Summertime

I moved house. Brand new gaff, just built in June. 2 weeks in, we discover its got damp problems, and the peace and quiet we moved there for is broken only the sounds of the noisiest fridge on the face of the planet. It didnt have a phoneline installed, so to get the internet we got a USB supermobile broadband thing, and god bless it I can run Warcraft on 2 bars of reception. We may not get a phone line for some time now, depending on what our beleaguered landlord does about the damp issue chewing into his property development dreams, but at least we can surf the usefulness of the internet.
Am at work this week effectively doing nothing. We are slowly working up to a massive exhibition week, but I am mainly manning the phones. I have one casual in, and they are overseeing some people hanging hair in a 17m high atrium void, effectively putting a wig on the box office in the name of art. Yesterday I assisted some glum video artists working out which colour voile they liked projecting tedious graphics through, prior to me spending a series of overnighters next week overseeing an external rigging company putting these voiles up above another foyer space, and then 3 nights of events where the dour woman with a macbook instead of artistry or charisma will project what amounts to "screensavers I have known and loved" in the name of contemporary visual art. They aren't really screensavers but then a few flashing shapes and lines is neither exciting nor dynamic, and thats what the poster describes it as.

In game, apart from getting hella excited about the new expansion, and slowly creeping thru to 50 on my Rogue. I used up my rest bonus to get from 42 to 45 the other day, which was very satisfying, and I have been sloowly levelling an Orc hunter on Eonar and a paladin on Mazrigos. I picked these two servers because I have RL mates there, but I havent seen either of them, so its back to the eternal mission of finding decent PVP and fighting a few epics at 19 bracket. The Orc hunter has got to be where the smart money is for that, but both will be entertaining. Having three or four characters at low level across different servers is quite interesting - they arent competing with each other for resources, as I can't send them gold or heirlooms, and the lowby chatter and density is quite different too. Herbalism has become the go to skill now, as the free heals are just priceless in every scenario. pity I cant bring myself to get a draenai past 30, as then I could have two free heals on the go, and my CD management has improved tenfold across the last 6 months. Noah is even starting to use his wings aggressively in a way he never has before.
The only downside with the dongle is the lag my side is fairly unpredictable, the signal being unconstant. So far I have avoided server side lag zones, but I am still getting major lag in some fights when the bars drop out for a few seconds - not enough to DC, just enough to lose half a fight, or get my button presses stacking up during a fight. The next evening I get some consistency, Im going back to the BGs with Meerschaum and Fear. Creeping around waiting for a kill is so much fun, and I need to balance my questing with something else. random dungeons aren't very appealing in the school holidays, with Halmeplzz the paladin rolling need on everything blah.

Chiefly today I feel like I haven't done any decent work for ages. I have gone a bit stir crazy at home with everything in flux and now I can't get into anything here much because its downtime, and all my rigging and gubbins are pretty much in order. Maybe I'll go find some gizmos I dont understand and do some learning, while there's nobody here to see I've been bluffing some of it... Or maybe I'll drink coffee and read my 40K novel, because its about titans and they are every kind of awesome.