Jrod's Blog - 2old2play

Catching up

Well the last month has been the craziest month of my life. It has really opened up my eyes and I have changed quite a bit. First off, my wife and I have split up for personal reasons. I will not get into all the details, but we are still good friends and I get to see my kids quite a bit. This has been the hardest decision in my life but I think it will all work out in the end. I am living with my parents for the time being and not sure where I will end up.

I have also lost 40 pounds in the last month. I think there are a few factors there. The stress of all this, I was really sick for a few days and the fact I am flat broke all play in there. I feel really good though now and am looking forward to my lapband surgery so I can lose even more.

So what am I doing with all my free time now? Lots and lots of World of Warcraft. Our guild merged with another and we started doing AQ20 runs and ZG runs. It is fun again.

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FFXI or WoW

In the past 2-3 years I have really gotten in MMORPGs. I never played Everquest or any of the originals, I started with Final Fantasy XI. I played FFXI for around 2 years. In that 2 years, I devoted over 100 days to the game. 100 days! You have to realize that most of that time, I wasnt working and just going to school. So yeah, I had free time. Once I started working however, I didnt have the time to devote to the game so I moved on to a less demanding game, World of Warcraft. It has been a ton of fun. I started playing it back in October, and basically started my character over again in December so I could play with the 2o2p guild. I have leveled up to 48 so far and plan on getting to 60 in the next month.

Ok, well anyway today an expansion came out for FFXI and I am missing it bad. I miss Jrod, my level 68 Black Mage Tarutaru. There are also 3 new jobs to open up with the expansion and lots of new areas. I want to get it so very much, but I dont want to abandon WoW either... Maybe if I quit my job.... that would go over well.

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Why I hate working helpdesk

So I have been working the help desk for a pretty large, well known company for the past several months and I have come to the realization that I dont like it. I love the company and everything, but the job itself sucks. Basically as helpdesk you are a glorified secretary and can sometime solve an issue over the phone. The rest to take their number and nature of the problem and pass it on. Which in turn makes it look like you are the one with the issue... End users bitch at me and so I have to nag at the techs and the analysts and makes me look like the asshole. "Dont shoot the messenger." It is also a depressing job, you never hear about how wonderful things are, just that this shit doesnt work and I want it to work now. As soon as another position comes up that I can put in for I will. Helpdesk is pretty boring, just sit and wait for people to call and bitch. I have been given projects at times, but you can never get involved in them because you are contantly interupted. I know the IT industry is far from glamoris, but I didnt go to school for all that time to sit and do help desk and reset passwords all day.

Man there are times I wish I didnt know all I do know (STOP COMING TO ME WITH YOUR DAMN COMPUTER PROBLEMS....) Sounds really bad but that goes out to my friends and family. I am the ONLY one in my family, Im talking extended family too, that knows jack about computers. I have a ton of cousins, lots of aunt and uncles, none of them know anything. Most of the cousins are teenagers, but hell I was fixing crap when I was a teenager and with the stuff they have access to now, they should be teachig me. I dont mind fixing something every now and then, but when I go to a family function and I know that I am going to spend the whole time fixing a computer, not fun!

God I hope none of my family read this.

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New site, w00t

So, going through withdrawls because 2old2play was down all weekend and i just gotta say that it kicks so much ass now. I love it, good work Doodi and to anybody that helped get this going. I look forward to the 100% site because the 80% version kicks ass.

Played WoW most of the weekend and rearranged my desk... still not what I want, but it is better. Unfortunatly my keyboard didnt work with the KVM switch I bought... grrrr. Oh, I am almost to level 44 on WoW as well.

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Old songs

This last week has been a long one. 30 more minutes and the work week is over. Been a rather uproductive week for me. I have spent every night on WoW... I did fold some laundry for the wife so I didnt get in to much trouble. Tonight, I plan on reinstalling windows on my laptop and getting my Rogue to 39 on WoW. I am going to stay up as late as possible to do so. All the while I am falling further behind in my online classes... damn college.

As for the title of my post, I have always been one that gets sad when I hears old songs from the past. This is so "geek" but I was listening to the Final Fantasy XI soundtrack on my iPod and I was welling up. It brings me back to when I first started the game and was such a n00b. I knew nothing, but the music was cool. I found myself later turning the music down in most zones as I got sick of the tune, but would later turn the music back up and get that old feeling again.

I do this with normal songs as well. You name any popular alternative song in the 90s and I can pretty much recall an event or time in my life that relates to that song. Not even 90s songs, lots of songs. There is a radio station here that plays all 90s alternative during the noon hour, and I love it as long as they dont bring up some unwanted memory.

But i cant dwell on those for long or it just depresses me. There are times that I would do anything to go back in time and live that life again, but I wouldnt ever trade what I have now. Back then I saw so much potential in my life and so did others, and I have let myself down in many aspects.

I do this with movies as well. I will watch a movie from the past, and I seem to forget how long ago it actually came out. Then I sit and think, how old was I? What was I doing? Sometime the memories are good, sometimes not.

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Bored at work

So I am here at work, bored off my ass...wishing I were home playing WoW. I have read every thread on here, started some new threads in our WoW clan forum....what else can I do but write a blog entry.

Lets talk some WoW. First off, I am going to respec my 38 Rogue to Sword Combat. I have dagger combat build right now and I am sick of getting taken out by sword Rogues 4 levels below me. Although I may have to wait a while because I dont think I can afford good swords and the enchants for them at the moment. Maybe after the next WSG weekend. I plan on selling Swift Pots to all the PVPers. I hear you can make some good money with that. I just took up alchemy so we will see. I have sold some for 5-6 gold per stack but they dont always sell. I have several stacks in reserves, farmed all the mats, so it will be pure profit. Nice!!

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Petition for a longer day

Who do I talk about making the days longer? There are just simply not enough hours in the day to do all the things I want or need to do. Work 9 hours,(that included lunch, what can you accomplish over lunch?) andsleep 6 hours, leaves you with what....9 hours per weekday.

Now I am not gonig to breakdown what I do with each and every minute of my day, but there just never seems to be enough time in the day. I would say that gaming consumes most of my free time. Most of the time is World of Warcraft. But I also have a 360 and enjoy that as well. Then there are always the TV shows I need to watch on a weekly basis and of course I love spending time with my wife and kids.

So who do I talk to about slowing the earths rotation? Just give me 2-4 extra hours in the day and I will be a happy camper.

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