Hey people, yeah it's a Happy Monday why!
No bullshit from the sister today or for a while now she must be freaking learning..
Although on another note I think I'm going to have to let them in on a little secret - no not this blog, this is top secret from them (evil of me I know but Tough!!!!), no the secret that any electrical gadgetry that gets bought for the house I buy and get the money back later, I mean you'd think they could figure that out that many of the lights we have I bought, the digital TV reciever we have I bought and got the replacement when it died.. No they didn't they got a new vacuum cleaner even although the old one works it's just a bit noisy and maybe just needs a good clean out as all that gets done to it is the bag changed and when it wears out the drive belt nothing else. But No they got a new one and the ONLY way mum found out was because get this it wasn't the cheap one she'd heard about and wanted but a more expensive one they had to get and weren't sure, please note mother ISN'T allowed to use this cleaner or the old one since her operation. They also unwisely got another Digital TV receiver aka a DigiBox for the spare room so dad could got to sleep there with it on and not have mother worrying so much that he was falling asleep and getting cold, not to freaking mention all the lights & the TV being left on BURNING money and at 14.5p / KWh I object to shit like that as I have to top up the meter £ 15 used to now it's £20 and it's not even like it's lasting a week :|. I might have to turn off all my PC's if this continues so the valuable work they do when I'm not on them would be lost forever... I do know one reader who knows hat I'm on about as that's how in around about way I came to be on blogger because of this particular nice lady and team mate... She's still a nice lady (dispite what her kids may say about her).
Oh and it's happy me at work now although last week was a swine (read previous post) Oh and it took me most of wednesday / thursday to get the office back to rights with everything else that was going on, still a few things to be sorted but alas they are outside my realm of expertise.
So peace y'all
Monday, January 28, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Devil - Deep Blue
Hmm feel like I fucking stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea here aka the rock and a hard place.
Just as I was about to leave on Friday, boss asked to have a word..
Thought?????
He ripped into me saying I didn't look "interested" the day before when I was out working, in a bar pulling cable and it was fucking cold and I wasn't feeling 100% but of course that would have been seen as a "lame" excuse so I didn't even bother..
Basically told that another note would go in my file, that we both knew this, that he wouldn't put a written in although he could have. Apprently my colleague aka his son, sounded pissed off when he called to see how things were and all he saw was me cold, jacket wrapped around me looking miserable (aka not interested) and then I ask a question is "there anything else needs done?" a genuine question, I can't fucking read minds!
Today, I found out I was going to be working late, thought I have the job done by 4 but alas not so phoned, got sister, said I'd be able half an hour maybe, was 1 1/2 hrs...
I got the impression from the phone call I got back from her that I maybe should just give up the job since my hours "weren't suiting her" aka I was late, I don't work fixed fucking hours and she knows that already, of course if this happens again or I think i'll be running late I'll have that worry on my mind, not concentrate fully on job in hand and get fired for it or asked to leave etc...
So Do I 1) Resign with good reason 2) Stick it out even if I have no sanity left..
Just as I was about to leave on Friday, boss asked to have a word..
Thought?????
He ripped into me saying I didn't look "interested" the day before when I was out working, in a bar pulling cable and it was fucking cold and I wasn't feeling 100% but of course that would have been seen as a "lame" excuse so I didn't even bother..
Basically told that another note would go in my file, that we both knew this, that he wouldn't put a written in although he could have. Apprently my colleague aka his son, sounded pissed off when he called to see how things were and all he saw was me cold, jacket wrapped around me looking miserable (aka not interested) and then I ask a question is "there anything else needs done?" a genuine question, I can't fucking read minds!
Today, I found out I was going to be working late, thought I have the job done by 4 but alas not so phoned, got sister, said I'd be able half an hour maybe, was 1 1/2 hrs...
I got the impression from the phone call I got back from her that I maybe should just give up the job since my hours "weren't suiting her" aka I was late, I don't work fixed fucking hours and she knows that already, of course if this happens again or I think i'll be running late I'll have that worry on my mind, not concentrate fully on job in hand and get fired for it or asked to leave etc...
So Do I 1) Resign with good reason 2) Stick it out even if I have no sanity left..
Monday, January 14, 2008
Wading through the BS!
Okay, meant to post this yesterday but well forgot and well it's incredible really...
Okay mum did get shouted but only because she shouted at my sister 1st saying my dad was hungry, reply why not making him a sandwich - thing is my dad eats something and that's it for like 3-4-5 hrs, what they meant was like a cup of tea and maybe a biscuit but hey I wasn't there so as far as I'm concerned it could be BS!
They have applogised to dad in around about way or so they say. The op mum had will cause mood swings apparently but that's not being taking into consideration at all, also one sister has got the whole 9 yards of sobbing to a fine art you know the kind the "but,but,but" blubbering that a kid would do that style and going I'm worried what if this and if that and what if something else a lot of fucking what if's and I now have a "list" of things to do like I don't have enough to funking do - cooking dinner, putting dishwasher on, wiping stuff down, putting the washing on, doing the ironing, zoning out totally!
It includes stuff that I'm like WHY the fuck am I do I have to do that, I mean they come down they could surely do that take them no time as they are used to it..
ARGH!!!!
Okay mum did get shouted but only because she shouted at my sister 1st saying my dad was hungry, reply why not making him a sandwich - thing is my dad eats something and that's it for like 3-4-5 hrs, what they meant was like a cup of tea and maybe a biscuit but hey I wasn't there so as far as I'm concerned it could be BS!
They have applogised to dad in around about way or so they say. The op mum had will cause mood swings apparently but that's not being taking into consideration at all, also one sister has got the whole 9 yards of sobbing to a fine art you know the kind the "but,but,but" blubbering that a kid would do that style and going I'm worried what if this and if that and what if something else a lot of fucking what if's and I now have a "list" of things to do like I don't have enough to funking do - cooking dinner, putting dishwasher on, wiping stuff down, putting the washing on, doing the ironing, zoning out totally!
It includes stuff that I'm like WHY the fuck am I do I have to do that, I mean they come down they could surely do that take them no time as they are used to it..
ARGH!!!!
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Would you do this....
Okay here's the situation as you know mum isn't well, got headaches but the doc says she'll have them for a few months due to the operation she had, Dad isn't keep so good and what doesn't help is my "delightful" sisters coming in and yelling at mum to not do something like she's 5 yr old in front of my dad who they are "worried" about.
Now they are threatening to put her in a home which I think will pretty much kill dad but of course they are so blind they won't see that - my oldest sister I think is comparing mum to her mother-in-law who had senile demetia or parkinson's or something like that and couldn't be trust with anything. I get half the story from them and then I get the other half when I get home and the thing is, mum can do stuff she knows her limits or rather thinks she does steps over them and feels crap and get dad worried..
I'm doing what I can honest and dad knows this.
Okay she was told not to do anything heavy duty, no hoovering, ironing etc anything that would involve a lot of weight on her right hand as it's not 100% yet, she did get taking in on sunday as she did some hoovering but I think she overdid it - lesson learned - no she got shouted at on the monday about it, I get "told" as well, getting sick of that "tone" now.
Also she was told there was stuff in the freezer that she could cook for her and dad if I was going to be late or if they fancied it but now she isn't allowed as they might want chips with it - thing is this, mother never ever leaves the chip pan unattended - we have one that sits on the stove, it does the job nicely but no that's not good enough I think what's happening is sisters are hearing 2nd / 3rd hand and taking it the wrong way, nothing new there! She was told off about that as well before the both stormed out, now what was I saying about 5 yr olds...
None of this of course helps dad out he gets tensed up and that him all day practically. Today one of them was in and acted like "nothing" had gone on, no apology nothing....
So the question is this HOW The funk would you deal with this, stuck in the middle as I am should do apart from take both my sisters and bang their heads together!
I don't think mum should be in a home but I won't be asked that question as my sister will DECIDE, over my dad's dead body - his words by the way, not mine.
Now they are threatening to put her in a home which I think will pretty much kill dad but of course they are so blind they won't see that - my oldest sister I think is comparing mum to her mother-in-law who had senile demetia or parkinson's or something like that and couldn't be trust with anything. I get half the story from them and then I get the other half when I get home and the thing is, mum can do stuff she knows her limits or rather thinks she does steps over them and feels crap and get dad worried..
