May Day, May Day, May day
05/01/05 05:09 PM |
General
Sorry I just had to say it. Ah the first day of May.
A time for new beginnings. Time to put those cold
winter months behind and focus on the spring and
coming summer. Just look out the window and you can
see the beautiful snow falling. Wait a minute. Snow?
How can it snow on May Day? That seems thoroughly
un-American. I'd like to know just what exactly
President Bush is doing to combat this horrible,
white, flaky menace. Earlier this week I was
wondering when I should do the first mowing of the
lawn, now I'm wondering if I put the shovel away
prematurely.
I now I promised new Rocky pictures earlier this week, but they didn't happen. Deal with it. More on Rocky later.
First a quick update on WoW. I've started another new character. Chloie is a human warrior. I had no idea warriors kicked so much butt. At least they do in the first 10 levels. I could take on 2-3 enemies at my level and could easily kill ones 2-3 levels above. Can't wait until dual wield at level 20. I've mostly been playing as Gnick lately though, well Gnick and Hedana. Walyn escorted Gnick through the Dead Mines the other day and Hedana escorted Alexzander through part of the Dead Mines. Hedana is about half way through level 49 still. I haven't had her doing many quests for XP lately. Mostly she's been doing dungeon raids to gather items for her lower level siblings.
Last night was a bit different though. Blizzard, creators of WoW, recently introduced the honor system patch. Basically it is a way of keeping track of Player VS Player kills. I'm not going to go into detail here but the short of it is that you are awarded kills when you participate in PVP. The more kills you get the higher your rank becomes depending on the ranks of others. Last night we spent about 4 hours raiding Crossroads in the Barrens. We had about 30+ people just on our side. I racked up 208 kills last night alone. Those are all me alone mind you. As long as you are in the raid party and participating (ie, within a certain distance of the killing) you gain kills. And since I'm a lower level (yes, 49 was low compared to who we were killing and others in my group) more kills count for me. But it would be nice to get up to level 60 so I don't have to worry as much about getting my butt kicked by some ?? level character. We did have some delusions of greatness though. Twice we got the stupid idea that we could storm Ogrimmar, the Orc capitol. Twice, we were severely mistaken. I have some screenshots up from our raid in the WoW pictures pages. Overall it was very fun and a nice break from questing and looting.
Saturday was also the last night of bowling. Bowling, yet another sport I suck at. I don't know why I haven't been doing well the last few weeks. But it was fun anyway. Bailey, the other guy on our team, and Kara are engaged. Congratulations to them..... Suckers, been there, done that, not impressed. No I'm kidding, I wish them all the best. Other than that bit of news it was a pretty straight forward evening, a few games of bowling and then a little buffet dinner and then we're done.
Okay ready to hear about Rocky? Well it's been a big week for Rocky. Earlier this week he learned how to drink his formula out of a bowl. So no more bottle feeding for the little psychopath. His eyes are doing much better and we are nearing the end of his medication period. On top of that he's had a big week of interaction with the other cats. They have all stopped hissing at him and will even let him come up to them, sort of. Daimao is taking the most interest in him. They've been playing often these past few days. I'm hoping this will help with his social skills. I've posted some new photos of him playing in the living room. He's become fond of some of Pika's toys. And since I didn't get photos up earlier this week, I have a bonus for those of you with either high speed internet or some patience. On the left you will now see there is a "Movies" page. You will find some short, soundless movies that I took of Rocky with my digital camera. They are designed to use the QuickTime media plugin but if not, should be viewable in Windows Media Player. I included the file size in parentheses, the bigger the file the longer to download. Enjoy.
Well to round things out for the week, I'd like to give you some movie reviews. I watched a couple this week. First up is "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Either read the books or see the movie. Don't do both. You'll be disappointed by the movie. They are trying to cram 3 books worth of stuff into 1 movie and it doesn't work. The movie was entertaining enough and Jim Carrey does a surprisingly good job as Count Olaf but a lot of "artistic license" is taken with the plot to merge the 3 books into one movie. Maybe it's just me, but I'm under the impression that if the author had wanted the plot to go that way then it would have been written that way. But if you consider the movie on its own, it's not bad. The cast is very well put together. I especially liked the casting of Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty and Jude Law as the narrator (Lemony Snicket).
Next up is Blade Trinity. Wow, talk about throwing things together. Again the movie was entertaining but it lacked the darker feel from the first movie. As I said the movie overall felt a bit thrown together. Like they had all these great ideas and could decide which to use, so they used all of them and it became a mess. The character Ryan Reynolds plays is very funny. Unfortunately I didn't watch Blade Trinity expecting a comedy, but it's what I got. As far as casting goes I'm sure you'd expect me to applaud whoever signed Jennifer Biel to do the movie. She has grown up quite nicely since "7th Heaven" and is, in my opinion, the best eye-candy in the Blade series. But I was pleasantly surprised at the casting of Natasha Lyonne as a blind, bit-part character. For those who don't recognize the name, her filmography includes movies such as "Slums of Beverly Hills", "American Pie", "American Pie 2", "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "The Devil's Rejects" (an upcoming film from Rob Zombie).
