WoW Update

Got 47 before dinner :)

I will catch Karen!

WoW News

So I think that Mogoran is going to be abandoned. I'm just not feeling him recently. It's not that FTB is bad or anything, nice bunch of guys. I'm just not in the mood to deal with the slog and the cat herding that I have to do sometimes. Perhaps my WoW role is to remain but a peon.

Bixy is 46 now and will hopefully hit 47 tonight or tomorrow. My current grinding strategy is "if it's not +3, it's a waste of time." I was killing level 50 scorpids at 45 and almost got a 51 down. +6 seems to be the tipping point with resists and the like. I'm pushing hard to catch up with Karen's hunter (who's 55 now I believe) so we can run instances together. Miriam and Matt even have characters on Earthen Ring with us (Sovht, Human Warrior and Xyon, Human Paladin respectively). It's really brought the fun back into WoW for me.

Getting Better

So I've been pretty stressed at work recently. Tons of "Pri1" or "Pri0" (Microsoft speak for do it now, suckah) things at once makes it hard to know what to be working on. I've become what the organization experts call "interupt driven." I react rather than plan. What I'm doing at the moment is only related to what I've just heard about. Get an email about a bug? I investigate. Get an IM about a DCR? I check it out. Someone stops by with a question? I answer it. Think of it as squeky wheel gets the grease taken to the extreme.

Considering the load I've been under, it's understandable that I'd devolve into this mode but I see it as a failing on my part. Rather than letting the world control me, I want to control my life. Sure I'll always have things to react to but during the time when nothing's in my face I'd like to have a strategy and a plan to move forward. I hate living like this.

I met with Eric today about lightening the load. He took a couple things off my plate but the most important thing he did was validate that I'm doing the best that I can. It's important to hear "this is a bad situation, keep doing what you're doing, we'll try to get you out of it." Makes me feel validated in my overwhelmed-ed-ness.

My zany word making powers fade in the written word.

If things were better, they would better

Oblivion's physics aren't as real as they could be

If I was Bethesda, I'd take it as a compliment that my game was so good that people complained that it wasn't good enough.