I'm doing what I can honest and dad knows this.
Okay she was told not to do anything heavy duty, no hoovering, ironing etc anything that would involve a lot of weight on her right hand as it's not 100% yet, she did get taking in on sunday as she did some hoovering but I think she overdid it - lesson learned - no she got shouted at on the monday about it, I get "told" as well, getting sick of that "tone" now.
Also she was told there was stuff in the freezer that she could cook for her and dad if I was going to be late or if they fancied it but now she isn't allowed as they might want chips with it - thing is this, mother never ever leaves the chip pan unattended - we have one that sits on the stove, it does the job nicely but no that's not good enough I think what's happening is sisters are hearing 2nd / 3rd hand and taking it the wrong way, nothing new there! She was told off about that as well before the both stormed out, now what was I saying about 5 yr olds...
None of this of course helps dad out he gets tensed up and that him all day practically. Today one of them was in and acted like "nothing" had gone on, no apology nothing....
So the question is this HOW The funk would you deal with this, stuck in the middle as I am should do apart from take both my sisters and bang their heads together!
I don't think mum should be in a home but I won't be asked that question as my sister will DECIDE, over my dad's dead body - his words by the way, not mine.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Is it really almost a week since New Year.
Well it seems longer than that let me tell you. As you know I was working every day and that's probably why it seems longer than and having to do the logistics for the house not easy especially when you try and do the shopping on-line and you don't get any aisle selection so thus can't select anything at all, I eventually did find a form filled it out and I hope it's dealt with soon..
I'm going to speak to the boss about a slight change in hours short term that is.
To everyone out there who's left a comment or written me an e-mail saying they are thinking of me, thank you - although that doesn't even cover it.
To a few very special people out there I want to thank not you but your mother's for bringing you into this world, teaching you all they could about right and wrong and even although they are getting on in years, your not old just a recycled teenager :), thank you.
I'm going to speak to the boss about a slight change in hours short term that is.
To everyone out there who's left a comment or written me an e-mail saying they are thinking of me, thank you - although that doesn't even cover it.
To a few very special people out there I want to thank not you but your mother's for bringing you into this world, teaching you all they could about right and wrong and even although they are getting on in years, your not old just a recycled teenager :), thank you.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Happy New Year 2008
Happy New Year to everyone, I hope 2008 is good to you all.
I know a few things will happen this year that can't be prevented and I'm prepared for them I think.
I am the rock, I am the strength - must learn to ignore sisters being bitchy to me!
Yeah that's right I apperently can't do **** all without some form of instruction!
Seriously I'm 33 and I can cook ya know, let me see item A takes 45 minutes at this tempreture, and this take so long on the top of the stove :D.... I can cook, just never had to for a while.
I am "mother" right now, I have to cook, do the washing and stuff like that till mother is more able to do some of it again since she's not quite right yet.
Dad on the other hand ain't so hot, but were taking each day at a time, just hope he gets time to sample that fine single malt I got him for Christmas.
Peace, Joy and love to all my friends new and old, I wish you happiness, prosperity and love in 2008.
I know a few things will happen this year that can't be prevented and I'm prepared for them I think.
I am the rock, I am the strength - must learn to ignore sisters being bitchy to me!
Yeah that's right I apperently can't do **** all without some form of instruction!
Seriously I'm 33 and I can cook ya know, let me see item A takes 45 minutes at this tempreture, and this take so long on the top of the stove :D.... I can cook, just never had to for a while.
I am "mother" right now, I have to cook, do the washing and stuff like that till mother is more able to do some of it again since she's not quite right yet.
Dad on the other hand ain't so hot, but were taking each day at a time, just hope he gets time to sample that fine single malt I got him for Christmas.
Peace, Joy and love to all my friends new and old, I wish you happiness, prosperity and love in 2008.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Post Christmas Post
Sorry couldn't resist the title, well another week over and done with I suppose.
So what did I get given to me:
Another bleeding winter car care kit - like I need one of those, still got the last one :P, 2 bottle of Morgan's Spiced Rum :D, a couple of new light weight jackets, a new watch that I'll need to get adjusted for my slender wrist :P, some clothes, a little bit of chocolate, a miniature of bailey's n a glass and a few other bits n pieces.
I gave good presents I hope :P.
Now as to how the rest of the crew here, mum is a little better but not much she's now taking antibiotics as it appears the wound on her head is a little infected :|, Dad isn't so hot either, having trouble breathing - thinks it the same thing as he's had fluid on the lung, he's had his meds changed and he's now got a nice recliner chair - I wannna know where's mine!
Oh well I'll get there once I've done the cooking, cleaning, washing n ironing - basically I'm "Mother" now to the 2 kids that my parents are becoming, I swear my sisters are like that > "||" close to snapping and telling them where to go that's how annoying they are with them, me I don't see that as I when I'm in they are either just getting up or they've been up all day and are thus tired.
I'm having to hit the ground running as well I do know how to do this stuff just not needed to until now, I do cook but I guess I'll be doing that and a lot more.
So if someone wants to pass the prozac now I'll get going :D
So what did I get given to me:
Another bleeding winter car care kit - like I need one of those, still got the last one :P, 2 bottle of Morgan's Spiced Rum :D, a couple of new light weight jackets, a new watch that I'll need to get adjusted for my slender wrist :P, some clothes, a little bit of chocolate, a miniature of bailey's n a glass and a few other bits n pieces.
I gave good presents I hope :P.
Now as to how the rest of the crew here, mum is a little better but not much she's now taking antibiotics as it appears the wound on her head is a little infected :|, Dad isn't so hot either, having trouble breathing - thinks it the same thing as he's had fluid on the lung, he's had his meds changed and he's now got a nice recliner chair - I wannna know where's mine!
Oh well I'll get there once I've done the cooking, cleaning, washing n ironing - basically I'm "Mother" now to the 2 kids that my parents are becoming, I swear my sisters are like that > "||" close to snapping and telling them where to go that's how annoying they are with them, me I don't see that as I when I'm in they are either just getting up or they've been up all day and are thus tired.
I'm having to hit the ground running as well I do know how to do this stuff just not needed to until now, I do cook but I guess I'll be doing that and a lot more.
So if someone wants to pass the prozac now I'll get going :D
Friday, December 21, 2007
An a week on.....
Well a week on and it's all change.
Mum got home on Monday much to me and my sister's surprise, she's still not 100% and is getting frustrated because she can't get out the word she really wants to say. Social Work has been involved they were here on Wednesday and again yesterday "assessing" what is needed - I feel this should have been done BEFORE mum got out but there you go that's how it works these days :|, None of us here are sure what's going on really so it's a fucking pain in the ass I've no doubt it will take a week or so to settle down I guess doesn't freaking help I have to be at work all day. My aunt went back home on Wednesday morning as I wouldn't let her miss her grandson's first Christmas and she wasn't going to either :), which brings me to another thing I tried to order her a nice bottle of 12 yr old Antiquary for a shop I know the specialises in whisky in Edinburgh but alas I mistyped my googlemail address - gogglemail ftw :| and thus it wasn't till I used another e-mail address that I found out the freaking bank had apprently declined my card - I called the bank they couldn't see WHY it would have happened as I have plenty funds in my account etc.. So I'll just have wait and see if I get the bottle at all. Works been a no-fun week as well which hasn't helped any. I'm looking forward to a oh so fun filled weekend (not!) as it looks like number 1 mug here will have to do all the shit mum usually did so no relaxation for me :|. Oh well at least I have Christmas day off work!
Goes to find a glass n some ice - I need something cold!
Mum got home on Monday much to me and my sister's surprise, she's still not 100% and is getting frustrated because she can't get out the word she really wants to say. Social Work has been involved they were here on Wednesday and again yesterday "assessing" what is needed - I feel this should have been done BEFORE mum got out but there you go that's how it works these days :|, None of us here are sure what's going on really so it's a fucking pain in the ass I've no doubt it will take a week or so to settle down I guess doesn't freaking help I have to be at work all day. My aunt went back home on Wednesday morning as I wouldn't let her miss her grandson's first Christmas and she wasn't going to either :), which brings me to another thing I tried to order her a nice bottle of 12 yr old Antiquary for a shop I know the specialises in whisky in Edinburgh but alas I mistyped my googlemail address - gogglemail ftw :| and thus it wasn't till I used another e-mail address that I found out the freaking bank had apprently declined my card - I called the bank they couldn't see WHY it would have happened as I have plenty funds in my account etc.. So I'll just have wait and see if I get the bottle at all. Works been a no-fun week as well which hasn't helped any. I'm looking forward to a oh so fun filled weekend (not!) as it looks like number 1 mug here will have to do all the shit mum usually did so no relaxation for me :|. Oh well at least I have Christmas day off work!
