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I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft for a while. Got Eagleheart (formerly Runningstar on Thunderlord/Uldaman) on Moonrunner, and got him to 70. Heck, I've even got his Epic Flying Mount. Sadly, the Epic Flight Form is going to remain out of my reach for a long time, since it requires a run through Sethekk Halls on Heroic difficulty. Such is life, eh? Sluggy, my warrior from Uldaman, has also been moved to Moonrunner, along with my BE Paladin, Lliana (formerly Cyradis). The guild I've joined is rather nice, and folks are very friendly.
However, with more and more people hitting level 70, there's a greater push for hitting Karazhan. Naturally, this sounds nice, but the downside is that the ones who've been 70 longest want to go now, while those who just hit 70 are in no way ready for something as intense, if only from a gear standpoint. I have been wrestling with internal issues with some of the membership, too, so I finally decided today that I was going to take at least a week off, and do something else.
In a way, though, I feel like Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean, when he described how the curse worked on the crew. Nothing appeals to me like it once did. I dug out my Magic cards tonight, because I thought that I'd really want to mess around with them, and play a little bit of Magic with my roommate and good friend,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strieson. When I opened the box, though, I just looked at them, flipped through a few, and then put them away. I considered sorting my D&D miniatures (especially putting into my stuff the few packs I've picked up since the last time I really bought minis....back in late 2005 or so), but decided that I didn't want to do that, either.
While reading doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea, I don't want to read anything right now (though I'm reading Charles Stross' On Her Majesty's Occult Service* while at lunch at work, and I love it).
I just don't know. It could simply be a lack of sleep, since I know that I'm very tired right now. That's probably it, since my mood is very fragile right now (the least little thing can push me back toward being unhappy), and that's traditionally what causes such despressing moods, at least in me.
Aside from WoW, I ran a game of Castles & Crusades on June 3, and it was a smashing success. I want to credit the system, and it deserves part of it, with its d20-style mechanics that pitch out about 80% of the chaff that's D&D 3rd Edition (think 1e AD&D Core with the d20 mechanic, and you're pretty dang close in comparison). Of course, I had playlists set up, I wound up using lighting (or lack thereof), we didn't use miniatures, and I had a good idea of what was going to happen, too. Interestingly, I've found that I prefer to get a general roadmap of a session in my head, make note of a few details, and just let it flow from there. Now, to figure out how to take that approach and plan at the same time. :)
In work news, I still work on the Front End at my Kroger, and I'm still more or less unhappy with it. The checkers and baggers we have suck ass, and for some reason, they can't get fired. >.<;; However, there's a CHANCE that something different will happen up there that will help to improve my mood. Our store uses an MIC (Manager-In-Charge) to run the store in the evenings along with the manager and co-manager. The current MIC is going to go into the co-manager training program. At the same time, one of our part-time accounting clerks is losing her other job, and my CSM wants to bring her in at full-time. However, we have too many full-timers on the Front End as it is, so someone would have to go.
The solution: ask the dairy manager to be the new MIC, since he wants to move on up in the company, and I would move back into dairy to take over that position, thus freeing up a full-time spot for the accounting clerk. I'd be gone, but at least the CSM would have her for 40 hours a week. The plus side to this is that it's more money, I am not directly responsible for kissing our customers' asses (being friendly is one thing; having to deal with every customer that way gets really old, really fast), and I learn how to do more in the store. The down side is that my schedule could do quite a change, and I rather like being off on Sunday afternoon.
Speaking of Sundays and my schedule, I came to a revelation a month ago: While I'm the Time & Attendance clerk, there's nothing saying that I *HAVE* to work every single Sunday on the calendar, so I've begun taking a Sunday off every 4-6 weeks. It's a fantastic change of pace, too.
Sorry for the length of this post, but I got started talking, and couldn't shut up. At least you know I'm alive, and still read LJ, right? Now, I gotta hang my dry shirts and put more laundry in the washing machine. My days off on Thursday and Friday will not catch me doing a ton of laundry. Not this time!
