{"id":810,"date":"2007-02-21T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/21\/im-back-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T05:24:26","slug":"im-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/21\/im-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much has changed since I last checked in to the good old Recycle Bin. I now have a 70 priest on the Arathor server. Haven\u2019t explored a lot of the instances yet because I\u2019ve been working on my tailor skills. There are a lot of nice healer patterns available for mooncloth tailors in The Burning Crusade. So I check in during the day, kill a few spiders for netherweb silk, and wait for the four, that\u2019s right FOUR, day clock to reset so that I can make two new mooncloth. I need about 30 or so to finish my robes.<\/p>\n

Typical OOTP hype is swirling through the forums. I pre-ordered because wasting $28 is better than wasting $35. Everybody is telling me it\u2019s the greatest thing since sliced bread. But we\u2019ll see. One of the loudest beta critics on the 2006 team seems happy with 2007, so keep hope alive.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve mentioned it on this site before, but by far the best thing written about gaming is found at The Escapist<\/a>. Other than a few blogs and forums here and there, it is the only other gaming writing that I read these days. The site has gotten fancier over the year, or so it seems, but I don\u2019t visit the site that much. Instead, the magazine is emailed to me every month. If you don\u2019t like intelligent writing and would rather see flashing women in bikinis ads, don\u2019t bother with The Escapist as it\u2019s bound to disappoint.<\/p>\n

Clay Dreslough contacted me out of the blue about reviewing the next version of Baseball Mogul or the current Football Mogul offering. Normally I refuse to do such things, but Mr. Dreslough is one of the baseball career text sim founding fathers, so how can I refuse him? I told him I\u2019d put the review here, so we\u2019ll see if he follows up, hehe. With PureSim\u2019s demise I\u2019m softening up a bit on baseball reviews since who knows what Sports Interactive will cough up with Out of the Park Baseball? Plus Mr. Dreslough worked on Tony LaRussa Baseball 3 and that\u2019s baseball gaming royalty as far as I am concerned.<\/p>\n

In other news, I dusted off my 35mm camera and initially decided to get into digital photography. I was thinking about this today \u2013 I used to be a photography nut. I worked in dark rooms, I knew which chemicals did what, I rolled film, all sorts of stuff. At some point I just forgot about photography. My wife would say it was when girls started to notice me (and I them), but that\u2019s another conversation. I wanted to pick it up again a few years ago and purchased a Nikon N70 35mm camera. I shot two rolls of slide film with the camera and put it away for a long time.<\/p>\n

My youngest daughter is a soccer phenom (known as \u201csweet feet\u201d to her friends and the reporters on the U7 beat). You\u2019ll get that joke if you know what U7 is. I wanted to start recording her assent to the women\u2019s US National Team and thought a digital camera was the way to go. The more I played with my film camera, the more I decided that digital just wasn\u2019t for me right now. I\u2019ll probably try and find a Nikon D50 body at some point, however, I just enjoy film photography too much.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid my World of Warcraft time will suffer. Such is life.<\/p>\n

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