Monday (1 Oct) - More Carnage on the Auction House (the good kind)

Monday (1 Oct) - More Carnage on the Auction House (the good kind)

Monday morning was a great time to pick up MoP level BOE gear. Happy has gone insane over the past few days, claiming he had to clear out bags of gold to make room for all the useless enchanting mats he'd bought. Happy was heard to mumble, "if I'm going to be crazy, I'm going to be really, REALLY crazy!" Wild considered talking to Happy about the heavy flow of gold out of the family coffers, but got distracted - new goodies on the AH, gotta go!

JB added five new pieces, and now has MoP level gear in 11 of 16 gear slots. JB's gear score is now at i408.

Philly was grateful to JB, who found a nice +int trinket on the AH and bought it for her (take that, Wild!). Wild got his comeuppance. Philly plucked [Spiritwhisper Conch] from the AH, a second +512int trinket to pair up the one she got from JB. Philly has done an astonishing job with her gear, and needs only a belt to be in full MoP gear. Her gear score is a stunning i414!

Wild groused, but he did find two pieces of MoP leather gear available in the guild bank, and then scrounged around the AH. Wild lost out on the trinket that Philly nabbed, but leather gear was plentiful on the AH this time around. Wild, who had the fewest pieces of MoP gear and the least distance to go to get there, added a pile of new gear. Wild is still short three pieces of gear, though, and went to his hammock depressed that his gear score is "only" i413. Just as an aside, I think ascetically the BOE gear is pretty ugly.

Happy's explosion of gold has about reached it's end, though. Counting family and friends, gear and other needs for MoP came to about 80,000 gold spent. Family is happy, friends are happy, Happy is happy - it's all good. Now for the exciting challenge of winning it all back in the casino called the Auction House.

On the real life front, we have been under assault for several weeks now by an invasion of fleas. The whole area we live in is affected. We have done everything we can, including monthly topicals on our pets like Frontline and Advantage, yard control through our pest control contract, bathing the pets with the worst problems, vacuuming multiple times a week (and immediately getting the vacuumed stuff out of the house), etc.

We're going for the kill this week. Last night all of our pets got a dose of Capstar, a pill that kills all fleas on a pet for 24 hours. Today we have pest control back to do our yard again (the third time) as well as our house this time. It's not a tenting, but we do have to get all of our pets out of the house and into our RV. Then, when that is over, they'll all get a new does of Advantage (which controls fleas for 1 month). We have 12 cats and a dog, plus two more cats we are currently caring for. One of those cats is feral, and I got a pretty nasty bite/clawing when I got her ready to go.

In a few minutes we will start getting cats into kennels. They already suspect something is up. Ever tried to catch a cat that didn't want to be caught? It will be a fun morning.