The Importance of Being Idle

Blogging Without Due Care And Attention

So here we are, another Saturday night by myself. Hopefully all this will be over once I've been back to work for a little while, and me and Ronnie can finally start to have a bit of a life again. God knows I don't expect to be rich, but it'd be nice not to be having a monthly crisis about where the rent comes from wouldn't it?
We had a pretty good relaxing day today though, got a lot of important things sorted out too (which I can't really talk about yet, but they are both Important and Exciting), and still managed to spend pretty much the whole day in a dressing gown!
I've pottered about a little this evening, played a little World of Warcraft and had a good time. Frankly that game impresses me like nothing I've ever played before. Maybe if I had more experience of MMORPGs I wouldn't be so blown away, but everytime I think I've got a handle on the world, on what goes on, something comes along to turn my understanding up-side down and show me how little I really do know. Yesterday it was finding the goblin town of Ratchet, which is on the coast and a port where Venture Company ships dock to take you to across the ocean. I wasn't expecting that at ALL, and it was a truly awesome experience when I first went down the little valley towards Ratchet and the ground just fell away down to the ocean, palms all along the coast and a majestic sailing ship is sitting in dock waiting for passengers. I shoulda taken a screen grab (I do that a lot at the moment, like taking photos of my real-life, only much more exciting!). Today I got involved in the local defense effort, and tried to take down the blasted elven outriders who made my life such a misery a few weeks back. They kicked our collective behinds, but it was a worth while effort nonetheless.
Back to work on Tuesday. I'm nervous about this, partly 'cos I don't know how well my health will stand up in a combat situation, although I don't really expect any problems, but mainly because I just have so little memory of my time there. So much from the period of my illness is vague or even missing, and I suppose like anybody else I worry about what will be expected of me in a new situation. I was trying to remember the name of the guy who ran our training course last night (no, not that there was a course last night, but last night I was trying to do the remembering) and for the life of me I couldn't. Not a clue, nothing. Still, they seem to kinda take it as read that I need re-training 'cos I'm going on a training course, so I expect it'll all work out for the best. And if I REALLY don't remember something they expect me to, well all I've got to do is explain that I REALLY don't!

posted by BadMonkey @ 9:21 PM