Well, maybe chocolate does, but other than that vacations are great. Taking a break from 25-man raiding is proving to be very enjoyable, even if it means listening on vent to everyone else raiding (and collecting their epic loots) without me.
I’ve dabbled a little, taking Mingle in for a couple of 10-man Ulduar achievement runs (and picked up a fourth T8 piece for that very nice shadow priest set bonus), but I’ve probably spent more time out of WoW than in it (apart from some extended periods spent fishing and herbing). Mingle is also sporting a new haircut, to try minimise the really blatant clipping that the priest T8 head has with most hairstyles. (I find it quite annoying, but I guess it’s the price you pay for being fashionable)
Speaking of herbalism, it’s proving to be surprisingly profitable on Snowfall who has just reached the dizzying heights of level 13; the small assortment of beginning-zone herbs she’s picked and put on the AH (along with some Small Eggs, which are ridiculously profitable) have raised her bank balance to 15g already. Needless to say, this has clearly demonstrated (to me, at least) that if I ever have the desire to make a clean start on a server, gold won’t be too much of a problem.
Snowfall has finally completed the starting zone quests, and is ready to begin exploring Ghostlands (unless I get distracted again). It’s quite a change of pace, as the starting zone I usually run is solely the Gnome/Dwarf area.
It’s just unfortunate how… anorexic the Blood Elf character models are. The animations are really quite lovely, but the models themselves are personally rather unappealing. I’m undecided whether to continue leveling her or if I should try rerolling a race that has a bit more substance to it. (I guess it says something about my aesthetics that I find the dwarves most visually appealing – apart from their really awful dances, of course)
Kringle is facing the possibility of some time spent pet-levelling, and I’m keeping an eye open for a spirit beast (Gondria would be awesome, although it’s me and pretty much every other hunter looking for him).
I’m following with some interest the new addon manager from WoWInterface: Minion looks interesting, but the early bugs have left me wary of trying it out for now, especially with the large list of addons I run (rough estimate of around 135 or so, between all my characters, including class-specific ones). But I’ll probably be giving it a try when it’s a little more mature, and the addon-identification bugs have been stomped into submission.
Finally, I’m currently battling an old keyboard, having celebrated a return to drinking coffee by spilling some of my first cup in almost six months on my lovely Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, leaving it with several unresponsive keys. I’m now looking at buying a keyboard protector and hoping I don’t have to buy a new keyboard (although fortunately the 4000 isn’t a hard model to find) to protect – with luck it’ll be possible to clean the spill off the traces inside the keyboard, but my initial disassembly and examination has left me uncertain about it.
And on the subject of buying stuff, I was reminded of an young-adult fantasy novel from my youth while browsing the comments of a post on Welcome to Spinksville! As someone who’s ready prolifically all my life, the thought of revisiting fiction from my past is quite appealing, and in that spirit not only have I ordered a copy of So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane, but I’m also getting a copy of Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell from a local speciality bookstore. (Yay for literacy!)
For now, though, time to get a couple of dailies done before 10-man General Vezax.
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