Gibson's '88 walk-off HR

Spring Training

I'm so excited that spring training is here. I can't wait for the regular season to start.

Baseball, W00T!

2012 in 2012 February Update

Here is the February update for the 2012 in 2012 challenge. I'll start off with the table.

Name	Server	Class	Race	Level
Chuckem	Demon Soul	Mage	Blood Elf	85
Chuckita	Demon Soul	Paladin	Blood Elf	44
Tanadrenis	Vashj	Hunter	Blood Elf	4
Ottochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Death Knight	Draenei	8
Augustelly	Darkspear	Hunter	Draenei	1
Augustember	Kel'Thuzad	Shaman	Draenei	3
Shamary	Vashj	Shaman	Draenei	1
Lerrenz	Darkspear	Paladin	Draenei	1
Nochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Paladin	Dwarf	1
Oonoreen	Vashj	Paladin	Dwarf	4
Flintfoul	Darkspear	Shaman	Dwarf	1
Foghalnar	Darkspear	Priest	Dwarf	1
Fynevisock	Darkspear	Death Knight	Gnome	5
Gnowangie	Vashj	Priest	Gnome	3
Turpsterr	Darkspear	Warrior	Gnome	1
Huntermary	Vashj	Hunter	Goblin	4
ChuckMAN	Demon Soul	ShaMAN	Goblin	28
Kalchuck	Kel'Thuzad	Rouge	Human	37
Alkala	Vashj	Rouge	Human	4
Gwynstacy	Demon Soul	Hunter	Night Elf	11
Velyyindre	Darkspear	Mage	Night Elf	1
Gluug	Earthen Ring	Death Knight	Orc	71
Ottochuck	Demon Soul	Druid	Tauren	16
Calola	Vashj	Warrior	Tauren	2
Dachuck	Earthen Ring	Priest	Troll	24
Augustember	Earthen Ring	Shaman	Troll	2
Matington	Darkspear	Druid	Worgen	1
Earnwell	Darkspear	Rouge	Worgen	1
Denrowlez	Darkspear	Warlock	Worgen	15
Dunncan	Kel'Thuzad	Warrior	Worgen	1
			Total:	381

My first impression is that I added quite a few characters this time around (13 to be exact). It makes the list look a little longer, but ultimately more daunting when you notice all the level 1 character there. If you can remember back to last month's update I only had 17 toons represented, I now have 30 toons spread over 4 servers.

My progress has changed from 336 levels to 381 levels, and improvement of 45 levels for the month of February. However my goal is 148 levels per month to reach 2012 by January 2013. My percent complete as of last month was 16.7% and after February I am now at 18.9% to goal. The biggest change is that now I need to complete 163 levels/month to reach my goal. Ouch.

The other thing that I have been focusing on is getting 2 of each class and race represented. In my 30 toons I have 2 of everything except Warlocks of which Denrowlez is my only one. As for races I have only have 1 orc (Gluug) and no undead. So I suppose once I finish bring all of these toons to level 20 I need to go back and focus on the horde side a bit more. Here are some tables that show my breakdown.

My most improved characters over the last month have to be Denrowlez who did not exist last month but has now made it through the Worgen starting zone and into the Night Elf territory. Standing at level 15 he is not only my highest level Warlock and Worgen, but he is my highest level character on Darkspear.

An honorable mention should go out to Gluug my main DK who moved from 69 to 71. I know that doesn't seem like a lot but compared to the first 1-5 levels that I have been seeing a lot of; it took some time to move Gluug up 2 levels. I was also running a lot of random heroics with Chuckem to try and get his item level up to where I can use the raid finder. I want to see the end of the expansion before the new one come out and in order to do so I need to have a character with an item level of 371 to enter the raid finder. Chuckem's item level is now at 356 (and rising).

JD Kenada over at Amateur Azerothian asked the participants in the 2012 in 2012 challenge to answer a question in our updated post. It basically was about how the world events affect our leveling. Well, I’m a bit of a non-participant in the big events. I have yet to complete a single world event for the achievement/title. Although I try to incorporate some questing related with the events I usually just go for the low-hanging fruit of the first few achievements before I move on. Therefore they don’t really affect my leveling as I don’t spend too much time on them.

The first one I really tried for was the Noble-Garden one, but I was never able to get the “Shake Your Bunny-Maker” achievement to get the “Noble Gardener” achievement and title. I remember hunting eggs for hours, then eating 100 of them and getting frustrated when I tried to find females of every race to put rabbit ears on. That was in 2010 and sort of soured me on the events; I enjoy them but I never really get around to completing them.

Finally, if you follow the blog at all you will notice that there has been some changes. Lord of Assets is not just a WoW blog anymore. I'm not going to get into this here (as there are several posts already that do) but my interests are ever expanding and changing to I wanted to reflect that in my posts. I still play WoW and I'm still working on the 2012 in 2012 challenge, but I also do a lot of other things.

Happy Friday!

Just wanted to say happy Friday to everyone out there. Have a great weekend.

Also, I wanted to give a shutout to Effy and her recent post on Night Elves versus Drow. If that description doesn't leave you any idea what I'm talking about, you should read her post and it will all be explained.

Thirsty Thursday...

...it's the thirstiest.

Have you guys heard about the 1.2 million dollars that was raised by OOTS? I mean, that's crazy right? Here is a link to the kickstarter campaign.

Let me start by saying congratulations to the author/artist over there at the Order of the Stick. That is an achievement that most of us mortals can only dream about. To have something that you made, and nurtured for the last 10 years (since 2003) grow into something so substantial like that is amazing. As a content creator it is one of my life-long goals to have something that has a fraction of the success that OOTS has had.

I have recently gotten back into Dungeons and Dragons and so I have been enjoying this comic ever since I discovered it a few days ago. The humor is spot on and the art style really grows on you after only a couple of strips. It has made me want to dig out my old strip and start making them again, but then I remember how hard that was for me the first time and I decide to just focus on my blog.

Anyway, if you have not heard of OOTS or you don't have any idea what I'm talking about when I say webcomic then you owe it to yourself to check them out here. I would like to finish by saying Happy Thursday everybody!

I have transferred many posts...

I have transferred many posts from my other sites here as I transition to the new face of Lord of Assets. If you are curious as to what I have been up to in February then please go back and check out some of those transferred posts. That is all.

Cruckson Family Crest

Here is the finished design for the Cruckson family crest. My family, through my wife's relatives, have a big family reunion every 4 years. The family is divided into 3 different branches of the family tree: Bessie, Emerson and Rueben.

Here is the design that I came up with. It will be used on the invitations, letterhead, cookbook and on the t-shirts. I tried to incorporate the different branches into a color scheme that showed the theme of this years reunion, mixing it up. The point of these reunions is to meet family members that we may never see otherwise and to have the mixing of the different clans. Hopefully this is apparent in the colored branches each having leaves of a different branch color represented.

I also used an old family crest to base the design on that had a blue/white partition design with the head of a falcon. I tried to modernize the design without changing the core elements. I was pretty happy with how it turned out. This is really the first original thing that I have made in Adobe Illustrator since I began taking a graduate class on the program this semester.