I stopped at a bookstore today at lunch time and the title of this book caught my eye.  (What female wouldn’t be attracted to a book titled “Skinny Bitch”?)  I gave it a quick glance, and saw that it was a “tough love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous.”

Then I turned to the first page of the book (after the mutual admiration society pages) and this is what prompted me to buy the book:

“Okay. Use your head. You need to get healthy if you want to get skinny. Healthy = skinny. Unhealthy = fat. The first thing you need to do is give up your gross vices.  Don’t act surprised! You cannot keep eating the same shit and expect to get skinny. Or smoke. So don’t even try some pathetic excuse like, “But if I quit smoking, I’ll gain weight.” No one wants to hear it. Cigarettes are for losers. They are so 1989 and totally uncool…” 

I burst out laughing and decided I had to buy the book.

I may not agree with the statement “Healthy = skinny” since I think skinny = unhealthy.  But it will be interesting to read this author’s philosophy on the whole idea of weight loss.  For the entertainment value, if nothing else.

That’s why there haven’t been any updates.  Except maybe that I’m excited that World of Warcraft is about to release a new expansion called Wrath of the Lich King.  I put it on my Christmas list.

Is that pathetic, or what?  LOL

When I was 19 I came home from work and my roommate and the guy I had been dating were doing the wild-thing.  I was still a virgin.

I learned two things from it.

Never trust your roommate.

Men are pigs when it comes to sex. 

Brian knew I wasn’t ready, and also knew my roommate was a slut so he went for “five easy pieces”.

Brian and I stopped dating and I kicked my roommate out (she also owed me several months rent.)

Oops, I learned three things.  Number 3 was to stop being so generous. 

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When I first started playing World of Warcraft, I wasn’t interested in fighting other players.  I just wanted to do quests, get rewards, and level my character.  So the best place for me was a PvE server (Player vs. Environment).  I tried to play on a PvP server (Player vs. Player) but was constantly getting “ganked” – that’s where another player who is a member of the opposite faction and much higher level keeps killing you then “camping” your corpse and waiting for you to resurrect so they can kill you again.  Makes game play not fun at all.  So I stopped playing on PvP servers.

Okay, so I’ve been playing for over three years and avoided PvP for the entire three years.  Then I formed a guild – partly as a joke for some friends who played and were known as the inner sanctimonious.  I thought it was going to remain a very small guild with just family and friends, but it grew (90 members when I signed off tonight).  Some of the guys who joined the guild got into going into the battlegrounds.  One of the battlegrounds (Warsong Gulch) is a game called “Capture the Flag” – each team has three flags and the idea is to capture the opposite team’s flags.  There are three of them.  You have to get their flag and bring it back to your own home base.  You “capture” it by placing it with your own flag.  If they have your flag and are running with it, you can’t “capture” theirs until they drop it and it’s returned (by someone on your team clicking on it).  These games can take anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours.  I’ve played two in the last 24 hours that were more than an hour each.

So, while one of your team members is trying to capture your opponent’s flag, you have to go “clear the way” for them or protect them while they are running with the flag.  This is where you get honor points, for “killing” the enemy (they go to their graveyard and “resurrect” after up to 30 seconds). 

Then there are “Marks”.  You get one “mark” just for playing.  If your team wins, you get two additional marks.  You turn marks and honor in for fabulous prizes (like better armor).

I didn’t realize how much fun this was.  I average 350 kills a day and 60 marks a day (on my days off, that is).  I’ve gotten some pretty good gear (virtual gear for my character – a nice dagger for my warlock, a nice staff for my mage, a nice “ring of protection” that has magical protective effects for my shaman, etc.) 

It really reminds me a lot of games we played when we were kids.  Except we didn’t kill each other lol

I’ve discovered pvp.  Life may never go back to normal LOL

No-brainer.  Play World of Warcraft.
   

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We moved our office from the 7th floor in our building to the 15th floor.  Being the director of technology, I was responsible for all of the technology – servers, data lines, phone lines, all the data and phone ports, getting computers moved and set up, plugged in and connected to the network – all over a weekend.

We got it done with very few problems.

The morning of our first day in the new suite, the company provided a continental breakfast and at 4:00 that day we had a champagne reception complete with cheeses, crackers and veggies with dip.

The CEO (whom I greatly admire) gave a toast to the Sr. VP of Finance and Administration for handling the logistics of the move (vendors, building contractors, etc.).  She presented him with a bottle of champagne.  He then made a speech and said he needed to pass kudos along to two people.  He said I deserved kudos for handling the technology, for working the long hours, and for keeping everything coordinated so that the move was nearly seamless to the users.  The CEO said “I expected you might say something like that, so I came prepared.”

And she presented me with this:

I got tired of the dark musical notes.  I decided to put a background up of where I spend a lot of my free time – World of Warcraft   This is a picture of Darnassus – home of the Night Elves.

I tried to diagnose my sister’s video problems over the phone.  She called me in a panic that they didn’t have anything on their monitor, and the power light just flashed.  They didn’t get the “no signal” message or anything.  I asked her what all they had tried.  She said they plugged in a different monitor and it didn’t work.  They tried a different cable, it didn’t work.  She removed the video card and tried the on-board video and that didn’t work.

Based on that information, I figured it was the graphics card, but I didn’t want her to go buy a new one if that wasn’t the problem.  So, being that I have Monday off work (our Fiscal Year is ending and it was either use it or lose it) I decided to drive out, diagnose the problem, check to see if there was a service contract purchased for the video card, etc.  Almost 300 miles to diagnose a computer problem.  Is that sisterly love or what?

oh, but it doesn’t end there.

I brought one of our extra laptops in case we couldn’t fix it while I was here so they would have a computer.  I brought my laptop so that I could plug her monitor into it to be sure it wasn’t the monitor (can you tell I already didn’t trust her diagnosis?)

I got here last night at about 9:15 pm and they were at a park and were going to a bonfire party.  They gave me directions to get there so I went to the party and decided to worry about the computer today.

This morning, the first thing I did was reinstall her video card and plug in the monitor.  Nothing.

I plugged the monitor into my laptop and went to the video settings and it didn’t see it.

I thought what the hell, I’m going to try the other monitor again anyway in case she was just wrong.  I plugged the other monitor into her computer and voila – it worked.  I called Samsung (her new monitor was only about 3 or 4 months old and had a 3-year warranty) and they are sending her a new one with a return shipper label so she can send back the old one.  For now, she has her old monitor hooked up and working.

I drove almost 300 freaking miles to plug in her monitor.

Is that sisterly love or what?

My two characters were restored, with all gear and money intact.  Very strange.  Someone just came in and deleted my two highest level characters without first emailing the money or high value items to themself.

Why would someone do that?  I can only think of two reasons.

1. They’re just mean.
2. They were Horde (my characters were Alliance) and wanted to get rid of some of the competition.

More likely it’s number 1.  But 2 would make sense because if they were Horde they wouldn’t be able to send themselves anything from my Alliance character because you can’t email across factions.  That would explain all the gear and money still being there.

I’m just glad they didn’t delete Giantessa!  She’s the guild leader!  (Pictured)