120249-morning-coffee-22dec2014-winterfest-monday

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Good Morning Everyone!
 
First: Breakfast and coffee. I really wanted scrambled eggs with onions and green peppers, but no time to make them. So had chocolate covered donuts instead and coffee - lots and lots of coffee.
 
Wildstar news: Did some leveling and architecture crafting this weekend. Finally got to Malgrave - Yay!! 7 more levels to go to 50 :) Also worked on my house a little bit. Finished putting up my Winterfest tree.
 
 
On Saturday, I sat at Mayor DasMoose's house for a reading of Twas the Night Before Winterfest. Had fun just listening/reading. Got a surprise at the end; DasMoose gave me a Lopp snowman :) You can see it near the tree on the right. Thank you Moose!!
 
On Sunday, I spent most of the day leveling and going to other's housing plots for look-sees. The best I have seen, for the Winterfest theme, is CindyLou Who. She did an absolutely awesome job! You can see some pictures in the Housing forum, but you really need to see it first hand. https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/119384-christmas-town/
 
Sunday night was spent watching Bazeleel on twitch doing his WildStar Year in Review with several others; Kelzam, DasMoose, Klover, Avidguru (just to name a few). Some good stuff there. Video is not up yet, so will have to update when it hits. You can search Bazeleel on youtube for his videos.
UPDATE: Video link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZArM6NyVcoMZorblGXeHPZyuO5U1-kH-
 
Hope you all have a great day today!	
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I'm glad I caught this one before I posted.  You can't make too much coffee!
 
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne
 
 
 
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
 
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
 
 
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
 
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
 
 
But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
 
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
 
 
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
 
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
 
 
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
 
I got back from my trip to Penn State to watch my mother graduate yesterday.  It was a great time had by all.  She hadn't wanted to go to her commencement, but in the end she was glad she did.  I think she was even happier that we went.  At least her graduation was small enough that they called her name as she crossed the stage.  We also ended up at a Louisiana Creole restaurant in State College that turned out to be probably the best restaurant I'd ever been to.  Seeger would approve!
 
Unfortunately, on the way back, we received some bad news.  My wife's grandmother, who has been suffering the effects of widespread ovarian cancer, took a rapid and unexpected turn for the worse and died yesterday on our way home.  So my poor wife gets to sandwich that news and the funeral around Christmas.  So this might be a busy week; the best and worst of times.  It also means I have to get over to the condominium we have just inherited, so this is going to be a pretty dense week.  I may not be on the forums much.
 
Either way, the other reason I'm warning about not being around on the forums is that I ran my mercenary night last night upon arriving.  Mercenary Night is when I (and sometimes other guildies) run out to areas and offer to help out with group quests or rare mobs if anyone needs them.  I do this on schedule or by request if someone's in my guild or on my rolodex, but since no one needed a hand, I decided to take my services to low level zones.  And it kind of worked, I actually recruited quite a few people last night.  I may run it again tonight, but for the moment, I kind of want to just let my mind wander.  Anyway, a lot of thanks to Casteran who kept the roof up while I was gone and who ran around with one of our determined newbies last night.
 
I'm off for the week (for what it's worth), so I'm about to log in on one of my lower level alts.  That's what Wildstar's really been good for; it forces you to focus and take your mind off the things that bother you.  It's been great to have as my retreat from the rocky year 2014 turned out to be.  So thanks, Carbine, I really appreciate your game for that.  It keeps me from dwelling on the low ebbs.	
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Ha ha this is cute, I need to do a x-mas tree on my plot too  :lol: !
 
I think I may further my Lopp shrine into a Lopp-themed X-mas tree :
 
 
Other than that I did my crafting daily today. Well like every day, but still...	
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I'm glad I caught this one before I posted.  You can't make too much coffee!
 
 
Unfortunately, on the way back, we received some bad news.  My wife's grandmother, who has been suffering the effects of widespread ovarian cancer, took a rapid and unexpected turn for the worse and died yesterday on our way home.  So my poor wife gets to sandwich that news and the funeral around Christmas.  So this might be a busy week; the best and worst of times.  It also means I have to get over to the condominium we have just inherited, so this is going to be a pretty dense week.  I may not be on the forums much.
 
