So I started playing WoW about a month ago. A friend gave me his 10 day trial and I have been playing it since. It’s a pretty decent game. Nice graphics, interesting community feel to the game, but there are a few downsides. The server I play on is often times full, so I have to wait in a queue to get back on the server. Sometimes the games lags pretty badly. I don’t know if this is because the server is underpowered or if it is because it is a westcoast server. The monthly fee is a bit expensive for the amount of issues the game has. I wish Blizzard would allow a player to transfer characters between realms. Would make it nice to go to a less populated, faster realm.
My friend and I started a cool guild. We call ourselves “Bastion of Stormwind”. I set up a forum over here. I may set up a nice web site with a domain at some point. We’ll see how the guild goes. Some nice members in the guild currently. We try to recruit people who use their main characters, willing to help anyone in the guild with needed items or quests, and are sociable. Finding people like that seems to be few and hard between.
The realm I play on is Silvermoon, and my name is “theblackout”. PST me if you want to join the guild or if you wanna do some quests. I usually play in the evenings east coast time.
What’s funny is my friends and I found the private WoW server software and set up a server at one of the lans. Good thing we did because adelphia hsi went out for three hours. That was kind of an interesting process. Get to see the behind-the-scenes information that goes into WoW, like the gamemaster commands which can let you do just about anything, such as give levels, teleport, etc. Fun stuff.

The replacement asus motherboard just came in this morning. Just got it installed. Didn’t need to reinstall windows xp (although I should since it has been a few months). I like installing new hardware. I am very patient, and take my time installing it. No rushing. Do everything thoroughly like routing cables, screwing everything down tightly, and cleaning out dust. That little bit of time makes it look better inside the case. Also helps with air flow.
I am still alittle annoyed that the motherboard just up and died like it did. Fortunately, Asus was pretty good about the whole rma process. I was hoping to have the replacement motherboard Friday, but got it today. Oh well, nice to have the fast speeds back again. I think for my next upgrade, I am going to build out a workstation system, with a more expensive workstation or server motherboard, xeon cpu, and good memory. That way I can get the stability, and reliability I require out of my computer. Asus is still a good motherboard manufacturer, in my opinion. If this board up and dies soon, I’ll start thinking of a new mobo manufacturer to go with.

Lets see. I went to see Megadeth, Dreamtheatre, and Fear Factory in portland a few months back. Missed a couple songs of Fear Factory. Their set was way to short. They did try their best. I also went to portland a month ago for a friend’s birthday party. I hadn’t seen her in a couple years. Totally suprised her. Had a good time. My business is swell… yes I said swell. Getting new customers every week. More businesses too, since they pay better, and are generally better to work for than residential customers. It’s been raining too damn much here in maine. A bit sick of it. No good fall pictures since all the rain and wind blew or dropped most of the leaves. Colors suck too, only yellows, no reds or oranges.
I went to my friend’s wedding last weekend. Had a blast. I was one of his groomsman and usher at the wedding. Kinda cool process to be involved with. Only weddings I’ve been to were jewish, and I didn’t participate. Took people out after the reception to the bars and had fun. Of course, I was the dd since I don’t drink. Not quite sure, I guess I am not interested in getting buzzed or drunk.
Microsoft sent me a free wireless explorer mouse today. I don’t recall ordering it, or asking for. Very cool either way. My asus motherboard in my computer shit the bed. Burned a hole right through the southbridge. Fucking smelled like ass too. I did an advanced RMA with asus, but have yet to receive it. Won’t ship until today…. I wanted the replacement today for the weekend. WTF man… using my friend’s old msi junker p4 motherboard for the time being. I moved my business web site to Made2Own hosting. $4.65 per month, 800mb web space, 40GB of bandwidth. Pretty nice. CPanel, fast, works. Better than my server at champions. So unreliable and slow.
Oh yeah, and I got a chick’s phone number at the wedding we shall see what becomes of it.