Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Sep 6, 2011, 3:42 pm
SURPRISE!  I pretty much don’t play anymore.  Keeping true to my blogging promise, if I don’t have anything interesting to say, I’m not going to say it.  I absolutely refuse to put up posts unless I was mused to do so.  This has always and will always be my method of blogging.  I’ve alw...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 31, 2011, 10:20 am
Transfer in progress is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog So yeah…I’m not dead.  But I am transfering servers…no not WoW servers…done that awhile back.  I’m transferring web hosting today so there may be some unresolved pages while thats going on.  If mages can move a whole city to a ne...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Dec 16, 2010, 10:07 pm
So Cataclysm has been out for little more then a week an its already wrecked my life.  Yes I’m being over dramatic here but I’m not when I say its literally torn my guild apart.  Story time… Aurdon was born on 11/23/2004.  My wee little ole mage came to be on launch day.  On that day I ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Dec 4, 2010, 12:10 pm
As with any time I want to bring up a news item here on my blog, I’m at least a week behind.  But I always try and post something that has helped me in hopes someone out there finding this as new information.  Your WoW install (just like most software) can be tweaked for the better with just cha...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Nov 10, 2010, 10:49 am
When it comes to my wow account security, I’m an early adopter.  I use a unique password of nonsense numbers and letters that make no sense and I use for nothing else.  I keep all my virus and mallware scanners up to date.  I never visit sites that are geared at phishing passwords (unless there...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 27, 2010, 9:45 pm
Hi guys! It’s me Rhii! Remember me? I used to post here all the time. Just a quick plug, if I may be so obnoxious, I’m blogging full time now over at Oh My, Kurenai. Don’t of course, abandon Aurdon, but drop by now and then, won’t you? Awesome. I’m stopping by here to write up something...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 27, 2010, 10:51 am
Much like Rhii list, there is a few things I’d like to get done both in and outside the game before we tear azeroth asunder.  Will I have time to do them?  Well yes but the question is will I lose interest in these mostly boring and mundane grinds before time is up. Reach gold cap for one playe...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 26, 2010, 2:17 pm
I’m not sure I’ve ever said it here but I HATE the holiday events when it comes to gaining them for achievements.  I completed the achievement on Aurdon only for the 310% speed on the mount, not because it looked cool.  I know these are fun to some but to others its a year long series of hoops...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 19, 2010, 11:55 am
Yesterday my guild master logged in and private messaged me saying he had some bad news.  Oh?  I figured it was about my poor raiding attendance or someone ninja’d something and we had to /gkick.  It was far far worse.  One of our long time guild members committed suicide over the weekend....
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 17, 2010, 10:40 am
I’ve had many many wonderful times sharing WoW with the family.  I got my wife hooked on the game 3-4 years ago when she was pregnant with our first child.  I’m not sure if it was the time she spent playing or maybe its just in my blood and destined to carry on to my kin, but my son loves ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 12, 2010, 12:25 am
Well I’ve finally gotten tired of my “busy” look of the last version of my blog.  Can’t even remember what it looked like before then.  Decided I should pick something new now that there is an expansion coming out.  This is why it has the Oh-So-Clever name of being version 4.0.   I wasn�...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Oct 5, 2010, 10:56 pm
World of Warcraft Client Patch “4.0.1″ (10/12/2010?) Patch 4 .0 is right around the corner (next Tuesday by best guesses) and with it comes a whole slew of changes to the game and how things work.  This happens each expansion.  Blizzard uses these patches as a buffer to hopefully limit the �...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Sep 13, 2010, 9:58 am
Subtle Debate on my comments system is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Ok so this isn’t really a new topic, but it is a frustrating one http://www.isheepthings.com/blog/intense-debate-crits-my-website/ http://www.isheepthings.com/blog/intense-debate-swallowed-some-comments/ Several times now ID ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Sep 7, 2010, 2:21 am
Drumroll Please… is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog It was nearly two years ago that I made my first blog post here. I was a very very new player — I claimed I’d been playing six months, but I’ll be darned if I can remember the truth of it. I had only managed to level to 32 though, and that...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 28, 2010, 1:25 am
Rhii’s Cataclysm Goals and Progress is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Rhii is my achievement hunter and collector, so she’s got the most pre-Cata goals of my characters. This is what I’d like to get done with her before then: Master of Arms (FINISHED!) Ambassador (FINISHED...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 26, 2010, 4:22 pm
Why are we back to failing on Dreamwalker? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Man, I get so frustrated with raiding sometimes. There are good nights, last week we had our “triumphant” first kill of Putricide. I say “triumphant” in quotes because we’d have killed h...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 25, 2010, 1:55 pm
In which the grouchy old lady caves… to the pressures of needing a cool new toy to play with on her cool new phone is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I really like long titles. And I really hate admitting that I’m going back on my formerly stated principles, which I staunchly held ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 24, 2010, 12:02 am
