Like a lot of people, I like to collect certain things. But instead of collecting Disney or Pokemon, I seem to have rather a odd collecting bent.

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Aeria, the NA publisher for HKO, recently tweeted (and posted on their facebook):

http://twitter.com/aeriagames/status/2906774482

Basically they’ve opened registration for beta sign-ups. Check the tweet above for the link to the sign up page. They have a simple quiz, which no fan of HK or HKO should have a problem with :P

And am I the only one to think that their choice of words, “Happy?”, sounds kind of  snippy? Or am I being (as usual) overly sensitive and should just keep my opinions to myself?

I’m kinda vain about my hair. Perhaps obviously, since I’m even making a blog about it :P But not overly so. I’m not the kind of guy who primps and preens anytime there’s a mirror around. But I do like to keep my hair nice. Shampoo and conditioner at least once a day. No chemicals! No blow-dry!

I’m personally partial to long hair. It’s been quite a while since I had my hair cut, cause I was gonna let it go. But it was in that annoying middle stage, and right now, it was just easier to get it over with. And since it was kinda traumatic, I figured blogging would also be good therapy. I’ll have to see if I can find pix of when I used to have hair literally to my arse, if you’ll pardon my tongue.

I’ll put pix after the break so you can prepare yourself to yell eek

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I’ve mentioned that I started to play The Lord of the Rings Online again. So far it’s pretty good. Not as bad as I imagined. Everyone is pretty casual. I unintentionally wiped our party the other day, cause I just keep forgetting where my hotkeys are. Nobody was too upset.

Anyways, it’s the summer festival. It was supposed to end on the 21st, but for some reason they extended it to the end of August. I hadn’t planned on partcipating since I figured there wasn’t enough time, but this week I decided to buckle down and get the festival horse.Here is my “old” blood bay horse.

And the new festival horse.

It’s a little bit flashy, don’t you think? But that’s the idea, it’s a special reward! You have to turn in your old horse to get the new one. Or you could buy a second horse, but at 4g, that’s a little steep to indulge. (yea, 4 gold is, or was, a fairly decent amount of money).

Do you like calzones? I love them, but they’re so huge and just loaded with cheese, I don’t eat them very often. Gotta have them absolutely fresh and hot from the oven. You can re-heat them, but it’s just not the same.

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Have you ever had, or heard of an Italian hotdog? Well, unless you’re from NJ or have visited (and eaten) here, you might not. It’s definitely a NJ thing, but I dunno if anyone outside of NJ has ever had one.

Basically it is a hotdog (or two), with peppers, onions and potatoes inside a roll made out of pizza dough. And darn if it isn’t mighty tasty. There are a few variations, but that’s the basic recipe.

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I dunno why I did this. I kinda woke up this morning and it just popped into my mind. Is there something wrong with me?

Anyways, don’t be offended :P Y’all know I love HKO, but just I couldn’t get this image out of my head.

On my way home from work, I stopped at the store to buy flowers for my mother. When I passed by the deli counter, this was just screaming at me:

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So today is the Fourth of July, otherwise known as Independence Day in the US. Since the 4th is on a Saturday, most businesses, etc, had Friday off, so I had a nice three-day weekend. I couldn’t find any local fireworks, though? Apparently some of the towns had theirs on Friday? NY is having theirs on the Hudson tonight, but someone told me it’s madness trying to get anywhere near there; people have been settling in since yesterday. Oh well. I’ve got channel 4 on right now.

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Oh yes I did… Reactivated my LoTRO account *shrug*

I’m still playing the ID and the SG versions of HKO. Since ID is live, I’ve been spending most of my time there. And hopefully once the SG version goes live, we’ll get some news on the US version? Hint hint?It’s fairly obvious that I like, and will continue, to play HKO. But, you know, variety and that stuff?

I’m sure the GMs don’t really care one way or another what games I play. Heck, they’re GMs, they’re probably gamers themselves, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them played any of the big-name commercial games. I know when I was a GM, I needed to play someone elses games. Kinda the need to “get away from work”. Or perhaps that’s just me projecting? If so, my apologies.

It’s odd that just after posting my musings about LoTRO that I received an email from Turbine, “come back for $9.95!”.  Well, I looked into it, but that $10 is for new players, and I wanted to reactivate my old account, so “certain restrictions apply”. Of course they’re always having “come back” specials.

Anyways, here are some screenshots after the break, if you’re interested. I also put these screenies after the break, cause I run my video at 1600×1200, so they can be a little large.

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