heelarious-ly stupid

ok, i was going to write about the big wind storm we had yesterday that had trees everywhere and over 200k people without power.  however, someone sent me a link to a story about this fairly new product that i have to tell you about.

heelarious shoes are stilettos for babies!  little heels with squishy back ends (for safety).  when i saw this i prayed to internet gods to smite this site and all the little shoes with it.  why in the world would you buy this?  if you tell me because it’s cute, i might have to knock some sense into you.  i’ve been pondering writing a blog about how people love to waste money on baby clothes, but i think i’ll wait and do my research first.

anyway, what i do want to talk about is that fact that why do baby girls need this crap.  why must put our kids through the tourture of wearing stupid outfits (and this goes out to all those parents who dress their baby as a pumpkin for halloween even though they can’t even walk yet) just for our amusement.  do we like making our babies “cute” for others to see even though they look ridiculous.

sry, i feel a tangent coming on….. look at this!  if you clicked the link, you saw the monstrosity of what parents are WILLING to put their child through to make themselves laugh and others “awwww”.   some of those costumes go way beyond cute to total stupidity.  i mean…. PEA POD!  HOT DOG!  WONDERBREAD (pg 2 of link)!  WHOOPIE CUSHION(pg 3 of link)!  I can’t bear to see it no more.  what the heck are people thinking?!  who in their right mind thinks “It wil be so cute to dress up little Joe as a whoopie cushion this year”….. shame shame shame.  lastly, i’ve seen this happen… why do parents not only dress up their infants for halloween, but actually go trick or treating with them.  we all know that the infant ain’t going to eat the candy.

ok, time to calm down…. well, i do have a wow update coming soon.  other posts on the mind are: “irritable drivers” and “is there a patient warrior out there?”

paying too much for your PC needs?

one of the hot topics now-a-days is the price of gas.  some tend to think it’s “Big Oil” that is gauging us all at the pump.  i mean, come on, driving is essential for most people.  we need it to go to work, to go visit family and friends, to go out and entertain ourselves, etc.  these oil companies and the other people involved know how important this stuff is, and they are using that to take advantage of us.

now, don’t get me wrong, i don’t like oil prices either, but this is not what this post is about.  look at the title!  it doesn’t fit.  however, the small talk about oil i thought would be opener for the story i want to tell…. about price gauging.

i have a good friend who owns an IT solutions company.  he contracts his time to setup networks, fix/upgrade computers, administrate and monitor various systems.  early this year he received a new client that needed help removing virii and spyware from their machine.  during their initial conversation, the client mentioned that he used to have another company do this sort of thing.  of course, anyone who would hear this is wondering “Why change!?”  well, the client began to think that he was getting wronged as far as the charges he had endured from said company.  my friend didn’t pry into those matters, but the client told him about a time when he needed a memory upgrade for his PC.

this is what blows my mind here… aside from the cost of the parts, the travel/gas fees, etc. the cost of labor was over $200.  $200?!  now, i’ve worked as a network administrator/pc support for over 8 years before moving on to programming full time.  with that kind of experience, i can say without a shadow of a doubt that the cost of labor is total bullpoo!  now i know some of you are probably thinking that it’s a consultant, they charge by the hour, blah blah blah…. you know what?!  that doesn’t make it right!  anyone who has added, removed, or changed out memory in a PC (or even a laptop in most cases) knows that it’s a 10 min job tops!  and that’s if i decide i want to inspect the case, screws, and other various parts.  that and with PC cases being so easy to open now, it’s ridiculous to charge an hours worth of work for a job that takes 5 minutes!

people just kill me… i know it’s all about making money, but why do we have to take advantage of other to do so.  so next time someone tries to charge you an outrageous price to install ANYTHING on your PC, kick them where it hurts… for me.  it’ll make me feel better

alright stop!

collaborate and listen!  klaki is back with a brand new invention!  well, it’s not really new, but it’s back none-the-less.  i’ve been without blogging long enough and i think its about time i start sharing my sometimes twisted views on things.  so, for the 1 or 2 people who have subscribed to my small part of the internet, stay tuned!  today or tomorrow will be my first post-break post!

RAWR!

sry… just finishing this

so last tuesday was the new 2.4 patch! yay! no more attunement! i haven’t had a chance to finish my attunement quests to get into kara because I have been busy PvPing (i love it) and getting my pre-Kara tank gear. however, as of last tuesday i was kara bound. so i found myself being an offtank for group 1.  all i got to say is “this is awesome!”  I feel the same way about healers when I say this.  Why do people hate to heal and tank so much?  I loved being a vital part of the team.  Knowing that if I died or if I didn’t do my job, a wipe was most likely to occur.  I love being wanted.  I love being able to take a beating from 2 or 3 mobs at one time.  It was very exciting saving hunters that had their trap resisted and/or broken.  Charge and growl!  It was amazing.  I feel the same way when I heal!  I healed with my Priest for awhile and I love it.  That is why I’m slowly leveling a shammy along side my wife’s priest.  I’ll never understand how people can hate being such an important role.  I like seeing big numbers too, but tanking is my preference!

it’s so good to be home… thats why i’m leaving

why can’t people be content?  why must we want more?  these are questions i ask myself quite often being a gm of a guild.  i see people come and go and have come to the realization that no matter how much you offer, some people will never be satisfied.  i try my best to help and offer help to as many guild members that i possibly can.  i try to schedule quest nights, pvp nights, retro instance nights, give me all your gold nights!  just kidding about that last one.   however, to some, its not enough.

