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Ok! Here I am on an RPPVP server. I just got to Tarren Mill. Holy crap I remember these quests on a regular RP server and I still got ganked! I remember one day Alliance camped Tarren Mill for a really long time before we called on our level 70s to come smack them a good one. All us lowbies got flagged because of the stupid snake traps - our pets would fall in them and we'd get flagged and then BAM! Dead. We all eventually stopped trying to res and run and just sat as ghosts until our flags disappeared.

I am kinda nervous. I know they can't get you with the snake trap anymore (right??) and I know warlocks are pretty sturdy with their voidwalkers... but I am still nervous. *sighs at the PVP flag that won't go away in a contested area*

I am also very nervous about going into Alliance territory for my Succubus quest. >.>

I'm trying to get a little more orientated on WoW lore for Roleplay. I haven't read any of the books or played the RTS games. I've been doing some research and while I have a general idea I'm struggling with the times and dates of when things occurred. Can someone who knows more than help me with some info about the Draenei race?

• How long to Draenei live? Velen has been around for thousands of years. Are they immortal? I don't even think he's considered a Draenei, he is an Eredar. Are Draenei and Eredar separate factions of the same race or are they different races, like the Broken and Lost Ones are considered different races? And what are the life spans of these two, if they are different?
  
• The Draenei were said to have fled Argus 25k years ago. The time between then and settling on Draenor has been said at "thousands of years" but I haven't been given a date. How likely is it that a Draenei living currently would have been born before leaving Argus, while wondering around in space, or before the Orcs began their massacre? Does anyone have a date for when the orcs started killing of the Draenei and how soon was this before the Dark Portal opened? When was the battle of Shattrath?
  
• If I'm understanding correctly the Exodar crash-landed on Azeroth at the release of TBC, which takes place a year after the first game was released; so the Draenei have only been on Azeroth for a year as of Wrath and all living Draenei would have lived on Draenor until that time.

http://www.jinx.com/photo_detail.aspx?id=8984

My photo I made of me and my imp made it onto Jinx
all bow to the power of the wow ladies.
this makes up for me trying to fix my stupid pc for the past 6hrs me + Trojans=really annoyed angel.

/dance

Hey Peeps.... Just thought you should know, the newest mystery novel audiobook by Karin Slaughter 'Martin Misunderstood' was just released today!!! I downloaded it right to my computer from this cool widget I found on www.zipidee.com/martinmisunderstood.

Enjoy!!

how would you all feel about an organized meet and greet for wow ladies members? as myself i am in a point in my life (and in game) where i need to really try to expand my horizons and what better time than now to do something fun. i have no idea how it would come about and i realize we have members of EU and North American communities and would hate for anyone to feel left out. it would be something fun to do and even plan some events for? anyway.. just a thing for me where i feel like i want to really meet some new people and with all the *cough* toons i am levelling hehe, i would even transfer if i could find just a great bunch to be with and have fun. that is the most important thing to me in all of this big old world or warcraft. so this is me mostly looking for that social connection to the people i read about on this community every day. what do you think?

Posted yesterday about farming and guilds and addons, got some great tips btw =) (thankyou!)
thought I'd update a bit with my latest adventures....

Got home last night and went to Curse, I deleted the addons that I couldn't get to work, downloaded another version of AYNS and got it to work....too well, there must have been over 20 addon programs in there, a bunch of them were outdated so I disabled them and proceeded to log on to UI so full of crap I couldn't even see my Toon! HALP!!! call the boyfriend upstairs, get the lecture about helter skelter downloading and am told to figure it out myself because he doesn't know....why do I keep him around again? *sigh* Ok so I disable everything and start going through the Readme's (those were painful) I ended up with Chaman2 (which cleared up over 50% of my actionbars) Atlas (which I'm still fighting with) Auctioneer, GatherMate, Perl, FuBar, and some elk something buff thing HA! Crazy stuff I tell you girls, I so didn't even need half of what I downloaded, I may in the future but right now I'm good, it literally took me 3 hours to get everything set up the way I wanted (and I'm still fighting with Atlas any tips?) so I didn't get any real play in last night....

