Weekend Intelligence: Opera Sing-Along

This weekend was very laid back and relaxing, with the opera on Saturday night being the main event. Got a couple things done, but we did more R&R than any heavy lifting. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

House and Home:

DeAnn had some business to attend to on Friday, and since the Vue is in the shop, we needed to get her a rental for the day. After work, I picked her up from the rental car drop-off, the plan was to give her my car and she was going to take baby with her to a scrap-booking party at Noni's. However, my plans for the evening were non-existent and my stomach was empty, so I went to the party. We hung out and had some burgers before Clara got cranky.

Saturday was about the most work we did all weekend. I needed to deposit my mileage check and run to the post office to get the new car's license plates. Walmart run was made, dishes got done, trash got taken out and laundry got moved, but we still did plenty of gaming and goofing off. Later that evening, we took Clara to Noni's for a night at the opera. We were on the guest list at Aldaco's at Sunset Station, and from there had a trolley ride through downtown to the opera house.

Our opera night was absolutely fantastic. The food at the restaurant was great, our ride to the opera house was swift, and the show was beautiful. The only thing that threw the evening off absolutely flawless was the couple sitting next to us. All evening long during the performance, if the guy wasn't telling dirty Arab jokes, he was humming or singing along with the main characters. And I'm not just talking about the male leads: he'd try to take it up an octave for the female ones. And his girlfriend/wife just cackled at every word he uttered. The both of them were sloshed on house wine. When D and I leaned over to shush them (repeatedly), he would murmur some curse and look at us like we were the rudest people on earth for interrupting him.

I know my eyesight is not the best, but I didn't see a bouncing ball on the super-titles. This wasn't a sing-along. They weren't asking for audience participation. And no one needed help hearing the opera singers. Believe me. It was like one of those people that sees a movie in the theater a dozen times and recites every line during the movie. -.-; Aside that annoyance, I had a beautiful evening with my beautiful wife. ^_^/

Sunday was another lounge-about day. I woke up too early, but D was able to sleep most the morning. Gamed until about noon and made the 1pm service at church. Gamed some more with D after church in between laundry. All in all, I was pretty much a slacker this weekend. :P

In Game:

Most of our in game time was spent leveling BST. I'd forgotten how much fun that job was, and the opportunity to get it to 50 and be rid of our dust-gathering coffer keys was incentive enough for us to hit BST pretty hard over the weekend. We eventually did make 50 on BST and flagged out AF quests.

We also hit up some campaign battles. Keri was able to keep her medal, but I died so much. SE had apparently given the beastmen an adjustment in difficulty (read: put them on crack). They are now impossibly difficult and completely unrelenting. They will produce wave after wave after wave, much faster than the cities' NPC can recover, and not stop until the stronghold falls over. Over the course of the weekend, the entire campaign map fell to the beastmen. To add insult to injury, the NPCs that give you tags are camped by the mobs, so if you talk to one of the NPCs to get said tags, the mobs kill you before you can get them, causing you to loose experience that you're not supposed to lose. I didn't think even SE was capable of ruining it, but they did it: they broke campaign. ; ; Now I'll have to wait a month or two before they realize it and fix it.

Dynamis - San d'Oria was scheduled for Sunday, but we didn't have the numbers. Instead we killed Dea, one of the new tier 3 ZNMs. Basically it's a big rhino-looking monster (Wivre family for those who care :P) that we chase around and cast spells on until it falls over. Or rather, it chases and eats us if we stop. LOL I got my first piece of ZNM gear, the mage feet, but only because no one really wanted them. I'll prolly just add them into my resting macro, as they have a nice boost to resting MP. I think I'm going to take the Tyger route, because there are several things in that route that I really wouldn't mind having (Mekki Shakki! :D )

Welp, I have a 4-day work week to look forward to, and then a 3-day weekend for the Fourth of July. If anything exciting happens between now and then, I'll definitely blog about it. :P