Must Get Card Or Will Face Certain Death
Tomorrow is Mrs BRK’s 40th birthday. If you want to say, “Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!” in the comments, you are more than welcome. She has often said she should start a Warcraft Widow blog, but then we tell that such a product already exists and she moves on to the next subject.
Our conversation this morning:
BRK: “I’ve been thinking about doing AdSense on my blog.”
Mrs. BRK: “Do it. Tell ‘em Mrs BRK needs the Bam-Bam.”
“You’ve got enough bam-bam, and quit quoting Ricky Bobby.”
“I want Botox.”
“You don’t need Botox.”
“I want Botox around my eyes, then.”
“You don’t need Botox.”
“Then I want a diamond necklace to accentuate my cleavage.”
“I bought you an iPhone!”
“Then I want some eye cream.”
“We will go to Walgreen’s and purchase some eye cream.”
“I want to go to Nordstrom’s and buy eye cream.”
“Let me guess. $50 for half an ounce.”
“No, you’re wrong. It’s $110.”
We found out that our Combat Log was hosed because we screwed up the modification of our config file. Apparently we tried to modify it while WoW was running. Not Good. We have corrected the situation and now have a spiffy, clean, and properly modified config file ready for Friday’s run to Prince.
We saw a 20-stack of Clefthoof hides on the Auction House for 40g. On Drenden, that’s a 33% discount and there was no way we were going to undercut it. So we bought it and put both stacks on the AH for 59g99s. Sold them both overnight. As Mrs BRK says, Ka-ching!
If the Bridgeford Beef Jerky people don’t start making an easier-to-close bag, we may just write them a letter.
If we bought bunches of Honor Hold bullets and Cenarian Expedition arrows, sat outside the Karazhan gates between 6 and 8pm every night, and spammed:
/y Bullets and Arrows for Sale! HH and CE ammo!
and charged a palatable markup, do you think we’d make any money? They’re not soulbound, are they?
Somebody posted a comment on our WoW Insider column that another commenter should start a blog called Big Fat @sshat. Now that’s +5 BRK Cool Point-worthy.
Why does Mrs BRK send us Victoria’s Secret coupons? Do we send her Hanes coupons? You know how bizarre it is to have your boss in your office and have a “$10 Off Any Bra Purchase!” email pop open on the screen?
Oh, we lost our wedding ring. We’ll find it, but wow it’s really missing.
Brigin has a Sonic Spear. He’s a protection warrior in case you didn’t know. He didn’t shard the spear, he just keeps it in his bank. We’re nice to Brig because he’s a great tank and wonderful person, not out of some fear that he’ll link it in guild-chat just to shut us down. Just about every other person in our guild would do that, but not Brig. Yet.
In October, our new computer will either be the new 24″ iMac with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO (256MB) or a custom Mac Pro with the ATI Radeon X1900 XT (512MB). We’re still debating which way to go.
TJ couldn’t throw a rock high enough to hit a car’s windshield. Next suggestion.
If you kill stuff in the Netherwing mine, or Nagrand, or anywhere, just loot the d@mn corpse. Please.
If you’re doing the Race the Dragonmaw Rider quests and you get us shot down twice, we are allowed to give you the digital finger. So sayeth BRK, so let it be done.
Don’t write to BRK and ask us to review your armory profile and not have a scope on your ranged weapon. We’ll pull your hunter license, guaranteed. We did it once today, we’re not afraid to do it again.
The addon is Rating Buster!
We’ll make Rugged Knothide Leather for you, sure. You don’t even have to tip us. Don’t accuse us of stealing because you skipped pre-K and never learned to count.
The [Auchenai Boots] come from a quest to kill Murmur. We finished that quest this week. We are the worst quest-trackers ever.
On Drenden, why is Halaa always controlled by the Alliance? On Khaz Modan, why was Silithus always controlled by the Horde? Why is the EPL controlled by the Alliance? Why is the only real battle in Terrokar Forest? Those PvP spirit towers flip-flop like astable multivibrators.



The Egotistical Priest on 20 Sep 2007 at 5:57 pm #
My log says 2000
…since I didn’t TELL it to say 2000, I wonder if some other addon I have (SWS mayhaps) did so.
Since I’m pretty sure 200 is the max, is this something that will cause problems with my WWS, or do you think it’s okay?
Sonvar on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:01 pm #
“TJ couldn’t throw a rock high enough to hit a car’s windshield. Next suggestion.”
LOL.
If you were on Darrowmere you’d just about everything held by the Horde in regards to PvP. It’s a combination of more Horde on the server and their dedication to keeping those. Alliance might have Halaa for a while but somehow like 10 minutes later the horde will reclaim it. Its like they all have World Defense up and they drop whatever they are doing to reclaim it.
