The intention for today was to get out of the house and do something productive. But then, at the moment I don't really have the money to be going out and spending money.
I tried to start reading the next book in the Wheel of Time series that I'm up to, the 8th one I believe, but the beginnings of the books are always the toughest. The pace is so slow compared to the end of the last book that it's sort of off putting. But I will struggle this one out. Maybe try and do some more reading today.
I stayed up til about 1pm today just reading and chilling and then the start of the Wheel of Time book did what it always does to me and put me to sleep. So I woke up at dinner time and regretted wasting the day.
I spent the rest of the night playing World of Warcraft. I didn't want to continue reading and I wanted to see if my brother was online. He fits in well with the guild. I hope he stays, because I really don't get to see enough of him.
Which reminds me, he went and did a course to be one of those lollipop men. You know, the ones that go out on the road with a stop sign so the kids can cross the road. It's really bizarre, I can't see where the motivation for that even came from.
So we went around in a group with a few friends and decided to see if we could do a bunch of the old game content with less than half the people we needed to do them in the old days. It took nearly all night, but in reality we did so much more than humanly possible in the old days even though we gimped ourselves.
It got me thinking about how much time that I've actually wasted in this game. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy playing the game... It's just that in the end, if you tallied the amount of time I've spent in this game versus the time spent doing the shit I do... It's been a lot of time that I could have spent getting fit, or curing cancer or something important... but fuck that shit.
Ok... so I play the Game every now and then, and I'm no where near the player that some of the people I play with are. I don't spend nearly as much time playing the game that anyone I know who plays play. But that said, I have managed to rack up nearly 49 days worth of played time. And this is my second account. I've had this one 3 of the 5 years I've owned this game.
I came across the game in highschool, Mark Hancock and Tim used to talk about it for a long time and I really wanted to get into it. But I had a girlfriend at the time and she had better ways at distracting me than video games did.
When I finally decided to get into the game I shared an account with my brother. A horrible idea in the end if I ever wanted to end up playing but at least Garry got enjoyment out of it. In Vanilla WoW I didn't really progress as far as others but I enjoyed leveling a Tauren Warrior.
Then the new expansion came out and I decided to buy myself an account and give my brother the old one. In this expansion I decided on playing a Blood Elf Warlock.
I liked this character better. It was an easier way for me to play the game and get me into it considering that I was not that good at the game back then. I didn't really make it into the end content of the game, but it's the first time that I discovered that there was actually a huge social aspect to the game. It's really kind of weird.I've seen a lot of friendships grow and drama splatter all over the place. It really is like a weird social experiment.
Nowadays though, through the last two expansions, I have racked up those 49 days on this character.
His name is Mcwazzington. He's an Orc Warlock. I'm finally at the endgame stage of the game with most people in the group of friends that I play with. So I'm going to try to level up a second character that I can play alongside this one. We shall see if I can get this new guy up there.
Well I just thought I'd let you guys in on one of things I do in my spare time. It's pretty damn geeky, but I find enjoyment in it. I think I might try multiple posts in a day/ sporadic posts in a week thing for this blog. In case I wanted to try righting some reviews of things I've consumed (food/books/movies/tv) and then just stuff I've done with my time.I want to make sure that I'm writing, not well, but at least putting something down. So I don't get stuck as I usually do.
- Trying some stuff... then again, this is my spot on the web... I'll do what I want XD.
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