( meanwhile, back in /g chat )

But Wait....There's More!

( behind every lame GL is an officer doing her best )

I was up til 12:30 screwing with my UI, I have tons of screen shots, I just haven't uploaded then too my photobucket yet....because I suck LOL, and I keep forgetting I have them, but I promise a SS post though verlly verlly soon....=)

1. 2. 3.

( And here's the rest... )

so after pugging Ramps on my baby resto shammy today  (amusingly  - we wiped on Omar 3 times, and one shotted Nazzan - usualy its the other way around), I realized that if I ever plan on healing anything beyond ramps (let alone anything bigger then 5-mans) - I realized that I needed to suck it up, hope that my fps doesnt go to complete hell and dowload helpful addons.  I went with grid+clique combination pet elitist jerks shammy wikki advice.

I love clique, I really do.  for a clicker like myself, its a god sent and it doesn't seem to take up any memory at all.  in fact, I think it might be helpful for dps classes as well, becasue of its harmful actions option (I already bound earthshock and purge on my shammy, (and I plan on binding mend pet and probably concussive shot on my huntress,  I'm not sure about my other toons yet)  but I has questions.  my memory for things not visual is complete crap. I tried to bind clicks as logicaly as possible, and the moment I was done, I promptly forgot what they were.  at the moment, I have a list of them in front of me,  that I copied down on a piece of paper, but its a temporary solution at best (especialy if I decided to use those key binds for other toons - on a second thought, maybe I shoudl stick to keybinds on my shammy only)  any ideas of how to remember those clicks  in adition to good old fashioned practice?  (which I plan to have lots of and I'm drafting my hubby's warrior into being my ginea pig, but it would help immensly)

thank you in advance.

I want a new profile picture for BookCrossing and FaceBook. And also, an updated bumma and bookczuk icon for livejournal.

"Can't I use it, too?" asked bumma. "After all, my claim to fame is that I am czukie's mother."

Ha! As if. Her claim to fame is who she is. But she can use the picture when we finally settle on one.

This is the best so far, but I'm still not happy with how she looks. We'll take another later.

BookCrossing Unconvention 2009
Newsletter 1 – September 2008

Welcome to our first newsletter for Uncon 2009! We haven’t got all the details for you yet, but here’s what we can tell you so far…

Date and Programme
The Unconvention will run from Friday 3 July – Sunday 5 July. Saturday will be the main day, with the usual author talks, release table, goody bags, raffles and associated fun. On Friday we will arrange a meetup in a central location, and the Sunday will include at least one release walk; as is traditional. We hope we’ll see you for all three days!

We already have some authors booked in! Linda Gillard will be providing one or more of her famous and popular writing workshops (not just for people who think of themselves as Writers!), Scottish author Gillian Phillip will be talking about her novels, and Ben Nicholls, who some of you met at the Convention, will be telling us about his new novel and the interesting research he’s been doing. Watch this space for more authors and publishers. Remember, all author talks and workshops are included in your attendance fee. We will probably ask you to sign up in advance to get an idea of numbers, but there’s always room on the day!

Location
Our venue for 2009 is the Scottish Book Trust http://www.scottishbooktrust.com which is right in the heart of Edinburgh, very close to the rail station. Appropriate, too, we thought!

Attendees and contact details
Just to confirm that you can email us at bcukunconvention@googlemail.com to get your registration form; also use this address if you have any questions. Please be patient with the Uncon team; we do have jobs, families and other commitments. If you feel we’ve not answered you, please contact a Committee Member by PM. If any of us receive a communication individually regarding the Uncon, we will share it with the other Committee Members, both for clarity and to ensure that we are all seeing the same information. None of your contact details will be shared outside the Committee.

NSS
The NSS part of the goody bags has always been very popular and is a great way of meeting at least one person… so as well as the goody bags provided by the Committee we’re going to reintroduce the Uncon NSS. As with a normal NSS you will be provided with a partner’s name and all you need to include is a book and a small sweety or other goody. Bring it along on the day and pop it in a goody bag or on the RABCK table. if you don’t want to be involved in the NSS, let the Committee know and we’ll leave you in peace…

Tshirts
We will be announcing a Tshirt design competition in the New Year, so start thinking creatively now! Tshirts will need to be ordered before the event, and can be collected from the Friday onwards.

