Woo! Weekend's almost here!

Just have to get through work today. And at least I get to do so with no danger of an underpants sighting. A small blessing, but a blessing nonetheless. If those pants EVER show up here again, I'm sending him home to change.

A random quote from the radio this morning that made me giggle. "A hot dog made of bacon is like a vagina made of Playstations".  We're listening to the Bob and Tom show, and one of the comedians they had on this morning said that. I tried to look it up, he said there was a place in Chicago that sold hot dogs made of bacon, but all I could find was bacon-wrapped hot dogs, which aren't quite the same. Still sounds tasty though, perhaps one of these days I'll give it a try. I mean, they wrap steak in bacon sometimes, why not a hot dog?

We finally got to finish Superbad last night, as the new copy came in the mail from Netflix yesterday. It was funny, but the end was sort of anticlimactic and awkward. There are several other Judd Apatow movies that I like better, we'll put it that way.

Time to get back to work, bah. I'll see you all on the other side of the weekend, I hope yours are full of awesomeness! :)

Buy yourself some new pants, man!

Yep, that's right, the pants have made yet another return to the workplace. And this time, his shirt was NOT tucked in well enough, and I had full view of his underwear. So, I got him a long coat to wear from the Shipping department, which he wore for all of five minutes, if that, because "it made him hot". Now he's got his shirt tucked in better. This is still inappropriate. If I was wearing pants that were ripped like that, I'd probably get written up and sent home. He says that he put them on "by accident". I call shenanigans on that one. How can you "accidentally" not notice what pants you put on? The front is a mess as well as the back, just looking down at yourself, you could see what pants you put on, for the love of pete.

Blech.

On to happier things.

Saraabi has a new tanking spec, and I tried it out in Heroic Gun'drak last night. Hubby was healing, and he kept popping out of tree to dps because he said he didn't have anything else to do! I can't believe I used to be scared of tanking! After that we did HCoS and HVH, which I ran on my hunter. I was pretty proud of her performance too. It feels very good to be good at what I do, no matter what that may be.

After those, hubby made some popcorn (which was absolutely delicious) and we watched a bit of TV. The results show for "So You Think You Can Dance" was on, and after that was Glee. I haven't really kept up with Glee, but it was easy enough to figure out what's been going on. I'm kind of on the fence with the show in general. There are some parts I like, but others just seem a bit too contrived. The love... square? going on with Rachel, Finn, Quinn, and Puck is just nuts. I'll probably still try to keep up with it, just to see what happens. I'm nosy like that!

Tagged, and he didn't even know it!

So, as I've been catching up in my feed reader after vacation (over 500 posts, you crazy people), I've seen this meme popping up here and there. The most recent is my sometime-realm-if-not-faction-buddy Arrens. I am using him as the person who tagged me because he said he'd read it and chortle... and I am a fan of the chortle. I mean, it just sounds fun, doesn't it? So here we are, the DPS Meme!

What is the name, class, and spec of your primary dps? Caelatria, Hunter, Beast Mastery (with a secondary Marksman spec that I rarely use. I love my Devilsaur too much, yanno?)

What is your primary dpsing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) Heroics when I can get them, 10-man raids when Saraabi isn't needed to tank.

What dps spell do you use least for your class and why? Probably Rapid Fire. It boosts haste, so it doesn't seem to add all that much when my haste is already boosted through talents. Other hunters out there, feel free to correct me on this one if I'm missing something important here. I try harder to remember it when running as Marksman because I know my gear doesn't have nearly enough haste on it to maximize the potential of the spec.

What do you feel is the biggest strength of your dps class and why? We're unique snowflakes in that we're ranged physical DPS.

What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your dps class and why? Hunters as a class... we're useless unless we've got range. The DPS put out by a Beast Mastery hunter's pet sort of makes up for it, but other than that, we suck in close quarters. Nobody else has this sort of a problem, a caster can sit under the boss' nose and still cast, while I'm stuck waving my polearm around at him every 2-3 seconds.

