• 0.8L saucepan
• 2L saucepan
• 3L saucepan
• 1L saute pan
• 2L saute pan
• 4L casserole
• 20cm frying pan
• 30cm nonstick frying pan

What are some other useful sizes/types I should get?

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 :)

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! ;)

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?

2010.05.12 10:30:00

• Victim: Valintyne
• Corp: Epic Fail Inc
• Alliance: NONE
• Faction: NONE
• Destroyed: Raven
• System: Torrinos
• Security: 0.5
• Damage Taken: 86550

Involved parties:

• Name: Juggernaut Torpedo / Guristas Pirates (laid the final blow)
• Damage Done: 86550

Destroyed items:

• Ballistic Deflection Field II
• Invulnerability Field II
• ‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Qty: 4
• Power Diagnostic System II, Qty: 2
• Cataclysm Cruise Missile, Qty: 40
• X-Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
• Shield Boost Amplifier I
• Hammerhead II (Drone Bay)
• Hobgoblin II, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
• Heavy Nosferatu I
• Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
• Ballistic Control System II, Qty: 3
• Heat Dissipation Field II
• Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I, Qty: 2

Dropped items:

• ‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Qty: 2
• Cataclysm Cruise Missile, Qty: 20
• Shield Boost Amplifier I
• Hammerhead II, Qty: 4 (Drone Bay)
• Cataclysm Cruise Missile, Qty: 88 (Cargo)
• Hobgoblin II, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)

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.

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!

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.

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.