My first morning "post-WOW." I'm looking around and thinking about all of the crap I need to do, not the least of which being fix the entire planet and teach six billion people how to think.
I should have that done by Tuesday.
It's funny, you know. You'd think it would be pretty ridiculous to be so attached to a video game, but I've been playing for over three years. I'm pretty sure that's longer than any relationship I've ever been in has lasted. Each of my characters developed their own little personality - encompassed, of course, by my own personality, which manages to somehow attract its own sort of attention no matter where I go or what I do (other than, ironically enough, attracting a serious level of traffic to this blog). There's a sort of grief process attached to this - like an old friend moving away, and knowing you just might never see him or her again. God help me, I actually had tears on my face as I typed my last goodbye to my guild - the world-famous, incomparable <Identity Crisis> - stripped off the gear from my characters one by one, and flew my main, Roguegenius, to the top of K3, where I dismounted and sat, lotus-style, on the top ring of the temple there, gazing down over the world in which I've spent the last three years, and wondering what my life will bring starting today.
Yes, I'm a drama queen and painfully self-aware. I also don't give a crap if someone thinks it's cheesy or stupid. I've met some incredible people through that game, including my wonderful and far-too-neglected friend Tessa Rawlinson, and a really awesome girl named Samara who just may end up becoming a good deal more than a questing partner in my life, if she manages to keep in touch. I hope she does - we fit wonderfully well together on an intellectual and personal level. But I, ever cynical, am waiting to see whether she stays in touch with me before I get my hopes up...much.
My computer problems are never-ending. My new box is doing okay - was actually doing PERFECT until the OTHER box had a conniption. And of course my old drives with all my music and photos and video are on the old box. ANNND of course I haven't backed anything up because I'm a blithering idiot. ANNND of course the NEW box only has SATA headers while the old drives are EIDE. So basically...I'm fooked. Sorta. I'm working on it now, trying to see if I can finagle something, but man I have to tell you...I am SICK TO DEATH of broken computers. Just sick of it. I've spent ridiculous amounts of time and energy screwing around with broken machines that I built in the first place so I could 'save money.' In retrospect...I'd have been better off just spending the money in the first place. This HP I'm driving now might not quite have EVERYTHING I WANNA in it...but thus far it's been solid and reliable as hell. There's an important lesson there, folks. Learn it.
Anyway, yeah. WOW is done, at least for now. I really hope to get back to it some day, hopefully soon, but the way things are right now...hell, I don't even know what state I'm going to be living in two months from now. We'll just have to see how things go. In the mean time, I've got plenty of work to do, from the banal to the earthshaking, and so I bid you adieu.