WOW! And I say it louder.

Last night I finally got my defiler mythical, woot.  Was my 1st run through of VP with my defiler and I got to MT heal most of it (guild defiler main joined for Silverwing/Pharadar).  So, I got my mythical and Trak access!  The instance you have to do solo was interesting. Nothing like having 130k hp and soloing a 80×2.

HW has been a fun time.

Killing avatars that I only wished of ever killing is very satisfying. When we killed Ykesha it was a great moment too. Only 2 more mobs to go to beat all of this expansion. weeeeeeee.

Finally, a mage bp dropped too, grats to the most patient person (or wasteful) in guild (not me).  Haven’t gotten to see it in action yet.  I usually outparse him by 2-5k, And from a few parses I have seen he will be maybe 1-2k below me. When I get mine I will be untouchable! As I already am 1 or 2 ZW (damn assissin), and the other wizzy is in top 5.

From a few weeks ago.

The other day was interesting. Was at the bank doing my daily deposit… and one of the gals there was asking what our hours were. She then offered me a job as a teller at the bank! I guess rumor has it I am a great employee and they would be blessed to have me there. It made me feel very good that someone wanted me to work for them, and for them to ask me directly I felt honored.  Of course I declined though. I don’t want to go back to work at a place where my hours are very rigid.  I like my flexible schedule I have now.

They ended up having someone transfer from another bank to this one. I heard she was available too… bleh

Keep having this feeling like I should settle down and get me a woman, but I am happy where I am at now.  Just, everyone one I know has a significant other. Feel like I am going tomiss an opportunity if I don’t act now.

So torn sometimes.

>late post<

Went to see Star Trek (day of opening). It was a great movie. Was not disappointed at all.  The way this movie was done, I cannot wait to see more of this story unfolding with the new cast. I am not a treky or anything, but I think everyone can/will/did enjoy this movie.

Man it’s been awhile since my last blog.  Just feel like I never have time to do one, even though I really do have time.

Updates:

Well, I was offered a new job.  To be a manager.   Been great so far. Hours are not that bad and the  daily paperwork is easy.  The new people I have met here are great, and the old ones I knew are still awesome.  Fixed a lot of forms we use daily to be more efficient and organized things to better suit work flow.

Been playing eq2 since my last post.  God I missed this game.  Came back to the guild I have been with since like day 3 of my account. Enjoyed seeing them even further along on progression, doing T1 ROK stuff.  Helped a few members DPS better, even in my absence (so I was told).

One of the new people I met when I came back was a crazy Russian guy.  Fun swashy to be with.  He left Evo to be with a VP/TSO raiding guild. It made me sad to see another person leave Evo… then it happened.  What I saw as a very rare opportunity. As I am a wizzy, and it seems everyone has a wizzy so I never thought I would ever get an opportunity to go to a high end guild.  I wanted more though. I wanted to kill THIS expansions stuff. The guild my swashy friend went to needed a wizzy, so I app,ed.

What a fun experience. Killing things with ease, making VP look easy. 2 grouping PR. Learning new encounters in TSO. Killing Tangrin, fun! Sadly, that only lasted a few months.

When I got my new job, I couldn’t make raid times anymore due to that guild being EST. So, I looked around. Found a few guilds that were PST.   One guild stood out though, HW.  Was led by one of the greatest wizzys ever. I used my charm or whatever and got a spot in the guild, which included me leaving my home of BB.  MM is not a bad server though. Lots of things are different, most I wasn’t expecting.

So like, a game I loved. Wanted to play non-stop, and was fun as hell… Yes Warhammer. But sadly, after playing 3 characters to t4… and even being invited to help test new patches on private test server… Was sad. They asked us for feedback. We gave them A TON LOAD of feed back… Did they listen? I will give ya 1 guess, and the answer is not yes. Instead they decided to take away more of what made the game fun, nerfing a class I enjoyed immensely, Sorcerer. They did fix things that no one complained about and no one knew about, but never fixed any bug we gave them or any suggestions we gave them either.

