…or “whingeing”, as they would say here in the UK. I totally forgot about Blog Whining Day. It may have been yesterday, I don’t know – I’ve been lost in a haze of work and stress and site mockups and wireframes and ecommerce site builds and I’M JUST SO FRICKIN’ STRESSED!  WAAAAAH!

Is that enough of a whine?  :D

I’ve hardly logged in in days, due to the aforementioned Real Life Suckage. Yesterday I finally made my flight reservations for my trip back home to the US (I was scheduled to go home in May, as my mother is quite ill, but it seemed as though we might be on shorter time than I hoped, so I moved it up). I am totally, totally panicked at the thought of going home. Oh, I want to go home, I miss my family desperately. It’s the thought of flying that is making me so tense. I had so many security issues last time, which led to me missing connecting flights, which led to me sitting in airports for ages like a displaced person. I don’t like the thought of full-body scanners. I hate the rudeness of TSA personnel and the whole cattle-car feeling of it. But at least I’ll be home, finally.

While I’m having a whinge, the last time I logged into game I had the same damned problem back with framerates of 9-15 fps. I can’t do any group runs like this. It is so infuriating.

OK, enough whining for one day. I haven’t run out of things to whine about, but I’ll want to slap myself if I continue.  :D

Why are there no dogs in Warcraft? There are some dogs in game, but they use the various wolf skins…such as Stanley, the poor canine that you’re asked to poison if you play Horde-side. No one would do the quest if he looked like a Golden Retriever.  There is a pug pet, but I haven’t personally seen one yet.

There are tons of cats around. But it seems glaringly obvious that the world is missing dogs. I would expect to see tons of dogs in Stormwind, for example. Sure, in Silvermoon you would expect cats, but on the human side you really, really need dogs. People, human beings, need dogs.

Interesting omission, don’t you think?

I so need to see this. Come on, you know you want to, as well.

From the LoveFilm description:

High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami’s vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires. Meanwhile, Mizushima decides that he wants to fully become a vampire with Monami’s help. Keiko, Mizushima’s girl friend, sees the two on the school rooftop kissing and in a state of hysteria, attempts to throw Monami off the roof but falls off herself instead. Keiko dies but her father, Kenji Furano, the mad scientist, resurrects her as Franken girl. Thus begins a deadly combat between Franken Keiko and Vampire Monami in the name of love.

As we all know, this kind of Vampire vs. Frankenstein conflict can only be solved by fighting, beating, stabbing, chewing, clawing and a showdown high atop Tokyo Tower!

I’m working through lunch (yet again!) as there is just too much to do. Too many sites that need building, too many reports and specs to write, just too much. But also (as you’ve probably guessed by now) I’m kind of slacking as well. I’m writing a blog post, eating a chocolate brownie, listening to Miyavi and Marilyn Manson (music tastes that cover the spectrum) and wishing it was finally the weekend already.You know, free time. Time to spend gaming. The thing that I manage to crawl through my week in order to get – which I completely admit is a sad way to spend a life.

My paladin is breathing down the neck of Level 80, and I’d like to try tanking a bit with her. It was the original purpose for levelling her. But I read accounts like the veryvery funny pass my soapbox from Tam at Righteous Orbs, and I have to think: Who in their right mind would ever, ever want to be a tank or a healer? Seriously.

I did some tanking in Aion on my Templar Ravven, and although legion runs were a lot of fun, pugs were not. On my very first tanking experience, the first time in a new instance, the first time I’d ever tried marking and pulling and keeping aggro, we had the group from hell. Higher-level players who had run that instance before, and wanted to get through it as fast as possible. It was one of those “GOGOGO” type of runs, with one of the players impatient enough to start pulling his own mobs.

You pull it, you better be able to tank it. Not wearing plate?  Sucks to be you.

I admit that I’m not the most social of people, anyway. I just generally think that a large percentage of the people you group with will turn out to be asshats. Now, I’m just speaking from personal experience, mind you – your mileage may vary. But I have terrible, terrible luck with pugs. And the thought of tanking one…

*shivers*

I was in the bookstore last week (yeah, it’s where I spend a lot of my lunches. My home looks a lot like a second-hand bookstore, but there’s always room for more) and I saw a book which really made me laugh.

I happened to be in the Teen section. Aside from my lamentable taste in vampire fiction, I am firmly of the belief that you find some of the best fantasy books there, just because they’re afraid to market them to adults. I have no problem whatsoever with buying kids books. And what do I see?  A very, very Twilight-esque cover. On Wuthering Heights.

Oh, come on – that’s funny. The Amazon blurb (because I yoinked the cover image from them) was also very funny: 

One of the greatest love stories ever told, beautifully repackaged for a modern teen audience. Love the Twilight books? Then you’ll adore Wuthering Heights, one of the greatest love stories ever told. Cathy and Heathcliff, childhood friends, are cruelly separated by class, fate and the actions of others. But uniting them is something even stronger: an all-consuming passion that sweeps away everything that comes between them. Even death!

Even Death! hahahaha….