It’s only a matter of time before WoW ends up sucking me back in. I’d made it nearly two years before I came back this time. I couldn’t say no to the Cataclysm Alpha, though.

TIME IS MONEY, FRIEND.

No, I’m not back. I’m just on book break while I house train our new German Shepherd puppy.

But here’s the real reason I’m writing:

I know there’s procrastination. And it would stand to reason that there must be anticrastination. But what about just plain crastination?

Ponder this.

I’ve been asked to collaborate on a book! So although I haven’t boned half the stripper/porn star population of America, like Tiger, I’m taking an indefinite hiatus.

I love you all!

Hope you guys are having a rockin’ holiday 2009. I’ll be back in the new year with more frequent posts (ha, right?!) and in the meantime send my love.

NA-1 is down receiving the new patch for Darkfall.  I’m so excited!  I can hardly type this for constant reopening of the client to check for possible server uppage.  I promised I’d put up a post about fun reads while I waited so here it is:

The Xanth series by Piers Anthony — I’ve been rereading this 35+ book series lately.  It’s fluffy adorable fantasy based in a magic land that looks like Florida (my home state).

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King — I read this every year as it is my most favourite set of books in the universe.  I heard a lot of people disliked the endings of the newer books but I thought it rocked out super hard.  Stephen King is SO THE MAN, DOG.

The Myst Readerby David Wingrove — This is one of the few books-based-on-a-video-game that I’ve actually liked.  The three books in it are amazing.  I read this every couple years as well; I just love Catherine.

The Real Princess Diaries — This is a blog I found…somehow.  I really don’t remember how.  But it’s six kinds of interesting and sometimes pretty hot.  NC-17 for sure, though.

She Obeys — Yet another blog I found and don’t remember how.  This one is much safer for work and Chloe has a writing style that I just dig.

The Superficial — A website about all the creepy, stupid, and ridiculous things celebrities do.  I’m not a huge fan of celebrity news but the guy who writes this site makes me laugh daily. 

Geekologie — Sister site to The Superficial, it covers nerdy news with the same flair.  I love these guys.

So there you have it: some shit I’ve been reading and felt like passing on to you.  Oh my god, I’d better check the patcher again.

The Darkfall patch is coming.  Tonight (well, tomorrow morning but since I won’t have been to bed yet it will still be tonight for me), in fact.  I’m trying to watch my *SQUEES* and Qs.

I am so super stoked about the magic changes, the AI restructure, the melee and archery buffs, and the new house type.  I am hoping that since I was very polite and didn’t find a house deed in any of the squintillion chaos chests I opened that my first after the patch will contain a Keep Deed.  I am in sore need of a keep so that we can remake our EVE corp in Darkfall.  My hope is that if we have a Keep, I can convince our current alliance leader to let us ally with them so we can be the coolest named clan AND be with our amazing new pals.  I’m not sure why that would work, but my Female Logic™ says that it should.

I should get back to my melee grind (I swear to god there must be a soft cap; I don’t care who denies it!) but I’ll put up a post on my current favourite reads–on the Net and IRL, ’cause I KNOW YOU GIVE A SHIT–tomorrow while I squirmily wait for this patch.  

And maybe after I’ll work on Bruno’s sweater some more.  The pitiful eyes he gives me when he has to venture into the snowy backyard to tinkle with hardly any fur on are really starting to get to me.  Also, remind me to post the picture of my Bantu Knots.  My hair is sorta long enough to do them and so I’ve finally achieved my goal of looking like the semi-black version of Jane in Liar Liar.

For those of you who follow my Twitter or Facebook updates, this is old news.

Something was up with Comcast internet for us.  Everything was crawling and we had 300 – 2k+ ping in Darkfall.  We called and they tweaked and it came back so they finally sent out a guy (who had to call in another guy) and it turned out to be a bad modem.  The second one in three months.  After getting the internet issue sorted, earlier this week my video card bit the dust.  This is the third video card (after two motherboards) that’s gone out on me.  I think I must put off some sort of expensive-and/or-inconvenient-computer-bit-ruining field.

