Dec, 2 weeks before Christmas

My sister & bro-in-law have settled on a house and have all of that in progress!
Saturday I hung out at their apartment for the last time. We found a very good Thai restaurant not far from Columbia and had a tasty dinner. Then back at their place we watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice [2010, Nicholas Cage] and Despicable Me. LOVE both. Wish I had gotten to see them in the theater, but nobody loves me. ;-P

Sunday Steve invited me over, and so for the first time I headed over there. Fun! The buildings he's already built for next BrickFair knocked my socks off. =) I plan to build a few buildings by then to add to his display.


And you know last week the new expansion for World of Warcraft came out: Cataclysm. It. Is. Awesome.
This is my first expansion from release day. Fun times. I picked up my pre-ordered copy from Gamestop at lunchtime and installed it as soon as I got home from work. I was 1400th in queue to log into the server I play on, which is a high-population server. Took an hour to get in. You have to figure, 12 million players (however many bought the xpac on release day) spread across 100-some servers... The next day I only had to wait 5 min, and since then I haven't had to wait (and that's good & normal).

I'm taking my time leveling my main, Ixmucane, the warlock. He's almost level 83 (from 80, pre-expansion) and the level cap was only increased to 85. Steve hit 85 in, what? two days? He's already running heroics (heroic dungeons, the harder difficulty versions). See, he likes the raiding content. I enjoy leveling and being part of lore. The revamped Cataclysm quests are much more story-driven and motivated, so they are more fun to get into. More enjoyable. I like dungeons with a good group, but I have to be in the mood for it and have no time-constraints. Later on Fri/Sat nights are good. It's always fun to be raiding at 3-4am, bleary-eyed and half-asleep just pushing buttons to attack... all just until you finish the last boss, for the team!

So instead of leveling my main, I've been leveling a worgen. A rogue in fact, which is pretty much the opposite in terms of gameplay to a warlock. I'm enjoying it. Being able to transform from human to werewolf at will is fun. They have British accents. Named mine Valintyne. ^_^