Weekend SummaryFollow

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Well, it's Monday and all of us Americans are down an hour's sleep. Do you guys in Europe do daylight savings time too?

Anyway, how did you do on your goals?

Real Life:
I took my son to the Easter Egg hunt. He had a blast and got a lot of candy. We're going back to the mall in a couple weeks to take Easter pics.

WoW:
As expected, I didn't even log onto WoW. I honestly can't see myself logging on anymore, especially if my only good friend still playing switches over to SW:TOR.

I got my mage up to 85 finally. That makes all 10 on my main Ally server, one of each class.

No idea what to do now aside from dinking around leveling hordies, which is what I spent the rest of my time doing.

Apparently Mexico and Canada also have DST, except for British Columbia and Saskatchewan. In the U.S. Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that do not observe it. Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and America Samoa are U.S. territories that do not observe DST.

In other parts of the world, according to http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html:

...in 1996, members of the European Union agreed to observe a "summer-time period" from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.

Most countries near the equator don't deviate from standard time.

In the Southern Hemisphere, where summer arrives in what we in the Northern Hemisphere consider the winter months, DST is observed from late October to late March.

Three large regions in Australia do not participate in DST. Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland stay on standard time all year. The remaining south-central and southeastern sections of the continent (which is where Sydney and Melbourne are found) make the switch. This results in both vertical and horizontal time zones Down Under during the summer months.

I was surprised so many other areas of the world observe DST. I agree it is pointless and imo, a nuisance. A friend of mine said in a recent email: "Daylight Savings" Time...might better be called "Pay More for Air Conditioning in the Evening and Electric Lights in the Morning for Eight Months" Time."

WoW - Completed the Stratholme dungeon, which was interesting and a bit confusing since I didn't realize it is basically two instances in two different locations in the Eastern Plaguelands. After soloing my way through packs of various types of undead, the groups of mages/necromancers protecting the crystals, ogres, Ramstein the Gorger and a battalion of mobs sent by Aurius Rivendare, not to mention pesky rats and insects, I was surprised that my final fight - Aurius Rivendare, who summons packs of skeletons intermittently during the fight, was actually one of the easier mobs for me to take down.

After that run I spent a good amount of time going through the loot to decide what to keep, what to vendor, and what to place on the AH. Began doing The Hinterland quests. Completed fishing dailies.

I did some of all of that - kind of....
We didn't get to LK in ICC 25 before running out of time. We were running it through on heroic but got held up at Putricide because of coordination issues. >.> We also discovered that someone had turned off the buff (I know - we shouldn't need that at 85 but...).

I added a few more pieces to my lowbie Warrior's outfit. It's not transmog since the stuff is level appropriate but he looks awesome in 4/5 Deathbone plus the matching boots. I'm still trying to get the Deathbone boots on him though even though the ones from Rattlegore match the colors of the chest and legs. I'm still trying for the sword off of the summoned Ogre boss in Scholo too (which my main can summon). This whole project of leveling slow, doing all the zones and turning off experience is quite fun. I can actually farm special items without having him be over their level by the time he gets them. He got his first title "Ambassador" at level 40 so I don't even have to remember to put city rep tabards on him anymore.

My alchemist turned up a Dwarf rare to work on while doing Arch in Kalimdor while trying for the recipe. I will probably finish that before I even see another Canopic Jar at the rate she is going. I did some Arch on my main as well but I haven't turned up anything new and exciting (he's missing 4 rares).

I didn't do too much alt leveling though I did ding a level on my elemental Shaman while questing in Hellfire on him.

I didn't do much recipe farming though I did pick up a recipe that my main tailor didn't have that dropped in Scholo off of Gandling. Yay

BC has DST as well, found it very hard to get up Sunday and Monday after turning clocks forward on Saturday night. Was also fretting about whether my Shaw Gateway box was going to reset it's time on Sunday, which it finally did at 6:30pm.

Managed to get the rest of my toons into Darkmoon Faire briefly on Saturday, so at least they had the guide and Test Your Strength quest to work on until the next Faire. Didn't get much else accomplished this weekend, other than fishing the pools around the island for many dozens of Sealed Crates with contents worth several thousand gold.

Fun times.

I think I'm going to just stop posting on gaming forums. *sighs*