Life has been chugging along as of late and while things are still bleak on the job front, we’re getting by. We had a friend come in from out of town this past weekend and it allowed me the motivation to really dig in and clean up a lot of the condo. This was good, we needed a good spring cleaning, and it’s put the condo in a good place to keep clean for when everyone comes in to town in March.

I’ve been actively trying to ensure that my responsibilities and hobbies outside of online gaming are getting the attention they deserve, and that’s made me feel much more… “accomplished” I guess. I’ve been putting a lot of effort in to keeping the condo clean, I’ve been tending my plants (I really want to buy more), I’ve been organizing Magic cards, I’ve been eliminating a lot of “clutter” that’s just been sitting in our condo, and I am very happy for it. I feel like I need to make the condo much more organized and clear before the baby arrives. All I need is a box of books stacked halfway to the ceiling falling and squishing my kid. ;)

Speaking of the kid, we’re really close to finding out the gender. Two weeks, just before people arrive in March, we should know. Diana has convinced herself it’s a girl, which to be fair, my mother did with both me and my brother, so I am still not pinning my guess on anything. I’ll find out when I find out.

I have been dividing my time between Star Trek Online and World of Warcraft, for online gaming. It was funny, my dad saw some show on PBS about online gaming, and the “internet generation”, etc. He was curious what exactly it was we did when we raided, so he wanted to come over and watch one night. Last night he came by as we started our raid, and while I did my best to give him a 15-20 minute introduction, I think it was still far too chaotic to really understand what’s going on. It’s possible, since I was MTing, he should have watched Diana’s screen. She has a better view of the raid, as a healer than I do. All I see are giant undead feet. 

Which brings me to our raid progression. We’ve cleared through Saurfang pretty easily, but we’re having some trouble with Rotface. The slime mechanics just seem to be a bit too much for us to really handle right now, but I am confident we’ll figure it out. I hate fights that don’t allow me to tank. I took over slime kiting from our OT, just to see how it all worked, and it’s pretty much “do everything in the world BUT tank”. I loathe that kind of fight. I spent a lot of time trying to gear myself and practice tanking. I think fights where I don’t get to do that are pretty much useless. Don’t see warlocks being asked to heal or priests being asked to tank, why am I being asked to run around in a circle? Oh well, I just hope that eventually there are a few fights that rely on me and my gear, instead of just standing there and holding aggro while the rest of the raid does the work.

Star Trek Online has been a lot of fun, but it’s a lot more fun in a group, and people haven’t been real motivated to level in it. I’m just enjoying playing it when I can, and not feeling like I have to blast to Admiral or whatever. I think there’s some elements to it Cryptic needs to re-examine, like how their skills at the highest tier got like 10 times as much as the first tier, but don’t provide any more benefit. I look forward to how they are going to add content to it, I am hoping for fleet bases and cool things like that.

Oh well, just a check in post. Talk to you guys later.

-J