Good pace, American Sniper, pwning face

So yesterday pretty much went as I hoped.  I worked on various minor to do’s for the first half of the day, with things like doing laundry, paying the bills and washing the SSR, well I ran it through a touch free car wash and then dried it by hand.  During the rest of the day I chilled, playing a bunch of WoW and just unplugging from most real thought.

Later in the afternoon I wanted to let the chickens out for a bit while I moved their coop.  As soon as I stepped out back I saw the hawk that has been hanging around sitting on one of the posts of the fence.  I grabbed the bb gun and fired another warning shot by him.  The hawk flew off the fence but repositioned himself on top of the electric pole on the far side of the neighbors house.  He was probably 100 yards or more away but still obviously watching the yard.

Well I still didn’t feel comfortable leaving the chickens out with the hawk there so I pumped up the air rifle again.  Like I said the pole was on the far side of the house so only a small portion of it was in view over the roof line with the hawk perched on top.  My hope was to hit the pole to scare the predator away once again.  The sight on the air rifle is not very accurate at all, you have to aim right of your target.  Since the bird/pole was so far away I aimed a little high, figuring the bb would drop somewhat over the 300 plus feet it had to travel.

I steadied the gun and pulled the trigger, about a half second after the pop of air was the sound of a second impact followed by the hawk flinching and then diving off of the pole.  I think I actually hit him.  Instantly a wave of guilt washed over me.  I didn’t want to hit or hurt the bird, just scare him off.   Immediately I put down the rifle and walked across the neighbors yard and into the open lot next to them where it looked like the hawk flew down to.  I was hoping I didn’t see the bird on the ground injured or even dead.  I went in the field two separate times, increasing the search radius the second time.  I did not see or hear anything so I am crossing my fingers the bird just got a little stinging reminder to steer clear of the yard and our chickens.

One of the things I did while I was in WoW yesterday was to set up and configure an add in that makes it easier to fight in game.  Basically it takes most of your abilities and creates a macro that fires them off sequentially and repeatedly in  way that maximizes your power.  After doing this I went into a bunch of PvP (player versus player) battlegrounds, an area of the game I am notoriously poor at, and proceeded to kick ass and take names.

My blood specced death knight was a holy terror, dropping enemies left and right.  I was consistently one of the top offensive players in every game I played. I was so used to getting my ass handed to me anytime I did PvP, this felt amazing.  Having opposing players scramble to get away from me only to get death gripped back into my lethal range was just tons of fun.    This was the equivalent of the 98 pound weakling suddenly being able to bench press 400 pounds.

Anyway, I will be using a similar strategy to make my other characters equally lethal.  I just hope I can find some free time here and there to enjoy it.