I'm off for the week (for what it's worth), so I'm about to log in on one of my lower level alts.  That's what Wildstar's really been good for; it forces you to focus and take your mind off the things that bother you.  It's been great to have as my retreat from the rocky year 2015 turned out to be.  So thanks, Carbine, I really appreciate your game for that.  It keeps me from dwelling on the low ebbs.
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Hugs to your wife Vic.
 
Two weeks worth of use-it-or-lose it leave.  So Wildstar 24x7x2!  Not so fast bub... Got to play my least favorite IRL class this morning: plumber.  And there are a few RL chores I've been putting off (yay! more plumbing!).  But outside of those and some RL social obligations I'm gonna plant myself in front of the game rig and play till my eyes bleed.
 
Yesterday... mechanically more NW/CB and half of Defile dailies.  All three reps are hovering around 20k, so another 12-14k grind for each.  Spent the rest of the day RP'ing (I'm so weak).  Black Hoods Bar -> Thayd University Opening Ceremonies -> Kitty's skyplot briefly -> The Drunken Boulder.  Things were really starting to get complicated for her, so she decided to detangle things a bit.  She might have pushed a bit too hard on one of those 'things' guess we'll see if anything blows up.
 
Still haven't gotten to Omnichore...	
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Can never have too much coffee or tea or hot cocoa :)
 
My condolences to you and your family on your loss of such a wonderful woman. /internet hugs
 
Try to enjoy your vacation, at least a little. Yes, WildStar is very good for helping to 'escape' from real life sometimes. I am just confused about the year though.. are you predicting you will have a very bad year next year? I hope not!!
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Good morning, beautiful WildStar people!
 
Here's some hot chocolate to start your day.
 
 
Breakfast this morning consisted of breakfast biscuits. I love them, but they're getting a tad boring... Maybe I'll whip up some whole wheat banana bread and eat that with some eggs the next day or so.
 
This past weekend was a busy one, filled with hair changes (first dye since high school... scary but loving it!), and a geeky holiday party filled with awesome folks (that sadly don't WildStar... they need to be indoctrinated...).
 
On the WildStar front, I didn't get much gaming in this weekend because of all the events going on IRL including chores. Blah, chores. But last night, the Daggers ran two simultaneous Vet STL runs and got Stormtalon down for the first time as a guild in BOTH runs! Huge milestone for the guild to get towards raiding. So very excited about this. Starting in the new year, we're going to be adding Vet Skullcano to the mix. Meep!
 
I'd post a killshot/video, but they're on my home computer. I should just set up remote access to my home computer. But then, I'd never get work done.
 
So! Just a reminder to folks that the signups for Lifestyles of Nexus II ends on January 10th! It's open to both factions on Entity, so you should get going and sign up! Also, look for some updates on other events sometime in the start of the new year. We've already started up a list of folks who have offered to help out in any way they can and will be in touch once more details are released.
 
On the WildStar menu tonight is trying out some Vet Shiphands and the Protostar Games on the PTR with some guildies. Maybe even a little bit of leveling to my baby RP stalker to get him the last few bubbles to 14, and then maybe eating up some of the rested XP on some other alts. 
 
 
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You can see some pictures in the Housing forum, but you really need to see it first hand. https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/119384-christmas-town/
 
Sunday night was spent watching Bazeleel on twitch doing his WildStar Year in Review with several others; Kelzam, DasMoose, Klover, Avidguru (just to name a few). Some good stuff there. Video is not up yet, so will have to update when it hits. You can search Bazeleel on youtube for his videos.
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			I knew you guys could do it! Invite me for Skullcano!	
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Update to OP: the link for Bazeleel's Year in Review videos is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZArM6NyVcoMZorblGXeHPZyuO5U1-kH-
 
It's in 8 parts, enjoy!	
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Vic, my condolences. 
 
 
I've been on 3 day work weeks for a while (burning up vacation before the end of the year). I was shocked at weekday afternoon dungeon queue times last week, they seem better than weekend or prime time queues (probably college kids on winter break).
 
Last night I was on my Mordesh Warrior again. I was in Whitevale and chat was nonexistent. Someone said "hello" in zone chat, so i said "hi". He replied "wow I'm not alone!" At that point other people started chiming in. Chat remained pretty active till i left the zone. Fascinating...
 
Guild wants to get together tonight. I doubt we'll have five people to run an instance, so I'm not sure what we'll end up doing. Only time will tell, i guess.	
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			I'll get the coffee brewing for this morning, since nobody has claimed it, and it is not yet ready. ;)	
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