Sponsoring and Prizes
As usual, we need to collect items for the goody bags (both craft items and company promotional material) and prizes for the raffle and tombola. We’ll be putting out a more specific call for these items later on, but please start thinking about this, and if you know any (preferably appealing to BookCrossers) people or companies who would like to pop something in the goody bags, please contact them or pass us their details for getting in touch.

Accommodation
The following is a short list of some of the many hotels and hostels in Edinburgh to help you with accommodation decisions. Thanks to LittleSuz, our BookCrosser on the ground in Edinburgh, for looking these up!

Practically on the doorstep
-Holiday Inn Express Royal Mile (www.holidayinn.co.uk)
-Royal Mile Backpackers Hostel (www.royalmilebackpackers.com)
-High St Hostel (www.highstreethostel.com)
-Brodies Backpacker Hostel (www.brodieshostels.co.uk)
-Radisson SAS (www.radissonsas.com)
-Jury's Inn (www.jurysinns.com)

Within reasonable walking distance
-Travelodge Central (www.travelodge.co.uk)
-Premier Inn Lauriston Place (www.premierinn.com)
-Castle Rock Hostel (www.castlerockedinburgh.com)
-Cowgate Hostel (www.cowgatehostel.com)
-Smart City Hostel Edinburgh (www.smartcityhostels.com)
-Mount Royal Hotel (www.ramadajarvis.co.uk)

A bit further out
-Travelodge Haymarket and West End (www.travelodge.co.uk)
-Holiday Inn Corstorphine Rd (www.holidayinn.co.uk)
-Premier Inn Haymarket, East or Leith (www.premierinn.com)
-Edinburgh uni halls of residence (www.edinburghfirst.com)
-Globetrotter hostel Edinburgh (www.globetrotterinns.com)

www.royal-mile-hotels.com has more information on hotels close to the venue

Contact information
Committee Members:
Michelle/perfect-circle (Chair)
Julie/AnglersRest (Treasurer)
Liz/Lyzzybee (Secretary)
Jessica/Rivercassini
Sue/Suedo
Becky/Beckydore
Nic/Beebarf

Uncon web page [to be confirmed]
Uncon email address bcukunconvention@googlemail.com

I usually have a hard time finding a good guild in game, since i don't really know anyone! My only RL friend that plays is in a Raiding Guild, and as a newbie, that not really much use for me :P

I do actually have a guild for my main, but it's not really as busy as i'd like it to be, though the people are wonderfull, the GL ran me through SFK twice the other night, and i do get on well with them. BUT there's only ever about 4-8 people online, and their usually high levels, and while their all nice and friendly, happy to help out the lower members with boosting etc. it's just no use for finding groups my level (lvl 29, currently). So i'm only going to be leaving <i>them</i> if i can find an active guild with more lower level active players - it's not my main reason for posting this!


Main reason is that I want to play hordeside as well, but i'm finding it hard getting started, so i though i'd try here :)

I'm looking for friendly/chatty leveling guilds on <b>Moonglade-EU</B>, both Alliance and Horde.
(concerning RP; i don't mind RP, i'd quite like to get more into it tbh, but i'd prefer guild chat to be OOC)


*crosses fingers*
(I hope there actually are some Moonglade ladies here :P)



Or if there is some AMAZING guild on another European RP realm, i might concider re-rolling there... :)

25) "Iron Kissed" by Patricia Briggs

Zee is arrested as a murder suspect. Mercy tries everything to help her old boss. Not a favourite move with the resident fairy community. And on top of that she's having major relationship problems -- it looks as if it's high time to decide between Samuel or Adam.
Very entertaining, the third book in this series is still going strong. Not as good as the Kitty Norville books, but a very close contender.