After that, I kinda lost interest. Mythic is supposed to be really good with customer feedback and customer service. I honestly think the devs and CSRs are not even in the same state.  On top of that, my best friend and I played War. We had rolled on a server, which later we moved to another due to low population (read : players are leaving due to things being broken and not being fixed). It was great. The transfer of my 10 characters took maybe 10 mins. Wasn’t until about a week after the transferred there was a problem… One of my characters was named “Duct Tape”. I loved my lil shammie… It was odd though. Was sitting waiting for a scenario to pop, and someone random asked me what I was going to do for my last name… as in, he only saw “Duct” and not “Tape”… I then realized later that night that my best friends character didn’t have his last name either. On my screen I could see my last name, on his screen he could see his. But no one else could see them. I decided to file an Appeal. While my best friend filed a bug report… about 6 hours later I got a reply back from a CSR. Took about 15 mins to explain, then they ended up saying sorry they couldn’t help and to file a bug report, so I did. Then about 24 hours after my best friends bugreport, he got a message from a bug report guy, took less than 30 seconds and I could see his last name again. He then asked the guy what I should do, the bug report said to just file another appeal. So I did… about 4 hours later I got a message from a CSR, err wait, the EXACT same CSR that I talked to the day before… had to explain it again, 15 mins, then they said they couldn’t help… So lets recap, CSR said to file Bugreport, Bugreport said to talk to CSR, CSR said to file bug report….so i filed a 2nd bug report. Did I mention after that I still didn’t get a response from any bugreport people?

I gave up at that point, but a  couple weeks later I decided to try again, maybe I will get lucky, I thought… Filed appeal and got a response about 2 hours later. Explained situation, they said sorry. I explained to them that my friend had it fixed in less than 30 seconds… They said they couldn’t talk about anther account with me… to which I offered to log onto that account at the same time to prove to them and let them read the notes on that account to see it was in fact done.. Both of the CSRs so far have offered to look at the other account, and asked the name of the character it was done on… but neither could discuss it with me. Not like it was a secret, I saw it happen on his character. This CSR even asked their supervisor and he decided they wouldn’t help me either and to file a bug report… I filed a 3rd bug report. To which after 4 weeks, 3 bug reports, I have gotten 0 response and still cannot get my last name to show up to others, OR EVEN MAKE IT GO AWAY on my screen  

I give up on a game that won’t do what they have the means to do to satisfy their customer base. Oh well, most people say its gunna end up just like AoC, dead in 6 months. I think today it around the 4th or 5th month… 

Did I also mention that in t4 there was almost nothing to do? Game was built so that in T4 their would be city take overs… too bad that after the game was in beta for years, and game had been out for 4 months, server or zone crashes when you get to the zone before city.. and then resets and the 4 or 5 hours of hard work to get there is gone… oh well, I won’t worry about a crappy game that had a fun game mechanic.

I am done paying for a game that feels like a beta. Get 90% of the game working not 50% before releasing it… so I decided to play a game that still brings joy to my face. EQ2

Look for more EQ2 posts to come

So, I was on facebook, looking at my friends and came across one that, well, I miss. They added me as a friend but never said anything to me, though to be fair I didn’t say anything either. Kinda sad. I miss them a lot. We had some good times together. 

Anyways, it got me to thinking about my days at Willamette. One of the greatest things I was apart of there and was one of the best memories was the ASWU elections.

Let me preface this post a lil’ bit. After being on campus for a few weeks I found out about a peer to peer type webpage that connected all the computers on campus together. It was a big file share site and you could search it for files and then proceed to download them from the machine that had them. This site was called “Vote Kasha”.

I guess it was kind of a joke from the previous year, never quite got an answer to what it really meant. I think there was actually a person named Kasha that left/graduated that year.

Iirc it was a few months and the Vote Kasha forums were born. This was the place that we all could communicate with each other. Set up posts outlining who would download what season for this show via bittorrent or whatever. It also was a place where we got into off topic discussion. About campus life. Flaming people for what they had on their computer. Poeple having pr0n and such. Was fun, very fun.

Ok, on to the good stuff. There came a time when the good people of WU needed to elect a new student body… and guess what the people who ran the forums did.. yup, that’s right, campaigned for Kasha as prez. I still have the poster that was plastered everywhere.

