Full Time Casual

Last week was a week!  Kids' first day of school was on Tuesday, and everything was fun but busy until later in the afternoon when the company's founder sent a message that was along the lines of, "hey, there's some weird things going on with that feature you released.  Can you take a look?"  And a bit later in the week one of the product people was asking, "Hey, how are we looking on publicizing that feature next week?" So most everything was tabled last week, including both Blaugust as well as and any kind of real gaming.  I messed around briefly in Elder Scrolls Online doing just enough for the daily Zeal of Zenithar event, but that was the extent of things. The PR for the assorted fixes just went off to review an hour ago, so here's hoping for a more relaxed pace this week.  I'd love to catch up on a little bit of Lord of the Rings Online too, as I'm close to getting the legendary item reward track seagull at level 25. I am happy that eve...

For whatever reason, the mood came over me to play a bit of Lord of the Rings Online this week and I as able to wrap up chapter 1 of "The Song of Wind and Water" AKA King's Gondor. It was an easy romp with a few pieces of gear upgraded here and there.  As a bonus, I always enjoy questing alongside of Gimli and Legolas and as a dwarf I feel like I fit right in.  There were a few folks who were happy to see me again which required a trip or two out to lotro-wiki, since it has been ages since I've done the Gondor content. It was in good introduction to the new directions that we'll be heading in Middle-Earth, and while some of locales seemed very sparse with regards to quests, this is just the first part of a greater whole.  So I'll keep that in perspective before judging things too harshly. Lugging around a bucket of oil from one of the beacons of Gondor Then a barrel of rusty weapons to foil some wayward folks' plans And finally I got to meet with some of ...