Over the years I’ve slowly been putting together a set of good quality stainless steel pots and pans from Paderno as they go on sale. At the moment I have:
What are some other useful sizes/types I should get?
Just an update on my phone – I’m currently using FroydVillain 1.4.3 instead of CyanogenMod. Both are based on Android OS 2.2, but FroydVillain just has more working things. Like the camera. And it does seem somewhat faster when switching screens etc. A more optimized kernel, I guess.
I’ve hardly been playing WoW at all in the last few months, but I figured I’d write something about it. Between starting to get bored with the game and having much better things to do in real life on the weekends when I’m off work I haven’t played much. I’ve already preordered the collector’s edition of the Cataclysm expansion though. Mostly for all the extras in the box, not so much the in-game pet. I wish I had started early enough to get the CE for the original game. I did get it for The Burning Crusade, but for some reason I never for Wrath of the Lich King. I think it might have been due to financial issues at the time. But I’ve seen it around for $150-ish so I might pick that one up at some point anyway.
I doubt I’ll be doing any raiding in the expansion, maybe occasionally at off times at most. I’ll probably be doing some actual casual sort of playing for a change :) Exploration, achievements, things like that which don’t require a big block of time to do. And likely some PVP with friends in my guild. From when I first starting playing until half way through the first expansion, my main (and only character) was my hunter. Then I rolled a priest and that has been my main pretty much since then. Lately though, I had been playing my druid more, and then actually did things with my hunter again. I’m thinking that my first 85 is going to be my druid, and then my hunter. No real plans for leveling after that. At the moment I have something like six 80s on my main server, and a couple more on other servers. A little insane, really. I don’t play most of them even when I do play the game. It was nice to level them up and see how much I like playing them all, though. I’m slowly leveling two more characters to 80 that are currently in the low 70s. One 60 I have (from recruit-a-friend leveling, I didn’t actually play it much) I’m planning to delete and reroll as a Worgen with the expansion, and the other 60 is my bank alt which may or may not get leveled at all. Without a great girlfriend, I’d probably have them all at 80 by now (other than the planned reroll), and melted eyes to go along with it.
I’m looking forward to a more casual sort of playing :)
For the record, my current list of characters:
Terenas (it’s been really handy to just be known as “Dard” on any of my characters there) Dardelyn (80 Priest – Holy/Shadow) Dardia (80 Druid – Balance/Resto) Dardremar (80 Hunter – Survival) Dardremis (80 Shaman – Elemental/Resto) Dardzuul (80 Death Knight – Frost DPS/Blood DPS) Dardique (80 Mage – Frost/Arcane) Dardlet (70 Paladin – Retribution/Holy) Dardelek (71 Warlock – Affliction) Dardzen (60 Warrior – Will be deleted to reroll as Worgen) Dardina (60 Rogue – Bank Alt in my own Bank Guild)
Korialstrasz - Kethali (80 Druid – Resto)
Hyjal - Nazdeek (80 Shaman – Resto/Elemental)
And some other assorted low level characters on those last two and other servers.
Yes, that’s too many level 80s :)
Since I got my phone shortly before going on vacation, I never bothered to check into rooting it until yesterday. Telus seemed like they were never going to get the Hero updated to Android OS 2.1, still stuck on 1.5 – which limited me for the apps I could install, and other OS features. So mostly following the directions here (I had to use a different RUU image from what they said), I’m now using VillainROM 12 and so far things seem to be fast and smooth. It was a pretty easy process, nothing crazy to do at all really. I might try out other custom ROMs, but I like how this one is pretty much the same as it uses HTC Sense (which I think is nice).
This week I finally entered the world of smartphones :) I upgraded my prepaid Motorola Rival A455 to a regular contract for the HTC Hero, Android powered. It’s a really nice phone. I didn’t really want to get a Blackberry (which most of my friends have) or an iPhone (a couple of them have one of those). Telus is slacking and doesn’t have an updated version of the OS yet, but hopefully soon.
Come to think of it, pretty much all of my friends have a smartphone of some sort. Voice+data packages these days don’t really cost a lot, and even the cheapest plans have quite a few features and options. There’s no reason not to get one! ;)
After many years of wanting a Mac – pretty much ever since I first started reading about OS X (earlier versions didn’t interest me), I finally have one! Last week when Apple updated the Mac Mini, I ordered one with the money I had been saving to buy one. Took less than a week to get here, and arrived this morning.
Almost all of the apps I use on my current Windows 7 general-use computer (my newer one I built specifically for gaming, and basically do nothing else on there) have either the same or equivalent apps for OS X. And often better options. I think the only thing lacking is a version of Quicken Cash Manager, but I guess I’ll just use that on my Windows gaming system. Just a matter of setting things up and playing around with it to see how stuff works. Getting used to it, but I have a lot to learn I’m sure.
Also, a few months ago I bought a ReadyNAS and currently have two 2 TB drives in there – no extra storage with the second drive, just redundancy. As I have spare cash and drives go on sale/get cheaper, I’ll pick up a couple more to get up to 6 TB in RAID 5. I’m only using about half of that space right now with mostly TV shows and some backups/files, but when I move my music there from my external 1 TB drive I’ll start running low on space.
