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So, Maya-chan got me back into WoW. And it's almost as bad as when I left back in July. Some ways, worse; my raid group fell apart, I'm guildless (for now; I got an offer last night, and I'm considering it, but I'm waiting for the decision from TWK, my old guild.), and a little rusty. Hazards of not following the patch notes. However, a quick jaunt into the Eye of the Storm proved that my skills hadn't depleted as much as I was afraid; I still managed a positive K/D ratio (10 kill-shots, 6 deaths. Not bad, but still a positive ratio). However, my gear still is in dire need of an upgrade. My pants are still Dragonstalkers. They're damned good, but the Outland dungeon sets are a fair bit better. Which brings me to my next problem; finding people to help clear out my quest log. Apart from daily quests, of which I have like 3 or 4 available, every entry in my Quest Log is tagged either (Group) (Dungeon) or (Raid), which is a very troubling way of Blizzard to force me to associate with twits. Or it would, if any of them were still willing to go to the 5man dungeons or help with world group quests. And until I find folk willing to bring me along, raids are right out. Which is fine for me, 'cause I'm having trouble adjusting my mic to a point where it'll pick me up at a comfortable volume level. I *just* got it picking up properly last night, but the pickup levels are maxed, and it has to be RIGHT NEXT TO MY MOUTH for it to register anything. And the design of the mic makes that unfeasible; it was designed to clip onto the main headset cable, and behave as one of those interview lapel-mics. It's not sensitive enough to do the job, though. So I either need to get a new mic, or leave myself open to being strangled. Or, alternately, I can try clipping it to my lip, but that would interfere with my speaking in general. That's my ONLY complaint about my headset, by the way. I'm actually happy that I can leave the main volume level one click of the volume wheel on my keyboard from muted, and still hear most things fine. So far, the only thing I have trouble with is WoW voice chat (again, levels maxed, and I could barely hear Rav in SM last night. Troublesome.)

In real-world news, I've started going to the gym, and will become a proper member of said gym (Yes, it's Gold's, shaddap) at the beginning of the month (at which time I'll be picking up a Green Dot card for use with the Sony MMO's, which refuse to believe that my card is valid). I don't think I've lost any of my considerable weight yet, but my muscles are burning the day after, so I guess I'm makin' some progress. I'm actually kinda afraid to go in today; we did shoulders yesterday, and I was barely able to drive in to work today x_x I'm worried that I'll push myself too far again (I'm told that this is a good thing, by the way) and wind up being barely able to type.

Back to the virtual world, which is, in many ways superior to the real. I learned a few days ago that Quake 2 uses IP packets for everything. However, this was coded rather sloppily, and has a rather nasty side effect; it locks off most of the Windows sockets (at least under XP), and reduces even the mightiest of broadband connections to dial-up speed. And that's without the game running. If I decide to jump for the Steam version, and it does the same thing, I'm going to id, and there's gonna be some skull-cracking. That's just irresponsible.

I should probably get back to work now.

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