Well that's it for now sports fans. Now it's time to go find my snow shoes....
I now I promised new Rocky pictures earlier this week, but they didn't happen. Deal with it. More on Rocky later.
First a quick update on WoW. I've started another new character. Chloie is a human warrior. I had no idea warriors kicked so much butt. At least they do in the first 10 levels. I could take on 2-3 enemies at my level and could easily kill ones 2-3 levels above. Can't wait until dual wield at level 20. I've mostly been playing as Gnick lately though, well Gnick and Hedana. Walyn escorted Gnick through the Dead Mines the other day and Hedana escorted Alexzander through part of the Dead Mines. Hedana is about half way through level 49 still. I haven't had her doing many quests for XP lately. Mostly she's been doing dungeon raids to gather items for her lower level siblings.
Last night was a bit different though. Blizzard, creators of WoW, recently introduced the honor system patch. Basically it is a way of keeping track of Player VS Player kills. I'm not going to go into detail here but the short of it is that you are awarded kills when you participate in PVP. The more kills you get the higher your rank becomes depending on the ranks of others. Last night we spent about 4 hours raiding Crossroads in the Barrens. We had about 30+ people just on our side. I racked up 208 kills last night alone. Those are all me alone mind you. As long as you are in the raid party and participating (ie, within a certain distance of the killing) you gain kills. And since I'm a lower level (yes, 49 was low compared to who we were killing and others in my group) more kills count for me. But it would be nice to get up to level 60 so I don't have to worry as much about getting my butt kicked by some ?? level character. We did have some delusions of greatness though. Twice we got the stupid idea that we could storm Ogrimmar, the Orc capitol. Twice, we were severely mistaken. I have some screenshots up from our raid in the WoW pictures pages. Overall it was very fun and a nice break from questing and looting.
Saturday was also the last night of bowling. Bowling, yet another sport I suck at. I don't know why I haven't been doing well the last few weeks. But it was fun anyway. Bailey, the other guy on our team, and Kara are engaged. Congratulations to them..... Suckers, been there, done that, not impressed. No I'm kidding, I wish them all the best. Other than that bit of news it was a pretty straight forward evening, a few games of bowling and then a little buffet dinner and then we're done.
Okay ready to hear about Rocky? Well it's been a big week for Rocky. Earlier this week he learned how to drink his formula out of a bowl. So no more bottle feeding for the little psychopath. His eyes are doing much better and we are nearing the end of his medication period. On top of that he's had a big week of interaction with the other cats. They have all stopped hissing at him and will even let him come up to them, sort of. Daimao is taking the most interest in him. They've been playing often these past few days. I'm hoping this will help with his social skills. I've posted some new photos of him playing in the living room. He's become fond of some of Pika's toys. And since I didn't get photos up earlier this week, I have a bonus for those of you with either high speed internet or some patience. On the left you will now see there is a "Movies" page. You will find some short, soundless movies that I took of Rocky with my digital camera. They are designed to use the QuickTime media plugin but if not, should be viewable in Windows Media Player. I included the file size in parentheses, the bigger the file the longer to download. Enjoy.
Well to round things out for the week, I'd like to give you some movie reviews. I watched a couple this week. First up is "A Series of Unfortunate Events". Either read the books or see the movie. Don't do both. You'll be disappointed by the movie. They are trying to cram 3 books worth of stuff into 1 movie and it doesn't work. The movie was entertaining enough and Jim Carrey does a surprisingly good job as Count Olaf but a lot of "artistic license" is taken with the plot to merge the 3 books into one movie. Maybe it's just me, but I'm under the impression that if the author had wanted the plot to go that way then it would have been written that way. But if you consider the movie on its own, it's not bad. The cast is very well put together. I especially liked the casting of Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty and Jude Law as the narrator (Lemony Snicket).
Next up is Blade Trinity. Wow, talk about throwing things together. Again the movie was entertaining but it lacked the darker feel from the first movie. As I said the movie overall felt a bit thrown together. Like they had all these great ideas and could decide which to use, so they used all of them and it became a mess. The character Ryan Reynolds plays is very funny. Unfortunately I didn't watch Blade Trinity expecting a comedy, but it's what I got. As far as casting goes I'm sure you'd expect me to applaud whoever signed Jennifer Biel to do the movie. She has grown up quite nicely since "7th Heaven" and is, in my opinion, the best eye-candy in the Blade series. But I was pleasantly surprised at the casting of Natasha Lyonne as a blind, bit-part character. For those who don't recognize the name, her filmography includes movies such as "Slums of Beverly Hills", "American Pie", "American Pie 2", "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "The Devil's Rejects" (an upcoming film from Rob Zombie).
Well that's it for now sports fans. Now it's time to go find my snow shoes....
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