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I has a cold
Oh for fruits sake. I know, as my dear departed mum told me, that we rarely get out of bed feeling 100% all over. But five weeks worth of friggin' respiratory infection! I was starting to feel okay again after the last patch of AB's but last night it came back and it brought a couple of friends with it. Feel like crap. At least I'm not coughing a lung up like my poor little girl who's been off school all week. Poor kid, she's had a tough week. Her tank wiped except for one lonely black line tetra and a catfish I'm still suss on, missing out on house sports day which she loves as she is sport mad... and her house won. Missing out on basketball. I'm going to have to do something special with her when we're both better. I'm so glad i have a sick certificate for this weekend. i worked last week and it just about wiped me.
Aquarium news: I found out what happened to the water quality. Because of the drought, Barwon Water has started pumping bore water into the system. Bore water is very very hard. I've filled an eighty litre bin and thrown in a mangrove root to leach the hardness out of it and use that to rebuild the tank. (I know, I have to watch the acidity and make sure I don't make it too soft.) I'll replant the tank like mad to deal with the nitrates and wait until everything tests perfect before we start going fish shopping again. I'd love to find her a pair of hoplos to replace Fred. Hoplos have lots of personality and are a bit more resilient then pictis, which I'm also fond of.
My A3 scanner is no longer talking to my computer. I think it's died as it won't even switch on properly. So I can't load up my next 'oh so very late' comic page. Veg is going to try arrange to buy a new one this weekend for me. Love you, sweetheart, those A3 ones are frellin' expensive.
Until then we're just going to have to wait for the update.
In other news... Unable to sleep anyways I played WoW last night. My druid, after 3 1/2 years has just turned seventy as I have children, a job, a comic to write and other interests that take precidence. I usually only play in the late evenings with my hubby (we don't watch tv, we do this instead.) and on Friday after dinner til late when our friends come across to play. My guild took me into Kara for the first time (read one very poorly geared feral druid blue elf girl faces one high level bad ass dungeon if you don't know World of Warcraft). And I off teddy tanked... in all my green gear glory... lol. I was as nervouse as hell... especially when Dan (our fearless and very nice leader) got me to solo tank Juliette.. twice cause she ress's. And I did it!!! Go me. After that a smaller group of us ran Steam Vaults with me main tanking. Managed it with only a few wipes due to bad luck/ timing. Despite all of that I'm determined to spec up Shadowvixen as teddy tank. We don't have enough tanks on this server and dps toons are a dime a dozen. I can see why it's thought of as one of the toughest positions in a raid. My appreciation of really good tanks sky rocketed last night.
Hmm... adding this. Most of you may not know what a tank in WoW is. A tank is the person (toon) whos job it is to attract the monsters attention and getting it to direct all of its attacks onto him or herself , thus protecting the rest of the team by acting as a meat shield. A tank need to have a high level of armour to resist the damage done to him or herself, the abilty to attract and keep the monsters attention which is very bloody difficult depending on how much damage the rest of the team are doing to it. And a tank need other toons to keep him/her alive by healing him/her throughout the fight.
Aquarium news: I found out what happened to the water quality. Because of the drought, Barwon Water has started pumping bore water into the system. Bore water is very very hard. I've filled an eighty litre bin and thrown in a mangrove root to leach the hardness out of it and use that to rebuild the tank. (I know, I have to watch the acidity and make sure I don't make it too soft.) I'll replant the tank like mad to deal with the nitrates and wait until everything tests perfect before we start going fish shopping again. I'd love to find her a pair of hoplos to replace Fred. Hoplos have lots of personality and are a bit more resilient then pictis, which I'm also fond of.
My A3 scanner is no longer talking to my computer. I think it's died as it won't even switch on properly. So I can't load up my next 'oh so very late' comic page. Veg is going to try arrange to buy a new one this weekend for me. Love you, sweetheart, those A3 ones are frellin' expensive.
Until then we're just going to have to wait for the update.
In other news... Unable to sleep anyways I played WoW last night. My druid, after 3 1/2 years has just turned seventy as I have children, a job, a comic to write and other interests that take precidence. I usually only play in the late evenings with my hubby (we don't watch tv, we do this instead.) and on Friday after dinner til late when our friends come across to play. My guild took me into Kara for the first time (read one very poorly geared feral druid blue elf girl faces one high level bad ass dungeon if you don't know World of Warcraft). And I off teddy tanked... in all my green gear glory... lol. I was as nervouse as hell... especially when Dan (our fearless and very nice leader) got me to solo tank Juliette.. twice cause she ress's. And I did it!!! Go me. After that a smaller group of us ran Steam Vaults with me main tanking. Managed it with only a few wipes due to bad luck/ timing. Despite all of that I'm determined to spec up Shadowvixen as teddy tank. We don't have enough tanks on this server and dps toons are a dime a dozen. I can see why it's thought of as one of the toughest positions in a raid. My appreciation of really good tanks sky rocketed last night.
Hmm... adding this. Most of you may not know what a tank in WoW is. A tank is the person (toon) whos job it is to attract the monsters attention and getting it to direct all of its attacks onto him or herself , thus protecting the rest of the team by acting as a meat shield. A tank need to have a high level of armour to resist the damage done to him or herself, the abilty to attract and keep the monsters attention which is very bloody difficult depending on how much damage the rest of the team are doing to it. And a tank need other toons to keep him/her alive by healing him/her throughout the fight.