Ontherocks on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:04 pm #
You want the Mac Pro. You need the Mac Pro. (so do I for that matter)
Seriously, you need to find your wedding ring, or $110 Eye cream will be just the tip of what you are spending on a birthday present.
Megan on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:17 pm #
Happy BDAY! 40 years young!
TJ on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:17 pm #
No no. Seen her. It’s true. Yet to be determined, however, if he pays her to hang around and be seen with him, like he does for me.
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:18 pm #
oh, btw, Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!
Marinna on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:19 pm #
The bullets/arrows definately aren’t soulbound. I was PVPing with my warrior buddy last night and he realized he was out of Arrows! Oh noes! I’m quite a fan of my bows/x-bows, so I had a bag full of CE arrows. I assumed they were Soulbound, but checked any way. They’re not Soulbound. I asked if he had the rep, and he did, so I tried to trade… It worked.
Honestly, we were both surprised, but now his Kara pulls will have a bit more umph to them for a while.
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:25 pm #
Heh, I lost my wedding ring (5 days after our first anniversary!) Unfortunately it was in the ocean, so no finding it for me….Fortunately the same thing had happened to my FiL years ago, so it was not seen as a sign that the marriage was doomed.
BRK on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:28 pm #
Approaching 40? Dude, she’s there. Less than 24 hours. Totally 40. Believe us, we checked.
Arren on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:36 pm #
Thanks for the RatingBuster tip. That is one of the few add-ons I would hate to be without. Recommended it to my guild to stop the incessant “Is gear X better or worse than gear Y.”
Casual WoW on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:44 pm #
Tell Mrs. BRK Happy Birthday!
Wedding ring, damn thanks for reminding me, after a week of yard work and swollen fingers I have to remember where I put mine….
Damn, I thought we were gonna eek through this season with out anything tropical in the Northern Gulf…Guess that’s what I get for thinking.
Hell everything on our server is controlled by the Alliance, the Horde come out at about 3 am in small groups and try to ninja-cap objectives, it often leads to massive piles of bones.
Cheers,
Irik and Snowfang
Doyce on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:46 pm #
“We saw a 20-stack of Clefthoof hides on the Auction House for 40g. On Drenden, that’s a 33%.”
GAH!
On Farstriders (which is in the Drenden Battlegroup) Clefthoof hide stacks go for 3 to 4g, IF they go at all, which they usually don’t. I dropped skinning because of stuff like that.
Hate small-pop server economics.
Haaaaaaate.
- Grezzk, Tusker, and Sleestaq
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:49 pm #
Mrs. BRK says…
You ba$tard!!
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times. I am NOT going to be 40. I am turning Thirty-Ten!
An iPhone? You got off easy, pal. Just wait ’til I get home.
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:51 pm #
BRK, the Mac Pro is the way to go. I’ve seen the game run on that config including a 23″ lcd, and the game has a dreamlike quality you can’t imagine. Pegged settings, including the 6x filtering, and 60-80fps. Settings any lower and you hit over 100fps. I marveled at it for the weekend with my rl/wow friend. If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t believe the difference. It’s worth the $4500.
Wolfreign
Llane
TJ on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:51 pm #
My day has totally just been made. Can we arrange such an appearance for MY birthday?
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:52 pm #
Mrs BRK screeched…
You’ve lost your wedding ring?!!
Karl on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:55 pm #
about the ring.. you better find it, or you are going to be buying TWO new rings. You can’t certainly get a replacement with out getting her one too.
about the Mac. If you are just doing gaming and surfing, get the iMac. Otherwise, get the MacPro, with two Dell 24″ monitors. (Get the high-end Dell monitor, not the cheap one..)
Happy Thirty-Ten Mrs. B!
Andy on 20 Sep 2007 at 6:57 pm #
I love the blog, BRK. Just got finished catching up on all the back posts yesterday.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. BRK!
I’d definitely go with the Pro, especially considering you’re wanting to do the video capture stuff.
(if you survive the ring debacle)
JC on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:15 pm #
Happy birthday, Mrs. BRK!
Mephator on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:20 pm #
Happy birthday, Mrs. BRK, many well wishes to you on this day!
Erwinor on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:20 pm #
To Mrs. BRK,
Happy birthday!!!
To BRK,
Lost the ring, +10 BRK in the Dog
Hous points.
Kestrel on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:31 pm #
Happy Birthday, Mrs BRK!
I’m glad to see you’re not birthdate-averse: Remember, life begins at 40! (My own experience bears this out.)
And write that WoW-widow blog–my wife would appreciate the perspective.
For the Pie on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:43 pm #
Happy Birthday MrsBRK.
from Halkale and Cat (can’t figure out a great name)
RyuHakubi and GreyEmperor on 20 Sep 2007 at 8:13 pm #
Happy Second 20th Birthday, Mrs BRK!
