For Real

Ok I guess the last post didnt go over so well. I got called an asshole.

Since I have so much free time at work and I’m fighting to stay awake, I guess I will post something. Im sure it will just be a bunch of ramblings, but here goes:

I recently got rid of both of my cars and bought a truck. It was exactly what I wanted, but had to get what I could afford and would I would be able to afford when I seperate from teh Air Force in a couple of months. It has 4 doors and seats 5. It has a bed taht I can haul stuff in, which is really nice. I missed having a truck. Now that Im back in one, I love it. My only problem now is that I can’t leave it alone, and why should I? I need to make the way I want it and so that I will be happy with it, cause like I said earlier, it wasn’t exactly what I wanted. Plus I have to tinker with it, it’s in my nature. I have changed the exhaust on it already, and it sounds great. I only replaced the stock muffler with a Magnaflow and it really sounds nice. Not loud and obnoxious, and a nice deep throaty V8 sound. I got in my 7 inch touch screen monitor the other day and I’m almost done with my car computer. I am working on molding the screen into the dash now, (well kinda, I got the dash out and marked for cutting, but thats as far as i got cause im lazy) but will need to work on it to get it done. I have almost all of next week off so I am hoping I can get it finished before I go back to work. I’m really excited about it, as I started buying the parts back in February and have yet to get all of them to finish. I ran out of funds, and the last major part was the screen, which I got in last week. It is going to be so nice, I will have all my music, movies, be able to watch DVD’s, navigation(not at this time, but will when have more money), Sirius (oh how I miss it), hands free phone control, wi-fi, and wireless internet. I lack a few pieces at the moment to get to the end product, but I have enough now to get it in, and be able to add the rest when I gets the monies. I have a AT&T 8525 pocket pc phone(way better than the iphone) so I will be able to use my wireless internet through it. I have only found a couple of spots here in Phoenix, that I couldnt get a 3G signal, so I should be fine most of the time. Oh and I found my remote starter in my storage building and I am going to install that too. Plus I found that someone made a device that I can text my truck and start it from anywhere. That is going to be so cool. Also I can get programs for my phone that will control certain parts of my computer through bluetooth, like my music. I can see my playlist on my phone and change teh song with out having to physically do it inside the vehicle. Now I know you wondering, “Why would you need that?” Well I’ll tell ya. Lets say that I am hanging out at lets say a tailgate party, and my stereo is playing some music, and Im chillin on the tailgate. A song comes up that no one is supposed to know that I listed to, cause its way to embarrasing(like some crappy 80’s music, not like celine dijonmustardorsomecraplikethat), I can just take out my phone and change the song, with out ever leaving the comfort of my tailgate. Once I get that in I think I am going to start working on some of the cosmetic things on my truck, since its black, like smoke headlights and tails. darker tint, and remove my emblems, cause they look cheesy as hell. maybe a new grill, and some rims. Not some stupid 24’s with rubberbands that are trying to pass as tires, but at most a 20 with a big tire that has some sidewall to it so when I want to just run over the curb, I dont have to worry about damaging my rims.

Ok I think I may have rambled enough for one sitting.

I Thought About It….

……and no

Four Eyes

I hate wearing glasses. For some reason mine stay dirty. They are always falling off of my face and always needing adjustment. Gets kinda bad when I’m working on something and I have my hands only to have my glasses falling off of my face, sometimes completely off.

Now I know what you are going to say…..”why dont you wear contacts?” or something along those lines. Well I used to wear contacts. I liked them I guess cause I didnt have anything on my face, but I was way too lazy to wear them. I would leave them in over night, and didnt change them for like 3 months. Now I know this is super bad on my eyes. That is why I quit wearing them. Plus even if I was doing it properly and taking them out every night and replacing them when I was supposed to, I always had trouble getting them in and out, which is why I always just left them in.

 I want to get surgery done on my eyes so I wont have to worry about any of it. Just have good vision, doesnt even have to be perfect. As it is now, if I’m not wearing my glasses I cant see shit. I cant sit at my computer and read what is on teh screen. My eyesight is fairly bad. Im at a -2.50 in both eyes and “perfect” vision is around .20. I know the price on the surgery has gone down drastically and I have spoken with my doctor and passed his criteria to be eligable to have it done, but just dont have the money. I could save for it, but I always end up spending it on stupid stuff like boos and food (eating out) and guns and shit like that.

