Geeky Peach

So, Diablo 3 came out yesterday during a midnight launch. How many of you were awake at 12:01 waiting to play?

I didn’t play until yesterday when I got home from work. I logged in and created my character and instantly got a message from one of my friends

Him: “You’re only level 1?!?”
Me: “LOL, I just created my character and I have even logged in yet.”
Him: “Hurry up! LOL”
Him (five minutes later): “Ding, level 13″

Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I was lucky enough to be included in the beta, so I had played it all the way through and wasn’t a complete noob at game launch. I’m just more of a casual play. I enjoy the game, so there’s no RUSH to get to a certain level or certain place.

Later another friend suddenly joined my party. It was pretty funny because I didn’t even know you could do that without asking someone. (Makes me want to double check my friends list and make sure I like the people on there enough to spontaneously play with them, lol). But anyway, the guy that logged on hadn’t participated in the beta so he was like a kid on Christmas morning. It was a lot of fun to show him the ropes. Total change from when I started World of Warcraft. I was a total noob. I remember not knowing how to separate stacks of items into smaller stacks. So if someone needed some potions, I’d trade them the whole stack and then ask them to trade me back what they didn’t need. LOL

I’ll post more later on my Diablo 3 adventures. What about y’all? What’s your favorite part of Diablo 3 so far?

I bought some Skullcandy headphones this morning and there was a stencil in the package along with the attached “instructions” (and I use that term very loosely here).

So, what are they trying to tell us?

Put this on the back of unsuspecting bald men and spray it on our cats? LOL.

What do you think it means?

One of my friends commented on my last post that he liked my desktop wallpaper, so I thought I would share it with everyone and share a couple more wallpapers that I really like.   I’ve put small pics on here, so the page won’t take forever to load.  Just click on the picture for a link to the full-sized pic.

This is one from yesterday’s post.  This is actually a World of Warcraft screenshot that I took on my main character, Hedwig.  It was at the end of an epic quest chain, but I can’t remember now which one.  It’s been a while.  Most of my favorite desktop wallpapers come from WoW.  Some are screenshots that I’ve taken, which seem to mean more to me and others are screenshots that others have done and submitted either to the WoW Screenshot of the Day pages, or to WoW Insider.

This one I randomly found on a site that my friend Tom told me about, How To Geek.  The name of the website can be read two different ways, but either way I think it’s totally cool.  I like this wallpaper because it looks like rain.  I’ve been using it for about a month here at work, ever since I found it.  Someone came by and saw it and thought it looked depressing, but I really like it.  I love the rain, so that’s what made me seek out this background in the first place.  To me it’s not depressing, it’s soothing.  **Note:  Please be careful when browsing the links on the How To Geek site.  I had two pop-ups that would’ve installed spyware on my computer if I hadn’t closed them properly (from Task Manager – never click on the X in an unknown pop-up box).

Here is another WoW Screenshot that was my background for about a year (maybe more).  I found it on the official WoW website and it seemed really fitting to me since my main character is a holy priest.  I like it because I try not to look like this wallpaper in the game too much, LOL, so it’s neat to see it here.  Holy Priests in their spirit form are really beautiful.  Like Asa used say to say, we’re turn into a “pretty, pretty angel”, LOL. 

Before I found the wallpaper above, I tried to create my own.  I went to Feralas and found a very lush, green area because I thought it would make a good backdrop.  Then I had to take off all my armor so the mobs there could actually damage me.  Then find a mob and let it kill me.  It was tricky getting it all accomplished and making sure that the mob in question wasn’t in the screenshot.

I would love to see some of your favorite wallpapers and/or screenshots.  Please link to them in the comments or link to your own blog.

Note:  These shortcuts only work in Windows 7 and not in Windows XP.

Windows 7 comes with a handy tool called Snap.  If you drag a window to the left side of your screen until it forms an outline, you can let go and Windows 7 will snap your window to the left side of your monitor.  You can drag a window to the right to do the same thing with the right side.  You can drag it to the top to maximize it.  This all works great and it is a feature I have become dependent on.  Hopefully they won’t take it away when Windows 8 gets here.

I have dual monitors at work and there are a few Windows that I need to keep open most of the day (mostly for password resets).  I try to keep my desktop neat and clean.  I do not like clutter.  Files should be saved on network drives or in your My Documents folder people!  Do not save files on the desktop unless you are planning to delete or move it before you log off.  That is a pet peeve with me and drives me crazy!  Anyway, back to the topic at hand.  So, with my dual monitors it is impossible to use Snap to snap a window to the right hand side of my left monitor or the left side of my right monitor – or so I thought.  A little Googling led me to the following shortcut keys:

Windows Key + Left Arrow:  Snaps window the left

Windows Key + Right Arrow: Snaps window to the right

Windows Key + Up Arrow: Maximized the window in your current monitor

Windows Key + Down Arrow: Restores window (if it is maximized) or minimizes it if it’s already restored

I hope this is helpful.  I know that it was frustrating to try to manually put the windows where I wanted them all the time so I was super excited to learn this trick.  I would love to hear any cool Windows tips you might have to share.  I’ve found that the coolest things that I know how to do, I often learn from people instead of Google.  Though you can never underestimate the power of Google.  

Bigbearbutt has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged his readers to write a “story, poem, dirty limerick or whatever” using the following words:

1.       Juicy
2.       Slender
3.       Vain
4.       Shaft
5.       Torch
6.       Star
7.       Hidden

This challenge sounded like a lot of fun but due to the fact that I’m very behind on my blogging, I decide to take the challenge even further and see if I could use all seven words in just one sentence.  It’s probably a little wordy as sentences go, but I asked the hubby (an English teacher) and he said it passes as a legitimate sentence.

Sarah’s hidden dream was to become a star, but she knew that those dreams were in vain and that the juicy stardom that she long held a torch for only had a slender chance of becoming a reality because life had given her the shaft.

Now I’ll spend the time that I would’ve otherwise spent writing a story to catch up on a little blogging of my own and I look forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with.  If you’re a blogger and want to participate in BBB’s writing challenge it is not too late.  You can find his original post here and the comments of this post should have links to all of the responses.

Please post your response as a comment on my site as well!  I can’t wait to read them all.

After weeks of getting so close, Team Teddybear from Band of Misfits has finally bested Deathwing and earned their titles, Destroyer’s End!   Last weekend we breezed through the first seven bosses in less than three hours (a record for us) and then worked on Deathwing for about an hour.  We came very, very close (as the screenshots below will show) but I think ultimately people were just getting tired and not playing at 100 percent anymore.

And finally, this weekend we were successful!  The only person not there was Crosshair because he was out of town, but he was there with us in spirit and ironically is the only one of the group to kill Deathwing on his toon already.

Congrats everyone!  Next week – Heroic “Porkchop” !     LOL

My mom made this for me.  She loves me.  Posting it here for guildies to see.  Will edit this later when I have more time.

Haven’t we all had days like this one?

Here is my epic loot from shopping yesterday with the hubby.
More details about these items to come later in the week.