Back on the Warcrack

In case anyone didn't notice, I'm back to playing WoW (Alliance on Drak'Tharon, mostly, if anyone cares to join me that hasn't). I knew I'd never kick the habit permanently, and as it turned out? Someone hacking into my account and paying for a month for me was a perfect way to get back in. My gear and such has now been fully restored, and I'm much less pissed. Yay! So I'm wallowing in the full extent of my geekiness. I am loser, hear me roar!

And the day ends in fail

Yesterday was good once I got home from getting assigned jury duty and my headache wore off (tomorrow I do the ACTUAL jury duty, apparently). But sadly the day ended with fail. My friend Shawn (thank god he was paying attention!) emailed me to say one of my WoW chars was logged in and not replying. Now as most of you remember, my account lapsed as of September 19, so this was definitely news to me. First I called Wes to see if he was being awesome and renewing my account for me. No such luck. So I logged in to Blizzard's site and changed my password.

Then I logged into the server. On my main server, Drak'Tharon, almost all my chars were stripped (or close to it), any non-soulbound bags were gone, any items that were sellable were gone... it was utter fail. And they'd kindly left one of my characters logged out in mid-jump so I logged in to die. Really thoughtful. I have a ticket in with Blizzard, so hopefully they'll restore my account to what it was BEFORE someone PAID to hack my account. Srsly. Who the hell would PAY just to hack someone's account?!

And it really ticks me off since I was just thinking about going back to WoW... and now I have nothing to go bloody back TO.

Jonesing

No, that's not my char, though it looks like one of mine. See, the thing is... I'm jonesing. Bad. I've been enjoying the extra free time afforded me to spend on other things while I've been away from WoW. I really have.

...but... well... I watched the  Cataclysm trailer, and now I want it. I want to grind. I want to Achieve. I want to pvp. Might be time to plunge back in soon.

WoW Break

So starting September 19, I'll be doing something I haven't done in years - taking a break from World of Warcraft. It's been a long time coming, but I just need to take a couple months away and focus my energy elsewhere, plus save a few bucks a month. We're considering giving Aion a try and are giving the beta a go. I'm not madly in love, but... we'll see. It definitely has potential. In the meantime, I'm super excited to be getting Sims 3 sometime this week thanks to some Amazon gift cards. Woot woot!

I also got a new computer, and next week we'll be doing the same for Wes. Nothing super crazy fancy - just a new eMachine. It's still a major upgrade for me, and it's nice having a faster computer. The darn thing is ugly as sin, though, I admit - bright white. Yikes!

Mountain Dew Goodness

Sorry, gotta get my geek on... I mean, hey, I get an in game pet. Woooot!