Chapter 29 is a strange place to stop reading a book it seems. The number seems perilously close to thirty, which seems a more natural place to stop. But it was at that point last night reading Russell Brand’s autobiography that I stopped. I thought it apt at the time.
Yesterday was my 23rd birthday and it seems such a strange age. What happens? Rather little it seems. Yet I noticed that half of my birthday cards featured black and white motifs. Is that an indication of my age? It’s probably all nonsense and I’m going senile. I’ll be checking my hair for greys next.
I still haven’t shaken off the flu I picked up last week. It made for a rather dull birthday in all honesty. I booked an appointment with the doctor this morning… for next Tuesday afternoon. Apparently that was the earliest…
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I think I have a small problem. Over the past couple of days I’ve started to realise that playing World Of Warcraft is starting to get to me.
On Wednesday evening, I was playing in a "Heroic Dungeon" called The Mechanar, and in short the group kept dying. We decided to call it and I turned off the computer. This was shortly before midnight, and I went to bed a little after. At about four in the morning I roused slightly and in pure delirium aided by flu symptoms I was immersed in the environment of The Mechanar, trying to fight but being completely confused and unable to move. This lasted for about an hour.
Yesterday the flu took hold. I kept reflecting on that episode the previous night. Despite being rather overcome by body aches and light-headedness, I played again that evening. I was asked to tank (which means being the punching bag while other players get to do the fun stuff), which is both difficult and rather boring. We were making good progress through Karazhan when the world server screwed up and sent most offline. Being one of the survivors of the glitch, I remembered reading about someone who broke the world record for levelling a character from one to seventy in the shortest time, which was a little under 44 hours. He could see how long he had played on that character by typing /played, so I tried it.
I have spent 52 days of the last three years playing on my main character. To be fair, most in the guild that were online at the time had played much longer in a shorter timespan, but on reading that result I was rather shocked. 52 days is a long time. Perhaps too long…
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I was ill. The soup in combination with the alcohol took its toll and I was sick. Weiran didn’t have much sympathy – he wanted to be out and about. Eventually we did get out, going to the Imperial Palace gardens in central Tokyo. They were ok, but they weren’t spectacular. There was a lot of cherry blossom and traditional Japanese trees, of which I have some envy for! They are similar to maple trees but have spectacular red leaves. I took plenty of photos, as did Weiran, of the plants, the moat, the rock gardens and the surrounding buildings.
I was still feeling pretty bad when we went to the electronics district of Japan, namely Akihabara. After waltzing in and out of steaming hot electronics stores, we went to have some food at an Italian place. I ordered an omelette but I could only manage a few tiny pieces at the end of my fork. Weiran bought a new Sigma lens for his Nikon D50 while I went home and recovered slightly.
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