capricious – governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive, unpredictable
Found the word by someone’s comment on my photoblog. Their exact comment was
“La naturaleza y sus formas caprichosa” and I liked it!
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02
Oct
WOTD
02
Oct
QOTD
You can never be that which you don’t do.
I’m not sure but that has been stuck in my head for the last two days.
25
Sep
Dazed
I’ve been really tired lately so to offset that I have been ingesting a large amount of caffeine. This has ultimately resulted in a sort of self induced zombie like daze. I feel kind of like Frankenstein’s monster being prodded to do daily tasks through giant bolts of spontaneous energy. If you can’t tell by now, it’s Friday…
Another week done and it has been a pretty stressful one. Painting should be done tomorrow and then we have to worry about replacing a sink and two faucets – I’ve never really done any plumbing work. Then we want to do the flooring in our kitchen, hall, and half bath; I have never tackled flooring either. I’ve been chatting back and forth with Jeff this past week and it has brought up a lot of good memories. I think as you get older, time seems to go by faster because you only remember the good stuff. There is a lot of non-memorable stuff in my life and I think it is a good goal to try to make even the mundane memorable by making the best of everything.
I made plans to watch the Ranger’s season opener with Tom on the 2nd so that should be good. Boo to Comcast to revert all our non-broadcast cable channels to digital only so we no longer receive MSG or YES – the only things really keeping me watch TV these days. I guess watching The Simpsons on Sunday nights is all the TV I will be watching in the future. PBS needs to bring America’s Test Kitchen back to M-F 12:30-1PM so I can watch it during lunch. I really miss that show. I hope they are just taping a new season and it hasn’t been cancelled or something. I miss Ciao Italia too.
Only two more venomhide ravasaur teeth left until we get our mounts with the Horde DK’s! It is so much easier to get than the Winterspring Frostsaber it’s not funny. Almost worth rolling a Horde toon, getting the ravasaur mount, then doing a paid faction change to get the frostsaber – almost. Been playing with Tiguan and Naturia the last couple of nights, got them up to almost 40. I say almost because they are literally like 10k XP from 40 – so close to both of them being able to wear mail (Tiguan is a shammy and Naturia is a hunter) and epic ground mounts. They are out of rested so we will go back to Elemefehoh and Idonea probably this weekend. Tonight is hopefully a FoF night with Kimberly and Kevan – missed playing last Friday.
New lens is supposed to be here Monday, have I mentioned that I was excited to get it yet? Damn thing has been stuck in Secaucus, NJ since 3:46AM on 9/22; UPS what are you doing? I might be making a trip up to Bushkill falls next week with two co-workers if it comes in on time. Hopefully the leaves will be more colorful then because they seem to be just turning brown and falling off around here – starting to anyway. Awesome skies on the ride in to work this morning! I really hate not having a working camera.
I think in the post or two below I mention buying some fine brews. Went to Uno’s on Wednesday night and I’m really surprised and excited over their beer list. I had a Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA and some ESB. The DH rocked but I should have had the ESB first because it seemed so weak without all the hops. Definitely enjoyed both and got my taste buds whetted for a trip to Joe Canal’s.
Random News:
Wii is dropping in price to $200 – can you add Hi-Def please?
GT 5 is planned for releasing in Japan for 3/10. That would put it here no later than 6/10. I guess that will get me to buy a PS3.
It’s almost pie season – I love pie!!
23
Sep
only wednesday?
blah – this week is taking forever..
work is going at annoying pace – slow slow slow slow busybusybusybusybusybusybbbbbbbbbbbbb..argh!! slow slow slow, etc…
Hopefully it will settle down next week. Been playing WoW with Sara, got Altea & Deamonraiser up to 50 the other day so now I can start making some decent bags for all the alts on farstriders. 5 Venomhide teeth left for our DK’s on Suramar so we should have those mounts by Saturday. Working on Tiguan and Naturia who were left behind; got 2 levels last night – up to 38. New patch rolled out yesterday so loggin in took 15 minutes yesteday and of course all my addons are now out of date so I will be trying to update those soon. Have I mentioned that I can’t wait for my lens to come in? Scheduled for the 28th. Wow, 28th? Spetember is flying by…already fall…coming time for the annual fine brew fest where I go out and buy a couple 6 packs of really good beer, chill out in front of the first fire of the season with some books that need to be read. Wow – I sound really old 
Brew fest to anyone else my age is probably finish a 30-pack in a weekend…
21
Sep
The fun never stops
So busy weekend – got a haircut, estimators came for flooring (too $$$ boo), spent the rest of the day Saturday with Sara’s family for the new year. Sunday woke up, cleaned up for the painters which will be here thru Wednesday all day until dinner. Went out to the Olive Garden with Sara’s family. For lunch Sara and I made Cornish Hens with couscous, craisin, toasted almond, and shallot stuffing. It was awesome! Had a balsamic vinegar glaze. Probably the fanciest lunch I’ve had in a long time! It was supposed to be dinner but plans were changed. My lens is supposed to ship on Wednesday and I’m really excited to get it. Brewfest started in WoW which is always a good time. Got Altea & Daemonraiser up to 49…one more level and I can get to 375 in tailoring and enchanting! I hate Mafia Wars on facebook… no matter what I do, I keep getting ganked. Some weapons stack, some don’t…argh! /rambleoff
18
Sep
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Ah, work is busy since one of my co-workers is on vacation. Not too bad though. Car show today at work was nice and the BBQ was good, glad the weather held out. I noticed that I have blocked more spam comments then visits to my blog…multi-post spammers I guess. Sara is sick and stayed home the last two days – bad cold. I tell her its swine flu, which she doesn’t appreciate. Hopefully she will feel better by this weekend since we will be busy. We’ve been playing a bit of WoW lately. Trying to get venomhide ravasaur mounts with some DK’s, got flying mounts with Elemefehoh & Idonea, and tonight hopefully we will do deadmines with our Fellowship of Four group with Kimberly & Kevan. My old Canon died while on vacation at LBI so I ordered a new Nikon D90. I am really excited to finally get a serious camera. I also ordered a 18-200 lens but Nikon seems to be messing around with these by releasing a new but almost identical model. The problem is no one has any more of the old ones because they were stopped being made and the new ones aren’t released yet. I also ordered DxO Optics Pro for RAW conversion. That’s all for now, have a great weekend!
