A Tale of Two WoW accounts

I used to blog about World of Warcraft. I had a good many viewers although nothing like Daniel’s readership. That being said, while this is a post concerning WoW, this will not be a blog concerning WoW. Rather, it is a blog concerning the lead up for having baby the sequel.

I quit playing (again) in January of this year. I get the urge to play sometimes because it is a fun game and I like the fantasy setting. I, in no way, consider myself addicted to it… anymore that is. When I feel the need to look around some, I pimp Ray’s account. My friend Ray is the only one still playing WoW out of our guild. I occasionally log on to pitter around just a touch and look at things I have heard about.

Yesterday, I log on to his account to pitter after making sure he is not online. I look to see if any of the old guild people have been on. Sorry I missed you online Ozzy!. While I look, I notice that Sony’s toons have all been online in the last 4 days.

WTF?!

Did my wife lowball me and start playing? See, Sony likes playing WoW. I’ll go as far as to say the girl LOVES MMOs and keeps a tight reign on her gaming. She even played Warhammer online and lost a bit of time. Ah well, that’s her story to tell. Back to mine…

Her toons are online?! I check to see when her main was online. The toon isn’t even in the guild. Uh oh. HACKED!! I armory her toon and it has been transferred to a different server. Uh oh, her alts have access to the guild bank and my toon, which is guild lead, does not have an active account. Quickly throwing some money at my account, I log on and kick the rest of her toons and check the guild bank (4tabs worth) and notice nothing is gone. /whew

I make a toon on the server that Sony has been transferred to. Her main is actually online! I repress the urge to tip my hand by cussing this guy out and instead call Blizzard. First, I talk to Eric. Eric doesn’t wish to talk to me because I am not Sony. I get Sony. Sony talks to Eric and starts verifying things. After giving him 2 ½ of our original authentication keys and the random mother’s name of “I am Stupid” (Really, don’t ask.) We find out that the account got reactivated 3 days ago. He resets our password but does so before resetting our email account. Moron. He sent the temp password to the hacker! /facepalm

Call Blizz back and talk to a lady who told us what happened and then set us up properly. I log on and change the password to something using every key on the keyboard. Log on to her main and all her gear is intact. This is when I notice her low level lock has been transferred as well! WTF again? Can you guess WoW players? He paid for a bank alt to be transferred. I look on the alt and he has over 5000g and a bit more on the AH. He has been doing nothing but grinding in Sholazaar. We have been hacked by Ni Hao himself.

We now have all of Ni Hao’s AH stuff and gold. Sony left her toon with about 500g on her. No we have probably around 6k total. We read the policy about unauthorized transfers. If they transfer the toon back, it will NOT come back with the gold or the mats. We will pay the 25 to get her sent back and keep all the stuff thank you very much.

A month of WoW – 14.99
Two toon transfers – 50.00
Grinding gold farmer style for 4 days – 6000g

Getting your account BACK from the gold farmer before he has offloaded all his gold and getting to keep the spoils – Priceless

The problem with gaming

So lately I have been gaming with the MMOs a bit over the last 2-3 days. I won’t be buying any of them. While I enjoyed WAR a good bit, it very WoWesque and I am already a good deal further along in that game. There are a ton of games coming up for my 360 though. Batman looks awesome, FFXIII is close and there is Final Revenant out there.

The problem I am getting into lately is… the length of the game. Most of the action/platformers are 10-12 hours long. Let’s say I play an hour a night and maybe 2 hours a night on the weekend. I have killed the game in just about over a week. Very few games can keep my attention on the replay unless they are online and change due to other players. I love playing Halo3 online. I replayed the campaign twice and that is enough for me.

I have Warhammer: Dawn of War which was fun for about the first 10-12 missions but has now gotten to be build base, upgrade units and kick the shit out of everything. I will play through it all the way for the story but playing it again probably won’t happen. The game has got to be engaging for at least 40 hours these days or I feel that I have wasted immense amounts of money.

Luckily, I will soon be busy with manual labor in my off moments and won’t have to worry about any of this until that is over. What about reading you ask? I do read. I read fairly fast. The problem with reading is the same as the problem with in depth gaming.

“Hey dad, what you doing?”