something quite funny occurred over the weekend.  i had a fairly new guild member tell me that he/she was leaving.  the reason was that he was going to a friend’s guild to help them grow.  it was fine by me, i want people to be happy and if you’re not happy in my guild, i want you to go where you will be.  the funny thing was that it was only a couple of days ago that he was telling me how much he enjoyed my guild.

well i went on helping a guilde quest.  a couple of hours have went past since the departure of the guilde when i get a tell from them.  they told me that the other guild was so awful and that he was so sorry and wanted back in because my guild was so awesome.  i will admit that this kinda made me feel good about myself (stupid pride for making me feel good).  of course i let him back in, people make mistakes, people will adventure.  the guilde was a nice person.  people deserve at least a second chance, depending on what they did to get that opportunity for the second chance.

i just find it funny how say how good their life is and still it’s not enough.  people… go figure

Don’t ruin it for me quite yet

So I have been on this trek of getting my druid to level 70. The main reason is because my guild needs another bear tank and I can also heal if I ever need to. Well, the journey is almost over as I reached level 69 over the weekend. Now I have decided to do some PvP to try to save some honor so I can get some welfare epics! A pre-Kara tanking set is not that hard to get. I’ve followed a good guide from my bear mentor Big Bear Butt (read druid goodness NOW!) to get most of my items for my tanking set. The bad thing is getting a good healing set is more of a pain. So if I PvP, I can get some good healing gear fairly easy while I tank.

With that in mind, I had my 1st PvP match yesterday. It was an AB BG. Of course, the Alliance lost, but I did really well, and I had tons of fun. I played mostly defense, but I ended up 3rd on the Alliance. I got 8 KBs, only died once (I got ransacked), and had about 30 HKs. It was so much fun sneaking up on people and murderating them. I love healing others in a pinch. I love CCing people. It’s just all around fun.

My question to you is… are Druids any count in PvP? I don’t PvP much, so I’m not sure.

The pain of the learning process

Well, it’s Tuesday and Kara resets!  All I can say is “Thank Goodness!”  This past week we brought several “new” people with us, which means I didn’t get to go, to Karazhan.  This included a new offtank, a semi-new healer, and a couple of new DPS.  I heard over vent all of the chaos.  The first day they burned down Attument like it was nothing and made quick way to Moroes.  Then, they got stuck!  Try after try, Moroes and his minions took them down.  They tried at least 5 times with no success.  They got stuck with some awful adds though.  They had both the ret pally and arms warrior, so when a priest got aggro, they were toast right away.  They had numerous problems from trapping to trap breaking and Moroes aggro.  They soon called it.  Later the next day I gave some trapping tips to help with trapping, and they tried again on Thursday.  Again, doomed at Moroes!  Trapping went well, but still other issues.   Trap breaking and not cleansing Blind were a major issue this night.  This week was one of those weeks you want to forget.  I’m going to try my best to come this week and lead my troops to victory!

long time…

for the three readers (ok, so i over-exaggerated by three)  that were actually wondering where i was, i’m back… well sorta.  these past few weeks have been hard, but i will prevail.  work has been crazy and i’ve been feeling down and not really felt like writing much of anything.  however!  i figured that i need to get this back up and going and who knows… it might even cheer me up.  being able to lay down thoughts and stories, getting things off my chest.

i have some ideas i’m going to write about soon.  i’m also going to try my best to write a post at least every Mon, Wed, and Fri.  my hopes are that i can get some sort of feeling of accomplishment out of this, you know, to help me get out of this funk i’m in.  if anyone by chance stumbles upon this blog and has any idea or wants to know anything about how messed up my head can be, let me know.  my muse for finding things to write about is missing.

anywho, stay tuned (like that kinda suspense is going to kill ya), and i’ll have some stuff to say.  as for right now, my nose belongs back on that grindstone.

klaki likey!

being an alt-o-holic, i normally don’t do much PvP because I’m busy leveling my next toon. however, a friend of mine introduced me to arenas! i know it’s nothing new, but i only did battlegrounds because i normally didn’t have a partner to do such with. well, i lovez me some arena now. it’s my warlock and my shadow priest friend in a 2v2 matches. i made tons of n00b mistakes, but i had a blast doing them.  killing two people so quickly feels so good.  the quick thinking, the spontaneous actions, the thrill of the hunt, it’s so sweet!  if you haven’t tried arena yet, i recommend doing so soon.  find the right partner and you’ll enjoy it.  trust me!

i caught a fish this big :\

don’t you just dislike people who play the 1-up game. you know the people and the game. you are really excited because you did or got something that was really cool in your eyes. then when you tell said person, they have to 1-up you and say they got something or did something better. they do this to make sure you and everyone around you knows about their fake-awesomeness. they lie so they can feel better by crushing your achievement into the ground. even if you got the highest score in a game possible, they are a great hax0r and achieved a higher score. even if you did three head shots in a row, they did 2 head shots with one bullet then back flipped off the building only to donkey punch another baddie. the fact that someone is so insecure about themselves that they must intrude on other peoples happiness and try their best to steal your thunder is beyond me. i also love the fact that you can’t argue or 1-up them either because their lies are endless. it will get to the point where they caught a whale using a stick and string. its pointless trying. it’s a sad time.