Sorry about the late post. Being busy all day with the expansion. For some mysterious reason, Fry's Electronics wants to do a invoice write up of individual customer before they'll sell the Collector's Edition. That particular system wasn't working, and I opted just convincing them that they have me on record anyway.
I choose the watery zone of Vashj'ir to start leveling. Hellfire cease fire that we experience during the first expansion was definitely not around this time. Some of the quest was not anticipating the sheer number of players involved. Some pick up item from the floor basically devolved into players clicking as fast as possible. I saw 30 to 50 players of both faction trying to tag the quest mob. And of course, standing on top of the quest NPC to provoke accidental attack is a time honored tradition. Some of my guildy give up questing and opted to just do instance. I ran through 4 instances: Blackrock Cavern twice, Throne of Tide twice, Vortex Pinnacle 3 times and Stonecore once. In the order of difficulty, that is the order. In order for us to queue up using dungeon finder, we have to meet certain criteria, minimum level and gear requirement. We also have to discover the entrance of the dungeon. Most of the are easily found, but Stonecore is a bit of a challenge. You do get send to Deepholme until level 82, and I was tanking BRC and ToT at level 80. I have to be summoned to outside of Stonecore to get into the instance while at level 81.
I also leveled up the new secondary profession Archaeology a bit. It's somewhat tedious, and I haven't gotten anything but vendor trash. It does reward experience point, so it's not a total waste.
113/86/68 250.6lb 89 mg/DL
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Day 119 - Annual Donation Drive to Indian Casino
Today is the first day of my week long vacation. It's also the lastest quarterly followup check with my primary physician. The numbers from the blood test done last Thursday was good, my Glycated hemoglobin is 5, well in range of 4-6 of my lab. As a matter of fact, it's my best number ever. So, I'm officially off Byetta and Metformin. I'll still have another follow up in 3 months, and if that goes well, my check up will be 6 months after that, and then just annual physical examine.
After the doctor's appointment, I took my brother to the company store to do his office Christmas shopping. One particular item jump out and he decided to buy 21 of them, thus finishing all of his shopping in one trip. By the time we got there, the restaurant was switching from breakfast to lunch, so I just have an espresso double shot for breakfast.
And now for the title of this post. I usually take one week off early in December so I can still accrue vacation time. This year happens to coincide with the next Warcraft expansion, so it works out well. On the Monday of every one of these week long vacation, I usually take out the amount of money I'm comfortable donating to the Indian casino and drive there to have lunch and a little bit of gambling. I call it my annual donation drive to the Indian casino because that's really what's happening. I go with my usual method of limited action: put the winning into the winning pile, and when the original pile is through, the gaming is done. I watch as other people come in and casually loose $500 in less than 4 hands. My little pile of money lasted me about 30 minutes, and I have the exact same amount of money as I started. At least the Casino didn't loose their shirt on me, as we have lunch there. No buffet this year as it makes no sense this time around.
118/82/65 250.8lb 96 mg/DL
After the doctor's appointment, I took my brother to the company store to do his office Christmas shopping. One particular item jump out and he decided to buy 21 of them, thus finishing all of his shopping in one trip. By the time we got there, the restaurant was switching from breakfast to lunch, so I just have an espresso double shot for breakfast.
And now for the title of this post. I usually take one week off early in December so I can still accrue vacation time. This year happens to coincide with the next Warcraft expansion, so it works out well. On the Monday of every one of these week long vacation, I usually take out the amount of money I'm comfortable donating to the Indian casino and drive there to have lunch and a little bit of gambling. I call it my annual donation drive to the Indian casino because that's really what's happening. I go with my usual method of limited action: put the winning into the winning pile, and when the original pile is through, the gaming is done. I watch as other people come in and casually loose $500 in less than 4 hands. My little pile of money lasted me about 30 minutes, and I have the exact same amount of money as I started. At least the Casino didn't loose their shirt on me, as we have lunch there. No buffet this year as it makes no sense this time around.
118/82/65 250.8lb 96 mg/DL
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Day 118 - End of Week 17
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Consider the way my weight behaved all week, I'm happy with the very modest 1.2 pound of weight loss. More on that later.
126/84/70 251.6lb 93 mg/DL
Week to Week 1.2lb
Total Weight Loss 76.4lb
Body Mass Index 36.10
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Day 117 - Another Make Up Post
This is yet another make up post. I spend so much time yesterday leveling my gnome priest that this daily posting slipped my mind.
Technically my vacation does not start until Monday December 6, so I have some schedule work related task that I have to do. Lets just say that the work is done, and I considered myself on vacation.
124/92/72/252.4lb 96 mg/DL
Technically my vacation does not start until Monday December 6, so I have some schedule work related task that I have to do. Lets just say that the work is done, and I considered myself on vacation.
124/92/72/252.4lb 96 mg/DL
Friday, December 3, 2010
Day 116 - New Pants, New Belt, New Stomach Sensation?
I posted this over at DiscussWLS, but worth repeating over here at my own blog.
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I tend to wear loose fitting clothing before my surgery, and continue to do so after the surgery inside my own house. With me going through at least 2 different pants size change, I finally dug out older clothing that doesn't have elastic bands around this weekend. I also have to buy new belt, as my current belt will not go with the smaller pants.
I'm day 5 into my new pants/belt experience, and I'm feeling something weird. I've gotten used to how my stomach feel in the past 4 months since surgery. But this current round of clothing change, I'm feeling physically incapable of eating a whole lot more than with my previous clothing. Just tossing this out to see if anyone experience this.
I wrote back in November 27 how farming Mr. Grubbs was different for each one of my max level characters. Well, Fidie got to Eastern Plagueland yesterday, and I did the questing normally, not going out of my way to farm creatures for the pet. The pet dropped out of the third bag of extra loots.