Now who wouldn’t want to vote for Kasha? by the way, I don’t know whether the guy is Kasha or not but reading the poster it refers to Kasha a a girl.

I resided in Doney on the corner of the 2nd floor and we had 2 windows. I made some signs saying “Vote Kasha” to help with the camp[aignh as my room windows were pretty visible to most walking on campus. 

Today, I decided to see if my WU email still worked cause I had an email of the ASWU results. Well one of the 2 emails. I have the one for outcome summery, not the actually tallys.

Excerpt from the email:

Thanks to everyone that voted for the ASWU Executive, we had 710 ballots
cast. Here are the results:

President:
  Killpack 413
  Write In 246

As you can see there was a major write in. I wish I had the other email as to who were the write ins, but I can tell you it was 21 votes for some other dude and 225 votes for… Kasha. I was floored. When I saw that email I literally fell to the floor laughing. it was awesome. I knew I had voted for Kasha as a joke, but 224 other people did too?

On a side note, I did a google search for “Vote Kasha” and found a blog. Not sure who this person was but I am going to try and find out.

I also decided to email the friend I missed. Hope they will understand.

Well, I should have posted this on Sunday but ‘better nate than lever’ I guess…

So, was hanging with my mom and bro when we drove by this in Bend. I just had to take a pic. Was hilarious.

Like they do it on the discovery channel?

Wonder if the neighbors complain.

Later that night, best friend, bro, and I went out to have fun.  We decided to go to Starz. But before going we knew we should prolly get a few drinks else where. We hit up Mcminemins and proceeded to drink. Round of AMF, then Tokyo Tea, then Black Opal, then tequila shots, and I stopped at that. I think they had another round of something else, maybe rum and cokes, no idea.

Next thing I remember is wanting to puke but walking a ways to the road and then being driven to Starz. Never did puke. At the door I remember trying to act not drunk as the bouncer checked IDs and such. I think we had a beer at Starz as well. Don’t remember much of being there.

I do remember walking to taco bell once we got home, and proceeded to walk through the drive though. No one answered us though as I think they close at 2 am. Thinking back on it, that was prolly the most hilarious thing I have done drunk. Anyways, we decided to get nachos at 7-11, and they were good! At home I think I passed out on the floor downstairs, but woke up in my bed upstairs. Crazy night.

Well, since y’all know I am a big fan on FOTC, I will share with you a ‘lil gem I found. I have recently watched Eagle vs Shark (trailer below).  I have actually watched/listened to it about 10-15 times in the last two weeks. One of my favorite movies of all time now.

I asked myself why, why do I like it so much. Is it because it has Jemaine Clement? It’s filmed in New Zealand? Actors have really cool accents? Because it’s a classic romantic comedy? Dry humor? Nerdiness? Napoleon Dynamite-ish?

Honestly, all of the above. I would recommend it to anyone that likes to laugh. Though, I have yet to find anyone with my sense of humor that will actually laugh out loud at the same things I do. Watch it and let me know what you think.

Also, this is one of the very few movies Loren Horsley has done. I wish she would do more movies. I find her to be a great actress. Has a real genuine face and portrays so many emotions that feel convincing to me.

Side note: I recently came across FOTC new songs they have been preforming in the recent months. Most likely songs for FOTC season 2. I am very excited and cannot wait til it comes out. I want to make a goal right now to see them live. I haven’t ever said that about any band or comedian, but this is definitely something I want to do in my life.

Well, just went and saw Quantum of Solace. I am kinda upset that I hadn’t been watching the last few. Because if I had seen the last one I would have seen a better bond than what made me stop watching them. I wasn’t a fan of Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan. But, I guess I missed the last james Bond that had Daniel Craig. I’d put him in 3rd of my favorite bonds. Sean Connery then Roger Moore of course. 

Movie was good though. Lots of action, not as much ladies as I would have liked to have seen in a Bond movie, and a great car chase scene. Though, did I miss something? What happened to the cool gadget scene with Q? Did he die? And I was sad that they didn’t put the classic Bond movie intro… at the beginning. I guess it was satisfactory that the put it at the end at least.

I do miss Sean Connery though. I wish he wasn’t so old. He needed to do alot more movies. By far my favorite actor, both young and older.