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One 6 ½ ounce package Murray® Sugar Free Double Chocolate or Sugar Free Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

1 tablespoon butter, melted

Two, 1 ½ quart containers, Breyers No Sugar Added French Vanilla Ice Cream

Cool Whip, or Reddi Wipp Light Whipped cream

Pulse cookies into fine even crumbs using your food processor. If you do not have a food processor, place cookies in a large Ziploc bag, press out the air and seal bag; pound the cookies with a rolling pin or the smooth side of a meat mallet.

Divide the crumbs, reserving about 1 cup for the top.

In a small bowl, combine the remaining cookie crumbs with the melted butter until evenly moistened. Firmly press the mixture into the bottom of an 8 inch springform pan. Place into the freezer for about an hour.

Remove ice cream from the freezer and leave at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes until softened, scoop the ice cream into a large bowl and blend until creamy and spreadable. Quickly smooth into the cookie crust and place in the freezer for one hour. Spread the reserved crumbs evenly over the cake, cover with foil and place in freezer overnight.

Ten minutes before serving, remove cake from pan and place on round platter. Serve with whipped cream.

Source Prep Time: 20 minutes. Serving Size: Serves 12.

Book of Glyph Mastery
Question: With Cataclysm coming to a close it’s already hard to come by enough Book of Glyph Mastery to learn all 50+ glyphs taught by the books. So the question is will that change with MOP?

Answer: Yes. We will be changing the discovery spells so they can teach all possible glyphs, and the books will simply provide a no-cooldown method to do the same thing. Source: Ask the Devs.

So basically the learned glyphs will still be taught with the Books, but ultimately Blizz is adding some sort of what is presumed to be a daily research quest possibly similar to Northrend Research or maybe something new all together.

If your looking to either learn these Books or Flip them for a profit according to wowhead.com the best to farm them would be Wrath raids The Ruby Sanctum, Ulduar, Icecrown Citadel, and Naxxramas all with a 1-4% drop rate followed by a very low 0.5%-0.4% in Wrath dungeons level 77-80 Gundrak, The Oculus, Pit of Saron, The Violet Hold, Utgarde Pinnacle, The Culling of Stratholme, Drak’Tharon Keep, The Forge of Souls, and Halls of Stone.

Blizzard Launches Battle.net Item Restoration System
Back in the day, getting an item restored was a big deal. It took forever and it was a pretty complex process. Everyone had rumors about how many items you could petition for in a character’s lifetime and everyone had different stories involving the kindness of Blizzard’s GMs. Well, that’s officially a thing of the past now! Blizzard has launched an automated item restoration process. Every thirty days, you can have an item restored via this process. Pretty cool!

Source: Blizzard (View Original)
Starting today, players can access a new system that will allow players to recover World of Warcraft items that they may have sold, destroyed or disenchanted: Battle.net Item Restoration.
With this new self-service option the recovery of an item or items that were recently deleted or sold to a vendor can be restored to a character immediately when using the ticket submission system on our support site. For any items that were accidentally disenchanted the same method can be used to request a review by Customer Support for restoration.
This restoration option may only be used once every 30 days on active World of Warcraft accounts that are in good standing. As this option has a limited availability and use, we still encourage caution when selling, deleting or disenchanting items.

The Best and Easiest Transmog Site To Date – Icy Veins

Check out this walk through by Alto, find the perfect item you need to complete your set in minutes as well as how and where to get the item!

Gearing Up for 5mans, PVP, or Raiding
I’m not the best person when it comes to really optimizing and my characters. That’s OK because there is a site out there for players like me who have difficulty with this kind of stuff. If you’re looking for a gear optimizer, go ahead and Ask Mr. Robot. If you’re not sure which item is the best you can get for the content you’re doing, you can use Ask Mr. Robot to show you what the optimal drops are. Not only that, it even tells you how you should gem, enchant and reforge.

Source: WowInsider: Ask Mr. Robot: What gear should you get?

Frustrated: To start off I was scheduled for the upgrade for sometime about March 7th, instead the service went down and was re-scheduled for more than a week later. In the time period following I’ve had to call tech support a few times which isn’t fun since it’s now at least a 45 minute wait! WB scheduled a tech visit after stating the new modem may be over heating and my speeds were then no better than 200k far below the threshold expected.

The results, the modem was tested and found nothing to be wrong with it. The tech ran more cable, stating that the installer did not have the required 35 feet of cable nor was the dish at proper height or all the bolts tight. He stated basically that if the modem and/or connections felt hot to the touch to leave it be as long as it had proper air flow it was working as intended.

It’s been a couple weeks since the techs visit and I’m right back where I was with various speed test showing maybe 200k. Currently the weather is nice, has been warm and clear all day here.

