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So, I have not been online much because I have been depressed and slacking. My old employer decided to fight my unemployment.

Fortunately for me, they have the collective IQ of a slightly retarded mosquito because the way they chose to fight it is full of error and half truth. On the plus side for me, they did not follow proper procedure when they fired me, making it likely that I will be able to win my dispute and collect benefits. In the mean time, things are getting tough.

Anyway…back to what you came to read about. Warcraft.

I have to admit a weakness…I’m an achievement junkie. I set my sights on the harder ones, figuring the easy ones will just happen. So, I have not tried for any of the Northrend heroic achievements, because our guild is progressing thru the heroics quickly and it is just a matter of time before they happen.

Two weeks ago I spent all day grinding ogres in Nagrand for Kurnai rep and got my mount.

A while back I spent two days grinding Strath for Argent Dawn rep. The butt load of cloth I got from that turned in got me the rest of the way to exalted with Exodar.

Last Friday morning I realized that I needed to work on rep with Cenarion Circle. As of 9am Friday I was just over half way thru honored. I was 8K into revered when I logged out that night. Saturday I didn’t do anything there. Sunday afternoon I headed back and before I went to bed that night I hit exalted giving me that achievement.

The 100+ stacks of runecloth that got me put me a pretty good chunk of the way thru revered with Gnomerang Exiles.

I sat in the AH buying random bits of meat to get the achievement for cooking every recipe in Outlands. For weeks I have been buying every recipe in the AH, and am VERY close to the 160 recipes.

Today I’m going to get back in and head to underbog and solo around for rep with Sporeggar.

One of the big changes in the patch (to me) is that you will get more rep for killing low level mobs that are grey to you. This change means I’ll be going to Winterspring and working on frostsaber and Timbermaw rep.

Wish me luck.

Save the Polar Bears

I just saw a commercial that made me sad to be a human.

Noah Wiley was on there talking about how polar bears are dying due to global warming.

First, I’ll ignore the fact that I don’t personally believe in man made global warming.  For the sake of this post I will suspend that disbelief.

He said that polar bears will die off during “Our Children’s Lifetime” and that for just $16 a month they could save the polar bears.

Now, first I would like to quote someone that is NOT an actor.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508132549.htm

“In fact, the polar bear populations have been increasing rapidly in recent decades due to hunting restrictions.”

http://newsbusters.org/node/12694

“Despite all the carping and whining by folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his not so merry band of sycophant devotees about global warming killing polar bears, there is actually a baby boom occurring in this species in Canada’s eastern Arctic”

So, the population is NOT decreasing.

But, again, I’ll even let THAT slide.

Here is the part that left me sitting there with my mouth open.

They are saying that Global Warming is killing polar bears, and that for just $16 a month they will save the polar bears.  Even if EVERY man woman and child on the Entire Planet gave that $16 a month (by the way, which is less than some people make a month in many parts of the world) that would be just over 1.2 Billion dollars.

In 2007 US congressed passed a bill that gives 27.6 Billion to environmental work.

Even if they somehow magically got every human to send in the $16 a month, they are saying that with their measly 1.2 Billion they will be able to completely stomp out global warming?

SERIOUSLY!  Who comes up with this crap!

I do not want to sound like I burn baby seals to heat my SUV or anything.  I buy in bulk to avoid a lot of excess packaging.  I recycle.  I plan shopping trips to minimize driving, but that is because I’m cheap, and gas is not.

When someone talks, LISTEN.  Think about what they say.