Five Point Palm Exploding Possession Technique

This sucks. Everything around me is breaking down. It started with the car accident then the tumbler at work wouldn’t start, the mower is leaking tranny oil, our washing machine is busted, my Zune wouldn’t turn on, I ripped my good gloves, I broke the spinning plate in the microwave at work, my mom’s van needs a ton of work now and just yesterday, the right speakers in the Jeep go in an out of static. I have the touch of death and should stay away from everything.

I had to even it out by doing some productive things. I applied to college, applied for the Post 9/11 GI Bill so I don’t have to work AND go to school full time and got on top of other small tasks. Apparently, even after some coercing, the civil service exam folks still insist I have a degree to take the Environmental Conservation Officer civil service exam. I could either go to Syracuse and take forestry classes or stay here with free rent and take criminal justice courses. Since either would work, I decided to stay where free rent is. After I get my degree, I’ll have to wait for the next civil service exam which could be awhile.

Meanwhile, we’ve busted out Warhammer Online again since I quit my last job and have more free time. I ended up deleting a lvl35 Rune Priest only to make one again who is lvl24. I don’t really thing anybody plays this game anymore. The public quests should be called private quests. A lot of the scenarios the game puts me in are population imbalanced and it’s never a close game whether we win it or not. One side always has an obvious advantage over the other.

We joined a guild, Ruinous, that my brother plays in and I found another aspect of the game that I don’t particularly like. Winning the game isn’t about having a group of skillful players. It’s about being able to amass a zerg force in a short amount of time. If the other side is able to do that also, the only edge you can have is organization via Ventrilo or furious typing. I miss the days of Everquest 2 or Vanguard where having a group of 6-18 “elite” players would be enough to accomplish 95% of the game. Especially in a game that requires strength in numbers, low server population hits hard. When the game came out, battles were happening all over the place. I remember not being able to do public quests because we were getting our asses handed to us by Destruction. Now I can walk anywhere I want without much consequence or fear.

In other news, we have just under a month to go now until the October Haunted House Visiting Extravaganza. Basically we’ll buy a cheap pack of B-Horror movies then visit all of the haunted houses in the area over weekends and finish the night off with a dumb horror movie. It’s a little weird hanging around all the teenagers and kids that go to these places and I’m sure the cops working the places are looking right at us (as they should be…we’re idiots), but fun nevertheless.

Those are all the updates. Just thought I’d restart the daily posts with a roundup.