In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best dps assignment for you? Let me stand still and shoot a single target please. I don't care if it's the boss or an add, I don't want to be running all over hell's half-acres trying to get at what I need to hit.

What dps class do you enjoy dpsing with most and why? Anyone with access to Replenisment or the equivalent. And enhancement shammies.

What tanking class do you enjoy dpsing with least and why? Death Knights. Too many bad experiences with ones who don't know how to use their abilities to keep threat. I understand you maybe need more time to get a handle on an aoe pull, but I shouldn't be pulling a boss when I've already given you a misdirect with the most powerful shots I have at my disposal.

What is your worst habit as a dps? Tunnel vision. I have to keep right on top of my steady shot cooldowns to squeeze as much DPS out of my spec as I can, and sometimes I forget to look at where I'm standing and if there's anything Bad around me.

What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while dpsing? Chronic AFK'ers. If you can't focus on what you're doing, why did you even join a group in the first place? It doesn't matter who it is, we all put together the group to do something, and not to sit around to wait for you to catch up after every single pull.

Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other dps? Nope. Hunters as a class can more or less hold their own in the right situations, but Beast Mastery as a spec is still considered a joke. I haven't been kicked from a group for it, but when I'm grouped with another hunter, I can't help but feel a lot of competitive tension and a need to prove that I'm not a total loss as a DPS even though my spec isn't the current BEST spec.

What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a damage dealer? Pretty much just Recount. I tried that whole log thing, WPS or whatever, but never really understood how to evaluate my performance except comparing numbers, which Recount does with a lot less hassle.

What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your class? That hunters are EZ-mode. Granted, the playstyle isn't complicated, but you still have to know what you're doing to put out any sort of good DPS.

What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new dpsers of your class to learn? Sometimes just how to play. I still remember in my early days, shooting something until it got into melee range and attacked me, so my pet would attack it back. I had no idea that I could tell my pet to attack something first.

What dps class do you feel you understand least? Shaman or DPS warriors, just because I have very little experience with either.

What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in dps? I have Recount and MIK Scrolling Battle Text. The first just to keep track of how I'm doing overall, and the second to help keep track of my cooldowns. I have Omen also, but I generally only look at it when I'm playing my Paladin. It's very rare that threat is an issue for me these days.
Agility over other stats or balanced stat allocation, and why?  As long as I'm hit-capped, it's agi agi agi! Attack Power and crit all rolled into one, how could you go wrong?

Work is totally boring.

I know, I know, if it was fun, they wouldn't call it "work", right?

I think most of it is just coming off a long vacation and remembering how little I actually do around here during the day. My work doesn't generally start until 2, until then I'm mostly trying to look busy. It seems to be going around. Today when I went upstairs for lunch, the Whistler was sitting in one of the owners' offices just talking, and when I got back from lunch, he was on the phone with one of his friends. I don't think he has much to do any more either. Or what work he does get, he finishes too quickly.

It was funny though, after he hung up with his friend, he made some comment to me about how hard it is to get some people off the phone. The thing is, nobody he knows ever calls him here except his girlfriend, so he had to have called this person in the first place. If you don't want to spend forever talking to someone, especially from work... don't call them! There's a bit of thinking outside the box for you.

Not much more to report really... we played a bit of WoW yesterday, I tanked Halls of Stone (I really hate the Brann event). Our guild on Cenarion Circle has expanded to include a guild horde-side. Hubby came up with the name, "Murlocs Gone Wild". It's kind of nice, now if we feel like playing our horde characters, we're still able to chat with the same people. The sad part is they let one of the other guild members be the guild leader, and I don't think he really gets the idea that the guild is just for fun. He went searching the internet looking for a good ranking system, for crying out loud. Then just gave us equivalent rank to what we have in the other guild anyway... but with more limited privileges. As an officer, I can invite, but not promote or demote, and I have yet to see what he's done with the guild bank. My rank idea was to look up all of the murloc NPC's and give each rank a name based on them. So the guild leader would be like, King Mrgl-Mrgl or something.