Goes to find a glass n some ice - I need something cold!
Friday, December 14, 2007
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Yeah I think I lost a day somewhere not sure actually it this could be any day this week they are all kinda blending into one at the moment and that's without the aid of alcohol thank you very much!
Okay last post so to speak mother was waiting to have a head scan, that got done pronto somehow as I went shopping thinking yeah I can finally get it all done maybe - silly me, I get a call to go to the hospital they want to see us, this came from oldest sister, yeah I got 2 so trouble in stereo! Anyway they said they had done the scan and were transferring her to a bigger hospital to have an operation done to drain the bruise that was causing all the problem, now the hospital where she was at was easy to get to, the bigger one is a pain in the ass as it was in Edinburgh which is further away and a nightmare to drive to/from. Operation was done sunday night both sisters went over and keep us updated as to what was happening.
I took Monday off so a few things could get done and I could take dad an my aunt over to see mum who was awake & flat on her back as she had to be - I just want to know what was in the oxygen ... :D
Back to work on Tuesday as there wasn't any point in taking more time off work.
She was transfered back on Wednesday I was in the middle of nowhere with work and I didn't get back till late so didn't see her then. I saw her yesterday evening and unless you've had a friend or relative who has had this kind of operation or suffers from it's not Alzheimer's but it's along that sort of line, we get half sentences then she struggles with a word she's trying to say and the hands are going as normal and it's oh it's what-a-call-it,etc but the frustration is there you could see it and I was getting tense as well as there wasn't anything I could do other then tell her to calm down, slow down and try again as gently as possible. It was good to see her and we got all the gossip that was going on in the ward of course, typical mother really well almost sometimes she wasn't quite there but it was good to see her.
Now to just get Social Services involved as there is no way on earth they can cope without help of some sort from them. Dad is doing good as he was worried but every visit perked him up a little :)
Might be out for Christmas might not be that's the thing...
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Yeah I think I lost a day somewhere not sure actually it this could be any day this week they are all kinda blending into one at the moment and that's without the aid of alcohol thank you very much!
Okay last post so to speak mother was waiting to have a head scan, that got done pronto somehow as I went shopping thinking yeah I can finally get it all done maybe - silly me, I get a call to go to the hospital they want to see us, this came from oldest sister, yeah I got 2 so trouble in stereo! Anyway they said they had done the scan and were transferring her to a bigger hospital to have an operation done to drain the bruise that was causing all the problem, now the hospital where she was at was easy to get to, the bigger one is a pain in the ass as it was in Edinburgh which is further away and a nightmare to drive to/from. Operation was done sunday night both sisters went over and keep us updated as to what was happening.
I took Monday off so a few things could get done and I could take dad an my aunt over to see mum who was awake & flat on her back as she had to be - I just want to know what was in the oxygen ... :D
Back to work on Tuesday as there wasn't any point in taking more time off work.
She was transfered back on Wednesday I was in the middle of nowhere with work and I didn't get back till late so didn't see her then. I saw her yesterday evening and unless you've had a friend or relative who has had this kind of operation or suffers from it's not Alzheimer's but it's along that sort of line, we get half sentences then she struggles with a word she's trying to say and the hands are going as normal and it's oh it's what-a-call-it,etc but the frustration is there you could see it and I was getting tense as well as there wasn't anything I could do other then tell her to calm down, slow down and try again as gently as possible. It was good to see her and we got all the gossip that was going on in the ward of course, typical mother really well almost sometimes she wasn't quite there but it was good to see her.
Now to just get Social Services involved as there is no way on earth they can cope without help of some sort from them. Dad is doing good as he was worried but every visit perked him up a little :)
Might be out for Christmas might not be that's the thing...
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Here, There and somewhere else
Okay a recap of the last fortnight with me and what freaking fortnight it's been, that's 2 weeks for those that don't understand :P.
Well since mom's little slip she was fine the first week, work was okay as well getting stuff sorted out, work cleared done so it's clear over the Christmas break, it was working out just about....
Colleague handed in his notice, hmm if I was 1 he was a 1/2, a total freaking TOOL, never seemed with it at all really, he's gone to upstate NY to follow his "johnston" that's the most polite way I can put it.. Now last friday,the 30th,in the afternoon we all sat down and planned out what was jobs needed to be done for the next week, he was there and we said you'll have a few alarm services on various days and was needed here and there for stuff to which he agreed - week planned out, job done...... NO! I come in Monday morning, do what I normally do 9am comes and no colleague although his Time keeping was never good, boss gets a call and in a voice that sounded "typewriter" like he was told that basically something had come up and he wouldn't be back! The thing is he had his own tools in the back of one of the company vans and they were gone, they had to have gone on the Friday, so we then sat and replanned the week, I went with the boss to sort some of our kit for a customer and well let's just say the air in the van on the way was "Blue", So we struggled all week but got through it - would have gotten more done IF something I had asked to be changed had arrived when it was supposed to not 4 days and god knows how many calls later, we do that on tuesday. So nice stressful week at work.
Now scroll back to the friday, I comes in at my usual time, mum's okay asks me to go get something from the shop while she makes my fish n chips, never noticed anything, but I knew my aunt was coming up a day early to surprise her. You know what they say about the best laid plans... This one went tits up really badly..
My aunt has 3 daughters, middle daughter and her hubby were bring her up in the car, they didn't bother the tell eldest daughter what was going on and of course on the friday she went to visit her mum did she not, no mother so she phones the "world" instead of her sisters mobile, got mother slightly worried I tried to reassure her and keep the plan under raps but she couldn't get her nor my cousin who was coming up so she smelt a rat and was panic'd a little and got to know what was happenning.
I of course had to let everyone know she knew without letting her know.
Come 9pm when they were due mother wasn't feeling right and had slurred speech, so called a neighbour who's a nurse, she called the "nhs 24" helpline - they got an ambulance sent out and they let her out at around 1:30am after giving her the all clear - nothing was said about the bump on the head, she did look better, they reckon it was a mini-stroke, they gave it a fancy name but I can't rememeber it.
Now of course over the past week I've at work and not really been away of what's been going on I just thought she'd was tired due to the day she'd had but it turns out she's been tired all week :| and was feeling sick and generally not herself. So called the nhs24 line 3 times, 1st time no doctor was sent out, recalled it got a doctor out who gave her something for the nausea, the last time another doctor came out and looked at her said didn't think she needed to go in to hospital to let the tablets take effect and he'd try and get something arranged for today as it was an effort for her to go from her bed to the bathroom. He came back out this morning and looked at her again got her admitted to hospital where she's being looked at right now they're gonna do a scan sometime today or tomorrow morning at the latest.
How am I holding up, I'm doing okay - I know I have friends all over the place that are keeping me in their thoughts and prayers.
Well since mom's little slip she was fine the first week, work was okay as well getting stuff sorted out, work cleared done so it's clear over the Christmas break, it was working out just about....
Colleague handed in his notice, hmm if I was 1 he was a 1/2, a total freaking TOOL, never seemed with it at all really, he's gone to upstate NY to follow his "johnston" that's the most polite way I can put it.. Now last friday,the 30th,in the afternoon we all sat down and planned out what was jobs needed to be done for the next week, he was there and we said you'll have a few alarm services on various days and was needed here and there for stuff to which he agreed - week planned out, job done...... NO! I come in Monday morning, do what I normally do 9am comes and no colleague although his Time keeping was never good, boss gets a call and in a voice that sounded "typewriter" like he was told that basically something had come up and he wouldn't be back! The thing is he had his own tools in the back of one of the company vans and they were gone, they had to have gone on the Friday, so we then sat and replanned the week, I went with the boss to sort some of our kit for a customer and well let's just say the air in the van on the way was "Blue", So we struggled all week but got through it - would have gotten more done IF something I had asked to be changed had arrived when it was supposed to not 4 days and god knows how many calls later, we do that on tuesday. So nice stressful week at work.
