autobottrixter

I've been putting off posting for, like, a month and a half not because things have been horrible, but because I've been having kind of an "I can has nice things?" going on and I've felt kind of compelled to wait until I could post pictures of stuff. Except I'm lazy about taking pictures so I've just gotten to a point where I want to post regardless of whether I have pictures of nice things.

I got a Zune HD for my birthday, and not just some stock one but a custom from Zune Originals. It's blue, which is an ideal state for my small electronics and such. I still loved my brown brick of a Zune 30, but the Zune HD was too pretty not to upgrade. It's an awesome little media player, with shiny little details like artist portrait backgrounds on the album screen and screen saver. The sound quality is excellent. I downloaded all of The Guild and a couple movies to take advantage of the video, and I've been watching that on lunch breaks when I can pull myself away from my musty old Michael Moorcock paperbacks.

I also splurged for some RenFest boots last month. I've been wanting to put together a proper full costume, but with my weight in flux I didn't want to shell out that kind of money for something that (ideally) wouldn't fit next year. I got a short pair that remind me a lot of Meridith, with red details and skull lacing-buttons. I've taken to wearing them for D&D like a huge dork to get them broken in, though they're already pretty good and comfy. I'll post pics...sometime.

I have, as mentioned, been diving back into Michael Moorcock after finding collections of the Corum books at Half-Price Books. It finally occurred to me that I enjoy his work so much because of how much he plays with the idea of archetypes. The concept of the Eternal Champion is almost meta, with characters often aware of the role they serve in things as those archetypes. The last of his I read was a rereading of the Elric books, and after that Corum seems almost blessed.

WoW has been WoW. With Caeryn and Kraal back on the server there's a pretty strong impetus to start raiding again, which I certainly have no problems with. I've been having moments of flailing in frustration at feeling too squishy as a tank, but that was soothed a great deal by Blizzard saying that they know that damage mitigation has become far too RNG-based and essentially that the problems that I'm having are hardly unique to me or my class or my playstyle. It doesn't help to be constantly upstaged by paladins, though. I've been considering on and off getting Meg better geared, but every time I start thinking I should go grind some rep for better stuff I remember I have a hunter who's two levels from Outland or hey, Ten and Lain and Die are in Dalaran I should go harass them! I already have a well-geared tank, and there are so much more interesting things I could be doing. Which is sad, because she's still an awesome character. I'm just enjoying DKing so much more than warrioring right now.

I wish I had some deep and insightful things to say about RP and character development at this point, but I don't really. Meh.

Also I bought Dragon Age: Origins, and I will totally play it once I'm past the raid part of my weekday schedule. Elves are hardly my default race but I'm really feeling a Dalish elf warrior woman.