Lately I’ve been preparing things my upcoming holidays. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be going to Porto for around a week, and I’ve been checking train schedules and ticket prices. I still have a 20% discount over the thing, but am wondering if it stacks with the 10% discount we get if we buy a two-way trip ticket. Anyway, I’m also planning what to do there, though not with any precise schedule (hey, it’s a vacation :P), and among other things I’ll be visiting some comic book stores there. I’ve mailed one of the stores asking what is the best way to get there via public transportation since the store is in Boavista and my grandfather no longer drives. They’ve been kind enough to reply with the information I needed. Seems I’ll be using Porto’s cable car… er, pardon me, the Porto subway system for the first time to get there. :)

I’m inviting some friends over to have dinner over with us this Saturday, but I’m waiting on input from a couple of them to see if they can go. It would be nice to catch up with both, since I hardly see them in the flesh. I’ll probably be making chicken teriyaki, since it turned out yummy the last time I made it.

On other news, I might be participating in a comic book creation contest with a friend, but we’ll have to see how it goes in terms of creative inspiration for the thing’s theme.

I bought a couple of new T-shirts recently. Not really work-friendly clothes because they’re those cutey kinds of things with silly drawings and stuff, but alas I have some laundry issues so I’ll be wearing both this week at work (am wearing one today :P). What I’m really looking to buy right now, are new summer tennis shoes. I love mine, they’re very confy and they look nice, but they’re getting old and starting to tear apart. Unfortunately, wherever I go that has decent looking tennis shoes, only has them for guys and since I have really small feet I can’t get them for myself. What’s with all the crappy designs and colours used in female shoes? It often feels like fashion designers make contests on who draws the least ergonomic and more horrible piece of clothing for women.

I haven’t been playing much of anything. Just a bit of World of Warcraft. I decided to take the dust off my hunter and take her to Karazhan with some friends. As much as I enjoyed using my feral druid for DPS, it can only do so much, and this way I won’t be taking some other DPS’s spot when I can’t keep up. My hunter allows me to participate and not be a dead weight. Even with not so great gear I’ve managed to keep up and last night I was above 740 DPS, following my friend Rafa’s advice and using his hunter macro and using some consumables to make up for my lack of gear. meantime I’ve won four items that are making a difference, along with the gems and enchants I got on them. I think I’m ready to go with her to ZA since he mentioned he usually set 550-600 DPS as a minimum for people who go there. I’ll have to take a look at my BM spec and maybe change a few things around, and also I need to train my pet so he doesn’t die so damned much (needs avoidance desperately). Anyway the runs have been fun, and I’m really enjoying relaxing while going trigger happy on mobs. And I don’t feel as useless as I thought I would, by playing a Hunter - I even had a few moments of trapping lose mobs that were killing healers and other people, plus using miss direction, etc. I want to go with her to Magister’s Terrace sometime. I haven’t been there yet on any character and there’s this über epic mail chest that would be an awesome upgrade for her.

I haven’t been using my Paladin or Druid except to do the daily PvP quest when it’s AV, and since my work schedule doesn’t’ allow me to get to the raids on time, and I prefer to go to later raids with RL friends anyway on my Hunter, I’ve asked to be a social there. Besides, I’m more than sick of TK, SSC, and even not too interested in Hyjal (I’ve finished it) or in doing anything in BT other than Illidan, who I’d like to kill even if just once. I’m going to make a large donation of buff food to my raiding guild’s gang so I contribute in some way to their efforts. Been fishing a lot lately and I have no need for all that food, nor for the gold I’d get by selling it. I’ll sell some along the way but for now, I’ll stack up on yummy fish treats and the sort and then donate.