CA: Scored the last Lava Flask to complete a Lava Inferno Friday, finishing my predation on giants and starting the last leg of my Divine Power gear project: Azeron. Seems Azeron's loot-dropping is patterned like Magmos's, in that I get 3 epics for around 25M damage but only one of them is the alchemy bit I need 18 of. Magmos was less painful because I only needed 11 lava flasks, and at least I got 2 on one early kill. If Azeron continues to be stingy I'll be at this for a couple months, because I can't dump real money into stam refills to speed the process up.

Speaking of money... my poor headless laptop is still in need of replacement. Dell had some good deals on Win7-class refurbs, a month ago, probably driven down by the emerging $200 tablet market and of course smartphones - no need to carry a lappy when so much can be done "in the cloud" these days. However, dev and secure recordkeeping remain true-computer-based enterprises, so I can't shed the laptop paradigm just yet.

Curious about whether I might pare a few bucks a month off my car insurance, I stepped through AAA South's online quote builder. They must be doing something wrong, because I requested a quote based on absolute minimum coverage factors, and they quoted in the area of double my current premiums.