As mentioned in my "about me" I'm married. My wife has a total of five sisters, two older and three younger. The youngest has been the source of all sorts of drama since the summer, and rather than rehash it all here I'll direct you to my other blog. Go read it. I promise it'll be worth it.
And expect a slightly longer post here a bit later today.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Of White Trash
Posted by Admiral_John at 8:12 AM 0 comments
Monday, December 10, 2007
Warning! World Of Warcraft content!
This post is heavy with World Of Warcraft jargon, so read at your own risk...
A bit of background... I have two characters, a level 70 Hunter and a level 19 Shaman. My wife has a level 70 Warlock and a level 70 Hunter. Last night she ran my Shaman through Shadowfang Keep with her Hunter (she recently changed her profession to Enchanting and neeeded greens, while I just wanted the experience) and at one point Night Reaver drops. My wife graciously allows me to take it and after we finished I went to Org and started spamming "WTS Night Reaver" in trade, thinking I'd net about 40-50 gold off of it.
The first person to respond says "how much? 15g?" I tell him no way I'll sell it for that, to which he responds "19g? I'm begging; it's all I have". I apologize but again decline, telling him again there's no way I'm letting it go for that.
He asks me where I got it, and I tell him Shadowfang Keep, and he immediately starts spamming "Paying for run through Shadowfang Keep!" in the trade channel.
I kind of chuckled at this, since apparently this axe has a .01 percent drop rate, but my chuckled turned into a devious idea...
What if I signed onto my Hunter, took him up on his offer, charged him say 10g for the run, then set loot to "Master Looter". We fight our way through and this axe drops and, rather than give it to him, I take it and sell it again for another hefty chunk of change.
That's mean. That's cruel. That's pretty damn funny.
But I didn't do it.
... I should have.
Posted by Admiral_John at 11:27 AM 0 comments
Ho ho ho!
A bit of a story behind this card... check out one of my favorite blogs, TheSneeze, for the Story Of The Tree Brain.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
My son speaks
Before you read this post, go read this one, or you're going to be real confused.
Here's what my son says happened. But remember, he was paralyzed with fear and freely urinating on himself while this was happening:
Ok, for those of you who were promised the truth of this story, this is what REALLY happened that day…
I was going into the bathroom to take my shower when I saw something moving in the corner of the room. At first I thought it was Hibbleton, our resident mouse, but when it came into the light I saw this looking at me from around the toilet.
Now at 6 in the morning, my ability to identify animals is about as functioning as my ability to speak Spanish (not very well), so I called my dad; this is the EXACT conversation.
Me: “Dad, what the hell is this thing?”
Dad: “What thing?”
Me: “I don’t know, its some sort of animal.”
Dad: “Is it a bug?”
Me: “No, it has fur, and its way bigger than Hibbleton.”
So after we finished talking he came in, but by that time it was hiding behind the sink. And while my dad was telling me that he didn’t see anything; it came running at us from behind the sink. Now, I’ll admit, I was a little startled so I stepped back a bit…but my dad jumped in the air and, like a retarded kung-fu cheerleader, screamed a very girly scream and did what I now call the "flying crab". I could explain to you what this is, but any mental image you come up with is bound to be as funny, if not funnier, than what he actually did.
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I swear this is true
I have a very set routine in my house... we have three dogs, two of which sleep with my son, while the third sleeps with my wife and me. I get up at six with our dog (Miya is her name) and take her downstairs and let her out to do her business. When she's done, I make coffee and by that time my son comes down with the other two dogs (Winston and Takoda). We take them out and he hops in the shower while I go upstairs and wake my wife up and tell her she's got 15 minutes before coffee is ready. I then sit at the computer and fiddle around, adding and deleting stuff off of my Zune while my son showers. He gets out, my wife and I grab our shower and he leaves for school. We get out, get dressed, lock the dogs in the kitchen and leave for work sometime between seven and seven-fifteen.
The other morning, however, things didn't go according to plan...
