Tuesday Thoughts

by Santyn on Jan.26, 2010, under Uncategorized

Not much writing happening lately. Lots of ideas, just not a lot of time to write them. I’ll have to work on that.
More raiding over the weekend. Picked up a new trinket and some new bracers in ICC-10, then proceeded to wipe repeatedly on Rotface. Ah, the joys of progression.
Took my Hunter to an ToC-25 PuG last night. At one point I got low on ammo so I crafted up some more arrows in between fights (the epic ones from ICC). Almost immediately I got whispers from every other Hunter in the raid wanting arrows. Only one had his own mats though (i naturally made them for him). The others just expected me to give them away for free. Not likely.
Though I don’t talk about it much, I have been playing the Auction House pretty heavy for a while now and have built up a rather respectable fortune. After a few weeks in ICC though and I think its time to look into spending it on some gear, namely the 264 boots and possibly leggings. ICC is a lot harder than ToC and any little extra I can bring will definitely help.
Also from the ToC-25 PuG yesterday, no gear dropped for me but I uploaded the log to World of Logs, and guess who’s sitting pretty at the top spot and had 99.2% survivability for the whole raid? Makes a Hunter to feel good. Real good.
I’ve been researching on re-itemizing my Shaman and I think I know the direction I’m going to go, but I’m not going to re-gem or anything until after he gets his Tier-10 shoulders and gloves, which should be by Thursday.
My laptop died over the last week. The combination of hardware already on the verge of failure and a nasty virus it acquired from another PC I was trying to repair (a side business I have to earn a little extra cash). Lesson learned: USB stick sharing is like needle sharing, it spreads diseases. ¹ This means I’m left with a laptop that won’t boot from a CD (hardware failure) and BSODs anytime I try to boot to the hard drive (caused by virus). Solution? I was wanting a new laptop anyway…

This is the first virus I have ever encountered that spread itself to a USB stick and then to another PC. I wish I could tell you the name of it but I ended up having to wipe hard drives completely to remove it. ↩