120687-1514-morning-coffee-the-back-to-work-edition

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Coffee's just not enough for some days.
 
 
So this past week I was sick and spent most of it either sleeping or playing Wildstar.  That worked well for the guild, at least.  We probably doubled in size.  Last Saturday, I figured we'd throw a night for adventures and dungeons (and shall do the same this weekend).  It's the first time we've had way too many people; we're actually just shy of getting another team started.  We took a lot of new players through their first Hycrest.  I wanted to make sure none of them were overwhelmed by group content, so the best place to get their first run was with us.  Thanks a lot to Mythilt, Koob, and Cerinde for being very patient with our new players when we took them through.  They're a well-meaning gang, but these are their first Wildstar runs.
 
The Blazing Saddles are sort of carving out a little niche as a stress-free, casual, go-where-we-feel-like-do-what-we-want kind of outfit.  The last week was a hilarious romp through random adventure and dungeon runs, then sprees of housing, then camping the Goldensun Dawngrazer, then running through quest areas.  Mostly, though, the best part is just the conversation.  Everyone in the guild is pretty good-natured, so we've been having a lot of fun bordering on the edge of insanity.  So much that last night, I think everyone just decided to take a break and do nothing crazy.
 
So last night, I did get to bomb around in RP a bit.  Thanks to PlasmaJohn for dragging me around to some of the other dives in the area last night.  I'm not sure what's going on tonight.  I suppose I'll see when I log in.  It might be a bit later tonight; I'm already feeling tired so I may take a nap when I get home.  I still feel like I'm not completely over this flu yet.
 
Anyway, see you on Nexus!	
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Hey Seeger!
 
I had a great time RPing yesterday. After running dungeons with the Daggers (Guild first VET Skullcano! Wooo!) I immediate went off on Rocio to celebrate. He was drunk by 11 pm and plastered by midnight and had to be dragged home at 1 am. Woooo!  He woke up awfully sick and mysteriously bruised. Did he fight someone?	
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Good morning, 
 
Sadly it is indeed back to work day for me as well, but the offices are pretty empty and slow today so it's not "omg cupcakes are hittin the fan!" mode...for now....
 
I fixed my issue with the authenticator so I can finally play again. Apparently there is an issue with android devices using kitkat and google authenticator, so I used freeOTP instead which works fine.
 
Wildstar was pretty good for Red Bastion this weekend, we got 2 new members who are quite lovely. One who was new to the game and the other a returning player who didn't get to do veteran content. For most if not everyone in our guild veterans are either new or we haven't been in there in awhile and quite "rusty"(including myself) which has made it really fun as it's become a learning experience for us all.
 
We did adventures on Saturday to start things off that went very smoothly and explaining things on the fly from memory. Crimelords was rather straightforward though we'll have to go at it again to help someone with the reputation imbuement. Tempest Refuge we almost had a gold, but the sabetours bomb bugged and didn't show up for anyone to deactivate until it triggered, but least we ended on a silver. Was really happy with the groups performance overall in refuge especially on handling waves with tanks and busters...
 
Sunday was very...."interesting" STL run though, which I have to report a few things on. The group did very well, it took a couple of goes to get a solid grasp on the bosses as a group, but downed them all except stormtalon. The mini-boss was a real pain as he bugged out and was perma-storm phased after the first wipe which made it into an interesting fight lol. Stormtalon though seemed very RNG heavy in a bad way that I wasn't expecting as his abilities primarily the eye of the storm thing and lightning strike knocked down kept overlapping a lot which was aggravating to see happen, but we kept getting him lower and lower consistently.
 
A lot of things that felt "off" though in our runs like MoOs not triggering,patrols that were undergound/invisible until they aggroed, and other weird stuff, but lot of fun looking forward to next weekend.	
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Chua wish all happy new year and Merry Christmas!
Chua been away for 2 weeks, must visit siblings now and then!
 
Chua happy back now. Many things to do, many things to do.
Chua had successful raid yesterday! Chua also recorded stream: http://www.twitch.tv/chuaolivar/c/5813559
Is first time, managed to clear first floor in one hour.
Promising, good progress, more Science needed for Cozmotronic results.
 
