Happy Thanksgiving! and other thoughts

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all, from the Dakka household!

I have been progressing somewhat in World of Warcraft. My Warrior (Dakkasmash on Duskwood if anyone cares to know) is up to level 93. My garrison now features a level 2 Mine which is certainly reaping benefits for a Jewelcrafter. Piles and piles of ore. What's better is my wife has her mine up and running and is sending me the ore that she gathers :D

What I really need is to upgrade my Gem Boutique so that I can assign Olin Umberhide and get even more production. Olin is the first Follower you can recruit after building your garrison. He is a Protection Warrior who has the Jewelcrafting profession, so he can be assigned to the Gem Boutique to increase production. He could serve as a bodyguard I think but as Dakkasmash is a Warrior that would be a little silly.

Apparently in order to upgrade my garrison buildings to level 2 (with the exception of the Mine) is to either set up an outpost in a particular zone (I want to say Talador) or reach level 96. So we shall see how soon it happens.

The trailer for Jurassic World has been released. Can't say I'm excited, since the last Jurassic Park film was pretty bad. Apparently they finally get the dinosaur theme park up and running, but forgot that it's still a bad idea to breed predators.

Side note: IGN posted an article this morning asking if Jurassic World really needs a genetically modified dinosaur. ALL of Jurrassic Park's dinosaurs were genetically modified: it was stated in the book and movie that amphibian DNA was used to fill the gaps in the sequence. This is what allowed the dinosaurs to change sex and breed uncontrollably (all dinosaurs were bred female, but some amphibians are known to spontaneously change sex and the inGen scientists didn't do their research), and I seem to remember that being at least part of the reason the T. rex could not see you if you weren't moving (might have been in the book; some frogs' eyesight is predicated on movement if I remember correctly). So someone needs to go watch the movies again.

Also the trailer for Star Wars Episode VII drops this weekend. Select theaters will be playing it but it should also be available online. This is contributing to my dilemma of having to push to see multiple films in theaters next year, as The Avengers: Age Of Ultron arrives in May followed by Star Wars in December (which is just wrong but I wouldn't want my movie up against the Avengers either). I do have mixed feelings though, given the debacle that was ALL THE PREQUELS. But it's Star Wars so I still feel obligated to go.