{"id":273,"date":"2011-01-07T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:15:25","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the new year has started, and my update-rate is miserable&#8230; blame it on a the holidays, plus WoW: Cataclysm and just plain laziness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s new? Nothing much&#8230; had a very big cold, had to stay home for two days (which kind of drives me crazy)&#8230; other than that, I just spent the last three weeks\u00a0eating and enjoying the season&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In World of Warcraft, my small guild started raiding yesterday&#8230; we started with Blackwing Descent (wanted to go Baradin Hold first, but Horde didn&#8217;t let go of it, and we don&#8217;t do PvP, so we can&#8217;t really help), and quickly found out that most of us weren&#8217;t geared enough for Magmaw (the &#8220;first&#8221; boss)&#8230; curiously enough, we made much better attempts at the Golem Council (Omnotron Defense System, or something like that), which is a skill battle, as opposed to Magmaw, which is a gear fight. That said, Cataclysm promises some very interesting raids!<\/p>\n<p>Work has been pilling up at the office, and I have currently in hands about 5 different projects, all due in the next couple of months&#8230; some of them are simple enough, but others are beasts, and the lack of communication between teams is taking its toll, time-wise&#8230; Anyway, I&#8217;m quite confident that we&#8217;ll be able to pull it off&#8230; we always do! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Game-wise, haven&#8217;t played anything but WoW and Band Hero&#8230; I still suck at Band Hero, but a little less everyday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about a story that I could turn into a game (a low budget, 48-hour competition kind of game)&#8230; if I could do that, I think this one would be awesome&#8230; It&#8217;s kind of tormeting having a good story in your head and not sharing it with anyone because you want them to experience it in its fullness, bit by bit&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all the time I have for today, I&#8217;ll try to be more regular now that the dust of the holidays (or snow, whatever) has settled down&#8230; hopefully&#8230; Loads of work ahead of me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton273\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F01%2F07%2Fhappy-new-year%2F&amp;text=Happy%20new%20year%21&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F01%2F07%2Fhappy-new-year%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the new year has started, and my update-rate is miserable&#8230; blame it on a the holidays, plus WoW: Cataclysm and just plain laziness&#8230; So what&#8217;s new? Nothing much&#8230; had a very big cold, had to stay home for two days (which kind of drives me crazy)&#8230; other than that, I just spent the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton273\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F01%2F07%2Fhappy-new-year%2F&amp;text=Happy%20new%20year%21&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F01%2F07%2Fhappy-new-year%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}