Renno

We start our downstairs rennovation tomorrow. We're pulling out the horsehair plaster and slats. The plan is to swap the living room and dining room, as well as put in new wiring for the electricity, then repaint the drywall. It will take a month or so, but the payoff will be awesome. Hopefully, we don't find any major issues

Freudian?

I had a very strange dream last night. The first thing I remember is being on rollerblades, in a library with my mother. We were getting some specific type of book that I can't remember at this point, but my mother was pissed because she suddenly had a Star Trek book in the mix and that wasn't what we were there for. So she fades out of the dream but I'm still on rollerblades in what's now a book store, instead of a library. I think they also sold pizza. But I think I worked there, and always wore the rollerblades. It was one of my first few weeks or something, because I still didn't know everyone. There was some chick who wanted me to go hang out with her friends after work. They apparently also worked there. For some reason, there was a chrisitian motivational speaker there and he was trying to motivate us. All of us were mocking him because we were all aetheists. He eventually stopped mid-sentence and left as we laughed.

Skip ahead and we're at a bar, sitting at a table. The bar is huge and empty. The original chick was trying to get me to go sit in her car, hinting heavily at having sex. I mentioned I lived with my girlfriend and the dream ended.

Am I arguing with my subconcious? I woke up wanting beer....

iGoogle theme

I spent a decent portion of today looking for a new theme for iGoogle. I stumbled across some really cool ideas, but the finished product wasn't quite adequate. For instance, there was an Annakin/Vader theme but the gadget titles were all pinkish. If I'm going to have a Sith on my desktop, I'd rather not have if feel feminine. I also found a couple Neil Gaimen inspired themes, but the pictures weren't so terrific.

Long day

I finally fell asleep at 7:30 this morning. My alarm goes off at 10:30. I can barely keep my eyes open. On the plus side, I've been able to keep myself pretty busy working with a field tech all day. The issue doesn't make a ton of sense, but its keeping my busy.

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Tonight we do 25-man Ulduar. We should be able to make the same progression as 10-man, if not more. The two bosses we got down last night should be even easier with more people, especially since there's no major difference. We'll see.

Woot!

Two new bosses down. Deconstructor and Kologarn. DPS loot though... no tanking gear. Ah well, progression is saweeeeeeeeeet!

Welp, I just wiped our first attempt on Deconstructor. Stay tuned!

Work at a help desk

Well, to start off, I decided today I more or less hate my job. Its always been Big Brother, but we had found some ways around it. They force us to use a Jabber client, but the heaviest version they could find. To counter this, our systems have roughly 256 ram (no lie). So a few of us started using a lighter version a few months ago. As it spread, we knew the impending doom would come with it. The more idiots were on it, the higher the chances of the bosses finding out. So while I was out on sick leave, the ball dropped. Everyone who got caught with it was written up. Not so much a big deal, but the company isn't doing so hot, so if they need to do lay offs, people like us are the first to go.

So anyway, my first day back and I got the write up that was waiting for me. On top of that, the proxy we were using is now too dangerous to use since they're watching a few of us like hawks. So the Jabber client won't connect to AIM, because they blocked that portion on their own servers.

Work is now a boring 9 hour day. I have no contact with the outside world. My web access is extremely restricted, pretty much can only get to Google.

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On the plus side, while I was sick, I was able to level 2 characters to 60 and one to 46. Recruit-A-Friend is totally win. I've started a warrior/warlock duo for my next 60s, but I don't know if I'll actually follow through on it. I'm excited to have two opportunities to get healers to 80, last time I healed was at 70 on my druid.

Right now, I'm waiting for our raid to start. 10-man Ulduar tonight. I'm tanking. Not extremely exciting, but I want to see how it goes since the few nerfs in the last week. Flame Leviathan is a joke, but he's the only boss we've managed to get down, thus far.

More to come later, maybe.