kathygnome | Weekend Update: Crawling to the Rifts

So it was another weekend. I never got lunch so when I finished up at the DPW on friday a bit after 3, I took it at the end of the day and headed home. It was a nice little extra tidbit.

I really got my rift on this weekend. The last patch put in a server only LFD tool. I'd prefer an old fashioned LFG system like every other game except the one that shall not be named has, but nobody asked me. It's not that bad, though the wowites are screaming bloody murder that it needs to be cross shard so they can grind out dungeons with a 10 second wait. Honestly, it's rather funny. I see these people screaming there was nothing wrong with the one in WoW and they go off and insult and belittle anyone who feels, as I do, that it degrade the community even worse than it had been. And then I figured it out, they really don't see that the LFD made things more anti-social because these are the very people we didn't want to deal with!

Anyway, I didn't run into any of them. But I did get a bunch of groups. Only one was purely through the LFD tool, but it is helpful for adding the last one or two members to a group. The one I got purely through LFD, I was in a group with three other clerics and I actually got picked up as DPS on my cleric. I'm not very good at it. Saturday I healed an instance for some guildies and then I found a PUG with my warrior. I tanked a dungeon. Did pretty good. A few bad pulls and wipes, but that's part of the game. And we all enjoyed ourselves so much that one of the people swapped out for his slightly higher level tank and I swapped to DPS and we did the next dungeon. (We were a little high for the first one and a little low for the second.) Very nice folks and we succeeded. My warrior is incredible DPS, but I ended up dead more than a few times because I have zero ranged attacks at the moment.

Sunday I barely gamed at all. I wanted to give Janna a day off from Nora and she was very grateful. That was our day for some serious cookery. I'd made whole wheat pizza on saturday, which was fine, but we had a serious plan for some Asian food. Janna made summer rolls, the raw rice paper stuffed with salad style raw veggies, Thai rolls. And then I made some pork shu mai. And then Janna made up some incredible scallion pancakes. I've never had these before other than at cheezy buffets where they were, really unappetizing. These were incredible. Then we finished it with ants on a tree, which I made, but Janna had found the recipe for. We actually found szechuan peppercorns at the local hippie dippie store, which was great. It's very very hard to find any sort of Asian ingredients on Cape. (The rice paper wrappers for the summer rolls we actually had to mail order.) And we don't really have any sort of authentic food in restaurants either--we barely have un-authentic "Szechuan" food for that matter. It was good. Really good.

And sometime in the middle of all of this I looked over at Nora scuttling around on the floor and she pushed herself up onto her knees and actually did a couple of proper crawl "steps." She hasn't repeated it, but it's only a matter of time. It was kind of shocking to see and I could easily have missed it. Other than that, a fairly normal weekend for her. She's pretty good about entertaining herself now and we have a bunch of plush toys from Ikea. Not that you can leave her or anything, but you don't have to be engaged all the time.