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October 25, 2005
I say "neigh, neigh, and thrice! Neigh!"
As regular readers will know, Im a bit of a "World of Warcraft" online game nut. Ive played it since its launch in February, albeit at very staggered sessions due to my epilepsy problems during the first half of the year, but since gettin back online for longer periods Ive been playing it more.
I do love the game to bits, its awesome, but one thing that relly got my goat was how you hve to RUN everywhere, with the exception of the airport style "gryphons posts" that fly you around the world to pre-set points. But they dont always go to the direct place u need so you have to walk there. Or if you have a quest in the middle of the "countryside" you have to run/walk there too. And it takes forever. At one point last week I had to get from Booty Bay to Descolace which are on two seperate islands for a start off and in real time it took nearly 20 minutes to get there! That shows you how big the world is that the game is set.... and they are going to expand it soon! God help me.
Anyways, once you are level 40 or above you get access to a horse, that increases your running speed 60%. Still not as fast the slying gryphons, but still a damn site faster. And I was pig sick of all these level 40 - 60 players runing past me on their old nags, and leaving me flailing behind to run behind them. So, last week i decided that I'd been in the level 30's for too long, and it was time to dig in and grind my way up to Level 40.
Well, yesterday I made it!!!! Yayyyy. But I made myself ill in the process. I spent nearly all afternoon and mid evening on the game to finally complete the level 39 grind, but I got there at the expense of major limb twitches and headaches.
I got my horse though, by buggery! So Im now one of those level 40 - 60 players who royal it over the lesser sub-lvl40 players and laff at the runners and walkers thinking "feeble player, isnt even a level 40 and got a horse! ha!!!"
Turns out my horse is a demon horse though. Cos my character is a Warlock. Its got flames coming off its hooves, and out its eyes and nostrils. eeeek. Lucky i can control it eh? :)
Below are two screenshots. One of the gryphon rides, which I soooo love. And of my little pony, skinny and bony, aka SwanVesta - Ill let u guess why ive called her SwanVesta.
And yes, I know that the character on the horse is a female warlock. Theyre better lookin than the male ones esp when you are running everywhere and staring at their arse for 9 months.
The pic on the left is of the gryphon flights, flying into Stormwind Castle. The picture on the right is of SwanVesta, my little pony skinny and boney, taken in Redridge Mountains Lakeshire town. Note the pumpkins, theres a halloween theme running through all the towns in the game for their "hallow's end" celebrations.
Anyways, enough of the happy stuff. Back to the depression n stuff....
Depression wise things have slightly improved, I dont feel quite as sad as I did 48 hours ago - the acomplishment of getting SwanVesta has certainly helped in raising the spirits temporarily. As mentioned previously the ABs have stopped now. My folks were at the GPs office yesterday, and they went to see the GP about their own problems, but my Dad mentioned how my ABs had ended, the wound was a little better, but not much and the WW problems were still there. He asked "do you think its worth him coming back to get some more ABs to keep them going" and she just shook her head and made a noise like "nehhhhhh" (no).
Bugger. Thats all I can think so say about that at the moment.
Pain wise, things are Ok right now. Although when out shopping this morning I made a muppet myself in the Marks and Spencers coffee shop. Not only for being stupid enough to pay £2 for two cans of own brand diet cola, but by having a pain attack on the way to the table and dropping the tray, breaking the glasses and sending the ice skittering over to the customer toilets. Talk about cutting out the middle man, eh?
The stoma bleeding is just the same, just a slight dribble so its more annoying than being anything to worry about. It affects the seal on my flanges which is the worst part about it really. Although if it continues or increases, then the anaemia risk comes back agian. *sigh*
Am trying to get my mam interested in computers at the moment. I think she might be gettin the bug, as she spent about an hour on my Dads PC at the weekened with him helping her to use the mouse and so on, and tonight she came to ask me if i had any intereactive training cd-roms for the computer that she could use, or some learn to use computers books. Sadly I dont, not for Win XP anyways, so shell have to buy one from staples or something.
Speaking of computers, Im sure you know I dabble at being a webmaster. Well, one of the sites I have done for someone has been ripped off, and totally copied over to another site! I got the email a while ago and have fogtotten about it until today, but its a complete copy of my emmascott.co.uk site (and the old colostomy website design that I used to have, as the old ostomy design was a spin off from the ES site.) I wont publically give out the URL of the site thats ripped it off (might in a PM though. :P) as im not giving it the hit traffic, but its been sooo badlly ripped off. Its been about a week since I saw it now, so maybe theyve changed it over to another design from somewhere else since then, as I know ES wasnt too pleased that this guy had done it, and she did know him too which made it worse.
I guess I should be flattered. But more than anything, Im annoyed for her. It looks bad you see as some people will wonder which site came first. Grrrrrrr.
Anyways, Im gonna go for now. Need a drink, so will catch you all later.
Bye for now.
J.
Pain: 3/10
Depression: 4/10
Posted by Jason at October 25, 2005 07:14 PM