The Confused Neuron

I’m trying out something new today. Making boneless buffalo bites from scratch. The recipe doesn’t seem that difficult and there aren’t that many ingredients so I’m thinking they’ll turn out okay.

The last time I tried such a thing, I ended up using a Louisiana Red Hot marinade from Lawry’s. Don’t do that. Ever. Did not turn out very well.

Instead I’m using plain hot sauce and butter for the sauce.

The chicken bits are soaking right now in 3 eggs, they’ll be coated in flour and black pepper and then browned in canola oil, coated with the sauce and let bake in a 13×9 pan for about 45 minutes…and in the end we should have some delicious buffalo bites…for less than I’d pay if I had them delivered.

I’ll take a pic once they come out of the oven. =o)

This is the recipe I’m following. Only I’m using a little less flour and I’ve cut the chicken pieces up into smaller bites.

So it’s 1:30 in the morning and I have to work today. What am I doing you ask? I’m holding Finn right now in the hope that Christy can get a little more sleep. He was due to eat at midnight and he’s been stirring as I’ve held him but all in all he’s been pretty calm.

Christy is practically getting no sleep these days since Finn has one heck of an appetite. I wish there was something I could do to help her out but right now there isn’t. I’m not equipped to feed him. Not until we switch to formula a little later down the road.

I don’t really know how she functions on no sleep. I’m cranky as all get out if I don’t get a few consecutive hours. Just ask her. She’s seen me running on little sleep and it ain’t pretty.

Anyway as I sit here rocking back and forth listening to Finn sleep and tapping away on my phone I really don’t mind being awake at this hour. Not if the reason I’m awake is laying in my arms.

Happy Father’s Day indeed.

I have a somewhat irrational fear of running dungeons in WoW and it’s because I know I’m not the best player out there and plus I already have one strike against me playing a Huntard.  Also my lack of good gear means my DPS stinks but in order to improve the DPS, I need better gear, to get that gear I need to run instances.  See the conundrum? In spite of all of that, I was “dragged” into a heroic Halls of Lightning run last night by my friend Femme.  She used to be in my guild but left last week for reasons not altogether foreign to me (that’s another story though).  She keeps trying to get me into instance runs and I politely keep coming up with excuses not to go.  Last night I didn’t have a good one ready so I felt obligated to go and it ended up being a very good run

Anyway, my fear has kept me out of many a group looking for DPS for various instances but as my friend pointed out last night, how else am I going to get better gear if I don’t run instances?  So even though I was lagging in the DPS charts, I didn’t die at all (which is rare) and completed the Shatterproof, Halls of Lightning and Heroic: The Halls of Lightning acheivments with the run and also got myself up to ‘honored’ with the Kirin’Tor.   Not bad for my first HoL run.

We had a good group with an awesome healer and Femme (who’s claims to have run HoL only 40-50 times) was our group lead and was very good about explaining the fights to us.  There was another HoL rookie with us and we didn’t even wipe once.

So slowly I’m overcoming my fear of n00bing up instance runs.  Now if I can just find groups that wouldn’t mind explaining things to me as we go, I’ll be set.  Seems more often or not that people don’t want explain the instance, they just want to run through as fast as possible to get badges, loot and honor.  That doesn’t help rookies like me who don’t run these things a lot.  I mean, I can research the instances online to learn about them but that’s nothing like actually doing the fights.

So we’ll see.  Maybe I can get another run in with a group tonight.  That would be fun!

Usually in the mornings when I’m drinking my first cup of coffee I start browsing through my Google reader and being the nerd I am, I have a whole category in my reader devoted to various World of Warcraft feeds.  My favorite feed comes from the site wowinsider.com.

This morning I was reading a lore piece on Shamans and it really interested me.  I’ve stuck with my hunter main all the way to 80 and have a number of other alternates that I rarely play.  I think my rogue is at 26 right now.  But in reading this article I think I’m finally decided on what class to start on as an alternate that I’ll actually play and take to lvl 80.

I don’t really care for the tank classes.  My second favorites are any ranged and/or DPS classes, hence my love for hunters.  I also like mages and I do have a mage alt…that I don’t play.  I’ve never rolled a shaman though.  I think that’s the only class I’ve never really tried out.  I had a Night Elf druid, and various Horde warriors, priests, mages, paladins and even a warlock…but never a shaman.  So I’m thinking I’m going to learn myself a new class that at least appears to be a little different from my hunter.

We’ll see how this experiment goes =o)

I’ve seen this set of peripherals by Logitech featured in multiple reviews already.  I’m not sure I’m coordinated enough to use the pad and keyboard at the same time, but the keyboard by itself looks awesome.   The only game I play on a regular basis is World of Warcraft, as you well know.  This keyboard offers customizable macro keys, backlit keyboard keys, built in USB ports and an LCD screen that displays ingame information while you play.  (How it does that, I’m still not sure).

Weighing in at a hefty $199 for just the keyboard alone, I highly doubt it will be something I’ll have and use to play WoW.  I envision using it while at a desktop PC.  Currently I’m using my laptop to play games so an external keyboard would just be silly.  If I ever play at a desk again, this keyboard might possibly find its way into my home.