Shadee’s Blog

After opening a ticket last night they gave all the chars of mine that were affected by the mount changes the riding skill.
So I’ll stick around afterall (well the fact that they’d already just charged us for another 6 months is also a reason).
So yeah, yay for finally having something fixed.
Didn’t get my white stallion still but I’m not gonna push it.
As I already said in Guildchat, “The grind for 900g was so much fun that I think the utter joy of being allowed to do it all over again would probably give me a stroke”.

-Dee.

I sent a mail this morning:

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Subject: Need issues resolved
From: shadee@shadeewolf.com
Date: Wed, September 27, 2006 6:59 am
To: WoWGM@Blizzard.com
Cc: shadee@shadeewolf.com

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And I didn’t even mention the 2 lvl 40 horses in the banks of my alts, or time when jumping out of an instance completely deleted my hunter pet because of one of their bugs. And they had the nerve to tell me “There are only a set number of restores we’ll do per account, are you sure you want us to further investigate?” It was their fuckin fault it disappeared in the first place! It was fed and happy so I can’t even believe they had the nerve to fucking go there. *foam at mouth*

Anyways. It’s been a great time playing WoW, and if they screw up again this time I’ll miss everyone I’ve enjoyed playing with dearly but I just refuse to let them get away with this kinda BS again.

-Dee.

My WoW server is gonna be down all day.
I’ve got a nasty case of.. I dunno some kinda flu.
It’s not the best of times for me if you catch my drift.
And the GODDAMN CAT has been whining at me ALL FECKIN MORNING!

>_<

Pity me and tell me that u lubs me =P

-Dee|stressed.

Quoted from a news page:
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The Killer Cocktail

Consumers might soon see the words “bacteriophage preparation” on cold cuts. While this preparation is intended to make food safer, it does not come without its own risks.”
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I can’t believe they’re actually approving this.
For one it attacks the stomache bacteria people need to digest food and second, don’t virusses tend to evolve and adapt? I foresee some major problems with this plan and I’ll be keeping a very close watch on the what I pick up at the supermarket (well I already do for various other reasons) because I refuse to eat that crap. >=(
Sounds like it’s starting to get time to move to a deserted island with a few packets of unaltered vegetable seeds and some cattle and do our own thing :/

-Dee.

This one’s a great recipe for when you want to lose weight.

Ingredients:

1 liter of water
1 cup of raisins
a pinch of salt
1 ts of sugar
1 ts of vanilla extract
few shakes of cinnamon powder

Use a saucepan to boil the water.
when it’s boiling turn down the heat to low. Add a pinch of salt and let it simmer for about 20 minutes. Make sure to constantly keep stirring so the salt granules don’t stick together.
Turn off the heat and let it cool down.

In the mean time, get the cup of raisins and chop them into quarters.
This will give the cake a better texture than when using whole ones.
When the mixture has finished cooling down, get a bowl which will hold 1 liter and will still have room to whisk.
Pour in your cooled down mixture.
Now slowly whisk in the chopped raisins, the sugar, the vanilla extract and the cinnamon.

Do NOT stop whisking until the mixture is thick and creamy.

Then bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

-Dee.

The male Blood Elf dance =IS= the Napoleon Dynamite dance.

So I speculate that the following will be the lvl 1 starter gear:

-Dee.

Wednesday evening we were watching Mythbusters and to my delight they were going to test the “myth” (It’s not really a myth if there is solid scientific evidence) about plants having feelings and their responses by emissions of electricity.
They were going to use all the methods used by Dr. Backster who did research on this years ago.

It started out great, they hooked the plant up to a polygraph machine just like in the original experiments and started doing things to it. They hit the plant, used a fire distinguisher on it etc.
And every time the plant would respond with a huge spike on the detector.

The second test was the person thinking of harming the plant in different ways.
This also got the same response on the graph.

This is where the Mythbusters decided to take everyone except the plant out of the building and try it from there. And the plant didn’t react to thoughts outside the building, so… the myth is busted.
WTF?

So, if you’re sitting alone in a room with a psychic, and the psychic can predict all of your thoughts and actions, yet if you leave the room and they can’t do it, all of a sudden they’re not psychic anymore ?

With so little known about the phenomenon, how the hell do THEY have the nerve to decide what it’s rules and boundries are? They simply discarded the solid evidence they had and decided that if it doesn’t work over a bigger distance it doesn’t exist at all.

After that they tried measuring responses from yoghurt….

And then a test to see if a plant would react to eggs being boiled.
This was utterly stupid, because:

1. I doubt they bothered to make sure to get fertilized fresh eggs instead of the already dead unfertilized refrigerated supermarket ones.
2. WTF does a plant care about eggs being boiled anyway?! If their communication is so much more alien and complex compared to ours what the hell makes them think it’s the same type of communication a chicken embrio uses.
Plant…. chicken……………… chicken…. plant…… I have trouble just communicating with other people sometimes, so I’d definately foresee some compatibility issues with the above 2 subjects don’t you?

Sounds to me like the Mythbusters need a little lesson in science.

-Dee.

This one has to be my favorite dish.
It’s a Family recipe, my dad invented it, and it’s been my family’s X-mas dinner for as long as I can remember
It’s the one dish I usually can’t eat without getting uncomfortably full.
Because I can hardly ever say no to a 2nd or sometimes even a 3rd helping :S

Ingredients :

Turkey breast, about a pound I guess.
Potatos, About 4 decent sized ones.
chestnuts, Pound
Green peas, big can
Black salt and oil cured olives 2 cups
White wine
Garlic
Salt
French bread

Recipe :

Peel the potatos and the chestnuts (some people like to roast the chestnuts over a fire in a pan with holes in the bottom for easier peeling, just don’t burn your fingers if you do that because they stay hot for a long time).
Cut both the Turkey breast and potatos into about 1 inch chunks.
Bake the turkey chunks in a little bit of olive oil in a deep souppan with some salt and garlic.
When it’s done, add a bit of white wine and enough water for the potatos to cook in. Add the potatos, chestnuts and olives.
Wait until the potatoes are done and turn down the heat to a simmer.
Add the peas and just leave it on the heat until the peas are hot.

It’s now ready to serve with a side of French or Italian bread for dipping.

Enjoy!

-Dee.

I just heard the news that Steve (Crocodile Hunter) Irwin has passed away.

During a shoot he was stung in the chest by a stingray normally considered fairly harmless.
I’m pretty shocked by this news, even if he was always seeking danger.
I know he had his goofy moments every now and then but underneath all that was a brilliant
ambitious man who spent every second of his life doing all he could to study and protect wildlife, and educate people.

I guess he gave us a final lesson in passing which shows us that it’s not always the animals we fear most that end up killing us. And to have a good amount of respect for all living creatures no matter what the statistics say.

My heart goes out to his family and friends.
RIP Steve.

-Dee.