On My Own

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.

So by a string of coincidences, I ended up all by myself this weekend.

Perfect! I thought.

I’ll get caught up on some cleaning and sleep and WoW that work and my back has been interfering with.

Friday night starts off fine, get some cleaning done, log into WoW on Arioch and decide to queue for a random ZA/ZG.

By myself.

As DPS.

There were a couple other DPS in guild attempting to wheedle a tank or healer into queuing with no success so I figured I’ll do a little questing/rep grinding during my 30+ minute queue time.

Purgatory

As you may or may not know/care, I have an office sort of job. I get to do it from home, but there are still meetings to attend and projects to work on.

While waiting for a meeting to start last week, I decided that this was a form of purgatory.

Purgatory (office definitions)

1 – The window of time before a meeting. This time slot is generally too long to justify taking a break but too short to begin work on a new task. There is a corollary to Murphy’s Law that states any task begun during pre-meeting purgatory will take far longer than anticipated and require far more effort.

Flame Rekindled

As you may have noticed, my attention had wandered away from WoW for a bit.

I have a couple time-intensive hobbies that I have begun participating in again.

My roommate has Netflix so there’s always a gabillion things to watch.

Tore up my shoulder and now my back is mutinying on me.

Work has kicked my ass up one side of the street and down the other.

But underneath all that was a very sad little truth.

In a 25-man guild, we didn’t have room for my mage when we so desperately needed my priest.

Yore Shots

A few more screen shots from July of 2007.

I used to be quite the shutterbug when it came to capturing random stuff around me.

Now, not so much.

Which is probably a good thing since I still have some 2k shots to go through. /sigh

Hope everyone had a good Cinqo de Mayo and had a shot of tequila for me. I can’t stand the stuff, but I’m sure someone was kind enough to have an extra that I can claim.

Pictures after the break!

Well that’s old

I have some few hundred screen shots tucked away in a folder that I need to go through and either label or toss.

As incentive to myself to perform this mind-numbing task, I’ll try to take the time to share a few of these with you.

I’ll most likely start with the oldest and work my way to recent shots, but I may jump around a bit just to spice things up.

Back when I started raiding, I was terribly curious about my DPS.

Was it good? Was it improving? How much did it vary from fight to fight?

I wasn’t educated on parsers yet so I would just snag screen shots of recount after various fights, usually whispering myself the name of the fight and any special circumstances that might make the numbers memorable.