In the past 7 days I’ve done tons of crazy things.\u00a0 Well, they aren’t so crazy I guess, but here’s the rundown of what I’ve been up to.<\/p>\n
Since around about the Fall of 2005 I’ve been the raid leader of a WoW guild which I occasionally talk about here and there.\u00a0 In February of 2007 I became the guild master as well.\u00a0 I decided last December that I needed a break and that I should focus on school for this Spring semester but that got bumped due to random politics at the time.\u00a0 During the middle of the semester a new patch hit and I was again on the fence about stepping down.\u00a0 Ultimately I pushed it off again.\u00a0 Around 2 weeks ago I finally decided no matter what I’m going to have to step down from WoW and move on and last week I finally did.\u00a0 It coincided with my annual birthday bash trip to San Antonio.<\/p>\n
It’s a really hard thing to sort of let go of.\u00a0 One, I’m a control freak so it’s tough to now think that it’s possible that if I’m in conflict with an issue, it might just stay that way.\u00a0 It’s yet to happen and I doubt anything crazy will happen, but you never know!\u00a0 This is going to sound really crazy but I knew the ins and outs of the guild and accessory items to the guild so well that I can’t yet comfortably take weeks off yet.\u00a0 It’s still somewhat transitory.\u00a0 There were mods we used in game custom built for us as well as very quirky systems we used for our web site that I feel like maybe only 2-3 people know how they fully work and interact with the guild.<\/p>\n
This all sounds like I quit WoW though and really, I’m just taking a backseat to the next generation.\u00a0 I’m still around but my login time will not consist of 80% dealing with other people and 20% doing random things for myself.\u00a0 But it’s time for the guild to take the next step.\u00a0 You can’t be the parent forever, so it’s time to see what the kids have learned and how they cope with things.\u00a0 It’ll be interesting to see what happens after the summer when we have a new batch of recruits and maybe I’m just some mystery dude.<\/p>\n
So May is birthday month, with me, my older younger sister, and my little brother all having birthdays within a timespan of about 13 days.\u00a0 I originally planned to go 18th-22nd but work cropped up, which is the only busy time of year for me between sessions, and I had to push it off to 21st-26th.\u00a0 Hammeron demanded I go to Whole Foods and I had pushed off seeing Star Trek to see it in IMAX.<\/p>\n
So I get to San Antonio and my Mom usually makes a huge cake for us.\u00a0 This time however, due to the request of her friends from work, she bought a cake from this cafe waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay downtown.\u00a0 So job 1 for me was go fetch the cake.\u00a0 My mom wanted to get a grand marnier cake but my sister went with the black forest chocolate cake instead.\u00a0 There’s a picture of a slice on the sidebar on my flickr feed.\u00a0 It was good.\u00a0 Mom didn’t like it, she’s picky, but I suspect it’s because she wanted the grand marnier.\u00a0 All of my sister’s friends liked it though so it’s no big deal.<\/p>\n
If you’ve been following my twitter, I broke my Rock Band drum set foot pedal.\u00a0 Despite owning the super great mega pedal, it broke where the mega pedal doesn’t connect, at the very base where it has a pin connected to pivot.\u00a0 My initial plan was to super glue it back together.\u00a0 I was stuffing my face with chicken while I let my sister do it.\u00a0 So after letting it set overnight I started a song up and after about 3 notes it breaks again cleanly.\u00a0 I said screw it, we’re going to Gamestop.\u00a0 We head over and buy the replacement pedal with the double bass module.\u00a0 I get home and plug in the new one and it’s great.\u00a0 However, I have this new nagging annoyance that I have double bass and one broken pedal.\u00a0 So I try the super glue again.\u00a0 I went crazy with the stuff.\u00a0 I let it set and sure enough, it has yet to break.\u00a0 However I have been using the new pedal as the dominant pedal and the broken one as the secondary one.\u00a0 Regardless, it has yet to break after a few songs.\u00a0 As a sidenote, double bass is incredibly difficult to learn to use once you’ve gotten single bass working.<\/p>\n
Afterwards we headed out to see Star Trek.\u00a0 I really wanted to see it in IMAX but apparently the theater only shows the newest releases of the week or something crazy in IMAX so I had to see it regular style.\u00a0 Overall it was cool.\u00a0 I won’t spoil it but my brother\/sister got an earful when it was done.\u00a0 There are things I didn’t like but the good things outweigh that stuff so overall I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
Sunday felt like a lost day to me.\u00a0 I borrowed Crisis Core from Ashley before I left so I wouldn’t die of boredom and I put about 5 hours into it overall.\u00a0 It’s pretty neat but really easy at the same time.\u00a0 Though I can’t really tell if games are easier because I’m older and wiser or if they are in fact, just easy in general now.\u00a0 There’s some random hard stuff in there and I actually really hate how the level up system works, but the main story of the game hasn’t caused any problems yet.\u00a0 The battle system is entertaining enough. I need to finish it soon.<\/p>\n
Monday we went out to Whole Foods which was a really crazy store.\u00a0 95% of it is organic and everything smelled so fresh.\u00a0 It was pretty great.\u00a0 I got a Mix1 for me and my brother and he got a Dagobah chocolate bar just for novelty sake.\u00a0 Though it was a pretty good chunk of chocolate anyway.\u00a0 They had Brain Toniq there as well and I tried a sample.\u00a0 I would say in the general category of energy drinks, it was better than most and it wasn’t carbonated which is a plus for me, but the taste wasn’t there for me.\u00a0 The only problem with Whole Foods is that it’s so far away, it would be impossible to buy anything that needs refrigeration since the trip back home is so far and it was around 100 degrees in the car.\u00a0 After that we shipped out to the mall for some new threads and hit up all the stores at La Cantera.<\/p>\n
As usual when I visit I like to go out to eat with my brother and sisters somewhere that I don’t have in Lubbock.\u00a0 However it being Memorial Day I wanted to head to the County Line for some killer BBQ.\u00a0 I think my new favorite there is the pork ribs.\u00a0 They’re so great fallin off the bone style and succulent.\u00a0 The potato salad is king as usual and we had ordered 2 loaves of bread to take home.<\/p>\n
My Mom also went on a spree of buying suits for me recently, none of which fit.\u00a0 However she has a friend that is a tailor, which is a crazy profession for some reason to me, but I forgot I went there on Sunday to get 2 of these suits fitted.\u00a0 I picked them up on Monday and man they look great.\u00a0 This year is like a marathon of weddings so now I should look pretty dapper.<\/p>\n
Ok lastly, while I don’t actually ask for much on my birthday, I walked home with the new fitted suits, a crazy hand blender with chopper, Gurren Lagann disc 1, and I got myself the second season of Shin Chan.<\/p>\n
Now that Summer is upon me and lots of freed up time due to lack of WoW, I’m gonna start plowing through these mountains of games\/movies\/anime that I’ve neglected all these years.\u00a0 It’s certain I won’t be finished by the end of the Summer, but hopefully I make a dent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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