Returning to WoW

If any of you followed mine and Nicole’s infamous race to 80 last summer, you know that it ended pretty miserably for me.  Frankly, she cheated and clawed her way to 80 in the wee hours of the morning after tricking me into going to sleep before she did.  I’m not bitter about it…mostly, but I’m happy to report that despite the vicious whoopin’ she threw me last year I have officially re-activated my WoW account after being absent for months.

It’s not that I inherently got bored with WoW, I just didn’t have time to play it between playing a plethora of other games over the last year such as Assassin’s Creed II, Heavy Rain, Borderlands, and so on.

Will a new challenge between Nicole and I rise from the ashes that my vengance might be violently extracted?  Only time will tell, but for now I’m just happy to have my new rogue running and stabbing his way through Azeroth.

Mmmmrrrrggggllll!

For Christmas one of the presents Josh’s parents got me was a Murloc plush from World of Warcraft, and one of the best parts about it is that it makes the Murloc noise from the game (something like “mmrrrrgggglll”)! I squeezed its mouth in heavy anticipation and waited for the eminent growl – but no sound. I tried again, and again, and again, and each time it just stared back at me silently. I was a little sad, but not as sad as Lisa and Rusty since they swore it worked just two weeks earlier.

Fortunately, Jinx is super awesome about returns and mistakes and shipped us a new one, which I recently received. This new one is lively and makes up for the mute one’s shyness. Now they’re both sitting in our living room chilling oh so adorably and I need your help naming them! The new one came with an “Official Adoption Certificate” and has a name (‘Dagupan’), but I think their names should probably rhyme. What do you think?

Nicole: 1, Joshua: 0

/winkYesterday Joshua and I released the results of the World of Warcraft competition. If for some reason your  computer wasn’t playing our podcast (there really isn’t any other reason you wouldn’t have listened to it), you would have found out I was the victor. It was a very close race the entire way through, and I do give many kudos to Joshua for catching up three levels and even surpassing me most of the time. You may be wondering how in the world this could have happened, considering Joshua’s dedication, diligence, and use of robots.  I’m here to list a few details why the race was so close and why I ultimately dinged before him.

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Advice, please!: Dark Hooded Cape

If you ask nicely I'll give you my realm and name ;)

Okay. So. I was running around south of Hammerfall in Arathi Highlands with my level 35 rogue fighting trolls. I happened to come across Nimar the Slayer, a silver elite, that was bound to drop something useful. I did the usual ambush – sinister strike – sinister strike – sinister strike – sinister strike – eviscerate, and to my delight he dropped a Dark Hooded Cape.

Nevermind what I’m using now, because it’s just a green level 20 cape and I am in need of a new cape. But my dilemma is: should I keep the cape I can obviously use for a while and look rad in it, or should I sell it for approximately 200 gold? Any input at all would be helpful because I’m very stuck!