Poor girl, 60

Yesterday Alison worked late to get totally caught up before our week long vacation. So I picked up Nicki after work and decided to do something I don’t do very often any more. grab food at McD’s. I parked the truck right in front of the drive in window, locked it with my spare key and left it running with the AC on so Nicki would remain comfortable. Ali gets very paranoid about leaving Nicki unattended. The reason I parked and went inside instead of the drive-thru was because my hands were all dirty and I wanted to wash them. So I went into the nasty bathroom, tried to ignore the disgusting toilet stalls and washed my hands in the very dirty sink.

My standard McD’s meal is the 2 cheesburger value meal with hamburgers instead of cheeseburgers with a diet coke. I went out to the counter and was greeted by an uncharacteristically friendly McDonald’s employee. She was a woman that was very petite, tan and was decent looking. Then she opened her mouth, she had a hispanic accent but not a bad one, what was bad was the teeth that were in there. It looked like she had a mouth full of shrapnel. I felt bad for the woman as I could tell that like me, she is conscious of her teeth and tried to cover them the best she could. I made sure to not draw attention to her teeth so I glanced over at her name tag, her name was “Dorkas”…. poor, poor girl…

In WoW, characters are ranked by level from 1 to 60. The higher the number, the higher your power in the game. Well my original character is very close to hitting the highest rank of 60. After 6 months of off and on effort he is almost to the pinnacle. Once you hit that rank the game changes from being an effort to raise your level to one of getting the best “stuff”, the best armor the best weapon, the best mount, that kind of stuff. It’s an accomplishment that I am proud of in a vapid, meaningless sort of way. I will grind out the last few xp points in the Western and Eastern plaguelands, probably mostly killing ghouls and skeletons. The plaguelands are in the northern part of the eastern kingdoms. However I need to first fly to Kalimdor and specifically UnGoro Crater where I need to go to the top of the Burning Steppes to make a key that will later open the door to get into the Scholomance instance. It’s a bit of a pain to have to go that far just for that but it has to be done sooner or later. Perhaps when I stop at Tanaris I will pick up some more Nogenfogger Elixir. It’s cool stuff that either shrinks you down or turns you into a skeleton for 10 minutes. I also need to spend some time in Tanaris at some point killing a bunch of Wastewander guys to build back up my stock of pumpkins, cheese and health potions. At my level I get no xp for killing these guys anymore but the stuff they drop is valuable none the less. I could go on and on….