“YOU ARE IGNORING YOUR BLOG”
So sayth TJ, so it has been done.
The problem is thus: most of the stuff I want to write about, I’m not permitted to write about. When 99% of your life is X and Y, and you cannot write about X and Y, it’s very hard to find the time and desire to write about the 1% of of your life, Z, that you can write about.
Do you want to hear about how my mother-in-law took my bucket-o-cat-cr@p and put it out in the rain?
Do you want to hear about how my front tires have become exceptionally loud?
Do you want to hear about my new wall at my office?
Do you want to hear about how I’m becoming a pretty good VMWare-wrangler?
Do you want to hear about how my son is loving being “goalie” as we play water polo with a blow-up basket ball hoop in the pool?
Or how I’ve saved $20 in water by not using a dishwasher for a month?
My two-month non-WoW anniversary is approaching.
Netflix over the Internet is fantastic, except the selection both sucks and blows.
Ratshag is cuddly, but I didn’t cuddle; quit asking.
Should I discuss my favorite iPhone apps?
I need a better iPhone case but I won’t spend as much on the case as I did on the iPhone.
I need a second iPhone USB cable for work as the iPhone battery is, in a word, horrible stinky nasty-poo.
OK, here’s a quick story:
We got a part-time Linux sysadmin to come to our software development lab to help out the full-time sysadmin. The new guy is pretty great, even helped me with a special script that eliminates about thirty-minutes of work when I’m running four virtual machines at the same time. So the programmers, test engineers, and some QA and CM flunkies were discussing how we needed to tell everybody how awesome he was so he’d get to stick around. I had to set them straight.
“Wrong path, children. That’s not how one keeps quality people from being poached by the rest of the company. Spread the work high and low that Chester (nhrn) is a noob, a goober, and hardly worth the air he breathes and the heat his body generates. Ruin his good name, and only then will he not be a target for some manager to try to steal from us.”
They grew quiet, and then nodded their heads. For the rest of the day, we besmirched the poor man’s name to all who came into the lab, including developers from other companies, just to make sure they didn’t get any bright ideas.
Some day, when all the cr@p is behind me, I might be able to write about the stuff I want to write about, we’ll see. But for the time being, I’m going to try not to be boring. Instead of being boring, I’m just going to shut the heck up. I’ll write what I can, when I can, but the time between posts could be excessive. I apologize, but I gotta do what I gotta do.
Hope you can wait this out with me.
As a long time reader who has never posted before, I read your blog because you were funny and entertaining. Honestly, I like this blog more than your BRK one. (I’ve never played a hunter.)
Reading about mother-in-laws doing annoying stuff is funny. Add in a cat box and rain and it’s even more funny.
OMG you have a wall now?? When did this happen? Of course I want to hear about that! The other posts about your non-wall status, and building one out of boxes and such I read and laughed at. Why wouldn’t I want to read about an improvement in your wall status?
Anything about kids is great to read. ‘Nuff said.
Twenty bucks is twenty bucks! I wonder if you saved any electricity by not running it for a month too.
I’m taking a wow-break myself. I like hearing about wow. I like hearing about other people taking breaks from wow. It makes me feel like less of a slacker for not raiding, not playing.
My beau loves his iPhone and reads your blog. I’m sure he’d love to hear about new apps that you like.
I LOVE the story about that poor guy whose good name got smeared because you wanted to keep him. That is soo true. I love office drama type stories. After working in various offices for years, I can relate to many of them.
Also the Brain v Daniel posts are always simply awesome. Even if it’s about your noisy tires or netflix.
I started reading your blog because I had a hunter. I’ve since quit WoW, and so have you, and I still read your blog because its entertaining. I’d say other than the hunter bit I have nothing in common with you, being a 20-something female from Canada, but I enjoy how you write whatever pops into your head. I think you’d have to try hard to bore me. So don’t worry if you think things are boring; as far as I can tell you can’t write boring.
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TJ ftw!! Ditto what everyone else said, Daniel. Whatever works best for you is fine . /hug
I will definitely be here while you get through what you’re going through.
Been reading your blog in and out for awhile i find it rather entertaining i will admit i still play wow i just don’t raid as much as i used to.
