120282-morning-coffee-dec-23-2014-christmas-eve-eve-edition

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So, for you weird coffee drinkers, here's some coffee, fresh brewed:
 
 
Well, bugger. Looks like Santa got to it first, crafty Santa.
 
Breakfast this morning was the usual... breakfast biscuits and hot chocolate. But this was my last breakfast biscuit package, so who knows what tomorrow's breakfast will be. It's a mystery!
 
Last night in WildStar, the Daggers got in some quality PTR time. We rolled up the characters we normally play and slaughtered a Vet Shiphand, which was loads of fun. You can definitely run that without a tank/healer in the basic raid gear. I'd like to try it in the greens to check tuning, but it was more a "just for fun" night, so we all chose raid gear, and made it pretty at vendors. (Also, we STILL can't find the 3rd and 4th LAS on ANY vendors, and some folks like Kelzam and Nifty were kind enough to help in the search, with no luck. Any idea what's happening with those? If they're going away off vendors, I want to save up and get them now.)
 
Then we all rolled up toons we hadn't played at 50 before (so, for instance, our tank is a DPS on live and has never tanked before in her life, we had dps/tank folks that rolled new dps classes, and I rolled up a healslinger which on Live is only early 30s, because I wanted to see what the healing changes were like), and then decided to try out a Vet Protostar Games. XD Needless to say, there was lots of wipeage and tears of laughter, and we had fun, even if we didn't get past the first fight. (Don't judge. :P)
 
So I set up another PTR event for next Monday to try it again in the classes/roles we're more familiar with to see what it's really like instead of just putzing around and laughing hysterically. Though, I'm sure there'll still be lots of both when we run it again next week, because that's how we roll.
 
Tonight, the Daggers have a "Choose Your Own Adventure" run where folks just get to show up and say, "I want to run XYZ" and we go run it. For instance, I'd really like to run Vet Siege (it's my favorite adventure. I know, I'm crazy, apparently), so I'm hoping more people are interested, but if not, I'm going to run whatever my group agrees on. :)
 
In real life, things're busy as ever at work. Chaide and I don't have family in the area, so we'll game all of Christmas Eve Evening/Christmas Day. And maybe we can do some things like level our Dominion toons, level some Exile alts, or I can work on the list of Guild Management things that are piling up in my list.
 
So, what is everyone else up to in game and otherwise? :D
 
EDIT: Totally forgot the daily pimp of Lifestyles of Nexus II on Entity! Signups close on January 10th!	
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Yesterday I was too exhausted to do anything. I logged in for Teahouse RP, then logged out asap.
 
Still feeling drowsy. Caffeine not... working captain! I need to recharge.	
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Waiting to get back to Nexus....	
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Yesterday I was too exhausted to do anything. I logged in for Teahouse RP, then logged out asap.
 
Still feeling drowsy. Caffeine not... working captain! I need to recharge.
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I'm not sleepy I am just confused. It says Christmas Eve.. and you had me wrapping gifts to put out tonight.. and I realized that Christmas Eve is tomorrow. You stumped me!
 
HAHAH I just realized it says EVE EVE. BRB while I go make coffee... or cocoa.. or I have been up since 4:40 AM.	
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Good morning, Coffee folks.
 
I haven't had breakfast yet (which means I haven't had coffee yet) but I'm planning on having some delicious, fresh baked Portuguese sweet bread, warmed up and drowned in butter. And a rather large, strong cup of coffee since my kids kept me up all night.
 
Yesterday I managed to get most of my dailies done (didn't get Defile, again. Poor abused Defile rep lol) and learned a couple new schematics on my armorer. Today I should get a new weapon on my WS, working my way to the last T4 weapon I don't have yet. The other day I got my warrior to 45, working towards my 4th lvl 50! I only do alts on the days that the housing board is giving 10% quest exp lol!
 
IRL, I did 95% of my Christmas shopping yesterday (go go slacker Mae!) and I'm quite happy with my finds. I spent more than I wanted, but I think everyone will be happy. I now have to get some wrapping paper, because apparently we threw it all out when we moved last year lol!	
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Folks must be sleepy this morning. The forums in general are pretty quiet. People must be gaming with their vacation time off work. ;)
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Sorry I've been so inactive.  I don't just need coffee.  Line 'em up....
 
 
So it turns out my week is going to be packed.  I have to get off here to get some paperwork done, then to drive in to work (on my day off, no less) to handle a small crisis.  Hopefully that shouldn't take more than an hour.  Then I get to come back and handle all the stuff my poor wife wanted to handle but can't (my week is looking like a breeze to her).  Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, since we're a Germanic family we do our Christmas dinner and gifts on Christmas Eve, then I go to the in-laws house on Christmas Day.  Of course, with my wife's grandmother's passing, it's not going to be the happiest occasion.  Saturday I actually get to see my father come down from Detroit and hang out in the evening, and that's after the funeral.  Interspersed in all of this is figuring out how we're going to swing the budget since it's actually not worth breaking our lease.  So part of my visiting with the in-laws is going to be discussing the sort of morbid business of how much we'll need to keep the condo we've inherited and finish out our apartment lease.
 
It's all a bit much, is what I'm saying.
 
Luckily, we've really expanded quite a bit since I got back.  Casteran is going to be putting together some attunement runs as people approach 50, we've got all kinds of new players that are a blast to play with, and we're seeing a few old faces showing up to say hello from time to time (hi, Travis!).  Last night, I finally got to log in towards the afternoon and rocked my engineer for a while.  It was a blast (heh, puns!), but the real fun was that I kept swapping to Seeger to help the guild out.  I say help out; one of those times I helped out, I actually got invited to a few world boss runs by Mythilt.  We got to walk one of our new characters through Kraggar, which was entertaining to no end.  That fight sucks on melee when you're not getting enough people to interrupt the huge AOE phase.
 