 Maybe I would have some generous readers that would be willing to donate to the “Dick Needs New Eyes Fund” Any little will help, and for only as liitle as $0.35 a day you too can sponsor a Dick with new eyes. You will recieve a personalized letter from your Dick and a photo showing his progress. So please, Dont let this Dick have four eyes, Help him get his surgery and you will feel a great fuzzy feeling inside.

 So please act now, before its too late.

Bitch Slapped

Last Night Legacy went into SSC and bitch slap Fathomlord. We had put in a few attempts the night before and seemed to have gotten all the bugs worked out last night. Cause last night we walked in there and one shot his ass. 

 Since Fathomlord is such a bitch, we decided to go try out Al’ar the phoenix chicken. We are doing fine on him. We got in about 5 attempts and are getting it down. Didnt make it to phase 2, so Im sure we will have some growing pains there as well.  We decided to not clear the trash after the respawn and had about an hour left for raiding, so we went on over to Ghruul. 20 mins later and its clear.

 We got some crappy loot last night. out of 7 pieces of loot, we dusted all but 2. My T5 pants did drop, but I lost the roll on those, but atleast a lock got them.

Bandwagon

Just like everyone else today, I’m going to say a few words on patch 2.3. I actually forgot about it being patch day yesterday when I got home and didnt log on until around 9:30, But didn’t have to wait longer than 5 mins for the rest of the patch to download. In the beginning I used to hate the background downloader, cause it always fucked with my game, but now have tweaked the settings and it downloads after I’m done playing. Last night I only needed 10Mbs left to complete the patch so I was happy.

 Of course my addons were jacked, so I started out downloading the updates for those. Curse was not all bogged down like normal, I think cause it didn’t really break too many of them and only a few had to be updated. Got them updated and all is well.

 Poked around a little in the guild bank, I dont have permissions to see anything, and I dont think my guild has set it up yet, but I like the idea of it. I didn’t really do anything on my lock last night, I did check out what the new badge rewards were. I wasn’t on long so I popped over to my shammy to see how much the xp nerf was and can’t really tell. I was still getting normal XP per kill, but I think the amount of XP needed to level was decreased. Not sure cause I dont remember what it was before the patch. I didnt get to finish any quests so don’t know what the XP gain there was like. If I’m home tonight, I will try some more questing and see. I hope its a big nerf so I can get my shammy high enough for Outlands with minimal time spent.

 I didnt go into ZA last night, but when I logged in, there were some guildies in there. I’m not probably going to see much of ZA as our guild is only going to be doing it on the weekends and not part of proggresion and I am usually not around on the weekends.

I will know more when we do some raiding on Thursday. Hopefully Locks didnt get nerfed too bad, but of course they did cause everyone is scared of us and thinks we are overpowered. Pffft hardly.

GOD Mode

Legacy is really steamrolling any boss we come accross. We are downing a new boss every week now for the passed few weeks, and are usually only spending a few shots to take that boss down. Now granted we aren’t in BT but for the gear we have and for really starting the raiding game late, (we are no where near the top raiding guild on the server) we are really kicking some ass.

 I think what is really doing it for us is that we can follow directions well. We have an excellent raid leader that is usually on top of the encounters and we like to discuss what went wrong and how we can fix it to execute the strategy. We may not be the best geared either, but we really know how to play.

I moved to legacy from another guild because of lack of progression. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to cut it in this type of guild as, we dont raid very much, but raid fairly hardcore. Good group of people that understand that just because you dont have the best gear, doesnt mean you suck at your class.

Hopefully we keep pushing on like we have been doing. I am really enjoying myself and it amazes me that see new stuff and new bosses has really put a new lease on life for me and WoW.

Moved

I have decided to merge and move my blogs here to wordpress. I hear the water is nicer here. I had 2 spereate blogs for life and WoW and didn’t update either one all that often, so I figured to combine them back together for hopes of having regular updates.

