All work and far too much play makes Chris a very sleepy boy…

Work has been insane for the last week or so. We’ve definitely started into the holiday shopping season. It has been very busy at work, lots of long/odd hours, lots of customers to deal with - just plain lots of work. Sure, I’ve had a couple days off here and there - more than normal - but I’m really not feeling like I’ve gotten a chance to rest up at all. It’ll take more than two days off to recover from the madness of last week, and unfortunately I’ll not be getting more than two days off in a row for a very long time.

The fact that I’ve been playing WoW with every spare moment I’ve got just isn’t helping things. I’ve been playing my human warlock, logging in every chance I’ve got, and I’m still falling behind the rest of the guild. I don’t want to rush through things, I want to enjoy the game…but I’m quickly being left behind. I’m not even level 20 yet, and we’ve already got folks reaching level 40. They’ll be running raids before too long, and I won’t be able to participate in them. I’ve already missed out on one or two Deadmines and Blackfathom runs because I wasn’t high enough level.

And, on top of all that, we’ve got general mayhem at home. Trying to get things ready for the holidays…just got done with Thanksgiving and now we’ve got to start shopping for Christmas. We’ve got a new car, which we’ve got to get inspected/photographed/licensed/whatevered as soon as possible. There are plenty of odds & ends we need before the winter really kicks in…like an ice scraper for the car… My to-do list just keeps getting longer and longer.

As you can see from the timestamp on this post, I’m not getting a whole lot of sleep. Fun!

…waiting impatiently for the WoW servers to go live…

Impressive.

Apparently someone in our guild has a family member working for Blizzard… And apparently Blizzard employees and family members can log in to the game servers early. She’s already level 8, and apparently Legion will already be a guild before the servers even go live. Very, very nice!

Looks like Blizzard had some fun with the end of the beta. The guild boards are filled with pictures of people battling tons of demons and dragons. Apparently the cities were all attacked and mass chaos ensued. I wish I could have been around for some of that…

Looks like the WoW beta is ending today. I knew it was coming, and had to be soon, but I’m still sad to see it go. I was really having fun playing with Kelvin and all the Legion folks again. I don’t know how many of them are actually going to purchase the game when it goes live on Tuesday… I’m really looking forward to retail, to finally being able to build up a character that won’t get wiped. I’m especially looking forward to Tuesday afternoon…I’ll be getting done at 5:00 and I don’t have to do a thing for the next day or two. I’m going to thoroughly enjoy my days off.