16
Sep
So…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted; a long while.
I’m doing well and apologize for not updating…ever.
I will try to keep this more updated in the future, even if it is just mindless dribble.
Unfortunately some of it will be politics which I made a conscience decision a while ago not post on, but then I just stopped posting anything. Also expect to see some Rangers commentary, stuff the bothers me and stuff I find funny, WoW stuff, and anything else.
Till next time…
18
Feb
WoW Addons
I believe this to be a complete list of the addons I use and recommend. If I forgot anything, I will update. If you have any recommendation, please comment.
Auctioneer Suite – Scans Auction House for prices so when you auction something, you will know the going price and when bidding, you will know if you are getting a deal or overpaying. I use the “Exit WoW when scan is complete” option and when I want to quit, I just set up a scan and walk away.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7879-AuctioneerSuite.html
Titan Panel – Adds an info bar at the top or bottom of your screen so you can quickly see your coords, gold, durability, ammo, XP, FPS, HP/Mana regen, etc.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8092-TitanPanel.html
Titan Panel [Itemized Deductions] – An addon to Titan panel which lets you see all grey items in your bags so you can junk the least valuable grey if your bags are full, or if you are at a vendor, sell all your grey items.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11422-TitanPanelItemizedDeductions.html
Lightheaded – I use this instead of Questhelper. It pulls all the comments from wowhead.com for each quest. The comments are usually helpful to complete the quest and usually have coords. You can click on the coords if you have TomTom, see next.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html
TomTom – You can either click on the coords from lightheaded or just click on the map to get a crazy taxi arrow on your screen telling you how to get there and the distance. You can also share waypoints to your party if they also have TomTom.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7032-TomTom.html
Omen – If you are the tank you need to keep your threat above everyone else and if you are a DPS or healer, you need to keep your threat below the tank. In any event, you need to know your threat on a target if you are in a party. Omen is a threat meter.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8459-OmenThreatMeter.html
Recount – Want to know your DPS? Or your heals? Or the DPS and heals of anyone in your party? Recount keeps track of damage and heals and is easily resettable when you join different groups. Not a necessity but something fun to look at while you are riding that griffin.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/recount.aspx
Quest Spam – This is the addon that we use which is whispers in party quest pickup, completion and progression, as well as a DING!!! when you level. It’s actually more beneficial to others in your party than you.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/questspam.aspx
Quartz – It’s a casting bar addon that shows the progress of your casts, enemy casts, and focus, casts. Also shows your latency, buffs and debuffs on your target, and a swing timer.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7158-Quartz-ModularCastingBar.html
Atlas – shows maps of instances, bosses, and available loot. More important the more instances you run.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info3896-Atlas.html
AtlasLoot Enhanced – allows loot tables of bosses to be browsed whenever needed within the game. It can access full item tooltips, show drop rates, allow items to be chat linked and to use the dressing room.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5541-AtlasLootEnhanced.html
Fishing Buddy – If you own a fishing pole, download this.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4239-FishingBuddy.html
Ackis Recipe List – puts a button on your trade window (blacksmithing, cooking, etc) that lets you see all the recipes in the game for that profession plus who sells it or where it drops.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8512-AckisRecipeList.html
Some classes need:
OmniCC
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info4836-OmniCC.html
Healbot Continued
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6096-HealBotcontinued.html
When you start raiding, you’ll need BigWigs:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5086-BigWigsBossmods.html
10
Jan
Obamanation
See, this is why I hate politics, all politics, in general:
“I want to be realistic here. Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped,” Obama told ABC’s “This Week” for an interview set to air Sunday.”
That’s his was of gently saying “Don’t believe anything I’ve said or promised, but I gotta be better than Bush. If not, I’ll just blame it all on him anyway.”
19
Sep
To all you RPG’ers
and MMORPG’ers (no not many men online role playing girls), here is a great comic!