26 + 27) Twilight and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Slightly unusual order. Twilight is the first book of the series and Breaking Dawn is the fourth. I read #2 and #3 first, then backtracked to #1 and finished off with #4. I don't quite understand the hype about the series, there are lots of very similar books around and have been for years. Perhaps there is so much talk about this series, because it is the first Urban Fantasy / Vampire Romance that went mainstream successfully. It's no better than for example the Kitty Norville or Mercy Thompson series. At first I wasn't terribly interested, as the main character was a highschool girl falling in love with a fellow student, only to realise after a while that he is a vampire.
But it turned out to be pretty good. I read them all very quickly. And the last one, a whopper of almost 800 pages, lasted just one weekend, I just could not put it down. Not as spectacular as the hype makes it sound, but a very good read for all lovers of vampire and werewolf novels with a dash of romance.

Hallo all...just curious if this applies to anyone else. I'm a casual player, I used to play hours every day but these days it's more like a couple here and there when I feel like it. What's been bumming me out lately is the fact that I don't think I'll ever get to see raid content...not that I'm upset about not having tiered gear, because I wouldn't expect to, but I can't even set foot in those places and, y'know, look around. Even if I set aside play time, there always might be something that needs my attention - and so most of the time I don't even want to do instances for fear of being called away about ten times and making people wait on me.

The way I see it, I'm paying for the game so I feel like I should at least have access to that content...somehow. Am I the only one bothered by this being 'unfair'? Or any tips on having an unstable playing schedule and still getting to see endgame content?

I've been working on my faction rep. Im exalted with four of the five races, unbelievably SMC has been the hardest rep to farm worst than the Trolls. There are a lot of lowbie quest that I can't do becasue they seem the are only available to Blood Elves. I tried Ghostlands but those only give me rep with Tranquilen which doesnt give anything not even a single rep point towards SMC. I had check the guides but I have done almost every single quest in Azeroth, after all Im exalted with all but them. I know some of you ladies have grinded that rep, how did you do it? Do you guys have any suggestions, well other than farm all the runecloth I can? Im short by 4.2k.

So when I grouped with an Undead Rogue to kill Demetria, and he began cannabalizing her remains, I /lol'd at him.

He responded with, "It's....priest. Try a little priest." and soon the whole group was having an impromptu Sweeney Todd singalong.

Suggested by JM:

I was looking through books yesterday at the shops and saw all the Twilight books, which I know basically nothing about. What I do know is that I’m beginning to feel like I’m the *only* person who knows nothing about them.

Despite being almost broke and trying to save money, I almost bought the expensive book (Australian book prices are often completely nutty) just because I felt the need to be ‘up’ on what everyone else was reading.

Have you ever felt pressured to read something because ‘everyone else’ was reading it? Have you ever given in and read the book(s) in question or do you resist? If you are a reviewer, etc, do you feel it’s your duty to keep up on current trends?

The short answer is "no." I think I must be immune to "peer pressure" because I can't recall ever reading a popular book, watching a popular show or doing anything just because it was popular.

What does that mean for me? In terms of books, I haven't read all the Harry Potter books. I just don't like the series enough to want to finish it even though it's incredibly popular. I haven't read the Twilight series either and am not inclined to either. I do however want to read The Host because the story sounds interesting.

See more answers to the question.

Didn't I do well!

She's not quite finished yet. See if you can spot the bit I wasn't able complete because there wasn't enough white thread. I shall have to get some more.

And yes, I know you can see a black thread through the fabric. It's been dealt with, ok!

So I've had a few really excellent WoW days recently, and it's been much needed because I had been getting a bit of the dreaded burnout.

( Cut for sharing, caring, and saving your flist. )

After 1 day, 13 hours, I dinged level 50 on my Spriest. (My bf is a few bars behind me). I <3 the RAF. As soon as they hit 60, I want to go lvl either a shaman or a mage or a warrior....SO MANY DECISIONS!!! My warlock is dinging right along, as my boyfriend is gifting her levels as well. I'm quite thrilled. I really like being a spriest. I just got VE last night, so I'm thinking talentwise, I'll throw points into Discipline for even more survivalbility. I only die if I'm fighting two or more mobs and I go OOM. The bf is a rogue, so handling three to four mobs is easy for some reason. I dot them up, throw on VT, bubble us, and we live!

But what do you think we should level next?! I need some help deciding. hehe.

( Rambling )