What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been!

After over a year of effort, I finally finished the achievement, What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been! The reward is a bunch of achievement points, and a Violet Proto-Drake. It's a 310% speed mount. So now I can go even faster. Yay! I was going to add pics, but my computer (mac) is hiding them somewhere, and pics are already all over the Internets.

World of WarCraft -- Holiday Compression

So, one thing that my wife doesn't like about this time of year is the holiday compression in World of WarCraft. 7 of the 12 holidays in World of WarCraft take place between now and the end of the year. Of the 104 days remaining in the year, 55 of them occur during a holiday (and 7 of those days have 2 holidays occuring). And those numbers don't count the weekly fishing tournament, and the week-long monthly faire that happen every month. That could be compared to the first 261 days of the year, that only have 52 days of holiday (with only 2 days of overlap).

So, while I am excited for Pirates' Day, and the new Pilgrim's Bounty, and the other holidays, it can be a bit draining. I am excited for finally being able to get my Violet Proto-Drake. I look forward to trick or treating during Hallow's Eve. It's fun, but it can take quite a bit of time if you've got it.

Free Tales of Monkey Island

I've talked about Telltale Games before. Today, they just announced that on Talk Like a Pirate Day (this saturday, September 19th, at http://www.playlikeapirate.com/) they're giving away the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island, titled "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal". In case you weren't aware, "Monkey Island" is a humorous adventure game series started by LucasArts in the 1990s. If you haven't tried any of these games, now is a perfect time, because can you do better than free?

http://www.playlikeapirate.com/ September 19th. Ye don't want ta' be missin' it.