Fuck yeah guys.

After not even getting to p3 the first few hours of attempts, we come back the next day rested and 2 shot the bitch!! Who needs any keepers, Alone in the Darkness next week?

I am disappointed the Sword didn't drop for the 4th time doing hardmode XT, but the Rusted-Proto Drake cheered me up. I named it Rusty.

mine is called "tlpd replacement"

so I need... crazy cat lady, firefighter, I love the smell of saronite in the morning, and possibly stoking the furnace

also I am highly envious of you all

but on the other hand I got some pictures

last few yards climb up to lake of glass elevation 10820



then we also went to chasm lake, elevation 11,760ft above sea level; this ones way above the timber line




Here's another of chasm lake, actually showing the lake, and mewith an awkward face




Finally heres a shot from the summit of chasm lake looking back down on some of the trail -- it really doesn't do the view justice, you can barely make out the climbers base camp in the top right of the photo, and the rest of the trail peaks over the mountain on the left side of the photo




heres another picture I liked -- I washiking with my brother and his wife, and whn we got near the summit of lake of glass we weren't exactly sure what to do, the path which was once clearly marked was running straight into a waterfall and disappearing, and we were skeptical, being amatuers in this field, of climbing up a waterfall. From a distance when we saw the sign (which is pointing right into a cliff wall) my sister in law said in 100% sincerity - "That's not a sign thats a cross!, Thats where someone died!" -- thinking it was a gravemarker like you would see a long the ride from dui deaths.




All in all I had a decent time, though I think by thursday I was growing more and more stressed being around family, a great deal of my relatives are extremely pompous intellectuals, from the Professer of literature, the Ph.D in Spanish language, the 3 lawyers, the world travelers who insist that I absolutly must come to barcelona with them, the artist who is vegetarian (not vegan thank god), and my own psuedo intellectual mother who attempts to be hip, it slowly drains the will from me and grinds away at my sanity. Im in lincoln until tuesday when I fly back - not to get home till like 9-9:30 at the earlist I think.

I can defintly say that I have had more than my fill of outdoors and of living in close proximity to my family; I shared a room with my brother in colorado -- that bastard snores so loud you can feel the bass of it shaking the bed, I shit you not. I will be very happy for this "vacation" to be over and to be back in front of my computer, doing what I actually enjoy doing with my leisure time, instead of masking my disdain of those I am surrounded by.


list of books I read while on vacation

Tigana , which I enjoyed
Dream quest of unknown kadath, my first hp Lovecraft book -- not my favorite
The Blade Itself, part of the first law trilogy -- fairly entertaining getting next part later today
Foundation & Foundation and Empire -- two books by Isaac Asimov, which were fairly entertaining but I need to get the next two books for that old series, the names of some of the futuristic items in these old sci-fi books really shows there age "televisor" "visi-sonar" screams old timey sci-fi imo
Ringworld by Larry Niven -- another entertaining/old sci-fi book -- the super advanced culture used tapes in there computers for memory storage elohelohel
and currently I just started Lord of Light by Roger Zelazney; its kinda strange in that its characters are very loosely based on buddhist/hindu gods? Im not entirely certain if there is supposed to be but there is a Sidhartha and a Yama and a Ratri, and lots of speak of karma -- Ill probably end up shelfing this for the next book of that First Law series.

This is how Im fighting boredom.
EDITTED: several edits to add more photos and writing of crap

Estes park for a day climb aye? Good stuff, I love it up there. Long's peak should have been right above chasm lake if I remember correctly, that's a hell of a climb. Beautiful up there, but I feel ya with the family thing, hang in there, proto-drake could be waiting for ya when you get back!!!

Im a little upset no one said anything about my pictures but barf!

Validate meeeee

read two more books, before they are hanged, the second volume in the First Law Series, just as goodas the first book, and Dawn, the second of a two part series by Tim Lebbon which was mediocre I thought.

Funny, I think I'm missing the same achievements, Shade. When do you get back? Hopefully this week so we can get our protodrakes!

hopefully by this time tomorrow or earlier

just because we can wait doesnt mean we will/should

RUST DRAKE NOA

Yet again Blizzard catering to lolcasuals (like Shadestep).

There is hope for me flying at 310% speed yet...

L2 plagued proto drake nub

congrats guys

I tried. Never was able to get a group to get 10 man sarth 3d. After some people got their plagued protos they didn't feel like being around to help those that didn't. Kind of lame...

I personally did several undying runs and 10-man 3D at least 3 or 4 times. But a lot of the time people that needed the drakes were not online, or other key ppl weren't, so we tended to do the groups when the stars aligned and a full group was on to it (so people that had actual lives didn't get theirs). Signups help with this though.

Btw Fwip you will have a guaranteed 310 when Brewfest comes around anyway, but I'm sure you will get a rusted drake before then.

Amen persius. I definately went on many failed uldying runs. And many failed 10m 3d runs to try and help people to get their achievement, but often we would try and get as many people who needed it into the group, and those people resulted in the group being less then ideally suited for the fight and resulted in much wipage. We wiped for hours and hours and hours each week for several weeks with a handpicked group till we finally got it.

PS... 310 flight form ftw soon!

Yeah Persius, most people were definitely around to help. Several times I remember having a group of like 7-8 people, but couldn't fill the last 2 or 3 spots with what we needed.

Other times, it was just a wipefest because we had "too many melee" >.< Oh well.

LOL I've been making sure to get my seasonals done each time they come around to ensure I will EVENTUALLY get a 310%. Have they confirmed that the seasonal reward IS 310? I don't think I've seen any confirmation on that yet.