Windows Fail is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog This week I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7. Beautiful. 60 FPS in Dal all the time, and my average CPU usage has dropped by about 30%. I’ve never seen my computer run so beautifully. I loved it so much that I talked my boyfriend into doing...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 21, 2010, 2:37 pm
Goblins, We are an Individual! is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog In the recent turmoil of posts regarding gender and sexism in WoW, I made the pleasant discovery of the ‘mental shaman.  She has a really thought provoking post on the goblin starting area in the beta, and in particular, a...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 9, 2010, 7:42 pm
Epic Win and Epic Fail – The PuG Rollercoaster is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’m going to start with the epic win, since all this fail stuff gets repetitive and depressing after a while. I’ve been leveling my priest pretty hard, and there are two tanks I’ve run mor...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 8, 2010, 2:09 am
Five easy ways to make your PuG healer love you (or at least not hate you quite so much) is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Note: These are intended for leveling pugs, where the tank is not made of Duranium and the DPS only think they do OVER 9000!! and the group actually needs a healer to surv...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 6, 2010, 3:31 am
In Which I Adopt a Newbie, And What Happened After. is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog In Which I Adopt A Newbie The other night my level 58 priest was hanging around Brill, looking for a chicken to go /chicken at, when a baby level 7 mage whispered me to politely ask what it was that made me ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Aug 3, 2010, 11:49 am
What I Love About Starcraft 2 is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog OK so this is really a WoW blog but I figure the readers wouldn’t mind too much if I toss out my opinion and experience in Starcraft 2 thus far.  I myself like to read reviews from my peers so perhaps if you were interested...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 31, 2010, 10:12 am
PSA: Fanfiction? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I noticed on Google Analytics that somebody’s been searching for “I sheep things: Fanfiction”. To my knowlege there has only ever been one post on this site tagged fanfiction… and I removed it after two days because it ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 31, 2010, 1:12 am
How to Increase Your Income in WoW. is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog 1) Envy Aurdon’s traveler’s tundra mammoth. 2) Be diligent about farming mats for a few weeks. 3) Despair as mat prices plummet pre expansion. 4) Attempt to make some sense out of free gold making guides. 5) ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 29, 2010, 12:01 am
You Win It, You Wear It is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog There’s a guild that runs a 25 man ICC semi-pug every Wednesday on my server. One of our guild’s regular raiders is a member of that guild as well, and we’ve come to look at it as sort of a “friends of friends...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 25, 2010, 11:05 pm
What do Conspiracy Theorists in Azeroth Worry About? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’ve been watching reruns of the X-Files lately. Mostly because I’m a general sci fi fan. Partly because I like to look at David Duchovny (what sane straight female doesn’t?). And a little ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 17, 2010, 11:29 am
I’m not gone, I’m just missing… other games is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’m taking a short hiatus from WoW just now, because I’m missing other games badly. So until I have some WoW relevant things to write about, you probably won’t see much of me aroun...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 6, 2010, 11:02 am
Are you laggin’? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Rhii posted about a quite clever comment on what do these bosses do when we’re not around to pwn or be pwn’d by them.  It reminded me of this EPIC chat back in the days of vanilla WoW.  I was going to put this in the commen...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jul 3, 2010, 10:30 pm
Comedic Gold is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog It’s rare for a comment to get me in stitches quite like this one did, and frankly, I think the thing was so darn funny I want to share it with everyone else too. JC_Icefox posted the following on a preview of Cataclysm Raids on wow.com. I...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 29, 2010, 2:56 am
It’s Like Facebook for WoW… is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Hooray for questionnaires that people only want to answer and never want to read! Oh who cares, I love to talk about myself! Re-stolen from Alas. 1. Raider, farmer, PvPer, or altoholic? Altoholic, with a side of casual...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 28, 2010, 3:20 am
Skada vs. Recount is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I switched to Skada recently after seeing many recommendations around the blogosphere. Mostly I liked how lightweight it was, how slick looking compared to boxy old Recount, and how I could get rid of my threat meter and do it all with one ad...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 24, 2010, 4:54 pm
Zimzi has Arrived is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog My third 80 and favorite pet project for quite some time now has arrived! Here’s how it happened… I was in the world’s longest run of the Oculus, getting very impatient because I was one bar from 80. The world’s stupi...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 24, 2010, 2:14 pm
