Cranial Wanderings : Folow the Bouncing Baby

Friday, August 31, 2007

Labor Day

Thursday, Mary and I went to a rehearsal. Mary is looking at joining a women's vocal group that sings in the style of barbershop quartet. They sound very good, and I'm glad for and proud of Mary for getting back into singing. She has missed it.

We will be holding our fantasy football live draft on Saturday. All players, save one, are expected to be there. I do not allow phone conferencing for the draft, so the missing player has submitted a list to be run by another player.

After the draft, we're off to see Mary's sister this weekend. A nice Labor Day weekend road trip. We'll be staying there for the whole weekend, returning on Monday night.

Posted By Kerry Wano At 5:12 PM •

Sunday, August 26, 2007

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Sometimes I really wonder about the direction of my life. Am I a help or a hinderance to this world?

I don't really know. Though I tend towards hinderance.

I don't seem to do anything whole-hearted. My emotional state is usually far removed from what's happening around me. Almost like I'm just piloting a body around, observing.

I wonder if my existence has any meaning. Do the things I do have any real impact to anyone? "Oh, my computer is fixed!" That is not a real impact. Thirty five dollars and a phone call to Best Buy will do the same thing.

Oh, you may say that I work for a company that helps people around the poverty line to afford medical care. That's a crock, though. If I weren't there, it would by any college grad ready to write software, with all kinds of grandiose ideas of making the world better through software. My employment there is really just a cog in a much larger machine that, though slower, will work just fine missing a cog or two. Again, a decent salary offer and a phone call to someone who has sent in a resume will do the same thing.

If it weren't for me, would my brother's life be bettered? If it weren't for me, would my parents' lives be bettered?

Mostly, though, I think about Mary. I wonder sometimes if her relationship with me hinders her progress.

If it weren't for me, would she have been stricken with PCOS? If it weren't for me, would she have gone on to finish college? If it weren't for me, would her photography career be booming right now? If it weren't for me, would she be living a much happier life? If it weren't for me, would she be with someone that could make her happier?

Some of those obviously make no sense, but others are always nagging questions in my mind.

The quality of my life, I am happy with. I am not happy with the quality of life of the one person that depends upon me. Though, I think she is headstrong and ambitious enough to handle life on her own, so, does she really depend on me? That question worries me a lot.

Just how useful am I? Am I a good person? I'm not actively a bad person, but I would not consider myself to be a good person. Am I a good man? Hardly. Am I a good husband? What a joke.

Lethargy, pessimism, and procrastination define me.

I'm not really looking for comments. I'm definitely not looking for sympathy. I'm not sure if I even want change. Pathetic.

Posted By Kerry Wano At 3:38 PM •

New Toons! (WoW)

Mary activated her account about a week ago. She now has, I think, three toons.

We decided to make new complimenting characters of the same race, Draenai. We are leveling together. We actually have the exact same amount of XP. Isn't that cute?

The toons are Jelexaan, for me, and Ptolema, for Mary.

On the Horde front, I have done nothing with Illynis. He is stale for now. If Mary decides on a Horde toon, I will probably drop Illynis and start another one to do the same thing we are doing with Draenai.

Kurathan, on the other hand, is progressing. The Sunken Temple run several weeks ago was not a complete success. Though, he nearly leveled up from it. We did the big round chamber with all the statues. We also went to use the Egg of Hakkar to release the dragon. That proved to be our throttle point. The last place we wiped was at Eranikus. He kicked our butts.

Posted By Kerry Wano At 3:38 PM •

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Is That An Update?

My personal updates have also suffered from my move to only updating at home.

We took a few days at the end of July to head towards Oklahoma and see Mom and Dad. On the way down, we stopped to see Valerie and the boys and Mary took some great pictures of them.

In Oklahoma, we were able to spend a whole evening with our friends. On the way back, we stopped again to see Valerie. This time, though, was just to get some good portraits of Valerie.

A second kitty practically fell in our laps last week. We left to go to the pool when I heard some dinstinct meowing. After we returned from the pool, there was a grey cat lingering around our door. It was very friendly so we took it in. I think we have decided on Callie for the name, though I am not sure how we will spell it yet.

Posted By Kerry Wano At 9:58 PM •

Progress Report (WoW)

Okay, so I've been kinda slacking. I have stopped updating from work, so remembering to update in the evenings is a chore...

I have Kurathan up to level 53 now, and I'm slowly creeping him up to 54. I hope he will reach it before the Sunken Temple run on Thursday. I've been doing a lot of reading and have been receiving a lot of good advice about tanking. So far, I've been replacing most of my equipment for +Str and +Sta bonuses. However, I also need to be looking for Hit Rating bonuses also. Seems that one point of Hit Rating is worth 2.5 points of Strength in terms of how much threat is generated.

I've also been working on Argent Dawn reputation with Kurathan. I'm having him spend a lot of time in the Western Plaguelands right now. Killing the undead is helping to raise the rep. Plus, they drop items that can be turned in to increase rep, too.

I have done little of nothing with Illynis. I think I may have run him around a bit to do some skinning, but that's about it. I've really been focusing on Kurathan.

As far as the Alliance goes, Giladen is doing okay at level 35. Though, I haven't done much with her, either.

Fayneld has HARDLY been touched. In fact, the last time I logged on as him, I had to reacquaint myself with his action bars.

There are two big news items in this post. First, the Alliance group has finally formed a guild. We got out guild started and have also already chosen a tabard design.

Second, Mary has officially started her trial period. At the end of it, I will probably be looking for a cheap upgrade to Burning Crusade after activating her account.

She has chosen a human mage and I have been running Giladen around with her to help level her up.

Posted By Kerry Wano At 9:58 PM •