Where in the World....

Well, Christmas was awesome. I got two different Lilith Saintcrow books, and Torr got me a Black Hills Gold heart pendant. I did not expect jewelery, the books were my favorite, but the necklace is pretty. I like glittery things as much as the next girl.

My DvD Drive died on Christmas Day. Torr got Spore... which i might add is addicting as all bleep! :) I found out that my DvD Drive died then when it wouldn't read the DvD. We were under a blizzard warning, and the stores were already all closed, but my brother-in-law had an extra DvD drive lying around, so we swapped that in, and then found out something nasty. My Hard Drive was dead.The hard drive in my computer was older than this blog. It finally coughed, wheezed and died on me.

Remember that blizzard warning? Well, it dumped almost three feet of snow on us. That kinda limits my options to staying in doors for a day or two. It the second day after the blizzard that we managed to dig ourselves out. Snow drifts are still high here. When we were able to get the car out, Walmart, as usual for the bane of my existence (yet still at times being the only place in town open to acquire things) didn't have internal hardrives in stock anywhere. So, I ended up waiting another day. Got a new 160 Gig Hard Drive yesterday.

As I type this World of Warcraft is downloading in the background. I still have to go back and grab any of the Mods I normally use. But I should be modded up and in game tomorrow. I've been missing my fix and staying up very late, and then sleeping in until well past noon.

That's been my week. How was yours?

Ding! 2 Years of Have Bow

Well, its a nice moment for me. I was flicking back through my blog posts of the past two years, and realized suddenly that this is my two year anniversary of Have Bow being in existence. Yep, two years of listening to me ramble. And a year of being with Bloodriver as a guild, I might also add. Grats to me I guess? The fact that this blog even made it a year still surprises me. Now if I can only find something to post regularly... that would be nice.

I guess I won't go into resolutions, since I can never manage to keep them to myself for more than three months, but if its possible, and with Cataclysm coming up here eventually, I will have things to post about. And if I dip back into the Blog Azeroth Community that will at least try and give me a topic to post every week, which would give me 52 blog posts at one a week. That would be an improvement from this last year.

Well, I guess its Ding 2 years and now off for some pie and sparkling cider. See ya!

Evil Walks

I find it rather amusing at times how well my Pandora Station will kick out just the right song when I'm questing around on a lowbie in contested territory on a PvP server. I'm carefully working through Redridge at the moment, almost to 25 and avoiding the roads whenever possible.

Old habits stand me in very good stead - I'd still rather go cross country overland on a lower level character than take a road in WoW. Roads on a PvP server = kill zone. They may be an "easier trip" for avoiding mobs, but I realized long ago that if you are on a hunter, you can handle anything up to 5 levels above your level. That is as a one on one encounter with an even level pet post level 20. Because I know I can handle most mobs in the zone I'm finishing up, I avoid the road and the indefinate stream of level ?? players that are trying to murder my baby night elf hunter* if I'm on a road.

Anyways, I was briefly following a deer trail up to an area (which qualifies as a road) and Pandora kicks out "Evil Walks" by AC/DC. The very next second after I hear :

"Black shadow hangin' over your shoulder
Black mark up against your name
Your green eyes couldn't get any colder
There's bad poison runnin' thru your veins
Evil walks behind you"

I die to a blood elf rogue. Came up from behind. One second I'm fine, running along on my little frost saber (see I can remember I have a mount button, dang it) and the next I'm a twisted mess of limbs and white hair on the ground and I've got a prompt for release to the graveyard.

I have to wonder, does that qualify as irony? I think it does. That or Pandora is capable of premonition... never heard that as one of her traits... but then again, Pandora did release every evil possible into the world, trapping only hope.

And dang it, now I have to go listen to "Only Hope", which I believe is a Mandy Moore song. Ah well, good music, always a reason to listen.

And I might as well add... this entire section of dying was prefaced by "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" which is one of my all time favorite April Wine songs. I should have known something was coming.


* Yes, I do know the sterotype about Night Elf Hunters, especially on a PvP realm. But, combine kitty's prowl + NE shadowmeld and you have a pretty safe way to go AFK for a little bit.