My dog ate my December website design.
Okay, I don't have a dog. Nor, at this point, a December website design. But it's coming, honest!
Warning: Gamer geekery coming. Your eyes can light up or glaze over now, depending on your proclivity or aversion for all things Warcrafty.
I've had some wonderful company the past few days. And a new update to World of Warcraft. These things relate to each other like a finely honed knife and a rogue hidden in the shadows. <-- see what I did there? Ha ha!
I've had the pleasure of knowing Eric since I was a green-behind-the-ears hunter and Gruul's Lair was uncharted territory for my guild. His unfailing good humour was one of the highlight of joint raids with The Oasis Contingent. (The Oasis Contingent has a history closely tied to the long-running webcomic Sluggy Freelance and I'll introduce you to the Sluggy gang at some point, probably soonish.) Of course, I didn't know him as Eric. In game, we usually call each other by character name .. which makes for interesting times when people have multiple characters. It's funny, but you learn to fluidly shift from one name to the next without event thinking about it. Or, sometimes, like my pal Nick, you just call him Nick, no matter the 'toon he is currently playing.
So I've known Eric over five years now and we've become fast friends, occasionally levelling characters together and just generally making each other's day a bit more fun. We know how to laugh and mock each other out of bad moods; always a pretty good characteristic of friendship.
I've known Frazer for the last couple of years since he and Eric are good friends. Frazer has a tendency of disappearing from the scene occasionally, but one day he'll wander back in and pick up like he never left. He's a delight on my guild forums, where he is known as The Grand Vizier and Eric as the Comically Inept Henchman. They run rampantly through my posts like a child with brightly colored crayons and bewitchingly white walls. Except, like Calvin and Hobbes, they tend to find a way to create a crayon bazooka which they use both rampantly and randomly.
The video below is a find of Frazer's, but it could have easily been Eric who is fascinated by all Lego Mechanical creations - among other things.
Okay, I don't have a dog. Nor, at this point, a December website design. But it's coming, honest!
Warning: Gamer geekery coming. Your eyes can light up or glaze over now, depending on your proclivity or aversion for all things Warcrafty.
I've had some wonderful company the past few days. And a new update to World of Warcraft. These things relate to each other like a finely honed knife and a rogue hidden in the shadows. <-- see what I did there? Ha ha!
I've had the pleasure of knowing Eric since I was a green-behind-the-ears hunter and Gruul's Lair was uncharted territory for my guild. His unfailing good humour was one of the highlight of joint raids with The Oasis Contingent. (The Oasis Contingent has a history closely tied to the long-running webcomic Sluggy Freelance and I'll introduce you to the Sluggy gang at some point, probably soonish.) Of course, I didn't know him as Eric. In game, we usually call each other by character name .. which makes for interesting times when people have multiple characters. It's funny, but you learn to fluidly shift from one name to the next without event thinking about it. Or, sometimes, like my pal Nick, you just call him Nick, no matter the 'toon he is currently playing.
So I've known Eric over five years now and we've become fast friends, occasionally levelling characters together and just generally making each other's day a bit more fun. We know how to laugh and mock each other out of bad moods; always a pretty good characteristic of friendship.
I've known Frazer for the last couple of years since he and Eric are good friends. Frazer has a tendency of disappearing from the scene occasionally, but one day he'll wander back in and pick up like he never left. He's a delight on my guild forums, where he is known as The Grand Vizier and Eric as the Comically Inept Henchman. They run rampantly through my posts like a child with brightly colored crayons and bewitchingly white walls. Except, like Calvin and Hobbes, they tend to find a way to create a crayon bazooka which they use both rampantly and randomly.
The video below is a find of Frazer's, but it could have easily been Eric who is fascinated by all Lego Mechanical creations - among other things.
I've been preparing for the visit and ignoring the siren lure of my computer. It wasn't easy, especially since a long anticipated game patch arrived while they were here. We were all good kids though, and stayed away from Warcraft until after the visit.
I had a great time and feasted them suitably, even going to far as to make that most manly of all breakfasts ... a bacon log. Frazer got a picture of it I'll have to share with you as soon as he sends it.
Eric helped me out with some computer stuff and I'll have some new goodies to show you soon. Which brings full circle to the monthly website redesign. And how I need to do that, like now ...
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