Tag zf

I haven’t been playing a whole lot of WoW over recent months.  I have been in the game for over 2 and a half years now.  The majority of my in game buddies have left the game for one reason or another.  The only real friend I have in the game anymore is Charlie and he has been playing on a different server with some guys he works with.  The days of me staying up till 1am during the work week to gain just one more level are far behind me.  I am working towards getting the last two of my characters to the game’s maximum level of 70.  There are routinely days that I don’t play the game at all and it doesn’t bother me in the least.  It’s just a fun way for me to entertain myself at this point as opposed to the burning obsession it held for me for awhile.

Last night  I was in Zul’Furrak with my paladin running with a group.  I was happy when the one boss guy dropped a sword I had been looking for awhile.  It was the second piece of the puzzle I needed to create the ultra-cool sword you see pictured here.  It is called Sul’thraze the Lasher.  Look at it’s stats!

It is an EPIC sword, meaning it is very rare and very powerful.   If I had this drop 2 years ago for one of my early characters I would have nearly wet my pants with excitement.  However now, it got a brief grin to my face and then it was back to business.  It’s all about grinding XP.

Playing the paladin can be fun and frustrating at the same time.  A paladin is a hybrid class.  He has a huge collection of buffs, blessings and auras that are very beneficial to a group.  A paladin primarily does melee damage but also when properly specc’d and geared can be a very good main healer for a group.  A paladin can also be incredibly difficult to kill when facing in pvp battle.  Their ability to heal themselves can make them nearly immortal.  The downside of a paladin is they kill things slowly.  Where some classes can rip down a bad guy in 10 or 15 seconds, a paladin can be chopping on the same bad guy for 45 seconds or more. 

 Other than our dinner plans for Saturday evening, the weekend should be straight forward.  I still have lots of things to do around the house which will keep me quite busy.  We still have a backlog of shows on the Tivo and movies on my computer to check out which hopefully we can chop into a bit over the two days.  The Eagles play the Jets Sunday too.

I have been looking more and more at robotic mowers.  Realistically I certainly don’t need one.  The pitch for getting one has several positives.  They are much more environmentally green than pollution spewing two cycle motors.  They save the homeowner time spent mowing grass.  They keep the grass looking good all the time as they go out daily to maintain the lawn as opposed to once a week. And of course the biggest plus for someone like me is they are just geeky and cool.

On the downside is the initial setup of the property for a robotic mower which requires you to lay down boundary wire to act as an invisible fence for your robot.  The standing water we sometimes get would translate into a mess for a robot.  We have too much grass to expect the robot to maintain it all.  I would in all likelihood confine it’s mowing to the areas immediately around the house.  It wouldn’t eliminate mowing or weed whacking for us.  It would cut the time down significantly though. Plus they aren’t cheap.  On the low end you can snag one for around a grand, on the high end you can spend 2500 or more. 

There are many home projects on the list I would rather complete first before jumping into a robomower.  That hasn’t stopped me from mentally laying out it’s boundaries and imagining it buzzing around our yard keeping our grass looking good, constantly. Yep, I just love robots.