My sister passed the bar exam, so I believe she is a lawyer now or something. I’m not really sure what you get for passing that. Maybe you get a neat title that you can put in front of your name or something. Whatever it is congratulations go out to her today.
The NXE (New Xbox Experience) is being opened up to some lucky people this Friday, but not me. Seems that while the promise of registering on the Microsoft Connect site and then registering for the NXE Preview program was supposed to be a pretty good bet to get in, it was not.
Looking at the forums it seems that if you are outside of the United States and even if you just have a silver account (read: not even a paid member of the service) then you get in. The people like me who have been on Xbox Live since the beginning (5 years and counting) well there are about 300 posts from people like me who didn’t get in.
The NXE is being released for everyone on November 19th.
You ever feel that sometimes they are just collecting your information when they do things like this? Or is that paranoid?
This is kind of a fun update! My brother is out of the hospital now and the first thing he decides we should do is to go get ourselves Devilsaurs. My Devilsaur is the orangish one and my brother has the brownish one. Yes, these elite mobs from the depths of Ungaro Crater used to be untamable by the hunter, and now look at them. Large T-Rex looking monstrosities that are ours to control. They have completely changed the way pets work in the latest patch as well, but that’s a story for another update when I’ve explored it and know a little more about the abilities in the skill tree for pets. I need to get my brother’s characters names so that I can add them to this update.
We have a new member on the server and probably two. Melissa apparently started playing WoW and so Rick will be starting a new character just to play with her. I don’t have either of their new character names, so that’s one for the next update. I got an IM from a friend letting me know that they were entitled to a free character transfer, which is the process by which you take a character from one server and put it on another, but I am not sure how they managed to get a free one. The cost of this move is usually about $20.
Warhammer Online is taking it’s toll on WarCraft and I have a feeling things are going to change, for the better I hope. Seems that the guild that I was in is down to 3 members. I hope this is the pressure Blizzard needed to get off their collective asses and do something about this constant end game grind. It’s not fun, and they have about a month and a half to fix it before my subscription runs out.
My next update should be littered with players names.
There has been a lot of activity on Twitter lately about levels being gained, but they all must be other characters on other servers. Nobody gained a level this week. I’m not even going to go through the normal naming and linking bit, because nobody gained a level, so there really isn’t anything to report.
It’s that time of the year again when the leaves change color, land in my yard, and I have to rake them all up and put them on the tree lawn so the city can pick them up.
It’s the time of the year when I have to turn on the heat, and the house is nice and toasty when we wake up in the morning.
We will be turning the clocks back soon and the kids are going to be getting their report cards. Time to start asking the kids what they want to be for Halloween. I always put that off till the last minute. Only two more months till Christmas.
Tuesday Derek came over to take a look at the lawnmower, because it stopped working. The problem is that oil is coming out of the front and it won’t start. I had to borrow the neighbors to get the yard done. There were a few things to try.
First he noticed that there was a screw or something missing from the front of the lawn mower, and that’s why the oil was coming out. Trip to Home Depot and they don’t sell the oil screws for lawn mowers, and matter of fact newer models don’t even have that, but they sell a screw that is the right size to go in there.
Came home and it still wouldn’t start. Took off the float, because Derek said that occasionally this part will get stuck, and I was having the symptom of the lawnmower starting and then stopping immediately again. No luck it wasn’t stuck.
Pulled the handle a few more times, and pressed the pump, and played with the air filter. Nothing ended up working, so I’m not sure what else there is to do with it. Sell it as broken. At least I learned something about lawnmowers.
Tonight Fable 2 comes out for the Xbox 360 and GameStop is doing a midnight release for the game. I doubt that I’ll get any play time in, but it’s sort of fun to still have the option of showing up and getting the game at midnight.
The cooperative patch that will address the fact that the game does not come with cooperative play is supposedly already up and we might just get to download it tonight as soon as we get the game home.
I already read the instructions on another website about how to obtain the gold and items that were earned in the pub games.
Things should go pretty smooth.
I did a much better job this time. The problem was the game wasn’t nearly as good. There really isn’t a mercy rule, what we do is if you go up by 3 scores then you are only allowed 6 players (normally 8 players) and you only get 3 downs on offense (and you have to punt, no option), but that wasn’t enough for the game to turn into something ugly. The teacher who put this all together he warned me. He said “it’s going to be a massacre”. I sort of knew he’d be right. When it got to be 47 to 8 both teams decided it was over. Seemed like a good decision to me.
That’s another hour and a half towards my 50!
It’s not really Thursday, and it’s been a few weeks coming, but here’s your update for what’s been going on in the World of Warcraft.
Well, Nothing has been going on with either Grotesk or Tsugutoshi. Neither character has moved an inch from my last update. Am I surprised? No, I’m not. There are times when people can’t get around to their characters and some of us don’t use those sparing free hours in the day to get anywhere on our characters.
If I listed all my characters they would have made the same amount of progress. Honestly most of the time that I get spurred on to play it’s by my brother or this guy, so it’s no wonder there’s been so much inactivity as of late.
Next is Steakems who I know is still playing the game, especially when the expansion is mentioned but this character has been absolutely stagnant…
So stagnant in fact that even though at one point I am sure there was a 20 level difference between characters Rombus actually passed him up. Sure it’s only by one level, but it’s still the first time. He’s also passed up all my alts, and he’s kind of in his own territory now.
Finally, Remana has been steadily gaining levels, but due to a really cheap DSL package it took something like 2 or 3 days to download the patch. Sure the latest patch was a big one weighing in at 1.2 GB’s, but that’s some cheap DSL. It usually takes me about 4 hours to download the same patch, and that’s with some sort of problem with the Blizzard Downloader telling me I’m behind a firewall.
I’ll try and be a little more consistent and maybe play myself so I have something to talk about.
I took a trip to Columbus to see Rick and Melissa. Tim and Renee came with. I drove and was getting about 36 mpg according to my car, so it’s really a good car to take on trips. Traffic wasn’t too bad, but then again it’s no where close to being a holiday and I don’t believe shopping season is really in swing yet.
We went to BD’s Mongolian Barbeque. That place is always good. Found out that Tim likes things a bit hotter than everyone else. How hot? Hot enough that you can feel it in your sinuses. Rick and Melissa paid for Tim’s dinner and Renee and I pitched in for a card to GameStop, so Tim got a bit of a surprise, since his birthday was a week ago. We didn’t forget, we just had to postpone it.
We went to Damon Busters next, which is kind of fun. I mean, it’s usually a lot of fun, but the basketball game was busted for most of the night, so we didn’t all get to play. When we did get to play I did well, but Tim beat me twice by one basket. We all played the trivia game, this game where you have to roll tokens down a ramp and get points, and skeet ball, it was fun. We won a bunch of tickets, but there wasn’t anything really that interesting to get, so we just had them put the tickets on a card and we left.
We went back and played Rock Band for a bit, but I was feeling a bit under the weather so we decided to head home a bit earlier than we had originally intended.