I Suck at Life

I got to thinking, as I always do, what the fuck am I going to do when I’m out of the Air Force in 4 months?

I started going over what job skills I could offer the civilian world and the list was really short, if a list at all. I have skills that I could use and would be able to snatch up a job in no time flat, but I will be making less money then I made before I came in the service.

Ok so lets look at what I got:
I have an A.A.S. in Computer Electronics, I didnt learn a damn thing in school. It was a waste of 20k that I am still paying for now. The only job it landed me was a Computer Tech position at Best Buy. Let me tell you, I was rolling in teh cash there, ya ok, whatever.

Next I came in the Air Force as a Personnelist. This is just the military way of saying human resources. I managed peoples careers through all of the paperwork and behind the sences stuff that most people didnt car about until it was time for them to take of something. Totaly a thankless job, but I was damn good at it. If anybody can be good at paperwork, I was the fucking man. Now I could get a job in human resources just about anywhere, and since I worked in a hospital, I have knowledge of that side of human resources. Doing a quick search, I could probably choose where I wanted to work, but they only paid like $10/hour! WTF is that? That would even pay for any drug habits that I’m likely going to have to pick up when I get out of the Air Force cause I’m so fuckind depressed that the only job I could find was $10/hour.

Growing up I thought I was really into computers and wanted to be a Sys Admin. I got the opprotunity to retrain my career to just that. School was going to be 3 months long, but most of the training was going to be on the job. So I figured, who wouldnt want to hire me, I work on Mulit million dollar networks for the government. Well about oh 2 weeks into school, I realized that I hate computers and don’t have the energy or the desire to learn everything I needed to know to be viable in this career field nor was I willing to keep up with it. The IT industry is very cut throat and in order to make the “big bucks” you hear about, you have to stay in school every day in order to stay some what up with the technology. Cause let’s face it, once you finish school on one thing, it has changed already. Fuck that! Well I don’t really have to worry about it anyways since I have never touched our network here before in the 2 years I have been here.

See I work in an office that inventories equipment. Basically I work in a warehouse and kick boxes and do…….you guessed it…….paperwork all fucking day long. And what sucks even more, I am to damn efficient and good at it. So now it looks like I could get a job at Lowe’s or Home Depot, or some other heavy lifting, back breaking, warehouse job out there, making oh probably $10/hour again. Oh but I work the management side of all of this now. I could get a management position! Sweet, now I get paid $13.50/hour and have 5 times as much bullshit to deal with. Awesome I can’t wait.

So now I know you are going to ask the question, “Well, why don’t you just stay in teh military?” I like it here, I guess, but I have gotten to the point in my life that I think taht I am just done with it all. I know there are the pros and cons, and I have weighed them out and have come to the conclusion that I dont have the passion to give it everything I should.

SO I ask you, you got any better Ideas?

My Coffee is Cold

Why is it in office buildings that they keep it so Fucking cold? I mean seriously, is there someone in the office that is so hot that the A/C needs to be on when its 60 outside and 55 in the office? And why is it that we can’t control it in this building? It is controlled by some computer on teh equator that thinks its 100+ all year round.

We are on this kick right now about saving energy and not using so much electricity in our building. So why the need to run the A/C all year round? We could just shut it off and we would be ok, but we use twice as much cause we all have personal heaters at our desk.

Maybe they think we will not fall asleep if it is sub zero temps in the office. But its about right for me to just pass out, but way too cold to even move.

375 Tailoring

Woot! I hit 375 tailoring last night and now I am broke. Thanks to a number of people for helping out with Shadowcloth so I could make my Frozen Shadoweave robe. My gear is a little better now and I have started pushing my +spell hit so I can keep from resisting on mobs higher level than me. I believe that I am sitting just over 5% so I am going to work on a few more gems and try to push it higher. I have found fighting bosses that they resist a lot of my spells which causes me to use more mana than I should.

And according to TJ all teh cool kids are at the bottom of the damage meter with leather jackets, holey jeans, smokin and drinking, but I dont have a leather jacket. How about an old Carhart jacket and jeans that were too long that I just walked teh hem out of. Of course I will still be smokin and drinkin like a good rebelious lock does.