tiggerprr’s scratching post

I’ve been working. Loving it! (So far. I’m ever the optimist LOL). Soooo much less stress…sooo much more appreciation. I like it so much, I think I’ll actually take my Successories in there. I never took any personal crap to the last job, unless you count chocolate and Special K bars. We’ll see how it goes.

The kids also started school this week. So we’ve been adjusting our schedules and getting used to waking up on time to get five of us out the door and to our respective destinations. So far, so good.

I’ve also been playing WoW, but I am NOT addicted to WoW as someone seems to think. I just enjoy it, I could quit any time. I just choose not to.

Our first recording of our joint podcast led Yoshi to decide that we needed to have 2 podcasts, one where he and I co-host and interview fellow bloggers about themselves and their blogs. Jenny Ryan has graciously agreed to be our first victim interviewee. I just have to get off my butt out of Azeroth long enough to help Yoshi prepare some good questions for her. If you’d like to be interviewed by Yoshi and I, drop either of us an email, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re also going to go with our other podcast idea which is a mass hodgepodge of general discussions about topics of the day, news, movies, games, vacuum boobs, what Britney Spears isn’t wearing, etc…

So some pretty exciting stuff going on behind the scenes here! I’ll keep you posted!

Oh, and the cats are fine but OC seems to be a little more verbal and needy now that people aren’t around all day again.

If you’re not familiar with Everquest, otherwise (and rightfully so) known as Evercrack, just know that it was a fantasy based online game where millions of people could be online at the same time, grouping together to kill dragons and other cool monsters, complete quests and make crafts while building your character and a community.

Those of you who’ve played Everquest, may be familiar (all too painfully) with the epic weapon quests that were introduced to the game with the first expansion pack “Everquest:The Ruins of Kunark”. My enchanter took literally over 2 years to complete her quest. I remember sitting up for nearly 24 hours with a cleric friend waiting for a mob to spawn for his. Yes, sane people did this folks, staying awake for unhealthy numbers of hours to get the one piece they needed to progress on the quest. My final piece was obtained, not by me while I was home from work, but by my husband (while he was at work), our friend (who yes, ran HOME from work to get online and help get it) and some others who happened to be online. So you see the level of insanity that completing these quests used to require.

Why is this important to today’s post? Never in a million years would I have ever thought that RL would mirror the EQ epic quest. But it did, all too familiarly. You see, we’ve been searching for a Nintendo Wii since just after Christmas. We waited to see which system, the PS3 or the Wii, would win the battle of the new gaming systems. We decided that Wii would be the most fun to play, not to mention the most economical. We figured once Christmas was over, we’d have a much easier time of locating a Wii. “Hahahahahahahahahaha!”, the Retail Gods seemed to say.
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