OY! What a day, all I want to do is play, but I have so much to do!!!!! So, maybe I’ll get a little time In today, maybe I won’t. Either way, check out our up coming project described in fikkle’s last post, great stuff! Unflrtunatly that is all I have for you guys today, nothing wow related, but hey, no news is god news sometimes right? right?…why do I hear crickets?
~Sy
As I was driving to work this morning, I got to thinking. (I know, start running!) I decided that I didn’t want to skip my morning coffee two days in a row, so I braved the snow and managed to make it to the local Tim Hortons (see here). Surprisingly, the wait in the drive-thru was only about five minutes, compared to the normal fifteen to twenty-five. As I was pulling out I thought ‘man, they were sure on the ball this morning. Some days they just have it, others, not so much…’
That is what really got me to thinking. When comparing two things, it just seems funnier if you use <not so much>. The Canadiens did great this season, the Canucks, not so much. The Habs even made it to playoffs, Vancouver, not so much! (sorry Matt, but what comes around, goes around!) Apparently its nice and warm down in Oz, here, not so much.
I could probably carry on all day. Like this: the Horde just rocks. The Alliance? Not so much (couldn’t help myself!). But I’ll give it a rest. It just gave me a chuckle this morning and thought you might like to try out it!
Okay, one last one. BRK has an awesome blog that tonnes and tonnes of people read. The trolls in his comments? Not so much!
It snowed here again, the very day after all the snow had melted. Yes this generally does happen sometimes, but it totally messed with my day.
I got stuck twice driving to work today due to aforementioned problem. Two good samaritans were kind enough to help.
I skipped going to get my coffee this morning, once again due to weather. This has made my morning not as bearable as usual.
BRK linked and QUOTED me yesterday! When I saw this I totally geedked out and was just completely flattered. You can read about it here. Now I know how Bre and Awlbiste felt when they wrote this and this. In fact, I still have a stupid grin on my face and all the other stuff above hasn’t even phased me. I’m having a great Monday!
Our blog stats let us know that about mid way through last week we hit 1000 total visits to the blog. Due to the link from Mania a few days back and the link from BRK yesterday, we have hit over 1000 visits today alone. The blog is exploding. Holy Blog Bomb Batman! /wave at the all the new people.
I was wondering what QQ actually stood for. I’ve learned how its generally used and what it means but I was curious about what it actually stood for. I guessed Quite Quipping. This is what I found on Wikipedia (see the emoticon link).
I’m going to be going away for business for two months starting this coming weekend. I was going to do a big long post about it but decided against it. Suffice it to say that I’m in the (Canadian) Air Force and I’m being tasked as an instructor at a training base for two months. Depending on a few things, I may or may not be able to play while I’m gone, which will affect whether I have anything to blog about. Sylus has promised to pick up the slack while I’m gone. If he doesn’t, I recommend that you badger him until he does. Think of it like sending the kids to play on the lawn of the old grumpy man in the neighborhood. It’ll be hilarious!
My Dell XPS laptop has still not arrived yet. I need it before I go (see above), and I’m starting to get worried.
That’s about it for now. I’ve got some other posts sitting in draft form, but I have to do a lot of checking / verifying before I can publish them. So far, I think there’s three, a post on macro’s, a pvp update for my 70 (BE) Mage and an RP story for my Undead Mage. Hopefully I’ll get all three out sometime this week. Stay tuned, same blog time, same blog channel.
This post is going to be totally off topic and pretty random. If that doesn’t interest you, go ahead and check back when there’s another update. You’ve been warned.
I HATE Roll Up The Rim To Win. I SEETHE with HATRED at this stupid game that I never win. Sure, I get the odd free coffee out of it, but that hardly covers the cost of what I pay to play. (/breath)
Sidebar: Those of you not from ANY part of Canada (I’m sorry for you) or from New York, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky or Maine, I know you have no idea what I’m talking about. Well maybe a few do, who live close / travel to these areas. Or any American Servicemen/women that have been over to Kandahar might know as well. (Yes, Canadians have a coffee/donut shop on their base in a warzone) All these places have Tim Hortons franchises. You may see them sharing a building with Wendy’s, since Wendy and Tim had a thing for a while. It wasn’t anything like Jack and Diane, but it was something.
Back on Track: This is Roll Up The Rim To Win. I know, I know, you’re saying, so what, no big deal. Well it IS a big deal in Canada. Everyone who’s anyone likes Tim Hortons (unless we suspect that they may be from far off and strange places where they drink something other than coffee). RUTRTW is like an annual holiday where we all drink more coffee than the normal ‘more’ coffee than we’re supposed to. Sure its a contest thingy and we all know the stupid odds for something like that.
But I’m sick of it. (Not the coffee, which I love, the contest). As I said before, I sometimes win a free coffee, but when I go get my free coffee you know what happens? I LOSE! Its a never ending vicious cycle of despair that even when you think “Awesome, I totally get a free coffee” only drags you down further when you realize that you’re free coffee is just another disappointment. I would totally be fine with paying the regular amount for all my coffees for the entire year if they just gave me one of those cups they have sitting on the shelf at Corporate Headquarters. You know, the ones that are WINNERS!
I’m not sure how many bloggers feel my pain. I’m sure Matticus might know what I’m talking about. What do you think Matt, am I nuts?
STOP BEING A TEASE RUTRTW!
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New Topic: While doing the least amount of work possible to reasearch this post (yes, I’m lazy), I found that today’s featured article on Wikipedia’s Main Page is about the Victoria’s Cross or VC. The VC is an award that was created back when this meant this. There were also some others that were part of that as well, and the highest possible award that could be given to any soldier or sailor (and later airman/woman) was the VC. It’s awarded for:
“most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy”
In other words, its given for valour, “in the face of the enemy”. The medal has not been awarded in such a long time that the last living recipient of the award, Smoky Smith, died in 2005*. I thought it was nice to see some Canadian history up on the front page of Wikipedia, especially with a large number of troops currently in harms way over in Afghanistan. (Did I mention I was a history major in College? No? I was)
*EDIT: The last living Canadian recipient. There have been service people from other countries that have been awarded the VC since.
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Along the same lines as the VC. Today marks the 91st Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a battle during the First World War in which the Canadian Corps fought as one force for the first time and successfully spearheaded an attack against the German forces. The battle ultimately led to the promnient role the Canadian forces played in the offensive that spanned the last 100 days of the war. Quite a feat for our country at the time.
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Story Time: Back to WoW for 1 min. Last year, the guild I was was getting close to having enough players ready for Kara. But we had no Priests and conventional logic said we needed a Priest. We also had too many Mages. So I rolled a priest and power-leveled him until the Kara plans fell off the table and the guild ultimately dissolved. He made it to level 62 before I put him on the shelf. During that time I decided to search out resources for a Priest. The first I found was the World of Matticus, which I read with much enthusiasm. I still read it as often as I can, but the point is that Matt is the one who introduced me to the entire blogging world (of warcraft) and this great community. So a quick thank you to Matticus before I go on.
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Lastly, since its always been a Canadian tradition this time of the year for all Canadians to participate in one of the greatest pass times ever, I have a proposal for Matticus. Matt, I’m truly sorry that your team is no longer in the running for the Holy Grail of Hockey. I do not want to rub it in that my team did make it, but I was hoping that since you don’t have a team to support for the rest of this season, you may want to throw your support behind my team in the hopes that they crush and kill whatever team it is that you truly hate. Unless that’s my team. In that case, too bad.
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I apologize again for the randomness, but you were warned! Mmmmm Double double….
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