My days off will actually be changing from Thu/Fri to Fri/Sat very soon, in a couple of weeks. It was supposed to do that a few months back, but a transfer of a person from days to nights screwed that up. This time it should be fine. Eight years there and I finally have every Friday and Saturday off. Great timing really, now that I have been seeing someone for a little while, and she has weekends off :) I’ve been quite happy since starting to date her. Holidays in a month or so for two weeks, I’m sure I’ll find something fun to do.
I do have another level 80 in WoW now, making it the 6th one on my main server (I have two more on other servers). My shaman, which was actually the second character I created after my hunter that I kept around. I only had him as high as 69 before this current expansion, didn’t get to 70 until months later when I was bored. In the last couple of weeks, I leveled from 75 to 80 in the mornings and afternoons. I haven’t been raiding at all in the last month, for RL reasons mentioned above :) I was mostly bored with it anyway. Now I just have two more characters I plan to get to 80 before the expansion – my 70 warlock and 70 paladin. I have a 60 rogue and 60 warrior, but I doubt I’ll level them. I’m not a fan of melee dps or tanking. My rogue will likely stay as my bank alt (with his own banking guild), and I’ll probably delete the warrior in the next expansion to make a Worgen warrior and start from scratch. I want to see the new content, and maybe it might be more fun if I actually level all the way instead of from 60 where the recruit-a-friend leveling stopped.
Wow, long post, but I didn’t really post much in a while. Other than all the usual geek stuff, I’m happy about having a great girlfriend :)
And I see that WP 3.0 is out, dare I upgrade yet?
Well, I managed to lose my first Raven. At the end of a 10 part storyline mission I was up against four other battleships, plus various cruisers and frigates. By the time I decided to warp out, my cap was too low and I basically couldn’t go anywhere at all, as hard as it tried. Much swearing was happening as I watched my shields go down, then my armor, and then structure :( Oh well, it’s a learning experience at least!
2010.05.12 10:30:00
Involved parties:
Destroyed items:
Dropped items:
Most of my useful mods were destroyed, only the two launchers that dropped were of any value. Well, besides the T2 drones. Maybe my Drake might fare better, though probably not. Just don’t have as much DPS there, even though the tank is great. Plus it’s 13 jumps away from where I am at the moment. sigh
Muhahah I tricked you all with a non-WoW post… with an EVE Online post. Heheh.
Also, I just dropped back to using Live+Press 2.1.11 and things are working fine again. The 2.2 update seems to have broken something.
I was able to bring my hunter to the first wing of ICC10 this weekend, and cleaned up on loot. Along with another alt of someone that went, she got plenty of good stuff too. I didn’t get my bow, but I did get [Frost Giant's Cleaver], [Bone Warden's Splitter] and [Hauberk of a Thousand Cuts]. It’s also cool that both of the weapons have the same model, so they match :)
My main goal was to get new weapons, so I was mostly successful. I just need to return to try to get that bow. Also, one more Wintergrasp Mark of Honor and I’ll get the last piece of PVP gear I need (that doesn’t require arena points/ratings). Done!
Just sitting around before work, playing EVE Online with both accounts on both of my computers semi-AFK mining, while reading info on the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft… yeah.
I can’t wait for this WoW expansion. Among other things, shorter raids! I’m sick of 11-12 bosses, due to my work schedule it’s really difficult for me to be able to attend a full raid split over two nights. If I bother with my current guild (I’ve mostly stopped raiding for the last couple of months) I’m able to do the first half which is fairly easy for us at this point. And then not be able to work on progression through the last half :( At least I was able to get The Plagueworks (10 player) on my druid Dardia this weekend. Guild first for downing Putricide (well, with two pugs).
When I do bother to login to WoW (not often lately), I’m just killing time doing some PvP or leveling an alt. The usual pre-expansion boredom for me. My hunter (Dardremar) is nicely geared for it again at least, like he was at the end of vanilla and BC :) Well, except for one trinket still. I need to get more WG marks so I can get Titan-Forged Rune of Determination. Maybe I should see about getting into ICC on him to see about getting a better ranged weapon (and maybe regular weapon). Assuming heals are covered, of course.
I still don’t know what character I’m going to get to 85 first. At this point, I’m thinking it might be either my druid (essentially sharing Main status at the moment with my priest) or maybe my hunter. I’ll probably end up deciding once the pre-expansion class/talent changes are live. For now, I’m having more fun playing EVE :)
Apparently my LJ crossposting plugin added in some extra BR tags in between paragraphs… weird. Didn’t do that before, but I think I may have updated it since my last post.
So, I’ve apparently played a lot of WoW over the last 4.5+ years… a screenshot from the Altoholic addon, showing me some combined totals.
Actually, now that I think about it, I could add another 40 levels or so to that. I have a couple of other characters that I haven’t logged in with lately, since wiping the stored info for that addon after an upgrade.