Oh well. :) No idea what's on the menu for tonight. Last night we tried to watch Superbad, which we got from Netflix. It got most of the way through, then crapped out and started skipping. We asked for a replacement, but who knows if it will have arrived today or not. If so, I hope it's a better copy!!

Even More Acetone Free!

So, ladies out there who read my blog and wear nail polish... you are probably also aware of nail polish remover, and how many brands will proclaim to the high heavens that they are ACETONE FREE?

Someday I will look up the reason that this lack of Acetone is so awesome, but in the meantime, I have discovered (totally by accident) an even MORE acetone-free means of removing said nail polish.

I give you...

Scotch Tape!

No, you don't have to thank me, really. It was a fluke even that I found out about it. I was putting a memo up on the lab door and the tape wrapped around my finger. When I removed it, most of my nail polish had attached itself to the tape. Tape is also infinitely cheaper than nail polish remover, and, as an extra bonus, you don't have to stick your finger inside any sort of foam and wiggle it around. Oh come on, you know what I mean. And.. AND, no cold fingers from the alcohol in the damn stuff evaporating the second you remove them from said foam.

If you're the sort of person who buys the liquid stuff and puts it on a cotton ball and actually -wipes- the nail polish off... this post is probably not for you. Unless you have issues with the alcohol smell. In that case, come on over for the Scotch Tape Party!

Vacation's Over.

Waaaaaaah!!!!  :(

So I'm back at work. I got lucky though, there's no production today. So I really only have to stay for part of the day. I'll have to come back in the afternoon to take care of the schedule, but other than that, it looks to be a pretty easy day. Yay for that, at least!

My vacation was pretty quiet. Mostly just WoW with the hubby and watching movies with the kids. We did go out over the weekend to the bar for some karaoke. We got there when it started at 9PM, and didn't leave until it was about over at 1AM. It was a lot of fun, there was a good crowd there. There was also a moment of hilarity stemming from a trip to the bathroom. They have a pretty forceful hand dryer in there, and Sara decided that it would be funny to stick her face under it. I wish I'd had a camera, because she was totally right. We laughed for quite a while afterward.

After the karaoke was done, we hit up McDonald's for some chicken nuggets, and headed home. We tried to play a little bit of Rock Band with Beth when we got there, but we only managed about four songs before we pooped out and went to bed.

Our little horde druids are halfway to their goal right now, sitting pretty at level 31 after about 16 hours of play time. We spent some time on death knights in there, getting them to level 60 (for death and decay) to make it easier to run each other through low-level instances. We ran a few heroics on our main characters, and did some questing in Outland on our high-level hordies. I realized not too long into that particular session that I need to set up some sort of standard across all my characters with regard to the abilities they use the most. Characters getting leveled up have the same need of their "oh crap!" buttons as max-level ones, and you can bet that the results of having to search for said buttons are not generally positive.

For example, I was flying past Telredor, and one of the guards decided they didn't want me there, and proceeded to shoot lightning on me and dismount me. I freaked out trying to find my Slow Fall button, and of course, located it just as I hit the ground. Thankfully I wasn't flying too high, otherwise the results would have been a bit more messy than they were. There was also a portaling incident... hubby says, let's go to Orgrimmar now to get our next level skills. So I hit the button with the orange circle, and find myself in Orgrimmar... alone. Oops. There was much muttering and sighing coming from hubby's computer as he hoofed it over to Shattrath to take the portal from there. As a result, I've put another bar of skills in between my portal and teleport buttons, which will hopefully keep that from happening again!

That's about all of the news I have for now... I'm sure there are things that I'm forgetting. Oh, hi to everyone who is stopping by from google regarding the lucky couch commercial. Sorry if my blog didn't have what you were looking for! :)

Ahhh, vacation.