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Ka-band Spot U33DR beam

:::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection:: 211 Kbps or 0.2 Mbps
Download Test Size:: 2.5 MB or 2560 kB or 2621440 bytes
Download Speed:: 26 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/W3TA9JX
Test Time:: 2012-04-26 16:44:09 Local Time
1MB Download in 39.38 Seconds – 1GB Download in ~11 Hours – 4X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 2560 kB took 97.212 seconds to complete
Running at 2% of hosts average (Wildblue Communications)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 [!]

UPDATE: 10:36PM

I got NO replies on the wildblue forums for my post above so I’m posting it here on MY blog simply out of frustration!! However a few minutes ago I noticed things weren’t dragging quite as bad so I retested and my speeds are back up. Not quite into the best range but hovering 3000Kb which isn’t too bad! Was it just some random Viasat issue or is it a warning of things to come …. and as you can see below it’s dropped again just in a matter of maybe 5 minutes!!

:::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection:: 9623 Kbps or 9.4 Mbps
Download Test Size:: 74.8 MB or 76581 kB or 78419145 bytes
Download Speed:: 1203 kB/s or 1.2 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/v1D9BTu
Test Time:: 2012-04-26 22:42:13 Local Time
1MB Download in 0.85 Seconds – 1GB Download in ~15 Minutes – 172X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 76581 kB took 63.667 seconds to complete
Running at 253% of hosts average (Wildblue Communications)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 [!]

Just how long did you spend clicking backwards through months of erratic post to find what you must’ve thought was the juicy stuff? I find you sad and frankly pathetic! There are many things you can do with your time rather than searching out someone’s personal blog especially someone who can’t stand you and isn’t blind enough to not know the feeling is some what mutual.

Your a manipulative bitch who doesn’t mind abusing her own family’s trust to get what you want. What bother’s you more the fact that ultimately you weren’t worth kicking your ass or the fact that I put your philandering adulterous son’s bullshit out for all to view!

Seriously get a clue and stop the LIES, no one likes a liar! My blog is not linked from FB, it is public and will stay that way, however in order to have found it you either; One would have had to be shown which I highly doubt or Two and much more pathetic but likely went searching google for my name. No worries though, I have no interest in searching your family name and I know exactly how to deal with nosy neighbors … TTTN!

I only started using this TSM a few days ago and in only 48 hours I made more than 5K in gold. Yesterday I learned out how to setup and craft my profession items using TSM and today I’m setting up:

• Dealfinding: finding mats at the best prices with just one search
• Shopping: transmog list, I started making set list a few months ago so not only will I use this to find my missing pieces but I may also use it to flip transmog items off this awesome list Keelhaul shared over at Power Word: Gold
• Destroying:  a quik look at the lowest priced items you destroy for mats for example items that can be DE’d

Another AddOn I LOVE and would suggest is Postal, this makes opening all your incoming mail a (one click) affair. You can also choose which items to open if your short on space.

Potion of Treasure Finding
I had these potions made a few months ago and honestly I forgot I had them sitting on my hunter who I haven’t farmed with in months. So today while trying to setup TSM (see below) I decided I needed some embersilk so I hunted down those potions and took my tailor out to TB “the restless” area. In maybe 45 mins I had 65 bolts of embersilk, 2 volatile air, 9 volatile water, 2 elementium ore, 2 greens, 1 blue, and countless trash items.

The [Potion of Treasure Finding] give you a chance to get a [Tiny Treasure Chest] when killing mobs in the new level 80+ maps of Vashj’ir, Mount Hyjal, Deepholm, Twilight Highlands, Uldum and Tol Barad (although it doesn’t say so in the tooltip).

To make the potions the reagents are:
8x[Cinderbloom]
4x[Stormvine]
6x[Heartblossom]
4x[Whiptail]
1x[Crystal Vial]

Trade Skill Master
Over the last few months I’ve gotten more and more into auctioning items for gold making, it’s a tough job! I started simple with items I know can sell vendor companion pets & recipes. I’m guessing I make about 5k a month with these type of sells. Pretty good but near enough to support four level 85s and my harem of growing alts. So I’ve tried following the AH Gurus and tried addons like Auctioneer but never quite got the hang of it. The a few days ago while over reading on of my favorite transmog blogs I was introduced to WoWmarketeer which lead me to TSM aka Trade Skill Master.

So just what is TSM, an auction manager that allows you to drastically shorten the amount of time you spend crafting & selling your wares. It manages your auctions posting/canceling at a click. It allows set up of crafting list as well as makes the list of mats needed, making shopping/farming abit easier. Over-all with all the gadgets included it should double and soon triple what your making in gold just by running scans and learning the ups/downs of auction house selling trends.