are you doing?" to which the son replies, "Not
so fucking nice when it’s your mom…"