All-in-all, I was very pleased with how things turned out yesterday, despite having so many issues finding (and keeping) a group.

So I bit the bullet and went holy since I had some +healing gear already. I healed almost all of ramparts up until the last boss. We wiped 2x before one of our party members got pissy and left group. My lack of healing was the major reason for the wipes.

After not having any luck finding another dps (seriously…), someone asked their friend to help out, a 70 hunter. That fight went from being super difficult to being a joke.

After I turned in the quests for the ramparts run, I got some quests to run blood furnace. I figured “what the hell, I’m already holy” and I started looking for a group for blood furnace. After finally getting a group, the run didn’t last long at all. We didn’t even make it to the first boss. Initially, we had a ret pally tanking and me healing. Our dps group consisted of 3 warlocks.

One of the warlocks had to go so we found a feral druid. We asked him to tank and he agreed but he didn’t know how. I had to tell him how to pull with a druid in bear form, even though I’ve never tanked anything with a druid, I knew that they had a ranged “spell” to pull with.

When I get home tonight, I’ll be going back to ret and abandoning those quests for blood furnace. It took too long to find a group and then not even being able to complete the run.

I did get to heal some battlegrounds though, that was a bit more fun than healing an instance.

I started my new job almost three weeks ago.  During the first two weeks, everything was awesome! I was busy and I was learning a new system AND I was writing code again! Well this past week, things have slowed down tremendously. I’ve been dragging out “research” assignments as much as possible and trying to pass the time any way that I can.

Tropical Storm Fay was supposed to hit Orlando almost directly! Well it didn’t. Fay went south and then east of Orlando. We didn’t get much in the form of wind and rain when we were “supposed” to (i.e. when Fay was south of us) but we did get a LOT of rain when Fay stalled out on the East coast of Florida! It rained for almost 4 full days. Some of the East coast counties received over 3 feet of rain over a 4 day period!

I got a page at 2am after going to be at 11pm - WTF?! all week of no calls overnight and my first night on-call, I get a 2am page. bullshit

That pally of mine (level 55) is on hold for a while. My account is due to be cancelled on 6/23 (15 days from now) but I don’t think I’m going to let it - at least that’s what I’m thinking now!

I went swimming with Aaron twice yesterday. the second time, I got some water in my ear and it is bothering the hell out of me. it’s like the pressure from a plane ride minus the pain. it is just annoying more than anything.

I installed FF3 RC1 on my home pc and now on my work laptop. at home, it seemed a lot faster. That may or may not be an actual speed increase on the browsers end since 90% of my add-ons were incompatible (and therefore disabled) when FF3 was installed.

There is a bunch of talk about Microsoft buying facebook. Check it out on friendfeed.com here and here! Given the example that Robert Scoble gave in his blog post about why this would be a bad thing, I agree that with his opinion that this could be very bad for the internet in general. He kicked off the discussion on twitter.com.