Rangers - and elementalists

[mellicious]

I got home from class in time to see the Rangers win, woo! I'm not sure where along the line during the last year I became a Rangers fan - I think it was partly because my DV-R didn't know the difference between Astros games and Rangers games, so it recorded the Rangers games periodically when they turned up on Fox Sports Houston, and I usually watched them. Also, there's the whole Nolan Ryan factor. Nolan looks a lot like my dad these days, which isn't particularly a recommendation, but the man could pitch - actually it appears that he still can pitch, if you look at that "ceremonial" first pitch he threw the other day - and it also seems that he can run a baseball team. And of course there's also the fact that they're playing the Yankees (sorry, Robert). I'm not sure when I became so anti-Yankee; I haven't always been that, either.

(I still hate the Cowboys, though; that one's not likely to change any time soon.)


I haven't written about online games in ages - well, I haven't written about anything much this year, admittedly, but that's another story. Anyway, we have abandoned DDO (which we in turn abandoned LOTRO for a while back) temporarily in favor of Guild Wars. This was not really columbina's choice; I have Issues with DDO which he doesn't seem to share - it may be a Win7 thing, we never have quite figured it out - and while I'm not ready to give up on DDO, I was not enjoying it too much. I'm sort of hoping they will eventually fix this, but in the meantime, GW2 is supposed to come out someday relatively soon (they are still being coy about exactly when) and they have been releasing some new content in GW in anticipation of that. And there arewill be goodies available in GW2 that depend on how much stuff you have in your Hall of Monuments in Eye of the North, which is probably the big thing that lured me back.

There is a Calculator for figuring out how many goodies you're going to get on the GW2 site. I was at 15 points (out of a possible 50) when I first looked a couple of weeks ago, and I'm already up to 21. Forty or fifty points isn't realistic for me after the two-year layoff, but the rewards run out at 30, anyway, and that might actually be doable. My "to do list" says I can get to 30 with two more titles (like finishing the original Prophecies game, which I never did do), 2 hero statues (I have lots of heroes; the trick to getting the statue is to get them fancy armor), a rare pet, and 5 fancy weapons. If I really work on it, that might be doable.

Comments

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Progress: one hero statue down.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

You know very few people will get the joke in your title.

Also: Let's hear it for Cliff Lee! Let's hear it for 8-0 games against the Yankees! HOORAY

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

The games against Lee I expected the Yanks to lose. That means they can afford to lose exactly one additional game, which they managed to do through a poor performance by Hughes on Saturday. That means there's no margin for error, which is not a good sign with Burnett on the mound tonight. If the Yanks are to win the series, they must win in six games (shades of the Mets-Astros in '86 -- you knew that if the Mets didn't win in six, they'd lose in seven to Mike Scott and his sp[l]itter.

About the only thing I can tell you that will make you eat your liver at this point is that I'm going tonight. If one is looking for a singleton, one can usually find it, even for a hot ticket like a Yankee playoff game.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I will say this in fairness: if the Yankees do manage to win this series they will have earned it fair and square.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

I used to get wonderful tickets at the Astrodome when I went by myself. (I imagine you can still get them nowadays, it just costs a lot more, and I haven't tried.)

1986 is still discussed often in Houston, and yes, the assumption is usually that if we could have just gotten to game 7 we would have won. We came so, so close.