peeking into wow

over the last months, I have finally gotten another chance to look through the portal toward friends in World of Warcraft and managed a couple of pics before the portal went unstable. now, I am hoping yet, to get back there.. but so far, no luck. the reliable box I was using, suddenly proved to be not so stable and I admit, I panicked all over the place! it took a lot of hours trying to get it back into some sort of shape I could work with. (and kicking my portable around for being a severe lag monster).. which is something I cannot work with.


A new dwarven model baamount kesa got to try out at the faire.



a beautiful view of painted clouds over Pandaria. Which turned out to be the most amazing floating island with all of its varied and -really- interesting quest-lines, beautiful views ..and the dragons!

Now truthfully, I can not put Warcraft in my games line-up because its more free-to-'pay' then it is free to play. you do get a little, "trial" you can download for a bit of free play time.. which is just enough to make you whine and sigh when its all too soon time's up. hardly worth the lengthy download time for that.

but of the game world itself, it's worth the experience of seeing at least once imo. It's got something for just about anyone's gamin style and tastes.
For the explorer in me, it has had something new to see everyday for months now and i still haven't been to most places that I have heard of. such a vast place. Lots and lots and lots to see!

And games within games as well! My favorite amusement this time seems to be the battle pets. even while in the middle of dark haunted wilderness or in the whirling midst of elemental force, there's room for a pause and a battle on a miniature scale to happen.
There I was on the banks of a raging river, the very air of which tried to pluck me off the spit of land I was on and toss me headlong into a watery grave, the roar of the air, had a tangible bite on my face and arms.. and yet i took little notice of it, rather I was intently watching my three trusty battle pets, rabaa, the transmogrified rabbit/sheep (from a bounced spell as I recruited him for my retinue), rooky the ram and a little mechanical cat I just called, flux. fighting with a small frog and its companion, a roach, skittering idly along behind it... waiting its turn to swarm. euw! lol! what glorious fun! I gotta find more of these, mini-sized critters! Gotta get em all!!

Here's hoping I can somehow get back to it soon.

A little bit of this and that

hey there, its off and on again without much tune to it. just passing the days as best as I can and trying not to think about the troubles that seem to plague me. My passport external died today, along with most of the files i had been wanting to keep. try as I might, I just can't seem to get access to anything on it.. in fact, i can't seem to even see it on my computer. and yet. with others on better systems, all is good, if very slow. not sure quite what to do. sounds something like a familiar line to me.... A shades of a past external problem... but its where my wow game was located *whine*.

in other news.. I got my first real taste of a durian earlier today. I couldn't hack it.. after several moments of trying unsuccessfully to swallow growing bile... I spit it out in the toilet and spent the next hour trying to get the taste out of my mouth. I tasted remarkably a lot like some horrid vial o medicinal concoction a horror story of a dentist often gave me for bad teeth when I was young. Id swear he really was a vile mad scientist in training and I was one of his ready subjects .. too innocent to know when to bite hands, and kick shins before running away.

A friend of mine went to s. Korea on vacation and has been sending me pics of the fun being had. They are great pics. I couldnt ask for better. ^.^ Im really enjoying them. memorable fun for the whole family. mountain and shore. great stone carvings and hand painted and designed architecture 100s of years old. wow. and i learned a few things too. tallest mountain in Korea is as high as simple elevation of a colorado town.. and flat-topped. but the legends are inspiring. they say ancient gods and spirits live on the mountain and visit the white deer lake crater.they also say the volcano is active... but it is, at best, dormant,its last eruption was very very loong ago. it is one of three or four volcanos in korea... which is interresting considering how many there are in japan, just hop and sail that-a-way from s.korea's south-eastern shoreline.

well, guess its on for the next few days more. need to re-up my game on my laptop so i can move it if i have to have a better then flake connection.
gunna try to get my passport fixed on the other computer system that can see it, maybe..at least get a few things off it. maybe have to go back to putting things on dvd disk.wish me luck. and gnight. oyasumi nasai!