Now scroll back to the friday, I comes in at my usual time, mum's okay asks me to go get something from the shop while she makes my fish n chips, never noticed anything, but I knew my aunt was coming up a day early to surprise her. You know what they say about the best laid plans... This one went tits up really badly..
My aunt has 3 daughters, middle daughter and her hubby were bring her up in the car, they didn't bother the tell eldest daughter what was going on and of course on the friday she went to visit her mum did she not, no mother so she phones the "world" instead of her sisters mobile, got mother slightly worried I tried to reassure her and keep the plan under raps but she couldn't get her nor my cousin who was coming up so she smelt a rat and was panic'd a little and got to know what was happenning.
I of course had to let everyone know she knew without letting her know.
Come 9pm when they were due mother wasn't feeling right and had slurred speech, so called a neighbour who's a nurse, she called the "nhs 24" helpline - they got an ambulance sent out and they let her out at around 1:30am after giving her the all clear - nothing was said about the bump on the head, she did look better, they reckon it was a mini-stroke, they gave it a fancy name but I can't rememeber it.
Now of course over the past week I've at work and not really been away of what's been going on I just thought she'd was tired due to the day she'd had but it turns out she's been tired all week :| and was feeling sick and generally not herself. So called the nhs24 line 3 times, 1st time no doctor was sent out, recalled it got a doctor out who gave her something for the nausea, the last time another doctor came out and looked at her said didn't think she needed to go in to hospital to let the tablets take effect and he'd try and get something arranged for today as it was an effort for her to go from her bed to the bathroom. He came back out this morning and looked at her again got her admitted to hospital where she's being looked at right now they're gonna do a scan sometime today or tomorrow morning at the latest.
How am I holding up, I'm doing okay - I know I have friends all over the place that are keeping me in their thoughts and prayers.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Wow - Not on a Sunday
Okay I know, I'm sorry I've been busy with real life stuff....
So on to our Not on a Sunday topics:
Or if you don't fancy that one, here's another, okay I know it's a cheat but hey I'm allowed to do that sometimes ;)
I'll post mine sometime I know not when!
So on to our Not on a Sunday topics:
What is that one song that most often gets stuck in your head and "CAN’T GET OUT"? This one comes from abraleah over at cross-eyed
I would say go over and say Hi but I seem to be having trouble getting to that site myself...
Or if you don't fancy that one, here's another, okay I know it's a cheat but hey I'm allowed to do that sometimes ;)
Why did you start your blog and what keeps you blogging?
This one is from bob-kat over at bobkat's house
That one is working so go over say hi...
I'll post mine sometime I know not when!
Monday, November 19, 2007
WoW - Class: Mage
Okay back to World of Warcraft I suppose...
Mages wield the elements of fire, frost, and the arcane to pretty much take out or neutralize their enemies. This is another of the robed class but you excel at dealing massive damage from afar, casting elemental bolts at a single target, or raining destruction down upon their enemies in a wide area of effect. You can also augment your allies' spell-casting powers with intellect buffs, summon food or drink to restore your friends, and even travel across the world in an instant by opening arcane portals to distant lands or just teleport yourself .
When seeking someone to introduce monsters to a world of pain, the Mage would be a good bet, with their elemental and arcane attacks, it's a safe bet something they can do won't be resisted by your chosen enemy. Damage is definitely the name of the Mage game, and you do it well.
Your arsenal includes some powerful crowd control spells, also, giving them the ability to keep hordes at bay - in fact, these abilities can be used on the most common creatures in the game, thus making them extremely valuable for this purpose.
Escape with a mage is fairly easy you learn a spell called "Blink" that pretty much gets you out of most things just make sure you know where your pointed as it won't go through walls, trees or off cliffs...
There are really 2 subclasses of mages in the game, those who choose to follow the frost tree all the way down and those that choose to follow the fire tree all the way down now each has it's advantages and disadvantages of course.
Now going all out frost means you can survive major attack all your frost spells have greater range and over effectiveness as well as increasing damage, you can encase yourself in a block of ice which for a time protects you for harm allowing you to regenerate some of your health, soon you won't need to go into the frost tree to get this as they are making this talent available to all. So with this set up you can slow your enemies down for longer while doing mass damage to them or getting away, oh and the end talent "41 pointer" for this tree is a nice water elemental to help you out from time to time. Also going frost against fire type creatures hurts them a whole lot more.
As for going all out fire well that has it's advantages too, massive damage spells like the pyroblast which takes 6 seconds to cast although you might be able to reduce this time slightly, it's your opening attack spell or one used in mid fight if you've just put them on ice with your frost nova which you still get just doesn't have all the frosty advantages. There is a talent called "Presence of Mind" or PoM from the arcane tree which fire mages often get as it doesn't really require many wasted talent point to get and also getting Master of Elements from the Frost tree is useful too. Anyway back to the fire tree, you can go all the way down this and your end talent is "Dragon's Breath" sounds lethal is pretty lethal to anything close range, did someone order a rack of BBQ beef? If you go fire be prepared to die a lot as you really don't have that much in the way of survivablity you can't rely on your frost nova as much as if you went frost nor is it much use again anything the is fire based.
How to tell how an ememy mage is spec'd, see what he does first...
Generally - Fire mages will turn you in to a sheep by polymorphing you yeah it's a nasty trick I know, then warm up that big old pyroblast, hit PoM then Pyro you again, your pretty much dead as the fire tree has some "% chance to cause" effects that mean you could end up burning a little so that's healing out the window if your flying solo. This type of mage is also know as a "3-minute mage" as the PoM cool down is 3-minutes.
Frost mages will hit you with frost nova, frost bolts then ice lance you to death, I'm sure it's an abuse of power as the ice lance does so much damage and can cause another ice lance to hit you as well, double damage in the 1 hit and basically your spell casting is slowed down as well.
High level mages can also steal the spell your about to cast for themselves done correctly they borrow you big heal or big attack.
The advantages can pretty much be summed up thus: Massive damage dealer to a single or multiple target in an area. You can effect escape with frost nova or polymorph and blink. You have good long range skills. Your the only class that can learn how to teleport yourself and others to the major cities. Your crowd control ability is good but it can hard to master this one.
The disadvantages can pretty much be summed up thus: You can only ever wear cloth armor, you generally have low hit points compared to other classes and you have no healing abilities what so ever. Another thing to note is your a very, very mana dependant class without mana your screwed basically..
I almost forgot your really restricted in what you can use as a weapon as all you can use without training is a staff and a wand, with training you can learn to use daggers and one-handed swords.
More Tomorrow.....
Mages wield the elements of fire, frost, and the arcane to pretty much take out or neutralize their enemies. This is another of the robed class but you excel at dealing massive damage from afar, casting elemental bolts at a single target, or raining destruction down upon their enemies in a wide area of effect. You can also augment your allies' spell-casting powers with intellect buffs, summon food or drink to restore your friends, and even travel across the world in an instant by opening arcane portals to distant lands or just teleport yourself .
When seeking someone to introduce monsters to a world of pain, the Mage would be a good bet, with their elemental and arcane attacks, it's a safe bet something they can do won't be resisted by your chosen enemy. Damage is definitely the name of the Mage game, and you do it well.
Your arsenal includes some powerful crowd control spells, also, giving them the ability to keep hordes at bay - in fact, these abilities can be used on the most common creatures in the game, thus making them extremely valuable for this purpose.
Escape with a mage is fairly easy you learn a spell called "Blink" that pretty much gets you out of most things just make sure you know where your pointed as it won't go through walls, trees or off cliffs...
There are really 2 subclasses of mages in the game, those who choose to follow the frost tree all the way down and those that choose to follow the fire tree all the way down now each has it's advantages and disadvantages of course.
Now going all out frost means you can survive major attack all your frost spells have greater range and over effectiveness as well as increasing damage, you can encase yourself in a block of ice which for a time protects you for harm allowing you to regenerate some of your health, soon you won't need to go into the frost tree to get this as they are making this talent available to all. So with this set up you can slow your enemies down for longer while doing mass damage to them or getting away, oh and the end talent "41 pointer" for this tree is a nice water elemental to help you out from time to time. Also going frost against fire type creatures hurts them a whole lot more.