I'm sitting at the computer when I hear my son yell out from the bathroom "DAD! HELP! THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN HERE!" I leap out of chair and sprint into the bathroom to see this stalking my son:
Meanwhile Winston and Takoda were charging after this abomination while Miya positioned herself in front of my son, growling and protecting him. I chased after the beast but it managed to avoid me before escaping behind my refrigerator, where I assume it opened a dimensional portal back to the abyss from whence it came.
I haven't seen a trace of the monster since then, save a faint odor of burning sulfur.
My son has a different recollection of these events. Bear in mind that he was paralyzed with fear at the time (I think he may have wet himself) so take his description of the events with a grain of salt. I will ask him to write up his own description and post it later.
Posted by Admiral_John at 10:14 AM 0 comments
World Of Warcraft
Yes, I play World Of Warcraft.
There, I said it.
I play the game and enjoy the game. It's great fun and after playing for almost a year I still am finding new stuff to do.
That said, there are people out there who take this game WAY too seriously. For example:
1) When I moved into my house a few friends from work offered (I didn't ask; they offered) to help and committed to help for the entire day. When they arrived they told me they had to leave at about 3:30 to go on an raid with their guild.
2) I know someone who lives with his girlfriend. They both play. He went away for the weekend to see a NASCAR race. He leaves on a Friday and came home on a Monday. He walked through the door and the first thing he said to his girlfriend (who happened to be playing at the time) was "Are you gonna logoff so I can play?" No hello. No kiss.
3) And then there's this guy (NSFW audio). A bit of explanation... the person talking is leading a group of 25 players into a battle against the huge dragon that's pictured in the link. When you hear him say "you'll lose 50 DKP" he's referring to "Dragon Kill Points", which are points some groups utilize to award the items that these big monsters drop when you kill them. DKP points are awarded and deducted by the group leader as they deem appropriate.
4) I know of someone that plays whenever he's awake. Literally. He wakes up, signs on, plays all day, goes to bed, wakes up and does it all over. He's on permanent disability and this is all he does.
5) One Friday night, I signed on and played for a couple of hours. One player I know (the same one who was more interested in signing on than kissing his girlfriend after a trip) was signed on when I signed on. He was still on when I signed off at about 10pm and went to bed. I got up the next morning, did some stuff around the house and when I signed on at about 11am he was still on and confirmed he had been all night. I played for a bit, did some more stuff and signed on again at about 6pm and, you guessed it, he was still on. He played for almost 30 hours. Straight.
People take this game way too seriously. Whenever someone starts to cop an attitude or get upset about something that transpired in the game I'll say "would you get this pissed off if you drew a 'go directly to jail' card in Monopoly?
That generally shuts them up.
When a game takes this much control over your life, you have a problem. When you get so pissed off at a video game that you scream at people or break stuff, you have a problem. If you go out of town for a weekend and the first thing you do when you get home is ask your girlfriend to signoff so you can play and NOT drag her into the bedroom and ravage her, you have a big problem. People like this make me embarrassed to admit that I play this game.
So if you play World Of Warcraft and exhibit any of these above behaviors, knock it off.
You're embarrassing me.
Posted by Admiral_John at 9:44 AM 0 comments
FIRST!!!!
My job kind of allows me a fair amount of downtime. My employer graciously allows me internet access so I find myself spending my downtime perusing the Blogosphere for something entertaining. After doing this for a bit I decided to throw my Blog-o-Hat into the Blog-o-Ring and see what happens.
So what can you expect to find here? I play alot of computer games (World Of Warcraft is my drug of choice right now) so expect gaming related posts. I fancy myself to be rather funny, so expect lame attempts at humorous observations. I have an opinion on just about everything, so expect me to force those opinions on you like I'm your priest and you're my alter boy.
So sit back, read, comment, and maybe leave a bit more entertained than you were when you got here.
Posted by Admiral_John at 8:09 AM 0 comments