123/89/79 253.4lb 94 mg/DL
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I tend to wear loose fitting clothing before my surgery, and continue to do so after the surgery inside my own house. With me going through at least 2 different pants size change, I finally dug out older clothing that doesn't have elastic bands around this weekend. I also have to buy new belt, as my current belt will not go with the smaller pants.
I'm day 5 into my new pants/belt experience, and I'm feeling something weird. I've gotten used to how my stomach feel in the past 4 months since surgery. But this current round of clothing change, I'm feeling physically incapable of eating a whole lot more than with my previous clothing. Just tossing this out to see if anyone experience this.
I wrote back in November 27 how farming Mr. Grubbs was different for each one of my max level characters. Well, Fidie got to Eastern Plagueland yesterday, and I did the questing normally, not going out of my way to farm creatures for the pet. The pet dropped out of the third bag of extra loots.
123/89/79 253.4lb 94 mg/DL
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Day 115 - On Healing with Gnome Priest in Warcraft
I got my gnome priest up to level 42 last night. Since I had the dual talent specification bought, I might as well use it to heal as my off spec. Mind you, when I started in vanilla World of Warcraft, my one and only max level character is my paladin. Back then, you basically have one option if you raid as paladin, you heal. I got used to just looking at my Grid raid frame and topping everyone off. About 6 months into the first expansion, The Burning Crusade, I got burned off from healing, and switched to tanking (Blizzard finally acknowledge that warrior only tank was not an option, and actually made tanking viable option, albeit, on TBC, paladin was pigeonholed into AoE trash pack that was specifically designed for, Mt. Hyjal). In Wrath of the Lich King, all 3 specs are made viable, so I have my protection spec for raiding, and retribution for my off spec. My my reckoning, it's been at least 2 to 3 years since I heal in either instance or raid.
I figured that I can probably get into random dungeon finder faster if I queue up as a healer. And sure enough, I got into Scarlet Monastery Cathedral. Healing that was not much of an issue, fixing my keybind and Clique setting was. After getting my feet wet, I went back to shadow to dps in the next queue, Mauradan Princess section. The rest of the evening is split between questing and queuing up for more instance as healer and fixing the UI. While I have no problem healing in Uldaman, the last instance I ran in the evening is far more problematic. Scholomance, is a significant step up in terms of difficulty from everything I've done prior on this character. For one thing, the trash pack has fearing or knock back ability that will wipe the party. Crowd control is recommended if you got one in the party. For another thing, no one in the party except me have actually been to the place before, and I became the party leader to do crowd control and pulling. We wipe 3 times, but I feel that it's time well spend.
On other news, my weight seemed to be at a standstill this week. I actually weight 1 more pound than yesterday morning at the scale. I'll try to drink more water and see what will happen today. Today is also the day I get my blood drawn in preparation for my quarterly appointment with my primary physician. Unlike the vitamin test, they only need to draw 3 tubes of blood, and the technician claimed that they were able to spot a juicy vein right away. Unfortunately for me, she had to prod a bit before finally hitting the vein.
120/80/74 254lb 92 mg/DL
I figured that I can probably get into random dungeon finder faster if I queue up as a healer. And sure enough, I got into Scarlet Monastery Cathedral. Healing that was not much of an issue, fixing my keybind and Clique setting was. After getting my feet wet, I went back to shadow to dps in the next queue, Mauradan Princess section. The rest of the evening is split between questing and queuing up for more instance as healer and fixing the UI. While I have no problem healing in Uldaman, the last instance I ran in the evening is far more problematic. Scholomance, is a significant step up in terms of difficulty from everything I've done prior on this character. For one thing, the trash pack has fearing or knock back ability that will wipe the party. Crowd control is recommended if you got one in the party. For another thing, no one in the party except me have actually been to the place before, and I became the party leader to do crowd control and pulling. We wipe 3 times, but I feel that it's time well spend.
On other news, my weight seemed to be at a standstill this week. I actually weight 1 more pound than yesterday morning at the scale. I'll try to drink more water and see what will happen today. Today is also the day I get my blood drawn in preparation for my quarterly appointment with my primary physician. Unlike the vitamin test, they only need to draw 3 tubes of blood, and the technician claimed that they were able to spot a juicy vein right away. Unfortunately for me, she had to prod a bit before finally hitting the vein.
120/80/74 254lb 92 mg/DL
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Day 114 - New Companion Pets
So after the excitement from Monday's failed expansion of food choice, I'm back in the office today. Unfortunately I forgot my water bottle, which means another opportunity to experiment again. I'm currently going through the office supplied non-caffeinated tea bags, so I can avoid drinking plain water. Thus far, if I don't think of them as tea, and just as hot drink with flavor, it works.
For today's lunch, I actually went back to the same restaurant. Ordered the same thing, except skipping the noodles. I still feel that I overate, but at least this time is mostly just the soup.
Yesterday, Blizzard introduced 2 new companion pets, Moonkin Hatchling and Lil' Ragnaros. Seeing that I'm a dedicated pet collector, I bought them as soon as I found out they're in the store. $5 of the proceeds from the hatchling goes to charity if you don't want to just donate the money to Blizzard.
120/80/77 253lb 90 mg/DL
For today's lunch, I actually went back to the same restaurant. Ordered the same thing, except skipping the noodles. I still feel that I overate, but at least this time is mostly just the soup.
Yesterday, Blizzard introduced 2 new companion pets, Moonkin Hatchling and Lil' Ragnaros. Seeing that I'm a dedicated pet collector, I bought them as soon as I found out they're in the store. $5 of the proceeds from the hatchling goes to charity if you don't want to just donate the money to Blizzard.
120/80/77 253lb 90 mg/DL
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