As for going all out fire well that has it's advantages too, massive damage spells like the pyroblast which takes 6 seconds to cast although you might be able to reduce this time slightly, it's your opening attack spell or one used in mid fight if you've just put them on ice with your frost nova which you still get just doesn't have all the frosty advantages. There is a talent called "Presence of Mind" or PoM from the arcane tree which fire mages often get as it doesn't really require many wasted talent point to get and also getting Master of Elements from the Frost tree is useful too. Anyway back to the fire tree, you can go all the way down this and your end talent is "Dragon's Breath" sounds lethal is pretty lethal to anything close range, did someone order a rack of BBQ beef? If you go fire be prepared to die a lot as you really don't have that much in the way of survivablity you can't rely on your frost nova as much as if you went frost nor is it much use again anything the is fire based.
How to tell how an ememy mage is spec'd, see what he does first...
Generally - Fire mages will turn you in to a sheep by polymorphing you yeah it's a nasty trick I know, then warm up that big old pyroblast, hit PoM then Pyro you again, your pretty much dead as the fire tree has some "% chance to cause" effects that mean you could end up burning a little so that's healing out the window if your flying solo. This type of mage is also know as a "3-minute mage" as the PoM cool down is 3-minutes.
Frost mages will hit you with frost nova, frost bolts then ice lance you to death, I'm sure it's an abuse of power as the ice lance does so much damage and can cause another ice lance to hit you as well, double damage in the 1 hit and basically your spell casting is slowed down as well.
High level mages can also steal the spell your about to cast for themselves done correctly they borrow you big heal or big attack.
The advantages can pretty much be summed up thus: Massive damage dealer to a single or multiple target in an area. You can effect escape with frost nova or polymorph and blink. You have good long range skills. Your the only class that can learn how to teleport yourself and others to the major cities. Your crowd control ability is good but it can hard to master this one.
The disadvantages can pretty much be summed up thus: You can only ever wear cloth armor, you generally have low hit points compared to other classes and you have no healing abilities what so ever. Another thing to note is your a very, very mana dependant class without mana your screwed basically..
I almost forgot your really restricted in what you can use as a weapon as all you can use without training is a staff and a wand, with training you can learn to use daggers and one-handed swords.
More Tomorrow.....
Sunday, November 18, 2007
It's Sunday so that must mean it's time for the "Not on a Sunday Topic"
Okay as usual I'm taking a break from anything I'd remotely normally post about as it's a sunday to bring you this weeks topic
Well I can answer this one quite simply I was the good guy at school, I did my work when asked, didn't talk back to the teacher and was rarely in trouble as school, I can probably count on 1 hand the number of times I was in trouble.
Being the little guy helped, meant I kept head down and just got on with it..
The only time I can really remember is one time at primary school I must have done something in the playground, can't remember what but I was sent to the "wall" which was basically the section of wall in front of where we all lined up to go back into class after the breaks, it was scary kinda seeing all your classmates staring at you, that and one of old teachers saying there must be some mistake what are you doing here kinda of thing, never did it again either. There was one time I was sent to see the headmistress at primary and this was back in the days when the "belt" was still a usable tool, one crack off the desk was enough - straight n narrow...
What is the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done in grade school?
Thanks to Shane over at Reflekshins for this weeks topicano - I know it's not a word it just looks cool, wander over and say hi to shane..
This is kinda like ye olde blog fodder remember that...
Well I can answer this one quite simply I was the good guy at school, I did my work when asked, didn't talk back to the teacher and was rarely in trouble as school, I can probably count on 1 hand the number of times I was in trouble.
Being the little guy helped, meant I kept head down and just got on with it..
The only time I can really remember is one time at primary school I must have done something in the playground, can't remember what but I was sent to the "wall" which was basically the section of wall in front of where we all lined up to go back into class after the breaks, it was scary kinda seeing all your classmates staring at you, that and one of old teachers saying there must be some mistake what are you doing here kinda of thing, never did it again either. There was one time I was sent to see the headmistress at primary and this was back in the days when the "belt" was still a usable tool, one crack off the desk was enough - straight n narrow...
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Yesterday, the day before and today.
Well what can I say.
Thursday - I left the house at 6am and didn't return until 10pm after a successful day at the office so to speak, gosh I really love been driven 200miles to a place, working all day and then having to drive the 200 miles back in leaving in the rush hour.
I got home totally wiped out, now I knew my dad had been in to see the specialist and I also knew the news wasn't good, thank you sis for forewarning me of what I had suspected anyway. I was busy eating and mother being mother didn't wanna tell me, didn't want to disturb me really I just told her get it over with I needed to know.
Well my dad has cancer as we kinda suspected anyway, where it is and it's size and other factors mean it's inoperable. Me I'm holding up mother was in pieces and she didn't know what she was going to do... sometimes I wonder if these 2 are my parents sometimes as they can be SO trying. Okay you can call me a cynic if you like but I'm sorry anything that happens in this family or to mother's friends affects mother dearest in the strangest way it's like it's all "ME" if you see what I'm getting at..
I'll leave that there as I'll just go off on one..
Friday I go into work and I'm still wiped from the Thursday but it was all done so easy day, as my colleague was pretty wiped as well - both looked like a pair of half shut knives all day, a couple of things had come in and I decided to go help my colleague out, that and get out the office as some things were being painted as they don't come in the colour we needed so they needed to be painted, now don't get me wrong by my other colleague can be a little slow on the uptake I sometimes wonder if he's all "there".
Now what do you do if you using a paint spray can indoors? Open the door, open a window and get some air flow yes...? No I had to say open the door I've opened the window over there, that and he'd never painted before - He'd been doing some of it Thursday so GOD knows what it was like then! I got home, looked up what films were on and I had kinda decided to treat nephew to a night at the cinema anyway but Ratatouille was on so took him to see that - don't ask how much it cost, in the good seats again.
Today i've been coasting along on auto pilot - between this nasty cold I have and the last 2 days I was feeling wiped out.
We'll just have to see what's going to happen in the future won't we..
Thursday - I left the house at 6am and didn't return until 10pm after a successful day at the office so to speak, gosh I really love been driven 200miles to a place, working all day and then having to drive the 200 miles back in leaving in the rush hour.
I got home totally wiped out, now I knew my dad had been in to see the specialist and I also knew the news wasn't good, thank you sis for forewarning me of what I had suspected anyway. I was busy eating and mother being mother didn't wanna tell me, didn't want to disturb me really I just told her get it over with I needed to know.
Well my dad has cancer as we kinda suspected anyway, where it is and it's size and other factors mean it's inoperable. Me I'm holding up mother was in pieces and she didn't know what she was going to do... sometimes I wonder if these 2 are my parents sometimes as they can be SO trying. Okay you can call me a cynic if you like but I'm sorry anything that happens in this family or to mother's friends affects mother dearest in the strangest way it's like it's all "ME" if you see what I'm getting at..
I'll leave that there as I'll just go off on one..
Friday I go into work and I'm still wiped from the Thursday but it was all done so easy day, as my colleague was pretty wiped as well - both looked like a pair of half shut knives all day, a couple of things had come in and I decided to go help my colleague out, that and get out the office as some things were being painted as they don't come in the colour we needed so they needed to be painted, now don't get me wrong by my other colleague can be a little slow on the uptake I sometimes wonder if he's all "there".
Now what do you do if you using a paint spray can indoors? Open the door, open a window and get some air flow yes...? No I had to say open the door I've opened the window over there, that and he'd never painted before - He'd been doing some of it Thursday so GOD knows what it was like then! I got home, looked up what films were on and I had kinda decided to treat nephew to a night at the cinema anyway but Ratatouille was on so took him to see that - don't ask how much it cost, in the good seats again.
Today i've been coasting along on auto pilot - between this nasty cold I have and the last 2 days I was feeling wiped out.
We'll just have to see what's going to happen in the future won't we..
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
This is where I run of steam....
Okay it's not that i've run out of classes or other stuff it's just life has a way of catching up on you and I'm really tired tonight and with what I'm going to be doing over the next 3 days I doubt I'll be posting much at all..
