I’m looking at the past few weeks and the coming few weeks and I realized I really am that bloody boring of a person. It’s a wonder people even read this crap of a journal and haven’t killed themselves from boredom yet.
Recap shall we?
Week of 9 February: nothing too exciting… on 14 Feb made Milady a nice dinner of Eisbein with sauerkraut and Brinker Ur-Roggenbrot (old rye bread). The Eisbein roasted for four hours while I prepared the sauerkraut with some onion, garlic, grated potato, bacon bits, and bacon fat. Think the family overseas might have been impressed with the spread.
Week of 16 February: spent the first two days of the week at home with a bad back. It was pretty bad… I could hardly move about without being in agonizing pain. Got better… still some pain but nothing like at the beginning. Complete chaos at work with a ton of new projects coming at me all at once. No one else seems to give a fuck that I’m about to get swallowed whole under all of these projects… especially my “supervisor” who is content to live in her own little world and not want to learn anything about anyone accounts outside of her own.
Saturday was awaiting a keg delivery and then a quick run up to the comic book store to pick up an order… then the rest of the day spent doing whatever. Mainly spent the time watching a lot of hockey games.
Sunday was dim sum with friends and co-workers. Decent turn-out… Eleven had said they’d be going… eight of those showed and one of those eight invited another. So in total the party was nine. This time there seemed to be issues in the restaurant… every cart came by except for one. The one cart I was wanting… the steam cart. Must have my siu mai!!! After lunch it was home to play a bit of WoW and then catch the Oscars.
Week of 23 February: going to be a hectic work week and then a weekend of nothing except for going to some concert or something on Saturday or Sunday. All I know is that someone will remind me the day of hopefully…
Week of 2 March: clients coming in… but nothing exciting at home.
Week of 9 March: see week of 2 March, with added exception of apparently going to DLR one day over the weekend.
Truly… I lead a boring fuckin’ life. Either that or I am just to worn out at the end of the day from work that I don’t want to do anything else. Meh… who cares.
Apologies in advance but this is a WoW-related post… everyone who doesn’t care should leave now and return at some point down the road when I feel like writing about anything else.
For those who wish to have a little laugh before we kick you out for this posting…
now get the fuck out!!!
Okay, now that we’ve got those losers out of the way (oh come on… you’re still here? Can’t you take a joke? Sheesh!!!)…
Over the past week or two whenever I’m out in Northrend or somewhere else doing random quests I get these /whispers from folks asking if I want to run Heroic Naxx. Most of the time I ignore them but sometimes they are such persistent pests that they keep harassing me by asking. I finally respond by stating that “I’m not the druid you are looking for”. One would figure that that would shut them up… but no!!! “Tank or healer?” is the reply back… “Boomkin” I respond followed by either nothing or the infamous “oh…”
Alrighty folks… we live in an age where information is really easy get our hands on. And WoW is no exception… how hard is it to look up “Niekon” in the Armory? You know what server I’m on since you are asking me to join your little group for Heroic Naxx… and you can click on my character there and immediately see my Talent Specialization is “71/0/0 Balance”. Guess what? I’m not the druid you were looking for… how long does that take? Ten to fifteen seconds at the most? And then you would not have to hassle people incessantly asking them to join up. What would you do? Inspect them once they were joined up? Kind of too late isn’t it? If I had spent the time to go from wherever I was to Naxx only to get /kicked from the group because of my spec when no one asked me prior to joining up then I’d be pissed. Don’t fuckin’ assume that people play tank or healer only as a druid. I’ve taken a lot of flack over the years for being a Boomkin and even though Blizzard keeps promising the Boomkin love at some point, we really have yet to see it.
But that’s not the point… the point is that we have these resources readily available to us and people seem to ignore the bloody hell out of them. Granted, there are some people who would rather not allow people to be able to see certain things on their characters… like what armor/weapons they have with enchants and will end up logging out “naked”. But they can still see the talent specialization…
So people… before you do some random blind inviting, try looking up the spec of those you are possibly hoping to get to join your party.
And now for something completely different but still WoW-related. I have been playing WoW since 21 February 2006 (damn… almost three years now?)… and Milady started a character on my account soon afterward just for fun. Eventually we ended up splitting the characters into two different accounts (can’t seem to track that info down so having to ask Milady… and waiting… and waiting…) on 21 September 2007. In that time between there were no issues between the two of us. Even before that I was involved with MMO’s and she allowed me to have my enjoyment with them. It’s my hobby/me-time… it’s something that allows me to veg out for a period of time and not be constantly interacting with Milady. It allows us to do our thing… on our own…
What I don’t get are couple where one person figures the other person to be almost defective for playing video games, let alone MMO’s. “You fucked five chicks in the past week? You bastard… but I still love you. Wait… what? You also were playing Lord of the Rings Online? Get the fuck out of my house you scum-sucking piece of shit!!!!”
No where in the time that Milady and I have been together has it been pointed out by her that it’s either her or the games… because honestly? She can be replaced… I need my stress reliever and she ain’t it. Sorry kiddo… but you know it’s true ^_~
If you are one of those people who seems to be so bloody insecure about the hobby of another person… perhaps it’s time to examine your own pathetic life. Are you so damned needy that you have to control every non-working/non-sleeping moment of your significant other? If so… get a gun… open your mouth… and say goodnight Gracie… we don’t need more of your drama-creating shit in our world.
Harsh? Perhaps… but it’s who I am. I don’t apologize for it… if you don’t like it then I guess I won’t be getting a birthday card from you this year. *sniffle*
If you are involved with someone… let them have their space or else you are going to drive them away. Plain and simple… no one wants to be around overly needy people unless they themselves are also needy. Or desperate…
And if you are going to blind invite people? Don’t be surprised when we ignore you. Do your bloody homework before pestering us with your pointless /whispers and /invites.
So I’m looking at heading to Germany for a couple of weeks in May of 2010… mainly to watch the IIHF World Cup which is taking place in Mannheim and Cologne (or Köln on Google Maps). I’d probably be going for the games in Köln because the opening game is up to the north about 60 miles in Gelsenkirchen. Mannheim is way too far away and Köln is also the home of the semi-finals, Bronze Medal, and Final match. 29 games in Köln… 26 in Mannheim…
Plus I can fly directly into Köln… don’t think it’s that easy to fly into Mannheim. One would fly into Frankfurt and then take the train or something down… O_o
A couple of possible obstacles…
1) Milady getting her passport in a timely fashion… which entails going up to Anaheim City Hall on her day off and filling out the form and getting her photo done.
2) work being a bunch of buggers about letting me go for a bit over two weeks…
3) Disney being a bunch of buggers…
4) Milady not wanting to do Germany for two weeks… especially two weeks of hockey…
5) money… thus why I’m looking now. Tickets for all of the Köln matches works out to be about $1600 for mid-level seats. $2,300 for the best seats… but this is for thirty games. And this is per person. Hell, if I did that I’d even pay for Cam’s tickets to the opening game if he wanted to come down on opening day.
This is not even taking into consideration hotels… food… and alcohol. But from what I can tell at least for the round-trip flights the prices should be around $900 per person. First class would be about four times that… I don’t need to be that comfortable ^_~
