Monday, February 26, 2007

I'm sick!

But for once it's not the arthritis. I've got a nasty cold or flu or something that's making it feel like my brains have liquefied and are trying to come out my nose. It's all very bad. It's been about a week and finally I'm starting to feel better.

In other news, I finally got my glasses replaced, and since it's been so long since I wore them (and the prescription changed a little bit), everything looks off. I feel taller, and my monitor looks like /___\ instead of |___|. According to the people at my optometrist's office, it should wear off somewhere in between a few hours and a day or two, but until then, the monitor thing is driving me bonkers and making it pretty hard to work. Also, my husband amuses himself by pretending he's shorter or taller than he really is to try to trip me up.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Communication

The secret to a good marriage: communication.

[10:53] Sporks: I miss being able to drive myself places <<=(
[10:54] Sporks: I hate having to make you go everywhere with me
[10:55] MrSporks: <:(
[10:55] Sporks: it's not that I don't want your company but I hate not being able to
[10:55] MrSporks: i understand
[10:55] MrSporks: you think i'm fat.
[10:55] Sporks: exactly.

Monday, February 12, 2007

15:26 <Syd> I need to invent a heated hose, teach me how to mix electricity and water

Friday, February 09, 2007

And another thing...

A company we do business with is taking people in my office bowling.

Things You Do When You Go Bowling That I Can't Do:

  • Tie shoes
  • Hold a bowling ball (that is, I can't support the weight)
  • Put fingers in bowling ball/grip bowling ball
  • Swing arms beyond normal walking
  • Walk at moderate-to-fast speed
  • Bend down
  • Push ball
  • Sit on hard plastic chairs for any length of time
  • Drink beer
In short, I'm not going.

In unrelated but more upbeat news, I finally got around to ordering Hagalo Usted Mismo. I can't wait to get it--it's coming overnight, but it's the weekend. Every time I hear a song from it on Pandora, I beat myself for taking so long to order it.

I feel like garbage. I'll try to keep the health stuff to a minimum, though. I may be starting a new RA treatment soon, since the Humira failed to do, well, anything. I'm also having a lot of trouble remembering to take my meds, which is unusual for me.

So, since I'm trying to make myself, you know, write stuff, and don't want to talk about feeling like garbage, WoW update time. I hit 70 last week; people are still sending me "grats" messages, and it always surprises me because it feels like it happened a long time ago. I've been working on getting various attunements/keys, because I'm going a little loopy from lack of raiding. I'm not having much luck getting into 5-man groups, though, which is discouraging. I'm a good rogue, but rogues have certain PvE issues which don't make them really desirable for 5-mans.

For starters: we take a lot of damage. We can't do damage from range, so we get smacked with all kinds of AoE attacks (both physical and magical), and our armor is only leather. We require a lot of healing. Also, on fights that require kiting a boss, it can be tricky to get enough face time with the mob to contribute significant DPS.

Our crowd control, sap, is currently the most reliable CC in the game--Blizzard removed the heartbeat resists, so it lasts the full duration. However, you can only apply it once, because it can only be applied from stealth and while a mob is not in combat. And for some reason, Blizzard has decided to start including packs of mobs that are already engaged in combat, thus rendering them unsappable. Not just one or two mobs in a pack, but the full pack--I shudder to think what these guys will do, un-CC-d, in heroic mode.

There are other significant issues for rogues in the expansion, but others have already covered them well and in detail, and nothing has come of it.

And last but not least--Blizzard's LFG interface is just bad. You can only look for groups for instances your level (so no going farming on an alt while monitoring LFG); you can only look for 3 groups at a time; you can't look while in a group (so if I decide to go run some lowbie friends through something to pass the time, it drops me); and last, but not least--so few people use it, you may see one or two people looking for an instance at any time. People find groups through a mishmosh of adhoc channels, general in-city chat, friends/guild lists instead.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Resolutions schmesolutions

I know, long time no post. It occurs to me that I have a lot of random stuff to comment on/write about, but I'm not sure what I want to become of this thing.

I've been keeping an online journal of sorts for about six years now, and it's gotten to the point where I've started worrying about what people reading it would think. My original intent was to be more open and it was important to me to be honest with what I was thinking, but now I worry. Do I want to move to be more anonymous (moving here off deadletter was a step in that direction), so that employers, etc., can't see this, or go the complete opposite, go back to my original intent, and stop trying to hide. I'm not sure yet.

For the time being, some updates of the prosaic: I have a job I like, for the most part. I work with my husband (same place, near each other, but not on the same team). My arthritis has been pretty bad the past few months. My family's been having some financial problems so I've been funneling my money to them. I've been pretty up and down in the depression front. Still living north of Seattle. My entertainment of choice is still WoW. I miss speaking Spanish sometimes--not any Spanish, mind you, but the butchered and funny Chilean Spanish.

I'm going to try to post a little more often while I figure out what to do about this thing--writing something will hopefully help me get out of my own head some.