I'll probably be all day tomorrow someplace then on thursday I get to take long trek down to somewhere near blackpool to replace a system and it will be up early and back "sometime" and on friday I'm looking after nephew which will be fun.... :-S so I pretty much stuffed for time, never mind I've got the weekend!
*Goes off to collapse in a heap*
I'll probably be all day tomorrow someplace then on thursday I get to take long trek down to somewhere near blackpool to replace a system and it will be up early and back "sometime" and on friday I'm looking after nephew which will be fun.... :-S so I pretty much stuffed for time, never mind I've got the weekend!
*Goes off to collapse in a heap*
Monday, November 12, 2007
WoW - Class: Priest
Now continuing our look at classes with the priest class.
Okay as you'd expect this class is a master at healing and preserving the wellbeing of themselves and their party, also partly shielding them in battle from some of the damage they take and in at the end of the fight resurrecting their fallen friends so they might fight once more. While it's true this class has a good array of healing spells, even the holiest of holy priests can still do some damage if required, they have attack spells okay not many 5 to be exact, 2 holy and 3 shadow although you don't get the last one until near the end and it has to be used very carefully. The spells are Smite takes a 1 or so to cast does a modest amount of damage, Holy fire as the name suggest hits them from above for a moderate amount of damage which continues over the next 8 seconds where additional damage is dealt to your enemy otherwise known as Damage Over Time aka a DOT. Your 3 shadow spells are Shadow Word: Pain - instantly cast and deals DOT, Mind Blast takes a second or so to cast deal a modest amount of damage - a bit like a shadow version of smite, now on to the shadow last spell everyone gets - Shadow Word: Death now this little spell will get you either out of trouble or right in it deeper as if the creature your fighting DOESN'T die when you cast this instant cast spell, you take the damage on yourself - now this can becuase it does deal damage but not enough to kill the creature or the creature gets lucky and resists the spell entirely which does happen :-S now as you can imagine firing this off and having it hit you could actually kill you, hmm "puts hand up" I've been there done that,got the T-Shirt and Starred in that freaky Video.
Now not all priest choose to go holy some choose to go to the dark side and become shadow priests now these can do masses more damage, stun their enemies, not only heal themselves with spells that are dealing damage to the enemy but anyone in their party as well through the talent of shadows embrace, you also get a special form called shadow form which increase the amount of damage your shadow spells can do by 15% and at the same time reduces the amount of damage taken by 15% although you can't heal in this form nor cast any spell classed as "holy", this is a talent from within the shadow talent tree.
There are other spells that don't actually do any damage in themselves but can help
keep you alive a little longer, there is the ability to add some stamina to yourself and others though the spell Power Word: Fortitude this is rank based but if you use it on a lower leveled player it will automatically use the highest rank of spell that can be used - this spell lasts either 30 minutes or until you die if you die within that time,
Power Word: Shield is as the name suggest gives you the ability to shield yourself or others from some damage - this is depends on the rank of spell you have and also on a few well placed talent points in the discipline tree which give it a boost in it's damage absorbing capability.
There is also the classic Fade which as it suggests makes you fade out for a short time discouraging your enemies from attacking you, touch of weakness (undead and blood elves only) or hex of weakness (trolls only) this will reduce the amount of damage dealt by the enemy affected by an amount dependent on what rank of the spell is used the higher the rank the more the damage is reduced by.
Psychic scream - as the name suggest it's designed to cause an small number of enemies flee from around about you, this increase with the rank of the spell, sometimes useful when you need to escape quickly and can do so safely, sometims it's not as these you caused to flee sometimes come back with friends :-S.
There is also mind soothe, an nice spell that reduces the range at which you'll annoy the humanoid creature you use it on, can only be used on humans or humanoid classed creatures.
There is also the rather nice ability of being able to charm and mind control another humanoid creature can come in real hand when you find an enemy player and there is a cliff near enough to use - the fun when you use this spell and throw them off and there is nothing they can do about it, so a hint if a priest ever asks you to dual make sure that you aren't anywhere high up....
Now that you've read all that and see wow maybe I could play a priest, the bad news - you can only ever wear cloth, because you wear cloth you never really have much hit points and don't even think of getting up close and personal with your enemy as you really can't do much damage in hand to hand combat or melee as it's known, and finally if your going to regularly heal in a party quick reflexes are a must to balance between using one healing or another and who to try and keep alive.
Oh yeah I almost forgot here am I saying you can't do damage close up and not telling you what weapons you can use.
The weapons are as follows: Staves which requires using both hands at once, One-Handed maces which allows you to put something else in your other hand to help out, daggers again something can go in the other hand and wands which you can equip much like a bow, thrown weapons and the like for a rouge.
More tomorrow....
Okay as you'd expect this class is a master at healing and preserving the wellbeing of themselves and their party, also partly shielding them in battle from some of the damage they take and in at the end of the fight resurrecting their fallen friends so they might fight once more. While it's true this class has a good array of healing spells, even the holiest of holy priests can still do some damage if required, they have attack spells okay not many 5 to be exact, 2 holy and 3 shadow although you don't get the last one until near the end and it has to be used very carefully. The spells are Smite takes a 1 or so to cast does a modest amount of damage, Holy fire as the name suggest hits them from above for a moderate amount of damage which continues over the next 8 seconds where additional damage is dealt to your enemy otherwise known as Damage Over Time aka a DOT. Your 3 shadow spells are Shadow Word: Pain - instantly cast and deals DOT, Mind Blast takes a second or so to cast deal a modest amount of damage - a bit like a shadow version of smite, now on to the shadow last spell everyone gets - Shadow Word: Death now this little spell will get you either out of trouble or right in it deeper as if the creature your fighting DOESN'T die when you cast this instant cast spell, you take the damage on yourself - now this can becuase it does deal damage but not enough to kill the creature or the creature gets lucky and resists the spell entirely which does happen :-S now as you can imagine firing this off and having it hit you could actually kill you, hmm "puts hand up" I've been there done that,got the T-Shirt and Starred in that freaky Video.
Now not all priest choose to go holy some choose to go to the dark side and become shadow priests now these can do masses more damage, stun their enemies, not only heal themselves with spells that are dealing damage to the enemy but anyone in their party as well through the talent of shadows embrace, you also get a special form called shadow form which increase the amount of damage your shadow spells can do by 15% and at the same time reduces the amount of damage taken by 15% although you can't heal in this form nor cast any spell classed as "holy", this is a talent from within the shadow talent tree.
There are other spells that don't actually do any damage in themselves but can help
keep you alive a little longer, there is the ability to add some stamina to yourself and others though the spell Power Word: Fortitude this is rank based but if you use it on a lower leveled player it will automatically use the highest rank of spell that can be used - this spell lasts either 30 minutes or until you die if you die within that time,
Power Word: Shield is as the name suggest gives you the ability to shield yourself or others from some damage - this is depends on the rank of spell you have and also on a few well placed talent points in the discipline tree which give it a boost in it's damage absorbing capability.
There is also the classic Fade which as it suggests makes you fade out for a short time discouraging your enemies from attacking you, touch of weakness (undead and blood elves only) or hex of weakness (trolls only) this will reduce the amount of damage dealt by the enemy affected by an amount dependent on what rank of the spell is used the higher the rank the more the damage is reduced by.
Psychic scream - as the name suggest it's designed to cause an small number of enemies flee from around about you, this increase with the rank of the spell, sometimes useful when you need to escape quickly and can do so safely, sometims it's not as these you caused to flee sometimes come back with friends :-S.
There is also mind soothe, an nice spell that reduces the range at which you'll annoy the humanoid creature you use it on, can only be used on humans or humanoid classed creatures.
There is also the rather nice ability of being able to charm and mind control another humanoid creature can come in real hand when you find an enemy player and there is a cliff near enough to use - the fun when you use this spell and throw them off and there is nothing they can do about it, so a hint if a priest ever asks you to dual make sure that you aren't anywhere high up....
Now that you've read all that and see wow maybe I could play a priest, the bad news - you can only ever wear cloth, because you wear cloth you never really have much hit points and don't even think of getting up close and personal with your enemy as you really can't do much damage in hand to hand combat or melee as it's known, and finally if your going to regularly heal in a party quick reflexes are a must to balance between using one healing or another and who to try and keep alive.