And, BRK better find that ring or there’s not gonna be enough left of him to make a dwarf-hide saddle for TJ’s personal Hobbes-riding-kitty… Good luck!
William on 20 Sep 2007 at 8:39 pm #
I have the 1950xtx in two different machines (Mine and My Wife’s) and they both sound like a leaf blower when you sit on the one screens during login and other time, but they look great!
The Gaming Widow site is stale, just forums, so a WoW Widow blog would be great.
On the missing wedding band, I lost mine when we moved into our house five years ago, we had concluded that the movers stole it, because they had tried to take a few other things, but we could never prove it, and we got all the other items back. Then this past spring, while cleaning out boxes left over from the move, I found one that was junk on top BUT under the junk there was a few items off my desk, and in one of the coffee cups from my collection, I found my ring box (the same box that I always kept the ring in) and the ring inside. It seems that during the last days before we moved my wife tried to help me pack up my mug collection and did not see it in it. So there is alway hope, unless you know where you lost it, like a friend of mine to lost it into a lake.
Grumpy on 20 Sep 2007 at 8:43 pm #
I feel sorry for BRK. While this is a nice card and all, you just did the worst thing you could do, told her age to everyone. BRK is sleeping with Hobbes tonight.
Happy B-day MRS BRK
THE Irwin on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:08 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!
Vixenytli and Thing on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:20 pm #
If you really want to blow her away with an amazing eye cream- get her the Mary Kay eye firming stuff. It’s crazy good- and less than half the price. Still pricey- but worth every penny and the technology has been out and improving since long before the nordstrom brands even thought about making it. go to marykay.com and see if you can find someone in your area to get you some. Even better- get her the whole set and she’ll leave you alone while you play cause she’ll be having so much fun in the bathroom! …. wait, that sounded wrong. … well, you know what I mean.
RabidPoultry on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:22 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!!!!
40 is nothing trust me, I am getting close to it myself and feel better now than when I hit 28-35.
@ BRK
Lost the ring……..
/headshake
Mine has never come off since I put it on, God forbid my wife and I divorce my finger will need 18 years to lose the indent on the finger, could never get a date with that indent on the finger, women are smart and no amount of “Really I am divorced” would work, they would think I just removed it for the “deed”
As for the Eye Creme, buy it that kind of investment will payoff ten times over, TRUST ME.
Rabidpoultry
Rubble and Rocky on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:46 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK
Thaumaturgos on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:53 pm #
Find the ring
Buy the cream
Grovel - a lot! You let everyone know both her age AND her need for eye cream.
BRK: RIP - its you or the Credit Card…
As one marine I know used to say “I’m afraid of no man, and very few women”
Galor on 20 Sep 2007 at 9:55 pm #
BRK
Lost your ring! -100 pts Agl and give it to Hobbes. You owe her big time, you best get her the eye cream plus take Mrs BRK to a REALLY NICE DINNER. 40 only comes around once and to the miss’s it a biggy, trust me I know me and my wife are in our lower 50’s and the next one is really the “big one”. Just you wait for that one.
Don’t have an imac but did look at them. Instead got a custom HP 9500 with 4 GB mem and the GeForce 8600 with 512 MB. The 1440 x 900 (17.5 in screen) is unreal, the Intel Dual Core 2.2 GHz is fast, on an avg get about 60 fps rate, it’s just my wireless sucks.
Happy Bday Mrs BRK just have pitty on the poor little guy but he means well
Galorfinor and Maggie May
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 10:10 pm #
Where do you go to get a MacPro with an ATI video card? I’ve been looking on Apple’s site, but I haven’t seen that. After reading Galor’s post, I checked out HP’s site and a monster system there is only $1757, which is nuts.
And Happy Birthday, Mrs. BRK! =D
-Fedaykin98
Anonymous on 20 Sep 2007 at 10:14 pm #
nm, I thought we were talking about laptops. Doh!
-Fedaykin98
Adrus on 20 Sep 2007 at 10:18 pm #
im with grumpy with most woman if you told there age even if it was 30 on a blog like that you would be dead about the same time you clicked the post button……
Jeff on 21 Sep 2007 at 12:23 am #
24″ iMac. It’s glorious. WoW looks so nice on the glossy screen. Add a wireless keyboard and mouse and you’re in clutter-free heaven.
-Gulansi & Toonces
For the Pie on 21 Sep 2007 at 12:27 am #
Heh, Just realized I don’t have a scope on my bow. Ooops.\
Oh and I decided to name my ghost saber DieSpitze.
TrojanGuy on 21 Sep 2007 at 12:44 am #
Happy birthday, Mrs. BRK!
Also:
If you kill stuff in the Netherwing mine, or Nagrand, or anywhere, just loot the d@mn corpse. Please.
AMEN TO THAT!