That always my problem with blogging I have trouble with things are either done or the Z part of my life is boring to go about as you said
I want a new Phone Should i get an Iphone or a Blackberry (go with Rogers or Tellius) ((I actully like your opinion on this one Daniel man)
How i want to be a Driver at my job and stuck stocking and customer service.
What should i do for college
How i’m trying to get a job on the rigs
As for wow hunter was my favorite class to level i just lost intrest when guilds would not let me raid with them or do heroics unless i was survival and i refused to be anything but a BM hunter. i quit that server
I always found you entertaining Daniel your the only podcast where i be checking every other day for a new podcast
Either way though i never played with you online your one of those people that has the….what’s the word Charisma to help the community as a speaker wheather as a party planner for your parents anniversary a game community or just a speaker to your “bring your dad to work day”
Bucket of catcrap in the rain?
Why were you maintaining a collection of cat dung in the first place?
Are experimenting with it to find new and better uses for kitty poo?
Are you gonna suggest NASA pack their next generation of solid rocket boosters with preused Tuna flavored Friskies?
If you pack enough cat crap together, does it eventually reach critical mass, unleashing a chain reaction of massive proportions, thereby allowing you to succeed at total world domination?
Well…?
So the netflix online options suck? I’d actually been kicking around the idea of using netflix through my 360.
Boooo crappy selection!
I’d like to hear more about your VMWare wrangling as well. I know a few things about VMWare if you want to bounce anything off me.
You wanted an iPhone case? This one looks geeky, nerdy, lol.
http://gizmodo.com/5318574/this-nes-controller-is-the-only-iphone-case-i-want
You could always resurrect some more Airman Howell stories, or just make something up for fun, if you’re looking for something to sate the appetite of your massive fanbase
. Best of Luck with X & Y whatever they may be.
Only two month!!!! It seems more to me. I have to confess that I still spect you to come back anytime. Frost and Arust are doing a good job giving out information and letting us know what they are into, but it’s not the same.
After you left I started a DK… got it to 80. Now I’m leveling a Druid and he is 63. Then it will be a Paladin (I think)…. but nothing is as fun as my hunter.
As we speak I’m looking for Gondria (I have Loque’nahak), and will star looking for the new one (a kind of wolf) as soon as 3.2 arrives.
So… as you can see, I’m kind of bored
Raiding keeps me busy sometimes… but that’s it.
Best regards,
Oh you and your poor brain. How are you to get space when you can’t let out all of those thoughts and ideas? The internet is a trick-sy sort of place…
Your not missing much with wow. Tales of Guild Bank Ninja Transfers and Item stealing run amok. Pretty much on every server. With patch 3.2 being the anti-raid patch, I have no intentions of coming back myself. I haven’t stepped foot in Ulduar since mid-May, and haven’t done a daily since about June 15th or so. Not sure about you but once I quit wow I easily found a lot of other things to do…now it’s like, omg how did I ever have time for that silly game?
I didn’t spend much time on looking for good iPhone apps, just grabbed Skype and tested some free Twitter apps (most sucked) and buyed the iSSH ssh client (which is quite impressive BTW) so I would like know your favourite apps.
Of course more Airman Howell stories would be great, too!
David
What can I say..I played WoW for 3 years. BRK became a regular family topic around the dinner table seeing my hub played WoW as well and honestly…when you quit I cried. I tried to /facepalm myself but the effect just isn’t the same. So now when I get a chance to eat cheesecake and sit and be mellow, I want to see something like..this. Your reality, your dry sense of humor, your mother-in-law’s denial of cat crap aroma…it’s my cup of tea. Two weeks after you left Avatarland I too taped myself back into reality. Duct taped in fact ~ with foil wrapped all around. It was heinous at first seeing the reason for leaving was due to my epic fail as a mom/wife/sister/employee/Shall I go on? So my 2 month anniversary to quitting WoW will be in a little while. Eat a piece of cheesecake for me and keep up the writing. It’s encouraging to see someone moving on to the next season.
/agree with David Winter.
I may be feed reply nutty right now but I /agree with Matt too. I’m no longer addicted to WoW. lol I’m so shtinking busy with reality that I honestly can’t comprehend where I found sooooo many hours to dedicate to pixels de avatar.