Oh yeah I almost forgot here am I saying you can't do damage close up and not telling you what weapons you can use.
The weapons are as follows: Staves which requires using both hands at once, One-Handed maces which allows you to put something else in your other hand to help out, daggers again something can go in the other hand and wands which you can equip much like a bow, thrown weapons and the like for a rouge.
More tomorrow....
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Wow - Not on a Sunday II
Yet another sunday break from World of Warcraft...
The question this time is:
Now for me is a tricky one as I think even from birth god has been close by, even when I wasn't sure of myself he was there gently guiding. I don't go to church, I don't feel the need to go is all. God can't be everywhere at once so he sent angels instead we call these friends or sibilings or if we are really lucky both.
Now it's over to you - I know this is a brief one from me but that is it really my life isn't my own anyway.
The question this time is:
When was a time in your life that you felt closest to God? Thanks go to John for this one
Now for me is a tricky one as I think even from birth god has been close by, even when I wasn't sure of myself he was there gently guiding. I don't go to church, I don't feel the need to go is all. God can't be everywhere at once so he sent angels instead we call these friends or sibilings or if we are really lucky both.
Now it's over to you - I know this is a brief one from me but that is it really my life isn't my own anyway.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
WoW - Class: Rogue
Now what could be said about rogues, well for a start they can't use plate or mail armour, it's kinda hard to sneak around wearing plate it was a real drag, so you can wear cloth or leather armour only, leather being prefered as it will absorb a bit more damage from things hitting you.
You are therefore a lightly armoured close range attacker, capable of dealing mass damage to your enemies in a flurry of attacks. You are the master of stealth and assassination, passing by your enemies unseen and then striking them from the shadows, then if required escaping from combat in the blink of an eye. Your a crafter of various poisons to slow, deal damage too and generally reduce the effectiveness of your enemies in battle. Some quests require a group of 2 to 5 players and normally you'll come in real handy in those groups. Other skills you can get are lockpicking, allowing you to open locked doors, chests and boxes you find along the way, although you do require a certain skill level to be able to open some doors, you can also disarm hidden traps as well.
Talking of skills for every level you gain you also get to increase the skill level you can have with various weapons and your lock picking by 5 so by level 60 your maximum skill with say lockpicking would be 300.
Now to weapons, what weapons can you use as a rouge, you can be default if you like use daggers and thrown weapons such as throwing knives, throwing axes. You can also train to aquire the skill to use the following weapons from the weapons trainer who are located in the major cities around the map, these are swords, bows, crossbows, maces, guns and fist weapons - think knuckle dusters if you like, when you learn how to wield that weapons you skill level for that weapon automatically starts at 1 so if you plan on use it, go find a few creatures you should be able to easily kill and practice on them with that new found skill, bows, crossbows & guns require ammo to be carried as well as the weapon so you lose some bag space when carrying it, you could get an ammo pouch for your bullets or a quiver for you arrows but you lose 1 bag slot for this and you can only carry 5 bags at a time, each bag can hold up to 20 spaces or slot but the bags above 14 slots tend to be more expensive to buy / aquire as they require more expensive materials to make them.
Now your a rogue so you don't need to drink any water to regain any mana you have a fixed pool of energy (100) which does regenerate fast but sometimes not fast enough.
Some of the skills you will use at some point are now going to be outlined.
Eviscerate - deals a good amount of damage over and above your weapons own damage, adds 1 combo point - more on combo points later, uses some of your energy up.
Backstab - Deals a considerable amount of damage from your weapon, it does require a dagger to be in your main hand to use also requires as you'd expect for you to be behind the enemy, a good start move from stealth before you get some other skills, again adds 1 combo point.
Gouge - Kinda the opposite of backstab - it stuns your enemy for a time, doing only a small damage this time, adds 1 combo point, this doesn't work it the enemey is taking any damage from magic spells or posions, uses a small amount of your energy.
Sinister Strike - One of the first finishing moves you get, does more damage the more combo points you have (up to 5 on your current target) and on what rank of skill you have, uses a smallish amount of your energy
Sap - A vital talent to master - sap can only be used from stealth and comes in handy when you need to kill several creatures at once but don't think you can handle them all at once, it stuns the target for 25 seconds and if done right means you can fight another target and kill them within that time and go back into stealth and walk away without them even knowing what happened, uses a small amount of energy.
Cheap Shot - Awards 2 combo points, can only be done from stealth - this one stuns the target for 4 seconds regardless of how much damage is being done to them, if your in a party with another rogue it is possible to chain cheap shot so to speak so the target is stunned for 8 seconds, uses a considerable amount of your energy to use though.
Ambush is another from stealth attack - this adds 1 combo point and like backstab you need to behind the target to use it, deals more damage than backstab but not as much as could be carried out with cheapshot.
Blind - A skill you aquire later on once you have reached a certain level, allows with the use of blinding power to blind the enemy for 10 seconds - handy when your low on health and they have no damage effects on them, allowing you to bandage up or drink a health potion.
Sprint - Increases your speed by 40% for 15 seconds allowing you to run away from the fight - sometimes very handy, cooldown on this talent is 5 minutes, although this can be altered through your talent tree.
Vanish - A skill that allows you to literally vanish, this skill requires you carry flash power about, it has a cooldown of 5 minutes but can be reset if you get the correct talent in the talent tree as there is one that allows you to instantly reuse this talent as well as sprint and others.
I was going to talk about the talent trees but having properly looked at them it would be a very long and boring post :P
Your class has the following strengths:
Your stealth abilities allow you to reach places more easily than most classes,
You can create and use poisons to damage or slow enemies,
You can deal a very high amount of melee damage potentially,
You can pick locks,
You have effective means of escaping battle with sprint, vanish, and blind.
Your weaknesses are:
You cannot give yourself or your party anything that will increase the parties overall health, mana pool, resistance to various spells and so forth like many other classes can.
You cannot heal yourself other than by using healing potions or learning first aid which I will talk about later on, and healing yourself with a bandage.
You are restricted as I've said before to wearing either cloth or leather.
Now the following would have no effect on your class if given, the mage intellect buff or any item which has + intellect on it, no use you don't use mana.
You really want items with +strength, +stamina and/or +agility - as these are the 3 that control overall the amount of damage you can do, how much health you have and how likely you are to dodge, parry or otherwise avoid an attack.
It's one of those things you need to really see to understand it's actually quite hard to explain things that come to me as automatic in the game as I do have a rouge in the game itself.
Tomorrow - Blog Fodder :p
You are therefore a lightly armoured close range attacker, capable of dealing mass damage to your enemies in a flurry of attacks. You are the master of stealth and assassination, passing by your enemies unseen and then striking them from the shadows, then if required escaping from combat in the blink of an eye. Your a crafter of various poisons to slow, deal damage too and generally reduce the effectiveness of your enemies in battle. Some quests require a group of 2 to 5 players and normally you'll come in real handy in those groups. Other skills you can get are lockpicking, allowing you to open locked doors, chests and boxes you find along the way, although you do require a certain skill level to be able to open some doors, you can also disarm hidden traps as well.
Talking of skills for every level you gain you also get to increase the skill level you can have with various weapons and your lock picking by 5 so by level 60 your maximum skill with say lockpicking would be 300.
Now to weapons, what weapons can you use as a rouge, you can be default if you like use daggers and thrown weapons such as throwing knives, throwing axes. You can also train to aquire the skill to use the following weapons from the weapons trainer who are located in the major cities around the map, these are swords, bows, crossbows, maces, guns and fist weapons - think knuckle dusters if you like, when you learn how to wield that weapons you skill level for that weapon automatically starts at 1 so if you plan on use it, go find a few creatures you should be able to easily kill and practice on them with that new found skill, bows, crossbows & guns require ammo to be carried as well as the weapon so you lose some bag space when carrying it, you could get an ammo pouch for your bullets or a quiver for you arrows but you lose 1 bag slot for this and you can only carry 5 bags at a time, each bag can hold up to 20 spaces or slot but the bags above 14 slots tend to be more expensive to buy / aquire as they require more expensive materials to make them.
Now your a rogue so you don't need to drink any water to regain any mana you have a fixed pool of energy (100) which does regenerate fast but sometimes not fast enough.
