I figured I would let wordpress do the work for me…
I was reading over a site that tracked characters in World of Warcraft… My oldest character was first seen on July 5, 2005. Which means I’ve been playing for over 2 years now, or just that I’ve been screwing around for a really long time.
Me at work…
So bleh Patti’s having problems again…
Bleh.
In other news, a couple of cool studies, done for IBM, about leadership in online games… http://www.seriosity.com/downloads/GIO_PDF_web.pdf (short Version) and http://www.seriosity.com/downloads/Leadership_In_Games_Seriosity_and_IBM.pdf (Long Version). They are both good reads if you are interested in the subject matter.
I’ve had fun working on the “blog” of several of the characters from World of Warcraft. It should be pretty cool and nicely in line with something I enjoy anyway. Fiendhammer’s Journal…
I’m starting work on a couple of my other sites as well. Trying to make them into something that generates a little bit of revenue. We’ll see how things go. So far I’ve got two customers for my simple hosting setup.
Ed left work today. He is a friend who’s moving out of Jax and onto VA beach. I missed his going away lunch b/c I was too tired & worn out from being up all night last night. It started w/ a doughnut run at 1:30 and a bad night for Maggie and me getting the bug to setup a streaming music server in the house. So I was up all night and left about 3 hrs early from work.
Part of it was left-over excitement from Sunday. Idzeeboo and I went too compusa and Dave&Busters. I had never been to D&B before, it was really an arcade that recognizes adults have more money and slightly different interests than kids. Both me and idzee tried to do Dance Dance Revolution, but i think the we either suck at it or that the machine was broken. It must be the machine. 
8 days before motorcycle lessons! I tried a motorcycle simulator while at D&B and was wondering why I wasn’t going anywhere. Someone told me that my right foot was on the back brake… doh! Once I took my foot off the brake I was able to move forward and then it took me a little bit to figure out the throttle on the right handle bar. There was a gear shifter but apparently I was in automatic mode and didn’t use it. After the game was over I realized there was a front brake on the right handle bar that I hadn’t touched at all. doh! So my riding experience was less than stellar, but I’m still looking forward to the real thing.
When I got home today I relaxed for a while and then slept for 7 hours. I woke up around 9:30pm when the girls got home. We hung out for a while and then I made myself a small dinner and started blogging. I’m still in bed, just doing this instead of sleeping. I did like going in at 7am this morning though. I think I’m going to try to keep that up. I like the idea of getting out a little earlier than everyone.
…until I take class one of motorcycle safety. I’m excited and can’t wait. I got the glove from ebay this weekend and so I’m ready for it. I keep going back and drooling over various bikes. I am worried about not being good at it. But I also know it’s a learning process.
In other news me and Pooks are worried about paying for all the things we want to do in the coming months. We’re busy and have a couple of unexpected bills to worry about. It’s stressful but we’ve got a decent budget and some savings to fall back on if needed.
I actually have been impressed with the paypal money market account. It earns interest quicker than my bank savings account. It’s not insured by the FDIC though, so it’s all risk.
I just need to get cracking on working up more of my sites to earn money. It’s hard though b/c after work i really don’t feel like “working” with my computers. I just want to vegg in one way(Animal Crossing) or another (WoW). Speaking of computer games, I really love my DS. It’s been a lot of fun to work at making home improvements in Animal Crossing. In the art imitates life section: I replaced a real door at my real house this weekend. It would be surreal, but both virtual and real home improvements are needed and ‘real’ in their own sense.
It’s the first day back to work after a long weekend and I’m ready to go home. I’m slightly tired and have a headache. It doesn’t help though that most of the department is out for one reason or another.
Not a boring day, but nothing I really feel like writing about…
Still playing WoW. I got a riding wolf now, I have made one payment on my house in Animal Crossing Wide World and I have gotten my friend code for it too!
Getting the riding wolf was a long expensive procedure where I had to grind away at getting stuff to sell and selling it and doing it over and over again. 87 Gold for a wolf. It was a lot of work. I’ll post a screen shot later on.
Maggie has outpaced me in Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is a video game for the Nintendo DS that places you in a new town paying off a mortgage to a raccoon. Stupid Raccoons. So fishing, collecting fruit, collecting shells and fossils and running errands for other residents allows you to get “bells” (the money of Animal Crossing) so you can pay off your mortgage and also get things to improve your house. It’s a very popular game and a lot of fun just exploring a little world. The real fun started when me and Maggie linked our DS’s and went to each other’s towns. I felt bad because my house looked bad, peaches all over the floor and nothing setup nicely. So I spent some time last night cleaning my virtual house and planting flowers around it. Hmmm…. so now I’m doing this in the virtual and real worlds.
I spent my day off on Tuesday cleaning the front garden. Somehow I like gardening. I weeded the flower beds. Whoever was here before us simply mulched over a rock bed so I was digging through rocks as well. I dead-headed the flowers and edged around the beds. I think I want to get a mower soon so I can get the grass cut. I think that some step stones would look good in the front as well and I want to do a stone border around all the flower beds.
By the time I got done I was really sore, but it felt good to be working outside. While I like working with computers, working outside is cool b/c I can always see the progress I have made. I was sweating and the sun was burning my skin, but it was good. I spent time praying and thinking while pulling up the weeds. It was great.
I’m back at work today and a thick blanket of fog was covering the city, it’s pretty much lifted now though.
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