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Good morning, 
 
I don't want to go downloading a bunch of coffee pictures on my work computer, so no picture this morning, but I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. It being the holiday, I didn't really spend a lot of time playing wildstar, other than Saturday. That was great though, did some contracts, dungeons, minis, and wiped on SD for a night. Sunday was dedicated to boating, and monday was dedicated to recovering, and making delicious, delicious ribs and pork belly. 
 
Anyway, what did everyone grill or not grill for the holiday and what is your favorite thing to grill or smoke?	
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
Coffee!! Need lots and lots of coffee! :)
 
 
And breakfast!
 
I spent all weekend playing WildStar. Had a blast doing whatever came up. Ran some low level guildies through a couple of dungeons. Did a vet adventure for a guildie's imbuement quest. Tried to do a vet dungeon (KV) but wasn't able to get past the 2nd boss. Seems, to me, he was put on speed or something. It was much harder than I remember. We also tried vet STL. After a few attempts, got the first boss down, then our 5th had to go. So we tried 4 manning the 2nd boss. That was comical LOL. Did dailies, contracts, pet hunting, some housing, etc.
 
I really enjoyed this past weekend. It doesn't matter that I made no progress in the vet dungeons. They will be there when I decide to try again. It was all the fun I had with my guildmates over the weekend, that made everything so fun. :wub:
 
Work is calling. More later. Have a good day!	
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Good morning everyone.
 
Back to the daily grind of work. Today really sucks since its raining and I'm working outside in the mud hole that is our job site.
 
On the brighter side of things I hit 50 on my engineer this weekend. Now I am just working on elder gems for my key. Managed to get 75 or so yesterday so should have it this week. Then its on to the rep grind. 
 
I do have to say the defile zone confuses the crap out of me. So man quest and not sure which ones to do and which ones not to. Not to mention like once every hour and a half I can't do anything because everything slows down and wont even show me doing damage or anything moving despite having 50 plus fps.
 
As for grilling I grilled some blood sausage and liver. Had some smoked pork and pigs feet. It was amazing.	
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So, this is what Houston looks like this morning. Every route to my office is underwater, and after a four day weekend, my deadlines are sitting there, waiting for the flood waters to recede.
 
I mean, cool, I get to play some WildStar this morning, but with two people dead and millions of dollars of property damage, it's a hollow feeling to be sure.
 
Out of fifty employees, only two managed to make it in - and now they can't get out.
 
What a crazy night.
 
In WildStar Weekend News, how many new recruits did we pick up this weekend? Six? Eight? Ten? I lost track. Regardless, there are just TONS of new and returning players out there, enjoying themselves.
 
As much as I am loathe to admit it, the "F2P Leak" has proven to be a huge boon for our population. Couple that with the droves of folks bailing on WoW, and we're having a mini-Renaissance! 
 
Have a great day, guys and gals!	
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I am in full recovery mode today from a loooooooong weekend standing behind a booth at Comicpalooza and exercising every extrovert muscle I could muster in my poor introvert body to sell my husband's books. XD Upside was, we sold 41 books yay! Also lots of people loved our cosplay of Raava and Avatar Wan yay! Downside was... aaah tired. Can't wait to do it all over again at Space City Comic Con in July. ;p
 
Luckily while we got crap tons of rain like most of Houston, the water didn't actually flood our house - just the streets around us and the bayou. I feel awful for other folk who didn't get by so luckily. :( Though I don't really feel bad for the idiots stuck on I-10 and whatnot. If you live in this city, you should know by now that our streets are designed to flood, lots of freeways dip because derp, and never drive where you can't see the road!
 
Today shall be rest, relaxation, video games, and roleplay! Gotta double check inventory and crunch numbers from the weekend still, but I think that can wait a day while we recover. I'm hoping to drag the hubby into leveling Dominion alts whenever he wakes up. Looking forward to it. :)	
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Good to see you are okay, Tex. I saw the news this morning. They are saying 7 dead in total and a few missing still. So, immediately sent up a prayer for all of you in Texas.
 
Yeah, we picked up quite a few new players this weekend. I am so happy to see the new and returning players having so much fun on Nexus. :) Whether it's from the 'f2p leak' or WoW bailing, I am very happy to see them giving WildStar a chance. The game has changed so much since launch. I am having more fun now than I did a year ago.	
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Good morning all.
 
Sure hope things get better in your neck of the woods Tex.  Stay safe.
 
Great three days in Wildstar.  I was in the group with Cirinde that attempted veteran STL and KV.  Yeah we didn't complete but with learned some valuable strategies.  Our hate for Slavemaster Drok can not be measured, but we still had a good time.  Also got to run tons of contracts and dailies.	
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My long weekend is continuing a bit! I just started summer vacation so I'm super glad to relax after such a long semester. I still have work but that's only twice a week now as summer hours have officially started.
 