Chua still looking for more Humans. Science demand minions.
chua seen many new people in game, is happy.
But Chua noticed problems also returned. Lag annoying, but seems bit better.
Chua still think Carbine do more to solve.
 
Chua even made breakfast!
 
Chua stick with classic breakfast. Bread and cup o tea.
Chua maybe make eggs tommorw, day off, holiday
Much to do! Much to do!	
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Back to work here too.  I'm going to miss being able to play Wildstar during the day and early in the week :(
 
The Daggers got a bunch of new members over the holidays too.  It seems like our guildies are out there making a good impression on folks.   Over the last week we've done a lot of PvE stuff, some RP stuff, and even a little bit of PvP stuff late at night.  The guild's at the point now where a lot of things just happen on their own which certainly makes the lives of our officers easier.
 
Yesterday we had Episode 2 of our Fallen to Darkness RP series - if Episode 1 sort of set the stage, yesterday's episode upped the ante with our guild leader getting attacked and injured by a mysterious assailant.  I have to transcribe all the chat logs into a narrative form but then I'll get it posted for folks to read once that's done :)
 
We also did our first ever guild run of Skullcano Veteran yesterday.  We took three groups in - The first group made it past Thunderfoot but got bogged down in the fire caves where you have to follow the lopp chief (damn, that's hard).  The third group lost a member fairly early on due to internet issues and had to abort (that was my group :( ).  The second group, however.... first time in the vet dungeon for half of them, and they not only got through the fire cave, they then proceeded to one-shot the bosun (no one was as surprised as they were) and then pulled off a win on Mordechai as well.  So yeah, last night was pretty badass for our guild :D
 
For the rest of January the Daggers are working on getting better at vet STL, KV, and SC, and then we'll start invading SSM in February probably.  We're waiting on that one so that more of our folks can gear up a bit since it's the longest of the four veteran dungeons and we try to cap our runs at 3 hours max (people have lives to get back to, after all).  We're also wrapping up Lifestyles of Nexus II next week, and then starting prize collection and event planning for ThaydFest II right after that's finished.  Expect to be hearing a LOT more about ThaydFest II here in a few weeks - because I can't really keep secrets very well.	
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I'm SO glad it's back to work day... *dodges rotten fruit* Seriously! As a SAHM, this means back to normality. No more extra kid sitting around eating all my food and messing my schedule up. All my regular routine events are back as well, so hopefully my kids will calm the heck down after burning some energy off at play groups.
 
In WS land, I didn't get much play time yesterday. I ALMOST did two dungeons... first one was interrupted by said kids, who were supposed to be napping, but instead were being loud and waking each other up. Second one we couldn't find a tank =( And tonight doesn't look like I'll get much play time either, as I have a work thing to do, but hopefully I can at least get my crafting dailies done for the eldan data frags.	
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I'm SO glad it's back to work day... *dodges rotten fruit* Seriously! As a SAHM, this means back to normality. No more extra kid sitting around eating all my food and messing my schedule up. All my regular routine events are back as well, so hopefully my kids will calm the heck down after burning some energy off at play groups.
 
In WS land, I didn't get much play time yesterday. I ALMOST did two dungeons... first one was interrupted by said kids, who were supposed to be napping, but instead were being loud and waking each other up. Second one we couldn't find a tank =( And tonight doesn't look like I'll get much play time either, as I have a work thing to do, but hopefully I can at least get my crafting dailies done for the eldan data frags.
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Today is "professional development" day for me, which basically means... I'm making sure I'm ready with lessons, which is really, really hard when I don't even know what my student schedule will be. Urgh, get it together, school. I need to know what students I'm teaching! Tomorrow will be my real "back to work" day. xD Oh boy. Jealous of my husband, who doesn't go back to school until the 21st. I sure wish secondary school went on that schedule!
 
I haven't done a lot of WildStar playing the past couple days save for dailies. Evenings have been eaten up with roleplay so so so much. Not that I'm complaining! It's been very fun.	
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Today is "professional development" day for me, which basically means... I'm making sure I'm ready with lessons, which is really, really hard when I don't even know what my student schedule will be. Urgh, get it together, school. I need to know what students I'm teaching! Tomorrow will be my real "back to work" day. xD Oh boy. Jealous of my husband, who doesn't go back to school until the 21st. I sure wish secondary school went on that schedule!
 
