We decided to splurge on a cruise for our vacation this year. I decided that this was going to be where I would present a ring and spring the question.
We got the vacation all squared away with flights, hotel, cruise, etc. Then I got to work looking for a ring. The internet has made ring buying so easy. Found one that I was 99.999% certain she’d like and that I’d love seeing on her. She’s into purple, not-gold, and hearts. Asked her best friend for her opinion and got the all clear.
Blaugust Came and went with no fanfare on this end. To be fair, it’s been a fun couple of weeks and blogging has been so far down my priority list.
We went camping down near Fairplay CO with the family. Jo and I packed the Jeep and grabbed the pooch and headed out. Harley Jean (HJ) is so good with car rides, now. She used to hate them and would whine non-stop from ignition on to jumping out of the door when we got there. Lots of random rides and the harness that secures her and she’s just peachy.
It was HJ’s first time being off-leash outside without being confined by a fence. She had a blast. Played hard and slept harder. Couple of nights were a bit chilly, but fortunately great-grandma crocheted HJ her own comfy blankie with her first initial. All the fur-babies have such a blanket.
I’m learning that Jeeping can be as expensive as motorcycling. Fortunately, I’m not forced to give either up. We both enjoy riding and both enjoy camping. Also, I’m able to find deals on lightly used equipment and cheap knock off items that I’m not worried about only getting a couple uses out of before I can replace with quality items.
So yeah, that’s my Blaugust for 2025.
My luck hasn’t been as good as others. Still, I got 3 that I didn’t think I’d ever see. I’ll call that a win
The Armored Razzashi Raptor, the Swift Zulian Panther, and the Vitreous Stone Drake all dropped for me in the last week of the event.
It would be cool to see this event pop up once or twice an expansion.
Being the Blizzard shill I am, of course I played it. Mounts, have to catch them all.
Took me about 3 hours to get Shaohao’s Sage Serpent, but that’s because I created a warrior and then decided to swap to a monk for their roll ability to make running less aggravating. Also, I took up herbalism and mining. I have no intentions of playing MoP Classic, but I wanted to make some random person’s life better by giving them a boatload of herbs, ores, and whatever money I had acquired by the “fix the land” quest.
I love the nostalgia of MoP, but I hate the loss of quality of life features that exist in retail. Like multi-tagging. Took me so long to complete the killquests, because mobs would get range tagged just before I landed a melee hit on them.
Also, and it’s sooooooooo dumb, but you can’t learn fishing in the Pandaren starting zone. SERIOUSLY!!!!! I’d have taken a couple of nights to do the starting zone if I could have fished. I would have handed those over to the one random person mentioned above too to help with their cooking.
In her post Things my Druid wears, Part 14, Kamalia showed a leather set that gave me Kung Fu (with David Carradine) vibes. I took her base… Black Dragonscale Backpack, Inherited Raiment, Inherited Gloves, Inherited Cincture, Inherited Leggings, Inherited Treads, and added Chen Stormstout’s Bamboo Hat and Staff of the White Tigerlord to come up with a Gilded Kwai-Chang Cane look.
The Anniversary event kicked my @$$ into gear to get a couple of alts leveled. I’ve now got 5 at level 80 (HELLOOOOOOOOOOO 25% leveling bonus) with 2 more within 3 levels of cap.
When I learned that the turbulent time ways event was happening now, I was thinking I’d do it on a level 70 toon that’s parked indefinitely. Only problem, I learned a few weeks too late. If I get my first one tonight, I’ll be 2 weeks shy of the necessary 5th one when it’s over. Oh well. /shrug
Plunderstorm 2.0 is also live. I’m down to needing only 14,000 plunder to end my need to log in. I saved the 2 new pets and 2 new mounts for last, because otherwise I’d have probably just said f#*% it and not bothered with the new mog set or new weapons. I’m guessing I’ve got 3 to 5 more nights of using my 2-ish hours of gaming time to wrap that up.
Still not ready to find another guild. Still incredibly jaded about the destruction of [otQ] and [LPM]. Still angry at myself for my part in all of it as well.
A while back, I posted a way of adding tracking macros to your action bars. Well, in typical Blizzard fashion, they broke things with the 11.0 pre-patch.
There were a couple of changes to the API that killed the code. Here’s the current form of the macro.
/run for l=1,C_Minimap.GetNumTrackingTypes() do i=C_Minimap.GetTrackingInfo(l); if(i.name=="Track Humanoids")then t=not i.active; C_Minimap.SetTracking(l, t); m="OFF"; if(t)then m="ON"; end print(i.name.." "..m); end endChange “Track Humanoids” to “Track Beasts” or “Find Minerals” or “Flight Master” or anything else that appears on the tracking menu or submenus.
WoW stuff: Completed the pre-patch (aka got the ring and the achievo). Doing a bit more in remix than I thought I would. I just need MSV, TOES, and TOT on heroic (could probably knock those out one night this week) and I will have done every achievement for Remix. I got all the expensive mounts (18+K bronze ones, so I don’t need to farm a couple world bosses or raids anymore). I got a bunch of the mogs too, but wasn’t too worried about those. Being able to just auto collect all appearances, and hand class specific tokens to my fellow warband members, means that mog farming is a non-issue now. I’ll probably keep farming bronze for the hell of it and buying what I can before the event ends. However, if it ended right now, I would feel no regrets for “missing out” on anything. Honestly, if they did something like this for Legion or Wrath, I’d probably repeat what I did here. Just take it leisurely and do what I can. When I can. It was amusing.
Personal stuff: Last night we decided to drive up into Wyoming to try and see the Northern Lights and the meteor shower. As we were approaching the state border there were dark storm clouds, (heavy, black, and pendulous) towards which we were driving (a friend got me on the RHPS kick, so deal with it). We decided that we should just turn around and enjoy the lightshow from the storm as we headed home. Though, Jo was able to see a meteor in a break in the clouds, so it wasn’t a complete loss. The puppers was happy to have us home sooner rather than later, so it was a win-win all the way around.
Back from camping in Glendo State Park, WY. It’s been decades since I’ve been camping. Spent a fair bit of time in the lake and gathered under the stars to watch the meteor shower. While the trip to Miami Beach in June was the best reboot we’ve had in a long time, this one comes in as a very solid second best. We’re really going to have to try hard to outdo these last two trips, if it’s even possible.
Going to try to be a bit more active here than normal. I’m not going to set myself up for failure by saying I’ll post everyday. I am going to start Blaugust by going camping in Wyoming, so there were be a couple days where I’m not going to be near a computer. I’m just going to do as best I can.
Happy blogging folks!
Bodhi Rana 