Gotta love him :)

A slow start

Hey guys,
Looks like i'm only doing 1 post to kel's 2. That's ok- I'm growing a baby... He's just twiddlin his thumbs... Right? =] I did manage to get us some decent colors on this beast though.
Works going ok.. but to be truthful, i miss my HR Block and my short, crappy desk, and all of my insane office buddies =/

I'm VERRRRRRRRY excited about the new baby. My first Dr. apnt isn't until May 12th!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh! So, now they leave me to sit here for 2 more weeks going insane!!
I won't have to worry about having the baby- bcuz it will be in college by the time the Dr. is ready to see me. I don't really know how far along i am.. I'm guessing December or Jan... for a due date but that leave a lot of room. So, i don't have to say 'i have no f'n clue!'

Anyways so i've been looking at baby names..
I was thinking for a girl
Olivia Rayne
Phoebe Raelynn
Gwenivire 'gwen' Raychel
and I like Raylee
and Chrissa like 'karissa'

and for boys..
Raymond 'Kincaid'


Then i like Quinn for either a boy or girl..

These are just some i like and may not end up in there at all
Ohwell, cya

Telling the folks, Crawfish and some pregnancy rage

Friday was pretty normal. I got home and decided it was high time to sit on my rumpus some. I read a little of Eisenhorn which I am digging quite a lot. Also, Warhammer 40k was calling my name a bit. Unfortunately, Sony was calling my name to go to Babies R Us. See, Sony likes shopping which is not necessarily the same thing as buying. We took Connor with us and he was amused for about 10 min and then was done with the place and started to run around like a madman.

Saturday was a great day. We were going over to my parent’s house with Connor wearing a “big brother” t-shirt to announce that Sony is pregnant. On the way out the door, we get a call from a friend of ours, Stephanie, and she needs a babysitter for the day due to circumstances beyond her control. Sony and Kelly pounce on her little girl, Allie, because she is one of the cutest kids ever. Don’t think we missed the irony of having a little girl with us while going to my folks to announce our impending addition.

We get to my folks and my father is not there! The first time we went over to tell my folks about Connor being made, my mother disappeared and we had to tell them separately. This time I was sure I had them together. Also, it was not meant to be. My mom was very surprised and happy as were my sister, niece and nephew. My dad shows up and we ask him how he like Connor’s shirt. He says he likes and gives Connor the big muscle show but does NOT read the shirt. We all laugh and tell him to READ the shirt and then his face went to shock and happy. He says the baby is his Christmas present.

We had a great day out there with all the kids and then came back home to an impromptu crawfish boil! Life could not be any better for a Saturday than good times with family, friends, great weather and a crawfish boil.

Sunday was looking pretty tame. We did not do a whole bunch.

***Warning***

NEVER accidentally use the wrong packet of seasoning when your wife is newly pregnant.

I played a bunch of MMOs on Sunday. LOTRo, WAR, and EvE were all giving some 10 day account deals. I played each a bit. My wife only gave me evil eyes at time. She even played WAR some. She is convinced we will all breakdown and freak out if we play another MMO. She might be right. I am not sure I want to get involved in another. Although, I gave her fair warning that I was playing Star Wars: The Old Republic when it came out.

Almost everyone!

We have pretty much told everyone about the new baby except my parents. We will tell them on Saturday when we go have some BBQ. Sony’s parent’s reaction was conservative in my opinion. They acted almost as if they were happy with a few questions about the logistics. I can’t say that I blame them considering we are currently squatting in 1 of their 3 rooms in their house.

This brings me to my next subject which is OUR house. On May 10th, I am ordering the dumpster from Home Depot. I will need to break down a shed and throw it away. After that, I will need to clean out the old trailer which is currently filled with odds and ends of Sony’s parent. No one lives in it so it is used as a storage shed at the moment. I will have to have both of these done within 2 weeks to stay at my 370 budget for the dumpster. It should be a barrel of monkeys.

Connor’s reaction to the baby news was awesome! When asked if he wanted a little brother or a little girl he answered quite quickly with, “a little brother!” Also, he understands without being told that whatever Sony eats then the baby eats as well. He kept giving her food saying it was for the baby. Connor is still sleeping in the bed with us for the moment. Normally, he sleeps in the middle and falls asleep on me but last night he wanted to sleep next to his mom and ‘the baby.’

Sony was looking at cribs that convert into beds last night. There were several at decent prices. She likes the name “Siley” for a girl. Told her it was too close to Sylar who is a current villain on a tv show that I am watching.

I am reading Warhammer 40k’s Eisenhorn, playing 40k’s RTS Dawn of War with a sprinkling of Gears of War. I was stuck under fire in a courtyard playing Gears when my son tells me, “I don’t think your gonna make it dad.” I tell him probably not to which he points out that maybe I should get the Jedi from Force Unleashed to the do this level. If only that were possible!