The Queue

It’s been five years since I started writing for Blizzard Watch! I was so young back then! Well actually no I was old back then too — but I was younger! To quote They Might Be Giants: I was young and foolish then/I feel old and foolish now.

Dang, that’s a horrible intro. You’d think I’d have the hang of this writing thing after five years.

Of course the big news is all the Midnight info that’s been coming out this week, but we also got a new album from Rachael Yamagata today! Fun fact: she’s half-sister to Josh Ruben of Dropout/Make Some Noise fame. I’m not aware of any other albums being released today.

While I patiently wait by the mailbox for my celebratory 5-year Blizzard Watch sword let’s answer some questions!

I mean, it’s the day after the podcast, why wouldn’t they drop a ton of news about the upcoming expansion?

Unrelated but naming your kid Arator is like the WoW version of naming a kid Artur. Just put in the H, you’re not helping.

Every now and then you just have to pull on your best tabard, grab your favorite artifact appearance, and go for a stroll. Touch the grass, remind yourself that there are still flowers blooming — and look rad doing it. So of course I took a pre-Queue stroll around Dornogal to get my head in the game before coming in to answer your questions. Let’s Queue.

I guess it’s time to start decorating for Halloween for real, which is just wild in so many ways, but I really need only the flimsiest of excuses to break out the pumpkins and the purple.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you as us questions and we answer while riding on a broomstick. It’s fine, I can use my phone as a wifi hot spot.

I ordered a new razor on Amazon recently, and it arrived that same day! That’s so quick! Unbelievably quick. Too quick. Mankind was not meant to have such convenience at our fingertips. I’m going to show my age here, but anything ordered online should take at a minimum two weeks to arrive, and more often four weeks. That’s just the natural order of things!

Most of the time, we didn’t even know if the thing we ordered was legit, or if we’d just gotten scammed. You just had to assume that things were going to work out with your things. Ah, the memories.

The new razor is good, though! It turns out if you spend more than the minimum amount on a product, sometimes you get a good product.

While I go and place an order for more cat food to arrive at my door before this even goes live, it’s time for — The Queue!

Ah Brewfest, the most wonderful time of the year! There is no event in WoW I enjoy more, and there are a lot of fun new additions this year (although I will miss Barking for the Thunderbrews). Of course there’s only so many times I can run the new Banquet scenario or race rams so I’m going to take a break to answer some questions!

I don’t know about you guys, but I would play the heck out of a game where you’re an actual wolverine, doing wolverine things like hunting in the snow, killing polar bears with pure stubbornness, and raising their absolutely adorable kiddos in peace.

Frankly, I enjoyed Wolverine better when Laura Kinney was wearing the costume and had an actual pet wolverine.

Let’s just hope that this week, it isn’t back for revenge. Let’s answer some questions while we stumble towards Friday.

It’s time for fall gardening, so I’m getting my broccoli and lettuce starts started, and it always cracks me up that the plant store gets very mad about people taking broken off pieces of houseplants to propagate. It isn’t discouraging it per se — I get it, that’s why they’re there. It’s for sale, so they want you to buy it. But there are a few specific types of plants where they try to tell you it is illegal to do it, even if you purchase the plant and bring it home and then later propagate a new one. Those particular varieties, I steal whenever I can, because heck the man. Tradescantia and varigated pothos? Get out.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer as soon as we’re done running from the plant police. It may take a while.

It’s officially fall as of today! The best season, for any number of reasons, but mainly because I can wear lots of nice, thick sweaters.

It has nothing to do with my birthday sneaking up on me in less than a month. Nope, not one thing.

Halloween is pretty great too!

While I go and frown at the unseasonably warm temperatures we’re having, it’s time for — The Queue!