It's been fun being out bombing around at random, not worrying about actual progress.  I'm pretty sure I keep running into Iujate and his friend during their leveling spree.  Unless there's another Iujate.  If so, hope to see you soon when I get another chance to run a merc night!  I'm hoping that tonight my wife will actually be able to play.  Nothing gets your mind off things like running together and hitting that Whitevale difficulty wall.  I'm also looking to build a support set on Herrick so that we can rock the first adventures and dungeons.  She's already healed a few world bosses in split AP/SP gear, so she's had some practice already.  She's also sort of an MMORPG vet, but Wildstar's a lot more difficult than anything she's ever done.  She's chomping at the bit to hit STL, so I'm really looking forward to it.  She wants to rub in all her friends' faces how she can heal in Wildstar, since that apparently carries a lot of weight in her old WoW circle.  If not, I'll continue my mercenary spree, helping out for free with group quests and rare mobs.  I also should mention I got to drop in a bit of RP to pull a buddy out of a jam with some firepower!  It's good to know someone with a flying death fortress and a bevy of artillery!  I'm hoping he joins up, he's pretty much guildless and appreciated being aboard the Shadowcaster.
 
Seegah always be fah hiah!  Murdah on demand fah all ya govahment-sanctioned killin', robbin', an' ahson.
 
But there's a lot to do still, and that's why I haven't been on the forums for a while save for coffee.  I just don't have the time right now.  Normally, I'd be standing at my computer desk right now, filling loading and synchro times in Revit with forum posts.  Turns out that during my time off, playing the game is a lot more fun than typing on the forums, and it's been better for the guild as well. I might be on a bit more at work, but that's why I'd assume the forums are emptying out even when the game isn't necessarily doing the same.  A lot more people are off work, and if you're not working, forums aren't as bustling.  Or it might be because forums are also intermittently noxious, so sometimes it's good to be just in the game, remembering why people actually do play it.
 
And now, a daily dose of poetry, for a friend who asked why Seeger spurned some advances during my last RP trip...
 
 
 
Sonnet 10
by Alan Seeger
 
 
I have sought Happiness, but it has been
A lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit,
And tasted Pleasure, but it was a fruit
More fair of outward hue than sweet within.
 
Renouncing both, a flake in the ferment
Of battling hosts that conquer or recoil,
There only, chastened by fatigue and toil,
I knew what came the nearest to content.
 
For there at least my troubled flesh was free
From the gadfly Desire that plagued it so;
Discord and Strife were what I used to know,
Heartaches, deception, murderous jealousy;
 
By War transported far from all of these,
Amid the clash of arms I was at peace.	
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I capped rep on everything but Malgrave. I'm taking a break from dailies and doing dungeons for attunement.
 
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. She wants to rub in all her friends' faces how she can heal in Wildstar, since that apparently carries a lot of weight in her old WoW circle.
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Waiting to get back to Nexus....
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I hit 47 on my warrior alt last night! Again it took way too long because I kept alt-tabbing to roleplay and spent a goodly chunk of time exploring Malgrave so I could wrap up the explorer missions there. xD I have this obsession with completing all objectives in a map before moving on... even on alts...
 
Before I did that, though, I had a very productive day of motivating my writer-husband to finish a chapter of one of his novels. So yay to that! Now I need to remind him that he has final edits to finish on the fantasy anthology, and we really need to hear back from test readers on the novella... @.@
 
Today is shaping up to be a pretty lazy day, though, as Christmas draws near. Mayhap I'll reach another level or two tonight. Some day I'll get back to working on rep grinds on my main...	
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But there's a lot to do still, and that's why I haven't been on the forums for a while save for coffee.  I just don't have the time right now.  Normally, I'd be standing at my computer desk right now, filling loading and synchro times in Revit with forum posts.  Turns out that during my time off, playing the game is a lot more fun than typing on the forums, and it's been better for the guild as well. I might be on a bit more at work, but that's why I'd assume the forums are emptying out even when the game isn't necessarily doing the same.  A lot more people are off work, and if you're not working, forums aren't as bustling.  Or it might be because forums are also intermittently noxious, so sometimes it's good to be just in the game, remembering why people actually do play it.
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I'm not sleepy I am just confused. It says Christmas Eve.. and you had me wrapping gifts to put out tonight.. and I realized that Christmas Eve is tomorrow. You stumped me!
 
HAHAH I just realized it says EVE EVE. BRB while I go make coffee... or cocoa.. or I have been up since 4:40 AM.
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I thought i saw you Vic at Zoetic. It was supposed to be guild night and three of us decided to knock out a world boss while we waited for more guildies to show. I think i have my twelve world bosses. I still need vet SSM, so i won't know for a while. 
 
We ended up doing a vet WotW for a champ kill imbuement. I got 80% of mine and the tank got 90% of his. I've never seen the kills rack up so quickly. Queued for another run but didn't get in.
 
W* for tonight? I can't really say. I'll be solo so I'll be on my Esper. My friend is in the "nothing to do at max level" crowd, so she's all about alts. Me on the other hand, i have a perfectly good character, why would i want to play a different one?	
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Ohhh, rep grinds. I don't mind rep grinds, is the daily grinds that go with it. Or if there were cooler things to go with the reps. :D (Like extra mounts and these things called mini-pets...)
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Psssh, RL errands. Bah! Isn't it nice to stay up and just do what you please in game? :D
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			Who wants to make dinner for my family? Cuz I sure don't	
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			I'll get the coffee started.	
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