The Demon Werx

I played with a little bit of JavaScript last weekend on the front page of Demonwerx, lemme know what ya think. I will be adding more stuff to that as I put time towards it. I need to build a page for the Baby stuff too, the space is there its just a matter of time.

Everything is really just a matter of time…

-Paul

So playing WoW and all I’ve finally got my first epic flying mount! It’s pretty exciting! For those of you not familiar with the “mount” system in WoW… well, mounts are horses that your character rides on like a knights steed or mount. In wow there are a bunch of different mounts all with varying flavors of pizazz! Now the thing that sets normal mounts aside from special ones are the speed at which they travel and where the mount comes from, and how much the skill cost.

Epic means well… Epic. It’s the top of the line (there is legendary but still epic is prime and obtainable) so on the regular ground mounts at level 60 you purchased or quested for a 100% mount versus the 60% mount from level 30 (now, used to be 40). When you hit level 70 you paid 900 Gold to get a 60% Flying mount and could fly Slowly all over the place. They also have Epic flying, this costs 5,200 Gold and is more obtainable now with daily quests and the amount of gold they generate. In addition to the inflated prices on the auction house, don’t buy just farm and sell!

Regardless, my Rogue Darkespectre now has her 300 riding skill and a swift blue Gryphon. I will be doing the Netherwing quests as well as the Sha’tar Skygaurd in order to get the big Netherdrake mount and the Red Nether ray… both of which will take some time and serious rep (reputation) grinding. And maybe along the way I will save up some money to buy the 5k skill on my hunter too, he’s already exalted with the Skygaurd and I have been eying that red nether ray for a bit, gotta love a sinister looking hunter on a cool nether ray.

Enough wow talk before I get blocked at work again…

-Demon

So now that the big news is publicly available to my Mom’s side of the family, I announced it at my Sister’s “after party” (wedding reception) on Saturday.

We are pregnant and having Twins!

There ya go… its on the net, so I’ve got two pictures I need to post on here: 1 of the MacBook Pro and the other of the ultrasound.

Cool stuff!

~Paul

So I bought a new laptop for my birthday, wen’t all out and got a 2.6Ghz 17 inch MacBook Pro.

I’ll take a picture of it tonight so I can post it… its a very beautiful computer, quite a powerful bugger too! The only major upgrade that it needs, besides a cooling thingy to go on the back, is RAM. It’ll cost me a whopping $80 to go from the stock 2Gb (2×1) of RAM to 4Gb (2×2).

Now there is a problem though… as beautiful as this new beast is… I am running into an OpenGL issue where the video drops out and sometimes hangs the whole system. I got it to run SecondLife (very odd game).

So I’ve been thinking, while working on a Sunday afternoon, that I should blog more… Not so much to be listened too, I know Ammon reads this (and is sufficiently confused by my WoW babble) I think some of my family reads this too.

So blogging is more of a therapeutic thing to vent whatever emotion I got. Life is good, it really is, I just get really annoyed by little things at work that are out of my control and I should most likely be careful about complaining on the internet about my job.

So it’s my birthday tomorrow, the big 28… what have I learned from the last 28 years…

1. Life is good, it really is… sometimes we have to step back and look at a bigger picture or realize that it may stink at the time but thats just where we are standing.
2. There are lessons to be learned from just about everything, these lessons can be quick and painless and the can be long and drawn out, however there is always an approach that can be taken.
3. Find a good distraction – it is important to find something that lets you escape… obviously don’t get to carried away.
4. A job is a paycheck and a good way to learn about yourself, but it is just a job. You define the job it does not define you!
5. Be accountable for yourself. (I am still learning this one) Really, be accountable for your actions, take responsibility for what you need too.
6. Make mistakes, just try to falling in the rut of making the same mistake twice, or multiple times. You’ve got an unknown amount of time and your going to be better off learning from the stuff you do rather than avoiding not doing anything wrong.
7. Be dynamic, change that road map or your plans, don’t set to rigid of expectations, understand that things change all the time and you’ll be better off adapting to the change then fighting.
8. Don’t be afraid to challenge stuff, heck you might learn something or stop something… this may be more of a work advice thing, but its good in life. Don’t get to overzealous with it though.

Life is life, its good, bad, ugly, and breathtaking at times.

This next weekend is going to be fun, I get to deliver some news at my sisters wedding reception.

~Paul