Gold is the new Green is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog As with all games (and real life) you need currency to get by.  Some have more then others, some NEED more then others.  Those of you who are happy with what you have are the ones who really win in the end.  For the rest of us, getting...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 21, 2010, 12:51 am
Wow that time already huh? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog So it seems that I do this at least twice a year.  I kind of just drop off the face of ….isheepthings.com and stop posting for a bit.  I’m still here…I’m still my own blog’s number one visitor (lies...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 19, 2010, 4:00 pm
Things to Kill in Cataclysm is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Spinks suggested this week’s Blog Azeroth: Shared Topic, what needs to die in a fire in Cataclysm? Cataclysm is coming! The old world is going to be destroyed and remade. Which town, quest, NPC, or zone really needs to be pu...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 10, 2010, 9:52 am
Girls Gone Geek: Rhii Recommends Books is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog In celebration of Miss Medicina’s declared holiday in honor of geek girls everywhere, I’m letting some of my bookworm tendencies loose on the blog. Fun Fact About Rhii: In middle school, I won a “whoR...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 7, 2010, 1:06 pm
Upgrading for Appearances… Ow. is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Today I had an interesting conversation with a former guildy. He asked me “Why do you have so much +hit gear?” It took me rather aback, because I don’t think I have so much +hit gear. I have, in fact, tw...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 3, 2010, 12:21 am
WoW Ritual of Sanity is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog When I’m very stressed, whether in game or out, there’s something I frequently do to make myself feel better. I roll an alt. For some reason, playing through the starting areas is extremely relaxing and soothing to me. I do it...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - Jun 2, 2010, 2:39 am
In Which I find Validation from PuGs (sort of) is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog We were starting our Monday night raid last night, and we were short on guildies. Very common occurence, since we don’t have all that many guildies who raid Mondays AND it was a holiday. So we went to pug. ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 31, 2010, 8:16 pm
Northrend regulars SUCK is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog 1) 80 tanks make my very existence superfluous. If you can solo the instance, don’t subject the rest of your group to an unasked for boost. Some of us are there to learn to play our class. 2) 80 dps running with 69 tanks = bad ne...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 27, 2010, 10:24 pm
Q-U-E-U-E is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I just can’t stand it anymore! L2Spell nubs! It’s spelled “queue.” See? Right here in the dictionary: queue (kyoo) n. 1. A line of waiting people or vehicles. 2. A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck;...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 24, 2010, 7:40 pm
Tailor, LFW is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’m pretty sure I’ve recently become the foremost producer of netherweave bags on Kel’Thuzad. I’m not telling you the name of my bank alt, you hecklers! But if you sell a lot of netherweave cloth or if you’re a consu...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 24, 2010, 5:22 am
Achievement Chasing is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’ve missed Rhii. I’ve been gearing her up again lately, but I just don’t do well in the dps role. She’s not even making me any money, since I haven’t really got the hang of the glyph making thing. So I got a l...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 22, 2010, 3:36 am
A Mage’s Homecoming (Fiction) is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog This is a bit of a wall of text, so bear with me. I’m also aware some people don’t like to read RP, feel free to skip. I felt a need to reconstruct Rhii’s history, now that she’s a blood elf and not a...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 19, 2010, 10:24 pm
Four PuG Habits I’d Eradicate Forever if I Could… is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog Because we’ve been fail-PuG free on this blog for just a little too long, I present: 1) WTF????? WTF what?! Am I supposed to read your mind? Clearly you’re either puzzled, amazed, or a...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 18, 2010, 12:40 pm
Wrath Raid Awards is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog So Wrath isn’t over yet, but I got all inspired by Larisa and Cassandri‘s raid boss rankings. And I get the feeling I’ve probably gone just about as far in ICC as I’m going. Maybe I’m wrong (prove me wrong Res!) ...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 17, 2010, 12:04 pm
The VuhDo Solution That Evaded Me for Ages that I Think You Should Know About Too is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I like long titles. And I LOVE VuhDo. I used to use grid+clique, but frankly, I mapped so many buttons to it I couldn’t find one leftover to make the menu pop up so I coul...
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 14, 2010, 11:03 am
You Can’t Solo That. /facepalm is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I totally wish you could though!
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Andy S. posted an article on I Sheep Things - May 7, 2010, 3:30 am
I have no words is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog I’m not sure how to express quite how upset this makes me, and I certainly have no real forum for expressing it that’s quite appropriate. But it’s eating me up, still. The jerkface we kicked from our guild not so very long ag...
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