This week has been pretty slow. I’ve spent a few days visiting my parents,
which has been nice because I lived like a hobbit for the last month or so of
school. Today (Saturday), I managed to
get some items ready to be listed on eBay, which is an achievement considering
the last few days. Thursday, my middle
son threw up while at my parents (still no idea why), and since that evening,
my littlest has had a fever ranging from 101-102+ degrees. He’s been fussy, but otherwise okay.
I applied to a few jobs locally, and have another possible
opportunity in the pipeline, so that’s good.
I am anxious to get some kind of employment, with the hope of being able
to leave behind apartment living. I
genuinely, truly hate the thought of moving, but living in this apartment is
the pits.
WoW: Pandaland Review
This last Saturday (Sunday?), the husband installed the
newest expansion of the World of Warcraft franchise, The Mists of Pandaria,
which I’ll refer to as “Pandaland”. It’s
my opinion that Pandaland was old before it was even released, due to the
popularity of Kung Fu Panda way back in 2008.
The public has already had martial arts panda characters. Give us something new. Along with the expansion of the world
setting, the Blizzard team further streamlined talent trees and abilities,
which creates less flexibility for a character; it does prevent you from
inadvertently breaking your character, though.
Since we’ve only been playing less than a week, the husband and I have
yet to get into the new dungeons, challenges and scenarios, as well as the pet
battles. The pet battle thing also makes
me sad; it’s like Neopets. Or
Pokemon. If I wanted to do those things,
I would go play Neopets or Pokemon, not WoW. Why did Blizz do this? Why? The more I look at Pandaland, the more I
think that a bunch of execs got into a room and said “this would be cool, let’s
do it!” without really examining the ideas closely.
Also, for whatever reason, the male pandas are quite rotund, while the female pandas are slim. Mind you, by "slim" I mean "normal person", but compared to most of the other races, she is a plus-sized model. The male fanbase demands sexy women, thus the female panda is curvy rather than appropriately plump.
So far, I am not so impressed with the newest expansion. Will update next week.
TV: Ramsay’s Best
Restaurant
I ran out of the British Kitchen Nightmares series on
Netflix, so I started on Gordon Ramsay’s other series, in which he searches for
Britain’s best restaurant. I would be
watching the U.S. version of Kitchen Nightmares, but it isn’t subtitled, which
is a requirement when watching it with children about. Ramsay’s Best Restaurant is all about pitting
one restaurant that serves traditionally styled foods versus one that pushes
the envelope; these restaurants serve the same types of foods (Italian, Indian,
Thai, etc.), but how they go about it is vastly different. Each restaurant is put through a series of
tests, like feeding 30 diners at once, and being visited by a difficult
undercover agent, then one restaurant is allowed in to the semi-final. Nearly all of these restaurants have service
issues, which is pretty staggering considering that these are suppose to be
some of the best in the country. Part of
this is because service is hard to measure, while things like quality and taste
of food isn’t.
Not much else goin’ on this week. Next Saturday is my birthday, and I will make
sure that I take photos of the special cupcakes I’m making. :D