I haven't done a lot of WildStar playing the past couple days save for dailies. Evenings have been eaten up with roleplay so so so much. Not that I'm complaining! It's been very fun.
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Still in lurk mode.
Lurk....lurk...lurk.
 
Things are really busy here, but I will try to pop on from time to time.
After the 15th my schedule will be more open. Going to try and get back to work on my mechari's house. Not sure if I am going eldan museum, or smoky lounge?	
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Still in lurk mode.
Lurk....lurk...lurk.
 
Things are really busy here, but I will try to pop on from time to time.
After the 15th my schedule will be more open. Going to try and get back to work on my mechari's house. Not sure if I am going eldan museum, or smoky lounge?
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Whoo... two weeks off and basically did nothing but play WS, deal with the holidays, and some minor RL emergencies. Finished Defile rep on my main.  About five days away from finishing CB and NW rep grinds.  Kinda slacked on Blighthaven so I'll probably focus on SW,Elyona,Tree runs for the near future.  Aesthetically and mechanically I like the zone and missions better than CB and NW, but I'm way more efficient with the latter two.  I'm mildly interested in collecting the LS costume set, but I'm getting desperately low on storage space mostly because I have a hard time letting go of "interesting" looking costume pieces.  Praying real hard that the hinted at costuming revision will indeed be all that and a bag of chips. Anyway... once I'm done with CB and NW rep who knows what I'll be motivated to run?  Did run an alt from 15-25 (hoverboard!) might push her to 50 too.  She's my "No Distractions" experiment.  I only plan on completing very limited path, lore and task missions while focusing on World and Region storylines just to see how long it takes me. RP has been awesome, sadly a lot happens after midnight US/Eastern which is when I really need to get to bed to not be a total zombie at work. 
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So last night, I did get to bomb around in RP a bit. Thanks to PlasmaJohn for dragging me around to some of the other dives in the area last night. I'm not sure what's going on tonight. I suppose I'll see when I log in.
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Eldan Museum.  There are a lot of smoky lounges out there.
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Mechari strip bar
 
Call it Precious Metals	
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 :D  Tonight would be River's teahouse.  (Suki Stillriver).  And yes mine drinks things without alcohol. :lol:
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Mechari strip bar
 
Call it Precious Metals
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 -_-
......I wasn't manufactured to shame myself in front of a bunch of drooling organics.
If you are interested in that sort of thing I know of a few Draken.  
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I went out this weekend and splurged on a Keurig. Disappointed, very disappointed. I was expecting better coffee then you get from a cheap Walmart coffee maker, but i was sadly mistaken. 
 
In W*, working on finishing up Defile rep. Did a PUG Tempest with some fresh 50's that needed a healer. I thought we were doing really well and might make silver. Unfortunately, things fell apart and we ended up failing.	
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Mmmmm.  Your Death Wish coffee made me think of these guys: http://www.funraniumlabs.com/the-black-blood-of-the-earth
 
They ended up doing a run that used Death Wish that I wish I'd had a chance to try.  Ok you guys are making me thirsty.  Off to get more coffee then back to work!	
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I went out this weekend and splurged on a Keurig. Disappointed, very disappointed. I was expecting better coffee then you get from a cheap Walmart coffee maker, but i was sadly mistaken.
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I went out this weekend and splurged on a Keurig. Disappointed, very disappointed. I was expecting better coffee then you get from a cheap Walmart coffee maker, but i was sadly mistaken.
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That's all in the brand of K-cup you buy. Alternatively, you can buy a stainless steel reusable K-cup and grind your own coffee for easy one-cup brewing.
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So far, I've only used the samples.  None of the refills I've found fit my machine.  I did try the reusable cartridges.  They produced gritty coffee.
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Odd, I use the reusable almost every day, and haven't found any grit unless I overfill (it's not meant to be crammed all the way to the top).
 
Which Keurig do you have that the K-Cups don't fit? sounds very odd.
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			I'll leave it to someone else to make coffee today.  I have an aversion to making it twice in a row.  Just make sure you've got a pic of breakfast/coffee and talk about your day in Wildstar.	
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