Anyway, I’m finally back in business; now I’m just waiting on that other shoe…

Someone made me drink a buncha brandy this evening so this post is going to be disjointed and pointless.

NEVERTHELESS.

I had a ton of fun tonight.  Zealot’s (the alliance Pain Train is in with Black Shields and Blood Thirst) town was raided by a previous allied clan.  I’m not sure what their beef is except they must be SO CRAZILY JEALOUS.  I totally got smoked in the first five seconds but I got a mount and a 1H and shield and tried to help after it was apparently over (Yeah, I suck but you can’t fault my dedication!).

Later, Jesse and Drem and Ken and Dan and I wandered around hitting mines and harrassing AFKers and random defenders in towns in Darkfall’s massive world.  I love getting the special ore from mines that don’t belong to me.  It’s like Christmas without the tree to clean up or presents to buy.

I also got a PvP lesson from Loc Legend.  I dunno if I mentioned him before but he’s another at the top of my Cool Motherfuckers from Black Shields list.  I believe I horrified him by my PvP UNprowess but he was patient and nice anyhow.  Plus he can take a joke like no other.  I heart his guts, yo.

All in all, Darkfall is super fucking win right now.  Though transfers are tomorrow and I dread to think what Friday will bring for me (death, dismemberment, and DRUNKEN DEBAUCHERY?!) I’m loving this game.

Also, I love you.  Yes, you.  The one in the back with the weird tic.  You’re adorable.  *kiss*

It’s always mortifying to arrive at the bank, attempt to open it, and instead find yourself astride someone else’s mount.

Darkfall’s been pretty enthralling lately since Jesse got us into Pain Train.  I’ve made a couple new friends in the alliance (though it seems like a lot of them aren’t partial to new people or girls h up their testosterone-aimed games).  My favourite so far is Dremlock StraightRocked.  We’d actually met him a couple of weeks before when Dan, Ken, and I were out on a new player hunt in Human lands.  Now, I’m not always the best shot but I’m usually quick to spot people and ninja-eyed him while we were running through the woods high-fiving each other on our last two newbie conquests.  We hauled ass over to him and started prying the top off our can of Been-Playing-A-Month Whoop Ass.  He turned around and within four minutes crushed all three of us.  He messaged me to say we’d probably picked the wrong newbie and all I could say was that at least we’d died bravely.  *grin*  Anyway, he’s an ultra cool guy and teaches me PvP tips and takes me along to sieges too.

On the PvE front, we’ve been hanging out in PnT’s city crafting and exploring the surrounding areas.  One of my favourite aspects of Darkfall is that you don’t know much about a mob unless you’ve fought it before.  It’s terribly exciting to ride up on a bear or spider or four-armed abomination and attack without knowing how difficult the fight’s going to be or what it will drop or what you’ll get from skinning.  “Oooh, let’s kill it” are currently my most uttered words (followed closely by “MotherFUCK, I died” and “Where are the Swiss Cake Rolls?”).

Travis bought me Fallen Earth to try out and that’s been taking up most of my day time.  It’s an mix of FPS-type combat and normal MMO questing and crafting.  I’ve made several Dark-Tower-themed characters and, of course, a Gankis Khan incarnation.  I’m not terribly fond of how tedious the levels are but the story has been interesting so far.  It’s hard to make the transition from Darkfall to Fallen Earth so I spend a good portion of my play time irritated that I have to keep moving out of first person mode.  It’s always fun to hang with Travis, though; we’re all about the highbrow shit talk.

Unrelatedly, my scarf knitting has come to a screeching halt as I woke this morning to find the puppies had opened a velcro-closured messenger bag (WITH WHAT THUMBS I WANT TO KNOW), shredded all eight skeins inside, chewed up (and must have swallowed ’cause I cannot find them ANYWHERE) a set of circular needles with cable, and demolished Robert’s scarf that was half knit on said needles.  I cried when I saw the mess.  Guess I’ll be starting on the puppies’ sweaters earlier than I’d meant.

Perhaps that was their plan all along.