Add another file to the “lifetime firsts” folder. While raiding Tempest Keep with my guild Sunday night, I had a mild heart attack while in the middle of the Solarian fight. While the attack was actually extremely mild, it was still rather jarring, unsettling, and… painful.

Although, apparently not so uncomfortable as to provent me from finishing the run, downing Solarian, and getting some new bracers…

Hunter T5 shoulders dropped off Void Reaver, but I wasn’t high enough on Suicide Kings to get them.

After taking a couple days to rest and relax, I’m feeling pretty good again. Although, I’m a little swamped with work. I had meant to publish an article yesterday on THM about Ferocious Inspiration, Trueshot Aura and Expose Weakness, but never quite got around to it, so I’ll be posting that today instead.

I’ll likely try to get some more of this week’s articles done today, if I have time before I have to go pick Zach up from work.

Also, hang nail on my right thumb hurts. Boo.

Sat in MediaWiki’s help IRC chat for about 30 minutes today, and got no help whatsoever. I posted the same question multiple times and never received a response, though other folks in the channel seemed to get help just fine. Uhhh… wtf?

As if the complicated nature of setting up their software wasn’t bad enough, apparently you don’t get help for it in their channel specifically for getting help, either.

This type of shit makes me seriously reconsider using their software, or recommending it to others. It would’ve been less hassle to just set up static .php or .html pages myself than have to sift through the bullshit with MediaWiki. Which, correct me if I’m wrong, I though was the whole point of MediaWiki (and similar software) in the first place–that it should be easier than setting up static pages?

Ugh. Sucktastic. Thanks a bunch, MediaWiki. /barf

A quick post this morning on THM: a poll asking folks which class they would choose if they could have an instant-70. I may do a larger post later this afternoon, I might not.

In other news… Woopra has been acting funny for the past couple days. I love Twitter. I got the new ProBlogger book–and love it! And now I’m waiting for 8am to roll around so I can watch my usual morning shows: The Nanny, Frasier and Will & Grace.

Its only 10:30 and I’ve already accomplished the big things I wanted to do today. I’ve checked my emails, my various RSS feeds, and posted a relatively large article on THM about using WoWHead and CharDev to get the best possible upgrades for your character (with extensive use of screenshots).

Now I get to sit back, relax, watch some tv and chat with friends before I have to go pick up my boyfriend from work at 1:30.

I should probably throw some laundry in, but I hate doing laundry. I also need to think about what I’m going to do for lunch today. I’m starved.

On my morning commute, I saw a young buck sprint across the interstate. Everyone headed in my direction (southbound) managed to miss him, but unfortunately he was not so lucky once he’d crossed the median between the southbound and northbound lanes. As I continued on, I looked back to see how he’d fared. Not well. I saw the poor thing hit by an SUV in the passing lane. I didn’t have time to see if he’d just been grazed, or worse, but my hopes are not high–what I saw did not instill confidence that he’d be walking away from the incident.

Poor thing.

They really should do something to prevent animals from getting hurt by passing vehicles on the interstate. I’m seeing more and more fuzzy corpses on the side of the road, and it’s not good. Of course, drivers should also be more aware of their surroundings to help prevent such incidents, but honestly… what’s the likelihood of that? With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that there are a lot of people on the road that should not be.

While sitting at one of my favorite local Chinese restaurants this afternoon with my boyfriend, I noticed a pattern in my behavior–whether or not I need one, I always want a new cell phone about a year after purchasing the last one. Usually, this is purely because I have a fondness for new gadgets. This time, however, my desire for a new gadget was spurred by a need I had that my current phone was not meeting.

Namely, I want to be able to take notes effectively on my phone. Rather than having to carry around a notebook, or send myself text messages (which is just stupid), I wanted to have a rough equivalent to Notepad available to me, and an efficient means for inputting data–a keyboard.

With a vague idea that a PDA phone is just what I needed, I bullied my boyfriend into stopping into the Verizon store while we were out and about the other day. After poking around a few of the displays, (I had actually gone in specifically to look at the new Samsung Glyde) I found exactly what I was looking for: the LG XV6800. As I mentioned, I’d gone in looking for the Glyde after seeing some commercials for it, but the reality of the phone was not quite what I’d hoped it would be. (The deal-breaker for me was that the phone did take a memory card, and didn’t appear to have any physical means for transferring data.) So, realizing this wasn’t going to be the phone for me, I looked around at some of the other PDA phones they had on display. Lo and Behold, I spotted the XV6800. Now, already, this phone had some major sticking points in it’s favor. My last two phones have both been LGs, and I have loved each of them immensely. The other thing in the 6800’s favor was that two friends of mine had both had older versions of the phone, which I had played with, and they both spoke highly of them.

After fiddling with the display for a grand total of 1.03 seconds, I was in love. I must have this phone! I will have this phone!

So, I’m going to do some financial finagling and see what I can do.

For those of you who do not know me, I’ve actually already got a blog elsewhere. This blog is one I created for personal reasons. It’s one I plan to use to discuss any of the things that would not be appropriate for my other blog. The readers of my other blog expect certain topics to be covered there, and likely are not interested in the day-to-day goings on of my personal life, so rather than bore them, I decided it would be best simply to move personal content elsewhere.

For those who wish, they can follow my non-WoW-related musings and (mis)adventures here. For those that don’t, this place doesn’t exist.