Good night.
* -- Think geek culture meets James Bond meets Office Space meets Call of Cthulhu meets Kevin Smith, without quite as much cursing. In a word, fabulous. :)
However, with more and more people hitting level 70, there's a greater push for hitting Karazhan. Naturally, this sounds nice, but the downside is that the ones who've been 70 longest want to go now, while those who just hit 70 are in no way ready for something as intense, if only from a gear standpoint. I have been wrestling with internal issues with some of the membership, too, so I finally decided today that I was going to take at least a week off, and do something else.
In a way, though, I feel like Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean, when he described how the curse worked on the crew. Nothing appeals to me like it once did. I dug out my Magic cards tonight, because I thought that I'd really want to mess around with them, and play a little bit of Magic with my roommate and good friend,
strieson. When I opened the box, though, I just looked at them, flipped through a few, and then put them away. I considered sorting my D&D miniatures (especially putting into my stuff the few packs I've picked up since the last time I really bought minis....back in late 2005 or so), but decided that I didn't want to do that, either. While reading doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea, I don't want to read anything right now (though I'm reading Charles Stross' On Her Majesty's Occult Service* while at lunch at work, and I love it).
I just don't know. It could simply be a lack of sleep, since I know that I'm very tired right now. That's probably it, since my mood is very fragile right now (the least little thing can push me back toward being unhappy), and that's traditionally what causes such despressing moods, at least in me.
Aside from WoW, I ran a game of Castles & Crusades on June 3, and it was a smashing success. I want to credit the system, and it deserves part of it, with its d20-style mechanics that pitch out about 80% of the chaff that's D&D 3rd Edition (think 1e AD&D Core with the d20 mechanic, and you're pretty dang close in comparison). Of course, I had playlists set up, I wound up using lighting (or lack thereof), we didn't use miniatures, and I had a good idea of what was going to happen, too. Interestingly, I've found that I prefer to get a general roadmap of a session in my head, make note of a few details, and just let it flow from there. Now, to figure out how to take that approach and plan at the same time. :)
In work news, I still work on the Front End at my Kroger, and I'm still more or less unhappy with it. The checkers and baggers we have suck ass, and for some reason, they can't get fired. >.<;; However, there's a CHANCE that something different will happen up there that will help to improve my mood. Our store uses an MIC (Manager-In-Charge) to run the store in the evenings along with the manager and co-manager. The current MIC is going to go into the co-manager training program. At the same time, one of our part-time accounting clerks is losing her other job, and my CSM wants to bring her in at full-time. However, we have too many full-timers on the Front End as it is, so someone would have to go.
The solution: ask the dairy manager to be the new MIC, since he wants to move on up in the company, and I would move back into dairy to take over that position, thus freeing up a full-time spot for the accounting clerk. I'd be gone, but at least the CSM would have her for 40 hours a week. The plus side to this is that it's more money, I am not directly responsible for kissing our customers' asses (being friendly is one thing; having to deal with every customer that way gets really old, really fast), and I learn how to do more in the store. The down side is that my schedule could do quite a change, and I rather like being off on Sunday afternoon.
Speaking of Sundays and my schedule, I came to a revelation a month ago: While I'm the Time & Attendance clerk, there's nothing saying that I *HAVE* to work every single Sunday on the calendar, so I've begun taking a Sunday off every 4-6 weeks. It's a fantastic change of pace, too.
Sorry for the length of this post, but I got started talking, and couldn't shut up. At least you know I'm alive, and still read LJ, right? Now, I gotta hang my dry shirts and put more laundry in the washing machine. My days off on Thursday and Friday will not catch me doing a ton of laundry. Not this time!
Good night.
* -- Think geek culture meets James Bond meets Office Space meets Call of Cthulhu meets Kevin Smith, without quite as much cursing. In a word, fabulous. :)
