World of Warcraft Addiction

This article is me... I am a gamer, grew up with games, am into fantasy genre games, books etc and am probably a bit obsessive compulsive with my gaming.

I have never played WoW and I doubt that I ever will. Why? Because I know I would get sucked in. I play a variety of games at any one time both online and on table top, but I am not a real big computer gamer. I have a PSP yes and I have played some PC games, but that whole me vs an AI model that lacks real tactical nous generally kills off my PC gaming interests. i.e. when I realise a game is "easy" or it is difficult and I master it, I turn off.

But table top gaming and web based gaming versus real people is my thing. Graphically they aren't the best. Some games I play via email. But what makes me obsessive is playing against Human Intelligence not AI. I lose. Alot. But that's what makes it a good mental challenge.

Now WoW falls into both camps. It has the graphical interface that makes PC gaming attractive. It is a very aesthetically enjoyable game. It is also about people vs people. People join Guilds, become friends and adventure together. "Never let the Guild (team) down" is the motto, and I would be a sucker for that.

If I was to play WoW, I am sure I would become addicted and end up as one of the stereotypical zombified PC gazers and the rest of my life would be secondary priority. Scary stuff and a thing that I have seen happen to others.

Any WoW addicts out there?

The Girls Have Landed

Got a text and then a call at 12:45am this morning... the girls had made it to KL and were in their hotel room. It was nearly 11pm their time and they were tired, but all very excited. Niki had me on speaker phone and between all the squeeling and cheering, I learnt that their hotel room was very lush, they had a view of the Petronas Towers and that there was a mini-bar with chocolates! Yes, I think Kate & Brooke will need to be taught the lesson of how expensive mini-bar chocolates are! lol.

They have a free day today with a 10am dance meeting and then a city tour. The performances start tomorrow.

The flight itself was no drama, the girls had a great time and the inflight entertainment system was great apparently and apparently each seat had a telephone in which you could call other passengers... mmm, I can imagine the racket that 30 girls can make on a plane when they each have a telephone! I hope the other passengers enjoyed their travelling experience! ;-)

And they're off!

I am back at work this morning after dropping Niki and the girls to the airport. They were very nervous... Kate was complaining of stomach cramps (nerves?) and Brooke was trying to count the butterflies in her tummy.

Niki was anxious as well but is now starting to get excited as opposed to stressed.

To all the callers and texters to Niki this morning, many thanks!

Recycling Gone Mad!

My company moves out of our office on the long weekend and we're busy packing boxes etc. However this morning, I finished my coffee and toast at my desk and went to put my rubbish (a foam cup, a brown paper bag) into my bin.

Bin is gone. Replaced with a Visy cardboard box for "paper only". OK... where do I put my coffee cup? Asked the admin lady, who points me to the kitchen across the floor. In the kitchen is a red bin (Visy logo on top) that says "Plastic Recycling". I have a brown paper bag and a styrofoam (enviro friendly apparently) cup?

I throw them in the little non-descript bin beside the recycling bin. Turns out the entire company is confined to a 1 foot tall plastic bin for non-recyclable material.

Seems odd... I have always put my paper waste in my shredder box and it gets shredded and recycled... why do I now have a separate box under my desk copying what I did before with a shredder box.

The normal waste bin was already full at 10am this morning.

And then we move out anyways!

If I have to wear a collared shirt...

then so does "he"!

Weekend - Pain In The Neck

From Saturday arvo onwards, I felt pretty crappy with some sort of flu in which I had a massive headache and stiff neck etc. Spent the whole weekend laying low and taking it easy... which was a shame.

It was so awful last night I actually went to bed at 7pm! Before the kids!!

And of course, I woke up at 2am this morning wide awake... so I got up and watched the cricket from the West Indies and tried to go back to sleep at around 4am. Took some Panadol this morning however and am at work and appear to be feeling a bit better.

The other painful thing was that the AusBowl website experienced a cyber attack by one of the ex-admins (well he accidentally had access) and he deleted all the content in the Forums. At least its being restored from back up.

Daniel Marinas, you're a little shit...

Weekend... Excited Girls!

The girls are excited… it’s the last weekend at home before the girls fly to Malaysia for their dance trip.  Its been a long time in the planning and we scraped the money together but they’re now down to just packing.

Kate and Brooke were counting down the days this morning and they’re doing the important things like picking which Nintendo games they want to take etc etc.  They both admitted to me this morning that they’re a little bit nervous about going to another country but they’re very keen.

Expect a lot of photos when they come back on Wednesday week… Lime Kettles will probably get a work out on the Blogger photo server. lol.

For myself, I will be heading to Brisbane with my mate Noyz for a bit of a “boys weekend”.  We’re planning a BBQ at my mates Gools’ place on the Saturday to meet his girlfriend and their new baby girl for the first time and the Saturday night will be a big’un.  Sunday will be recuperating and a quiet arvo in a bar (probably the Caxton Hotel) before going into the soccer to see Australia vs Iraq.  Depending on the result it could be a bit of a party atmosphere in BrisVegas Sunday night too…

But that’s all NEXT weekend… this weekend will be quiet and helping the girls get ready for their trip.