There's just not enough time in the day anymore. Here is it 2:43am and I'm JUST crawling into bed. And today was my day off! LOL I had a couple meetings for UFDS, ran some errands, and had a raid scheduled for tonight. Plus some other website work that needed to be taken care off. It's just so hectic... I need a vacation!
Problem is money... I need money to go on vacation and I've gotta work tons of hours to make the money in order to take the vacation... but that just makes the vacation more urgent! LOL It's a vicious domino effect!
Showing posts with label Raiding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raiding. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Yay for Friday!
After a very long week, Friday is finally here. Hopefully things will get better but I'm starting to become overwhelmed with all the projects I have going on at once. Marketing is starting to gear up at the insurance office in an attempt to reboot the company... I'm still doing website design on the side... and now I'm also developing a browser-based game with some friends. This is in addition to the other extracurricular activities I've got going on like WoW Raids... which take up 3 of the nights in the week.
Hopefully I can use the weekend to get caught up on a few things and get ready for the next week. I already have a meeting scheduled on Tuesday for my first big web project so I kinda need to be prepared for that.
Hopefully I can use the weekend to get caught up on a few things and get ready for the next week. I already have a meeting scheduled on Tuesday for my first big web project so I kinda need to be prepared for that.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The New Blog
Well...two days in a row... this is a first. A first post to the new blog location, that is. MDL.com moved last night over to BlogSpot. I got tired of the old layout, but really didn't have the energy to design something new.... so I went the template route... and then learned about Blogger's Layouts and decided, "meh, might as well". And VOILA! Insta-new website blog. Plus, it's got FISH! So it's full of win right there!
Anyways... I hit up the doctor today. Have had a cough I haven't been able to get rid of for the past few weeks. I thought I had it licked last Friday but then it came back again over the weekend so I decided I should get in to see what the Doctor says. Still don't know what it is, but we have a feeling it may be related to the acid-reflux I get sometimes. So we did some bloodtests and made an appointment for 30-days out. No new medications though... so still more coughing ahead, I guess. Oh well...
Had a GREAT raid in WoW tonight... one of the best ones we've had since before the expansion released! To those that don't play, I know this won't mean much to you, but we managed to take down 3 instances and STILL nearly cleared a 4th! All in just 1 night's normal raid period. Well done! Hopefully, we'll be able to knock one of the instances off the schedule soon. I think we're all pretty tired of continuously going in there, but there's a "legendary" item that we are trying to get... and the only way to do that is to run it over and over.
It's back to work tomorrow after today's UP (Unpaid) day. Although, I did stop by the office this afternoon and worked on a flyer that needed to get out. Hopefully this shortened work schedule (and consequently shorted paycheck) will be done away with... and hopefully not by losing it altogether! We'll see...
Anyways... I hit up the doctor today. Have had a cough I haven't been able to get rid of for the past few weeks. I thought I had it licked last Friday but then it came back again over the weekend so I decided I should get in to see what the Doctor says. Still don't know what it is, but we have a feeling it may be related to the acid-reflux I get sometimes. So we did some bloodtests and made an appointment for 30-days out. No new medications though... so still more coughing ahead, I guess. Oh well...
Had a GREAT raid in WoW tonight... one of the best ones we've had since before the expansion released! To those that don't play, I know this won't mean much to you, but we managed to take down 3 instances and STILL nearly cleared a 4th! All in just 1 night's normal raid period. Well done! Hopefully, we'll be able to knock one of the instances off the schedule soon. I think we're all pretty tired of continuously going in there, but there's a "legendary" item that we are trying to get... and the only way to do that is to run it over and over.
It's back to work tomorrow after today's UP (Unpaid) day. Although, I did stop by the office this afternoon and worked on a flyer that needed to get out. Hopefully this shortened work schedule (and consequently shorted paycheck) will be done away with... and hopefully not by losing it altogether! We'll see...
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Relying on Trust
Take this post with a grain of salt, but I think I've kinda figured out why I'm not into WoW as much as a use to be. Yes, I'm bored with it (doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...isn't that the defination of something?) but there is something else. It kind of fits in the real world too. Not sure I'm taking my real world emotions into the game or if I'm taking my virtual world feelings with me when I leave, but it's basically this...
I've lost trust in people. Granted, there are 1 or 2 people I still trust implicitly, but the population as a whole? It's never been good for me to trust anyone. I usually wind up getting burned. So i've slowly been drifting toward the realization that the only person you can trust is yourself. I think I've brought this depressing reality with me to WoW. It takes 40 people to successfully complete high-end instances in WoW. And not just 40 warm bodies but 40 people who know their jobs, have spent time getting geared, know what's expected of them, and can get the job done without causing issues. And all 40 of these people need to rely on each other... that's 39 other people counting on you to do your job and you're counting on them to do theirs.
WoW is classified as an MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online (booku peeps online at once) role playing game. As such, many of the aspects of the game physically required you to deal with people... to trust them... to group with them... and hope they do their jobs and not screw you. It's the one aspect I've never really liked. I'm a loner, a "do-it-yourself" kind of person. Physically working with others I've never met just doesn't work well for me. It's caused most my WoW characters to be abandoned when groups start become a necessity to advance further.
Now, for those that know which characters I play... yes I have a level 60 Hunter and a level 60 mage. But you want to know something? I didn't get either of those characters to 60. I abandoned my hunter around the mid 40s and my best friend Janell played it up higher. I abandoned my mage around level 50 and again Janell brought it up to 59 and a half. So why do I play now in a 40-man raid? Simple... I'm a much smaller aspect of the raid. There are usually 4 other mages there... and 1 out of 40 means I can blend in a whole lot more than 1 out of just 5.
I've lost trust in people. Granted, there are 1 or 2 people I still trust implicitly, but the population as a whole? It's never been good for me to trust anyone. I usually wind up getting burned. So i've slowly been drifting toward the realization that the only person you can trust is yourself. I think I've brought this depressing reality with me to WoW. It takes 40 people to successfully complete high-end instances in WoW. And not just 40 warm bodies but 40 people who know their jobs, have spent time getting geared, know what's expected of them, and can get the job done without causing issues. And all 40 of these people need to rely on each other... that's 39 other people counting on you to do your job and you're counting on them to do theirs.
WoW is classified as an MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online (booku peeps online at once) role playing game. As such, many of the aspects of the game physically required you to deal with people... to trust them... to group with them... and hope they do their jobs and not screw you. It's the one aspect I've never really liked. I'm a loner, a "do-it-yourself" kind of person. Physically working with others I've never met just doesn't work well for me. It's caused most my WoW characters to be abandoned when groups start become a necessity to advance further.
Now, for those that know which characters I play... yes I have a level 60 Hunter and a level 60 mage. But you want to know something? I didn't get either of those characters to 60. I abandoned my hunter around the mid 40s and my best friend Janell played it up higher. I abandoned my mage around level 50 and again Janell brought it up to 59 and a half. So why do I play now in a 40-man raid? Simple... I'm a much smaller aspect of the raid. There are usually 4 other mages there... and 1 out of 40 means I can blend in a whole lot more than 1 out of just 5.
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