~Naidia on 21 Sep 2007 at 2:00 am #
Wow, I really cannot believe she is 40. She is extremely pretty, and she looks younger than me and I’m 25. Seriously she does not need that eye cream or botox.
I’m assuming she doesn’t have 3 hell raising children to deal with though, am I right? (Love my kids but they wreak havoc on my under eyes!)
Happy birthday Mrs. BRK!
BTB, Please reinstate my hunter license if it was mine you pulled! /cry
adelorac on 21 Sep 2007 at 2:23 am #
Get the eye cream, buy the card and find your ring (don’t dwarves have a “find treasure” racial? …that way way u can wipe the Mrs.BRK aggro table!!
Happy B-day to Mrs BRK!
Adelorac and Mooch
Matt on 21 Sep 2007 at 2:59 am #
I tried sitting outside Kara selling Flasks & high level pots. How many did we sell? Nada.
Shador
Hawk on 21 Sep 2007 at 3:25 am #
Happy birthday, Mrs. BRK!
If you really wanna make him happy, get a temporary tattoo of Legacy…
Zball on 21 Sep 2007 at 3:48 am #
Temporary? Pssh. Ink for life!
Add mine to the round of birthday well- wishes from people Mrs. BRK doesn’t know. (Don’t worry, I blank out anytime I see a lady’s age; self- preservation, y’see.)
kunukia on 21 Sep 2007 at 5:30 am #
Happy Birthday Mrs BRK!
Aelos on 21 Sep 2007 at 6:45 am #
Good Morning,
There is nothing I hate more than riding through Nagrand and seeing all those dead animals, but unable to skin them. . autoloot should be mandatory! Or unlooted materials should have a timed decay, after which the animal may be skinned as per normal.
Happy birthday Mrs.BRK
Aelos&Nagual - Earthen Ring EU
PS. Scope is equipped on x-bow, but it seems I also forgot my fishing rod on while training fishing yesterday
Traz on 21 Sep 2007 at 9:17 am #
Happy Birthday Mrs BRK!!
You look stunningly pretty in your photos.
You also look very scary, but the prettiness makes up for that
Anonymous on 21 Sep 2007 at 11:23 am #
Happy Bday Kitty ^_^
From the D!
Anonymous on 21 Sep 2007 at 11:26 am #
lol left out the Ms. Sorry O.o ~~Take two.~~
Happy Bday Ms. Kitty ^_^
From the D
Sean Rock on 21 Sep 2007 at 11:41 am #
Happy Bday Mrs BRK!
Smokybg on 21 Sep 2007 at 12:37 pm #
Oooh, 40… Mount… Mail armor… Bestial Wrath…
Gotta get a life…
kakalaki on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:03 pm #
Happy B-day Mrs. BRK!!
She has to put up with you, so I think she is worth the $110 eye creme, so go get it BRK!
Please tell us if selling the HH/CE ammo pans out, I needs me some gold. Speaking of which, does anyone got any advice on farming techniques?
You lost your wedding ring! You better find it before you have to start sleeping in the litter box.
Anonymous on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:23 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!
Alan on 21 Sep 2007 at 2:06 pm #
Happy Birfday Mrs. BRK!!!
BRK. No more posts till you find that ring or minus -5 Good Husband pts. kthxbai!
~Grazeland & NinjaNed
Anonymous on 21 Sep 2007 at 2:11 pm #
I hope you get her more than a card for her 40th birthday…
Galamar on 21 Sep 2007 at 5:29 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK! I hope you have a great day.
Anonymous on 21 Sep 2007 at 6:28 pm #
Happy Birthday Mrs. BRK!
You don’t need botox or any of that crap, and you don’t need anything to accentuate your cleavage, except maybe BRK and skin cream.
@BRK
You are usually a very smart man that I respect quite a lot. But you are being a big dummy. Use the coupons on stuff for Mrs. BRK. Think of it this way - you get to pick the slinky stuff you want to see her wear =)
For non-slinky, highly recommend the wireless bra if only for the cool hook/clip thingie on the back.
-Stupid Mage
Anonymous on 22 Sep 2007 at 3:24 pm #
Mrs. BRK says…
*Thank you!* for all of your kind and thoughtful birthday wishes. It was a wonderful day, although now we must suffer through BRK’s incessant “I’m still an entirely different [younger] decade than you!” comments.
But that’s okay. Whilst BRK was busy raiding or shopping or whatever the heck he and Hobbes get up to on Friday nights, I was busy maxing out his credit card. So it all comes out in the wash in the end. Me, dangerous? Not really. I am just supporting our local economy!
Gotta go. I have three more cards to max out today at Nordstrom since BRK hasn’t found his wedding ring yet.
/smooches!
Anonymous on 23 Sep 2007 at 2:54 pm #
Happy belated birthday Mrs BRK!!!
Keep those credit cards at the max as punishment for the lost of the wedding band.