Some of the skills you will use at some point are now going to be outlined.
Eviscerate - deals a good amount of damage over and above your weapons own damage, adds 1 combo point - more on combo points later, uses some of your energy up.
Backstab - Deals a considerable amount of damage from your weapon, it does require a dagger to be in your main hand to use also requires as you'd expect for you to be behind the enemy, a good start move from stealth before you get some other skills, again adds 1 combo point.
Gouge - Kinda the opposite of backstab - it stuns your enemy for a time, doing only a small damage this time, adds 1 combo point, this doesn't work it the enemey is taking any damage from magic spells or posions, uses a small amount of your energy.
Sinister Strike - One of the first finishing moves you get, does more damage the more combo points you have (up to 5 on your current target) and on what rank of skill you have, uses a smallish amount of your energy
Sap - A vital talent to master - sap can only be used from stealth and comes in handy when you need to kill several creatures at once but don't think you can handle them all at once, it stuns the target for 25 seconds and if done right means you can fight another target and kill them within that time and go back into stealth and walk away without them even knowing what happened, uses a small amount of energy.
Cheap Shot - Awards 2 combo points, can only be done from stealth - this one stuns the target for 4 seconds regardless of how much damage is being done to them, if your in a party with another rogue it is possible to chain cheap shot so to speak so the target is stunned for 8 seconds, uses a considerable amount of your energy to use though.
Ambush is another from stealth attack - this adds 1 combo point and like backstab you need to behind the target to use it, deals more damage than backstab but not as much as could be carried out with cheapshot.
Blind - A skill you aquire later on once you have reached a certain level, allows with the use of blinding power to blind the enemy for 10 seconds - handy when your low on health and they have no damage effects on them, allowing you to bandage up or drink a health potion.
Sprint - Increases your speed by 40% for 15 seconds allowing you to run away from the fight - sometimes very handy, cooldown on this talent is 5 minutes, although this can be altered through your talent tree.
Vanish - A skill that allows you to literally vanish, this skill requires you carry flash power about, it has a cooldown of 5 minutes but can be reset if you get the correct talent in the talent tree as there is one that allows you to instantly reuse this talent as well as sprint and others.
I was going to talk about the talent trees but having properly looked at them it would be a very long and boring post :P
Your class has the following strengths:
Your stealth abilities allow you to reach places more easily than most classes,
You can create and use poisons to damage or slow enemies,
You can deal a very high amount of melee damage potentially,
You can pick locks,
You have effective means of escaping battle with sprint, vanish, and blind.
Your weaknesses are:
You cannot give yourself or your party anything that will increase the parties overall health, mana pool, resistance to various spells and so forth like many other classes can.
You cannot heal yourself other than by using healing potions or learning first aid which I will talk about later on, and healing yourself with a bandage.
You are restricted as I've said before to wearing either cloth or leather.
Now the following would have no effect on your class if given, the mage intellect buff or any item which has + intellect on it, no use you don't use mana.
You really want items with +strength, +stamina and/or +agility - as these are the 3 that control overall the amount of damage you can do, how much health you have and how likely you are to dodge, parry or otherwise avoid an attack.
It's one of those things you need to really see to understand it's actually quite hard to explain things that come to me as automatic in the game as I do have a rouge in the game itself.
Tomorrow - Blog Fodder :p
Friday, November 09, 2007
WoW - Classes an Intro (Delayed from yesterday)
Before we get on to talking about individual classes, I thought I better cover a bit about trainers, talent trees and the like which I will go more in depth with for each of the classes.
There are a few ways you can do more damage, they are:
1) Getting newer gear that is more suitable for your level and has bonuses on it such as bonus stamina, strength, agility, spirit, intellect, attack power etc.
2) Gaining a new level this will put up your strength, stamina, agility, spirit, intellect, hit points and if applicable your mana pool, even if your on low hit points and/or mana when you get your new level these are instantly replenished to full, really useful when fight lots of creatures or mobs and your getting low on health / mana.
3) Talents and new spells / ability or newer ranks of existing spells / abilities.
Each classes has a specific trainer they need to find in order to learn new skills, when you start a new character, one of the quests you get is go find someone, normally around level 3-4 and this is normally the trainer where you can get some new skills or spells depending on your class.
There isn't just that trainer, there are more class specific trainers all over the map normally in the main cities or in nearby villages. Although this isn't the case for professions which I'm only briefly going to talk about.
Now each class has 3 talent trees where they can put talent points into from level 10 onward, now these trees are class specific as the mage trees are arcane, fire and frost - the 3 main disciplines of a mage, the priest trees are discipline, holy and shadow - again the 3 main disciplines of a priest.
Now each tree has it's use - do more damage and in return generate more threat or aggro which is sometimes wanted often not as you may not want the creature / monster / mob coming and taking a swipe at you, I'll discuss this more when I talk about the individual classes, generate less threat which is good, and is generally called "survivability". There are various "builds" as they are called which work, sometimes your best working out what you think is best and if it works it works if it doesn't it can be a pain to redo, as it is possible to blank out you talent trees and start again but this costs you your hard earned money to unlearn.
Each of these talents has an end talent called a 41-point talent as it requires 40 points of your talent points to be placed in that single tree, it's sometimes worth the effort but you only have so many talent points to spend, 1 per level from level 10 onwards a total of 61 points so it's a case of sacrificing something somewhere down another tree to get that talent.
Now I have that out the way lets talk skills :D, every 2 levels up to level 60 and sometimes every level up to 70 depending on your class you can learn new skills or update you current ones as I've said before, generally a new skill will give you something else to help you attack, heal if your a healing class and various others, if it's an upgrade to a current skill then generally it will give you a boost in that skill maybe do more damage or heal more.
I hope this helps explain what I will start posting about tomorrow when I'll start with the rogue class.
There are a few ways you can do more damage, they are:
1) Getting newer gear that is more suitable for your level and has bonuses on it such as bonus stamina, strength, agility, spirit, intellect, attack power etc.
2) Gaining a new level this will put up your strength, stamina, agility, spirit, intellect, hit points and if applicable your mana pool, even if your on low hit points and/or mana when you get your new level these are instantly replenished to full, really useful when fight lots of creatures or mobs and your getting low on health / mana.
3) Talents and new spells / ability or newer ranks of existing spells / abilities.
Each classes has a specific trainer they need to find in order to learn new skills, when you start a new character, one of the quests you get is go find someone, normally around level 3-4 and this is normally the trainer where you can get some new skills or spells depending on your class.
There isn't just that trainer, there are more class specific trainers all over the map normally in the main cities or in nearby villages. Although this isn't the case for professions which I'm only briefly going to talk about.
Now each class has 3 talent trees where they can put talent points into from level 10 onward, now these trees are class specific as the mage trees are arcane, fire and frost - the 3 main disciplines of a mage, the priest trees are discipline, holy and shadow - again the 3 main disciplines of a priest.
Now each tree has it's use - do more damage and in return generate more threat or aggro which is sometimes wanted often not as you may not want the creature / monster / mob coming and taking a swipe at you, I'll discuss this more when I talk about the individual classes, generate less threat which is good, and is generally called "survivability". There are various "builds" as they are called which work, sometimes your best working out what you think is best and if it works it works if it doesn't it can be a pain to redo, as it is possible to blank out you talent trees and start again but this costs you your hard earned money to unlearn.
Each of these talents has an end talent called a 41-point talent as it requires 40 points of your talent points to be placed in that single tree, it's sometimes worth the effort but you only have so many talent points to spend, 1 per level from level 10 onwards a total of 61 points so it's a case of sacrificing something somewhere down another tree to get that talent.
Now I have that out the way lets talk skills :D, every 2 levels up to level 60 and sometimes every level up to 70 depending on your class you can learn new skills or update you current ones as I've said before, generally a new skill will give you something else to help you attack, heal if your a healing class and various others, if it's an upgrade to a current skill then generally it will give you a boost in that skill maybe do more damage or heal more.
I hope this helps explain what I will start posting about tomorrow when I'll start with the rogue class.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
ugh!
I'm not feeling 100% so I'm going to give the wow post a miss for tonight, but it will be back tomorrow night do not fear dear reader(s)...
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