World Of Warcraft

Wow, I seem to have fallen off the face of the earth. For the last couple of days at least that is. It all started innocently enough. A bunch of friends at work have grouped together to play World Of Warcraft thursday nights. They've been on the warpath to recruit new players. They beat a path straight to my cube. "You gotta go now and get it! The servers keep filling up and they close them to new players. We already had to switch everyone once before!? Go and buy it tonight!"



So I went out monday night before meeting up with the guys for Studio City style Thai food. I tried Best Buy & Target. No go. I was already thinking it was a bad idea to start a new game. I should be here doing nothing more than going to work & pining away for my wife and boy. Not finding the game was a sign. I was sure of it, uh, but not Sean Schur of it to be precise. Apparently Sean hates children, or maybe just my child. When I told him I couldn't find it and I probably shouldn't be playing anyway, he ran straight out and found a copy for me. Valentine's day just made a good excuse for it I guess.

Again with the urgency on joining their server that night. I got home and figured I'd do it all before going to bed. Five install CD's, a year and a half of download patches, one character setup, and 4 1/2 hours later I was ready, but much too tired to play.

The next night I got in there, and I gotta say, it's pretty freaking cool. It's like so many games and ideas rolled into one ever expanding online game. It's based out of the old Dungeons & Dragons stuff, but a huge leap forward. Rather than some geeky kid with a 20-sided die for you to roll and slowly plod a long verbally, this is run by a bunch of Techno-geeks who survived the Dot-Com bust and use state of the art equipment that run 2048 128-sided dice at a time.

Speaking of Geeks, have you taken the Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test? I've been asked that about 500 times this week!

Needless to say, I'm trying desperately to get it out of my system. I'm trying so hard I spend all day and all night to get it out of my system. I actually wrote a blog post last night, but I typed it in a chat window in the game. That game's so cool you could almost do it there and have it show up as a real post. I'm just waiting for them to start selling property there so I can build our summer home.