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Quitting and restarting Warcraft, job, TS Fay

petewood — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:56:03 +0000

I stopped playing World of Warcraft for about 2 months. I continued to read blogs about it and intended to pick it back up when the Wrath of the Lich King came out (which is supposed to be before Christmas 2008). Well I finally caved and reactivated my account. I’ve managed to get my rogue up to level 28. My last update here was for level 26 back on June 14. At this point, I’m really unsure if I’ll continue to try and play it since finding time to play has been difficult lately.

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!

second page tonight

petewood — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:02:35 +0000

Great…I just got my second page tonight, first one was at 2am. If that job is offered to me, I’m going to take it. This is bullshit! I probably slept for about 25m after that last page.

monday morning pre-work surfing

petewood — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:45:23 +0000

I found this very cool tool on the government’s fuel economy website http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/sbs.htm

did i mention that I’m on-call yet?!

headaches

petewood — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:19:26 +0000

I’ve been getting headaches pretty consistently for the past 3 days. every day, i’ve gotten one in the mornings. yesterday, advil helped kick it. today, I’m trying coffee to see it is a caffeine addiction withdrawal type of thing. i don’t think it is but you never know.

lack of sleep

petewood — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:10:45 +0000

aaron came into bed with us at around 12:43 last night. after that, I couldn’t go back to sleep so I got up. I played WoW for about 2 hours and then came back to bed. it took me a while to go back to sleep. I eventually fell back to sleep and then my alarm went off at 4:50. I turned it off, thinking “to hell with getting up now, I’ll get up at 5:30″. yeah… 5:30 turned into 6:04 AND I had to take a shower, look for my new deodorant, shave and get dressed (they frown upon working naked here, go figure!). I got ready for work and ALMOST ran out of the house at 6:18 but couldn’t find my wallet. that’s the second time this week! So I went back upstairs, found my wallet and then rushed out of the house. I got to work about 7 minutes late. Not bad for leaving the house close to 25 minutes late!