Blarrrg!

nuff said :/

So I hit level 72 today on my Tauren Hunter. Feels good man, though she is under geared still, I'm steadily working on it :) Sitting pretty on 1500 gold in the bank waiting on the lowered riding costs in the next patch. A little birdy tells me that *may* be as soon as tomorrow though I'm thinking prolly not till 3 weeks from tomorrow, but who knows?

The cast of characters so far:

(F) Bahka the Tauran Hunter:        72
(M) Morridi the undead deathknight: 60
(F) Amaraikwa the Blood Elf Rogue:  60
(F) Lindri the Blood Elf Paladin:    8
(F) Kaego the Tauran Druid:         14
(F) Baruu the Orcish Warrior:        8
(F) Rizaki the Troll Priestess       2 (I think thats her name)

The house seems like its a go, hopefully we'll get the closing done soon so as to have most of July to pack and move. Looking forward to getting out of that shithole townhouse, and looking forward to maybe getting a house kitty to snuggle and love on.

Car transmission seems to be doing wierd things. Will have to take it in and have it looked at after we get the house settled out as that will be the first time I will have disposable income.

We'll just have to see how it all comes together.

... and all I could think about was you. Christ! Sometimes I really hate myself. As if I didn't have enough on my plate with the whole house thing, I have to have her on my mind to?

Nothing new on the house, and I don't expect there to be any news till early next week sometime. hoo-fucking-ray stress >:o

Anyways, still playing WoW which is something I said I would never do, and yet here I am, plugging away on it. Though I am souring on the leveling (the Barrens AGAIN@!$%^#$@) I do plan to return to my low level characters at some point, but for now, Im thinking Im just going to make a beeline to 80 for my Hunter.

Bahka, Tauren Hunteress of the Horde, is currently 68, and in good shape (not great) equipment wise, and is fun to solo/group with. Amaraikwa, Rogue of Silvermoon, is still 60 and alot harder to solo, but alot of fun in a good group, though she desparetly needs gear to compete in Outland.

Morridi, The level 60 Undead Death Knight, is getting next to no time at all. I just don't like him or how the knights play. I continue to level his mining and blacksmithing as a cash cow, but Im pretty sure Im not going to quest with him again.

Guess we'll see where I end up with it, haven't tired of it yet, but that could be be any day now, or never....

We are setup to go over to the new place today after work to do the Mortgage-required house inspection. Once this step is complete we should be able to get final approval from the mortgage people whether they intend to go ahead with the mortgage proceedings, or drop out for any number of various reasons.

Looking forward to this despite the stress of dealing with house buying, moving, and the like.

In other news, I am using the Refer-a-friend deal in wow to move characters to level 60 pretty fast. So far, the total is:

(F) Bahka the Tauran Hunter:        60
(M) Morridi the undead deathknight: 60
(F) Amaraikwa the Blood Elf Rogue:  33
(F) Lindri the Blood Elf Paladin:    8
(F) Kaego the Tauran Druid:          7
(F) Baruu the Orcish Warrior:        6

These characters are all on Earthen Ring, but I am plannign to open up my Allience characters, probably with a Male Dwarf Paladin on Elune (maybe)

Got my computer fully online now with no sound or OS activation issues. Granted it is down a 1TB HD, but whos counting?

Went through my third WoW install in as many weeks, and it was just as lengthy and annoying as the other times, but its running and doing well now that Blizzard got their thumbs out and respec'd my moocow hunter.

BTW, for anyone who cares, got:
59 Tauren Hunter: Bahka
7 Tauren Druid: Kaego
2 Blood elf rogue: Amaraikwa
58 Undead Death Knight: Morridi

All on Earthen Ring RP.

Maybe more on the housing situation in a week; we'll have to see what we see about that.

Okay so I finally get to reinstall windows, pop in my CD key to activate and I get an error: "Incorrect Product Key." So I try it again, and same thing.

I phone up Microsoft, and after being transferred all over the place, they claim that the hardware and product key are mismatched. They say this is a typical Dell issue and to call Dell.

On the phone with Dell for less than 10 minutes for them to tell me tough shit, you key is what we have and file and if it doesn't work to call Microsoft. So I call them back, they wont help saying support OEM has to come from the OEM.

Finally I broke down and bought a package from Microsoft to get a freaking key; $149 + taxes (not sure why there was sales tax...) Got the key via email, and the Cd in 4 to 6 weeks.

Upshot is I got the activation done, but I'm out about $160.

Jesus, but this has been one shitty week from end to end! With wow crashing on me every third step, I think you can imagine that I am more than a little upset at the moment.

I let Antimon talk me into trying WoW; should have known better, but oh well.

Got a lvl 59 cow hunter going strong.... or would have if the fucking game hadn't bullocks my talent points up. Attempted to submit a ticket, no response. The forums have a lot of people bitching about the same thing with multiple tickets open and unanswered for 48 or more hours. FUCK!