My weekend on Wildstar involved creating a second floor in my house, burning plague victims, and adopting a radish child.  :lol:
I didn't get to do much playing because I was diagnosed with the early stages of carpal tunnel from working wayyy too much during the semester and had a flare episode yesterday. It's calmed down a bit today so I'm hoping to get some quests down <: I can't wait until it heals completely, I really want to draw art of my toon (and all the other art I have to catch up on hahaha)	
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I smashed out 34-50 between 7am saturday and about 5pm sunday, then started dailypalooza, contracts, and all that jazz. Joined my wife's guild, ran some vet shiphands and an adventure, then mucked around half asleep doing scientist stuff, tweaking addons, and getting ready for the journey of an esper healer.
 
Would have done more instanced content, but queues are bad b/c of lack of players. Really hope more people start playing again. We need it.	
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So, this is what Houston looks like this morning. Every route to my office is underwater, and after a four day weekend, my deadlines are sitting there, waiting for the flood waters to recede.
 
I mean, cool, I get to play some WildStar this morning, but with two people dead and millions of dollars of property damage, it's a hollow feeling to be sure.
 
Out of fifty employees, only two managed to make it in - and now they can't get out.
 
What a crazy night.
 
In WildStar Weekend News, how many new recruits did we pick up this weekend? Six? Eight? Ten? I lost track. Regardless, there are just TONS of new and returning players out there, enjoying themselves.
 
As much as I am loathe to admit it, the "F2P Leak" has proven to be a huge boon for our population. Couple that with the droves of folks bailing on WoW, and we're having a mini-Renaissance! 
 
Have a great day, guys and gals!
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Good morning (afternoon here) everyone!
 
I had an eventful WildStar weekend. I decided to go back to my original Esper instead of pursuing the new one, now that I've gotten the hang of things. I upgraded to a large Aurin house and I've been diligently updating that ever since.
 
I managed to go from 42 to 45 yesterday, so I'm thrilled with that! Almost level 50. Yipee!
 
Think once I hit 50, I'll work on that some... and then pick back up leveling my Spellslinger to 50, she's in her 30's at the moment.	
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We did our last raid as a circle this weekend, and I'm sad to see it go. Got 4 bosses down in 3 hours, then a final kill for Convergence on night two. I wasn't able to be there the second night (wedding :() but they did get down all the minis after and manged to jump into Ohmna's hole once :)
 
I'm sure we'll be taking a few steps backward now that we are bringing in some new raiders and getting it going, but I really like the group we've assembled and I think we're gonna have a great time. I won't lie, though, I'll miss the ADK folks we've been raiding with the past few months.
 
I managed to get in on the X-89 kill for our alt/pug raid. It was a bit rough this week, but eventually got it done. No pulls on Kuralak though, sadly. I think the group would have to be more consistent to really make that kind of progress. It's a shame that Prototypes and Phagemaw are locked behind Kuralak, because I think a lot of those players would enjoy those fights.
 
Finally, my wife begged me to play last night, and we did (LOL- twist my arm!). We did WotW twice to help out some people in LFG chat (first time had DCs, so missed silver- got gold second time) and then I accidentally queued for adventures so we helped the same group out with Crimelords. Ah well, glad to help people out, but my wife was getting irritated with me since she really, really wanted to run a dungeon. Finally we did STL, but I managed to get queued as a DPS and the tank was far less geared than I am. Wife was NOT a happy camper, but we had fun anyway. I still don't like warrior DPS.
 
Then she couldn't sleep so she got up and ran a bunch of dungeons while I was asleep. I think that finally scratched her itch :D
 
Anyway, not sure how much I'll play this week, but really looking forward to Friday. We've been attuning people like crazy and helping them farm glory, and I really like all of the new people a lot- good players and fun to be around. It's gonna be a fun time for sure.	
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So, this is what Houston looks like this morning. Every route to my office is underwater, and after a four day weekend, my deadlines are sitting there, waiting for the flood waters to recede.
 
I mean, cool, I get to play some WildStar this morning, but with two people dead and millions of dollars of property damage, it's a hollow feeling to be sure.
 
 
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That's pretty insane. I wasn't even aware of the flooding in texas. 
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My wife just got Gold on STL while I was at work . . .
 
She is now officially better at the game than me!	
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			Well hell, I've never done that (though can't say I've every tried either -- inevitably someone cannot dodge tornados).  Congrats.	
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Tex I feel your pain... In a former life I spent my first month or so on the job at a dam rehab project that was substantially under water due to record flooding on the Mississippi River. That was a fun job! We saw some pictures from Des Moines where people could see fish swimming by their office windows... I kid you not. Nature is a crazy thing.
 
In WildStar news, I finished GA attunement, got all of my amps/ability points, and acquired a decent set of healing gear on my medic! Anybody know a group that raids a few days a week on weekdays? I think I could avoid wife aggro if I keep Fridays/Weekends free.
 
Also helped a new guild member out with some addon suggestions to help their gameplay. Always satisfying to make someone's game experience a little better!	
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Well hell, I've never done that (though can't say I've every tried either -- inevitably someone cannot dodge tornados).  Congrats.
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Hey all :)
 
Just back from an evening raiding with the Alliance.
We've pulled it off, and progressed into 3/9 Datascape now :D
Can't even begin to express how happy we are right now.
 
 
So happy our guild is progressing this far.
WildStar is awesome, and I hope it remains that way.	
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