posted @ 1:27 am on Sunday, January 18, 2009
Its kinda hard to believe but my 4 weeks annual leave is almost over.. For the first time in a while I actually feel good so the extra time off has been worth it. Did lots of things and got lots of new goodies over the past few weeks which have kept me amused.
Guitar Hero World Tour – omg, the drum kit so rocks!
Shitloads of DVD’s.. I picked up the awesome Die Hard Quadrilogy on blueray. I must say DH1 & 4 were certainly the best.
3G iPhone – Thanks to Brett for shipping it to me from the UK and to yellowsn0w for the painless unlocking. My 1st Gen has since made its way into Sara’s hot little hands ;P
New Scalar Rider FM after the previous one got waterlogged and stopped working (silly me must have left the recharge jack unsealed and it got soaked in some rain). The new one is cool though cause I can now listen to FM radio while riding the bike.
Replacement Power Supply for my file server @ home due to the last one going out with a (rather large) bang! The one I picked up from the local computer joint is too loud so I have another arriving hopefully on Monday which should bring the noise back down in my computer room. We’ll see how that pans out.
New clothes – as always happens every Christmas, and probably the only time I actually bother with clothes shopping too hehe. I really don’t like clothes shopping shopping in general and 90% of the time I just wear shit that Sara has bought me… pathetic .. I know ;P.
Custom moulded earplugs – I have quite narrow ear canals which makes wearing normal foam ear plugs quite uncomfortable and annoying. As I hav erecently been doing a lot of long distance rides, and my motorbike not being exactly quiet these things are awesome. Extremely comfortable, blocks out all that wind and engine noise but allows me to hear things I need to hear like horns and/or approaching cars etc.
Motorbike – Did another couple of big motorcycle rides, the latter was the one that took out my old Scaler Rider bluetooth headset for my mobile/gps. I have also seen on this ride, for the first time, a no speed limit sign. I didn’t even know they existed in this state, or at least anywhere close to civilisation, however considering we did around 700kms that day it was possible that we weren’t at all. Furthermore that particular street seemed to disappear off my GPS map as well.
I still need to sort out the power cable for the GPS as I found that the internal battery seems to only last for about 6 hours before it goes completely flat. I did get the CBR1000RR in for its 12000km service too and was going to get the cable fitted however the day before putting it in for service I couldn’t find where I put the cable.. I think i put it in a ‘safe place’ hehe
Fishing – I also got back into a bit of fishing, had a few days there where I went out with my sister and some friends for a bit of fishing, I actually broke my several year drought and actually caught something worth keeping! w00t! hehe. It was a rock cod or something, tasted pretty good.
World of Warcraft – Contrary to speculation, I haven’t actually played much WoW over my holidays. Sure I have played it a bit, but there was a little over a week where I didn’t even log on. Of course this was over christmas, new years etc where I just had too much other shit going on. Was probably the longest time I’ve had away from it in a long time. There were certainly withdrawal symptoms happening though 
One thing is for sure though, the current content is just too freakin boring… the whole Naxxramas 10 man and 25 man is pathetic, no incentive to do 25′s when you can just do 10′s and get almost the same quality gear. the content is also WAY too easy, we’re burning through this content like a hot knife through butter.. I understand that they want the average joe to be able to experience end game content, but those hard core raiders who play specifically for end game progression have been slapped with a wet fish… On top of this a lot of classes are also in a bad shape after the expansion which has also resulted in a number of ppl leaving the game which has directly impacted our end game raiding 
To make matters worse our best raid leader has transferred and our guild master has decided to step down. I’m not too sure where this is going to leave the guild or if they are going to be able to recover. I guess I’m back into the same boat I was 7-8 months ago , looking for a decently progressed end game raiding guild that needs a Warlock 
I’m sure there’s plenty of other crap thats happened that I’ve missed. I really should update this more often – but not as often as those wacky kids and their twitters ;P Yes I’m lookin at you both Daveg & Skywalka!
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