Also during this time, my raid in my gaming system shit itself. Looks like a common error for this board/chipset, but when I switched the SATA cables around, it was still out, except that it was now reporting the other drive. This is bad as it most probably means that 1 of the 2 drives died. No way to recover the data, as it was a RAID1 (striped) so i only have half the data.

Gotta RMA the drive and in the mean time I am forced to reformat the working drive and reinstall XP. We all know just how much fun that is *rolleyes*

Still all in all, this week has been shitty from the get-go. Work BS, home BS, 401k bs, house buying BS, and now game BS. It all adds up to a shit ton of stress, but thanks to eaglebeagle I got in just enough laughs and oh astonished oh shits! from the videos hes posted. Awesome stuff man :)

Over an hour into the complete format on this 1TB drive and still have 37% left >:o

As I approach my 4 year anniversary working at Brighthouse, I have to sit back and wonder about it all. I both love and hate this job. I loathe going in every night to do the same shit over and over again, and yet once there, I generally have some fun because I work with a great group of people with whom I can talk with on just about any topic. Its a fucking conundrum...

So 4 years its been; 5 since I was fired at AT&T. That was another job I loathed every minute of the day, and yet had so much fun while actually there. had a lot of stuff happen while I was there. Met Heather, and though I still love and miss her terribly to this day, I feel that I would have been much better off for never have met her at all. Had a brief fling with Angela while I worked there. That wasn't a good idea at all. Not sure what I was thinking then, or why I did some of the outrageous things I did back then.

These days I am concentrating more on my own situation rather than trying to fill my life with someone else. I finally got my credit back on track after destroying it at age 18. I bought my first brand new car, and am currently shopping for a house. Got over 5k in my first 401k and at the start of my 5th year with BHN, I'll be in vested in the pension plan, so things are, for the most part, looking up for my financially.

Once I get past these baby steps, as I think of them, it'll be time to work on my personal issues. getting myself back into the dating game, looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with. Things are looking up, but in true form for me, I'm always looking out for the other shoe to drop...

Just noticed that I have been away for a long time. Haven't updated here since September 08, or worked on my website www.whitetailedkat.com since September of 2007!

As I said on my news page there, I get discouraged about it waaaayyy too easily and end up just ignoring it. I want a decent looking page with a few flashy bits like an animated header graphic and a dynamic menu. Nothing difficult for someone with the flash/DHTML skills, but beyond my paltry abilities.

I have tried several different programs to build me the kind of menus I'm looking for, but most of these are just too inflexible or bloat the site code like you wouldn't believe! Maybe someone out there has knowledge of a magical app that allows for some flexibility but is also n00b friendly?

In the mean time, Sabaton!

I liked the music meme idea i saw on dixieland_doe journal, so I figured what the hell, i'll give it a go :)

Teh Rulz0rs
* Put your music player on random.
* Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
* Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
* Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
* Looking them up on Google or any other search engine = EPIC FAIL >:o

My taste in music is fairly mainstream, so this shouldn't pose much of a problem to anyone who wants to guess.

1) Out of touch.... Out of reach, yeah
2) The mission is clear, I'm going over there
3) You in your shell, are you waiting for someone to rescue you
4) Aaaaaa, Aaaaaaa, Aaaaaaaa, Aaaaaaaaa, Aaaaa, Aaaaa, Aaaaaa, Aaaaaa, Aa, Aa, Aa, Aa, Aa, Aa, Aa, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAA YEAH !
5) Don't turn away... I pray you've heard the words I've spoken
6) It's 6 a.m., out in the clinic line. It's freezing cold, you may get told come back another time.
7) I can't escape this hell... So many times i've tried
8) And then you said a little more about your dreams, like that was my call (my call) "If you would only listen"
9) Hey sister why you all alone?
10) I walk a lonely road, The only one that I have ever known
11) I want a normal life, just like a new born child
12) I'm looking at you through the glass... Don't know how much time has passed
13) Oh, make me over, I'm all I want to be
14) Hey girl you know you drive me crazy, One look puts the rhythm in my hand
15) I am complete! Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!
16) Well I won't be caught living in a dead end job while praying to my government, guns, and god
17) Survivor... Survivor...
18) Heaven ablaze in our eyes, We're standing still in time
19) Someone falls to pieces, Sleepin all alone
20) I haven't been home for a while, I'm sure everything's the same
21) Summer has come and passed, The innocent can never last
22) On the ground I lay, Motionless in pain
23) I know I've been mistaken, But just give me a break and see the changes that I've
24) Just hear me out, If it's not perfect I'll perfect it till my heart explodes
25) What was that scar situated from afar, What was that light integrated in your mind
26) What if I wanted to break, Laugh it all off in your face
27) Can you feel it, see it, hear it today? If you cant, then it doesn't matter anyway
28) It seems so obvious, There's something up with us
29) Never made it as a wise man, couldn't cut it as a poor man stealin
30) Breakin rocks in the hot sun
31) I see nothing in your eyes, And the more I see the less I like
32) How the hell did we wind up like this, Why weren't we able