The best part of The Geek’s Weekly so far is that, in fact, it’s not been very weekly! Perhaps I should rename this to The Geek’s Not-So-Weekly; I will have to ponder on this.

The second Geek’s Weekly is entirely my girlfriends fault. Yes it is, honey!

We have been farming Anzu for months, in hopes of getting Reins of the Raven Lord for our characters. She has been pestering me about it ever since I faction changed my Night Elf Druid to the Horde. I settled down to level to 80 and do the epic flight form quests, so that I could summon Anzu for her. In the same time she leveled her own Druid as well.

Anzu first dropped for her Druid. Lucky her! Amazingly enough, the following day Anzu dropped again for us! So we had achieved our initial goal, except she had not on one, but two Raven Lords now! I couldn’t believe her luck! Since then we’ve continued the farming, hoping to get another one to drop for me. I had given up hope, surely she had used up all luck already! But, last night we had another drop! Yay! I had been a little grumpy all evening and initially I didn’t feel like doing anything, but I’m very happy we made the trip to Sethekk Halls anyway!

Seeing me all cheered up, she suggested posting this as my Geek’s Weekly. I quickly agreed and asked her to pose together with me for a screenshot to accompany the post.

Our next goal is to get yet another Anzu drop. This time for my very own Druid. It would be nice to get him a Blue-Black-Birdie as well! It might require a lot of additional luck, but it’ll probably drop before we ever get to see the Tiger from Zul’Gurub! As an example to demonstrate how long we’ve been after the Zul’Gurub tiger I will tell you that in the same period we have gotten the drops for:

• Three(!) Anzu’s from Sethekk Halls,
• Two raptor mounts from Zul’Gurub,
• One white chicken mount, two phoenix hatchling pets and two orbs of the sin’dorei from Magister’s Terrace.

Grrrr!

Yesterday, for the first time this year, I experienced what I unmistakeably think of as the smell of summer; a slight whiff of cigarette smoke combined with various smells of (fast) food! For some reason it reminds me of the summers when I was a child and went to the beach with my mum and dad. Around lunchtime my dad would always take us (my brother and I) with him to get some wonderful, but unhealthy, food. Inevitably, a number of people would always be smoking near us.

It doesn’t matter where I am, whether it’s in town, on a race track, or the beach. The combination of warmer temperatures, blue skies and the smells of smoke and fast food spark these old memories of summer and beach. The first time when all of these factors combine into one moment, I will realise that another year has turned and summer has come upon us again.