Yesterday after Obsidy and Archavon we went into Naxx. When we got inside, WoW started going very slow and being laggy. My computer ended up crashing hard, during which something called WMI corrupted which made my wireless stuff stop working. I ended up running a cable across the house to finish the raid, but it was irritating none-the-less. Today after trying to repair the issue, Windows complained and I resolved to just format and reinstall.

I hate Windows, but I love TinyXP. These are some screens of a fresh install, taken right after booting up the first time. Formatting my OS drive took 18 minutes (none of that quick format business for me, thank you) and the actual OS install took less than 6 (yes, six). This is with TinyXP Rev09 (Option 8):

Note, 15 processes. 50mb of ram being used.

Screw you OEM crap! Screw you internationalization junk! IE, Windows Media Player - you’re outta there! I’ve been using TinyXP for a while and re-installing Windows has become a cinch. I get the base functionality and can put all my own things over the shell. It’s lovely. Also, thank you Blizzard for making WoW so portable - since all my crap is installed and residing on another drive, reinstalling the OS doesn’t mean reinstalling WoW. Yippee! Once my audio driver is installed, I’ll be back in the game.

At the grocery store today, saw this AWESOME holiday product and grabbed a few:

Since I’m always trying to make my real life more like WoW, I instantly saw health pots! Not about to let the delusion end there, I brought some home with the intent on making a more…. potent elixir:

Now bear in mind that the cup is only for overflow. I had to pour out some to make room in the… vial/bottle shaped container (leaded vial? imbued vial? they both seem wrong). Here’s my feeble attempt to… mix the elixir with one hand looking through a camera phone screen:

Needless to say I feel much more revitalized! The cooldown isn’t that long either (I think the internal cooldown is 45 seconds, but it’s never up for long ).

First off we have Homestar runner. Strong bad ftw!  This is required viewing for all guild members.   And the second randomness is my discovery of the truth behind turkeys and chickens.  Turkeys are male chickens and chickens are female turkeys =p  Same species different name/gender.  It has to be so as we don’t eat roosters, in fact the rooster must be a lie.  The rooster is a clever ploy devised to keep us unawares of the truth behind turkeys and chickens.   Umm…… yeah…….. anyway….

Disclaimer: this post has nothing to do with either World of Warcraft or Election Day.

I know I’m not the only one in the guild that likes NiN, so I thought I would share that you can now download their new album the slip for FREE from their website; yet another reason they are so god dang awesome.

“we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on your blog,
play it on your podcast,
give it to strangers,
etc.”

Enjoy

Enjoy.

This is funny even if you don’t like Obama.

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

We were blazing through Kara on par for probably our quickest run and we ended up having to bail due to some RL stuff.

I’ve posted my WWS log here: http://wowwebstats.com/yurk4dldz3kpo

It’s a different account from the one that Sukiko runs that is linked in the sidebar.