Life is good. Just spending time hanging out at home with my family, can't ask for much more! Watched some TV and did some coloring with the kids last night, which was very fun. The only down side is the blister I gave myself from sharpening too many colored pencils!

Yesterday while Andy was at school, hubby and I did the grocery shopping with Emily, then came home and got started on hubby's birthday present, which was a pair of druids on a new recruit-a-friend account. Not just any druids, but -tauren- druids. On a PvP server, no less! We really wanted to challenge ourselves this time, that's for sure! Most of our characters are alliance, so the quests aren't so familiar, and once we get to higher levels, we'll see how much we have to deal with gankers. Definitely new and exciting!

That's about all the news there is to share, I hope everyone is having a great week so far!

One for the road

Anyone who has known me for any length of time will tell you that I have a very... unique sense of humor. I'm the person in the movie theater who's cracking up at some obscure reference that nobody else gets. A perfect example was the time I saw Finding Nemo in the theater. I laughed my fool head off when Marlin finally told the punch line to his joke. (For those who haven't seen the movie, he says, "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?")

So in that vein, here are some jokes that my sister-in-law sent me. She wrote at the top when she forwarded it, "I think this is right up your alley". She was right. (I don't know where #12 is, sorry!)

1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent...


2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.

4. A dyslexic man walked into a bra.

5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says: "A beer please, and one for the road."

6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?

7. "Doc, I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home .."
"That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome."
"Is it common?"
"Well, It's Not Unusual."

8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, "I was artificially inseminated this morning."
"I don't believe you," says Dolly.
"It's true; no bull!" exclaims Daisy.

9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.

10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't find any.

13. I went to a seafood disco last week... and pulled a mussel..

14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Not surprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories.
After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse.
"But why," they asked, as they moved off.
"Because," he said. "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."

18. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt , and is named 'Ahmal.' The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him 'Juan.'
Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother.
Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal.
Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

19. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.
He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
This made him .... a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

20. A dwarf, who was a mystic, escaped from jail. The call went out that there was a small medium at large.

21. And finally, there was the person who sent twenty different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least ten of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Have a great weekend everyone!

AUGH! Heebiejeebies are GO!

A few minutes ago, I went to the bathroom. (and no, there is no Turd Tape in our bathrooms!)

I come out, and walk over to the sink to wash my hands. And I look into the mirror to see a WASP on my COLLAR.

I hate bees. Bumblebees are ok, because they're big and easy to avoid. Wasps, hornets, whatever, they all look evil and they creep me out. Especially because they seem determined to build a hive on our house. I want them as FAR away from me as possible.

But this one was on my SHIRT. I have no idea where it came from, or how long it had been there, or ANYthing.

I'm still trying to calm down, even though it is now safely dead.

One of the druids in our guild used to have a macro that he would use when tanking instances. He'd sneak up on the boss in kitty form, and then pop out into bear form and yell "Surprise Bear!"

This was Surprise Wasp, and it was not -nearly- so cute or so clever. Blech! *shudder*

Why, Google? Why??

So I was just checking my gmail account, like I do every so often during the day, checking to see if I've got any new comments or anything like that (by the way, thank you Linda for stopping by so often!). At the top, they usually stick a link advertisement for something they think I might be interested in, based on the subject lines of the emails I've gotten recently (that's a guess, but I think it's pretty accurate). I always have to laugh when I open up my spam folder, because I almost always get a link to a recipe that uses Spam.

Today though, I was just in my regular email folder, and this was at the top.

Turd Tape - turdtape.com - Measure that turd! Sticker for inside your toilet only $2.99.+s.h.

Yep. I had to click through, because I'm morbidly curious that way.

Their slogan? "Sh*t happens, so why not measure it?"

And, even better. "Coming Soon: Stool Stick!"

I have no idea why I got targeted with this particular ad... but it's one I'm not likely to forget!