Well, I’ve “spiritually” had a daughter for the past five years now, but today it all becomes real.
Two women that Lisa works with, Kelli Forbes and Rachael Hatherell, have come to our assistance and, to me, figuratively moved mountains. Rachael has put a large amount of work in for me, someone she doesn’t even really know, and for what amounts to a minuscule fraction of what it would typically cost to go through an adoption process. As of today at 3:00 pm, Nikkole is now legally my daughter, and I am so happy. I can’t even begin to say how thankful I am to Kelli and Rachael for what they have done for me.
Thank you!
On a very large tangent, Roessing dot CA is now the top result when searching for “roessing” on Google.
~MikeR.
Posted on 20 July '09 by mike, under Family. 1 Comment.
Just wanting to wish you an online very happy birthday from all five of us; Michael, Lisa, Austen, Matthew, and Nikkole.
Sorry that dinner on Thursday didn’t pan out because of the weather, but we hope you had a fantastic weekend out at the lake instead. Hopefully you’ll be able to drop by today or tomorrow so we can give you your birthday gift. We hope you like it, it’s pretty funky.
~MikeR.
Posted on 19 July '09 by mike, under Family. No Comments.
Tonight Lisa and I decided to try out some alts for kicks. She rolled a Bright Wizard just to try out the Ranged DPS role, while I rolled a Runepriest. I’m terrible at healing, but I like the look. We tooled around doing quests and scenarios for a while (and really, I didn’t do too bad; the lowest I came in for healing was 5th overall in any scenario, and I even topped one or two). Soon enough, however, the call came out that the Inevitable City was under siege. Regardless to say, we logged out of our little ones and came back with Baelgur and Lannerea.
While the instance we got in the siege was devoid of any Destruction players at all, making for a somewhat boring evening, it sure was a farm-fest doing the Public Quest and eventually killing Adell the Corruptor… over and over and over again. Some people just couldn’t get it through their thick heads not to taunt him (he does a massive AoE, killing anyone not appropriately warded instantly) so I died a plethora of times and racked up a bit of a bill for the healer. However, in return I was awarded with an Onslaught Trollsplitter, and 6-8 Invader’s Crests. Lisa got her fair share of crests as well, plus she got lucky and won a gold bag, netting her an Invader Highmantle. I think she already has the Invader Braces, so that makes a nice 2-piece set right there when she’s able to equip them.
All in all, not too shabby. Too bad it was all PvE.
~MikeR.
Yesterday I became an Aunty for the first time! My brother Brad and his wife Tracy had their first child at 11:56a.m. A beautiful healthy baby girl that they named Danica Patricia. Weighing in at 7lbs 8 oz and 20.5 inches long, she is a small wonder to behold. She has piles of dark hair already too! Congrats Brad and Tracy!!!
Posted on 9 July '09 by lisa, under Family. 3 Comments.
Inevitable City
This weekend, late Saturday night to be precise, Lisa and I were finally able to participate in a siege of the Inevitable City. The Maw, the Chaos fortress, had already fallen earlier that day to the forces of Order, and a call rang out in our Alliance chat that Thunder Mountain was going to lock soon. Lisa and I headed out there to help with the defense, as there were some Destruction players showing up to hassle the Battlefield Objectives and trying to prevent a lock. We saw little action in the open, but were able to help lock the zone through Victory Points by participating in some scenarios and Public Quests.
After Thunder Mountain locked, all of Order quickly pushed into Black Crag. This occurred so quickly I might add that we barely had enough time to make it to Ironskin Skar before it fell (in fact, I don’t think Lisa made it in time), and Badmoon Hole fell just a minute or two before. Only one Battlefield Objective was left to be had, so we all pushed south leaving small contingents to guard what we had captured. It took a little while, but we eventually locked Black Crag through Victory Points as well, since Destruction was trying to push out of their warcamp and gave us lots of Skirmish points. Butcher’s Pass, the Greenskin fortress, fell within 45 minutes after the lock.
The rush was now on! It seemed like nearly everyone level 30+ was on their way to the front gate of the Inevitable City, and what a crowd there was when we got there. I wasn’t sure what to do at this point, so Lisa and I joined up with another open warband and got into a city instance. Rushing around the city capturing the two points (the Monolith, and the Temple of the Damned) as well as destroying stuff and lighting crates and barrels on fire was pretty fun. We sure got a lot of renown from killing enemies (particularly since many of them were obviously well over Renown Rank 40) and I walked away with an Invader’s Crest and Lisa and I both got a few Conqueror’s Crests. After completing Stage 1 of the Public Quest (capture the points, kill 150 enemy players, destroy a bunch of stuff), Stage 2 began and I’ll tell you, this was a real challenge. You need to kill a Lord named Adell the Corruptor, as well as his four Hero guards which look like giant mutated raven-dogs. Lisa and I stuck with it for three attempts, and then had to log off since it had gotten so late. There seemed to be a few people who knew what they were doing and were trying to organize everyone to drop Adell, but I’m not sure how many people were listening to instructions since the Lord and Heroes were all resetting fairly often, negating any damage done.
All in all it was lots of fun, particularly since it was our first time. I understand that plenty of people on the Warhammer Alliance, VN, and even official forums have gotten sick of the PvE’ness of the city siege. I can see their point, especially if you have done it over and over and over again (believe me, Lisa and I have been there from our WoW raiding days). Either way, we’re still looking forward to doing it again.
We still have a long way to go in our enjoyment of WAR; we’ve just hit Rank 31 this weekend and are hoping that Tier 4 on Phoenix Throne won’t be the bore that it was on Ostermark.
As an aside, I should have my computer back on Wednesday. I took it in to the shop I bought it from on Friday after work, and after venting a bit of my frustration they said they would straight out replace the video card for me. I would have had it back sooner, but it was late Friday afternoon after all, so no parts were coming in until Monday at the very earliest. I can live with that.
~MikeR.
