I have jury duty tomorrow. Because I chose to delay my service for several months, I can no longer just call in the night before to see if they need me. Instead, I have to drive up there tomorrow and sit in the courthouse all day. (But hopefully just for one day!) I need to be there at 7:45 am, so I probably need to get up around 6:30 am. Now, I’ve been working more or less second shift hours for the past two months, so my normal wake-up time has been around noon. (For the record, I sometimes cheat on this blog — I often post before I go to bed early in the morning, or schedule posts to go up while I’m asleep).

So I plan on being very unhappy for most of tomorrow. But at least I have Thursday to recover before BlizzCon starts! (Not that I’m going, but I plan on being glued to the monitor waiting for snippets of news.) Anyway, I’ll schedule one of the Kaet posts for after midnight, but I probably won’t be around much tomorrow.

If you get the chance, make sure you check out the in-game concert by the band Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain. They play every hour on the hour at a stage just south of Shattrath City, along the road. I saw Drysc talking about the concert on the WoW General forum, so I swung by — and it was really good! The pyrotechnics were especially cool. They only played one song (even though I called for an encore), but it was worth the trip.

I spent a big chunk of today getting myself set up to test taming ‘pet’ creatures on the PTR. I reactivated my husband’s account, installed the PTR on his laptop, copied a pre-made level 70 mage (that I have no idea how to play), read for an hour while both this character and my copied main waited in the PTR queue, ducked the hundreds of requests for teleports that came in as soon as I got on, and headed out across the world to try taming some of the controlled beasts that people have mentioned.

I had absolutely no luck.

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(You can read all of Kaet’s adventures, starting with why I’m doing things this way, by checking out the series Table of Contents at the end of this post. Alternatively, if you are here primarily for juicy pet-related news, feel free to skip these bits — they’re optional.)

And so, at level 10, the hunter trainer in the Dwarven District of Stormwind, the eloquent Thorfin Stoneshield, sent me off to Kharanos for my level 10 hunter quests. For some reason, you must do your level 10 quests in your race’s homeland, even if you have been leveling up elsewhere. But just to be polite the hunter trainers in other towns will often give you a minor quest to go home, worth some 85 experience.

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I spent some more time yesterday and today tweaking Petopia in response to feedback. Let me say it again — thank you to everyone who has sent me their impressions of the changes. It really helps me figure out where I went wrong and what needs to be dealt with first. *grin* But here’s a quick rundown of the work from yesterday and today.

• I added another shortcut to the front page to search for pets that know a particular skill. Like the shortcuts for searching by level and zone, this shortcut feeds into the main database so you can refine your search from there as you like.

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