Surprise!

Earlier this week I got a surprise email from Randall asking if I wanted him to come over to watch some of the movies that Ali turns her nose up at.  At first I thought he was just kidding and was only playing along with my blog post.  However it turns out he had nothing  going on this weekend and was serious.  Cool!  So he is coming over on Sunday with his girlfriend and staying over till Memorial Day.  He also might bring his road bike along so we can do a ride.  Sound great to me, bike riding, Wii, a few beers and larger than life action on the big screen.  Maybe Randall can be my mistress. 🙂

We got another surprise last night when my mom called.  She is going to be out visiting my sister during the same time period that we will be out west.  That wasn’t a surprise, that sort of just worked out that way.  However the surprise is that my brother and niece just booked a last minute flight out there as well!  I had no idea this was happening.  So there were a bunch of dates thrown at us that we need to incorporate into our travel plans.  I’m sure it will be rather hectic getting it all worked out but a little hectic is a good thing once in awhile.

Ali got a welcomed call yesterday.  She had been doing some extra contracting work at another nursing home over the past few weeks.  The extra money was nice but she wasn’t enjoying not having as much free time as she has grown accustomed to over the past year or so.   So hopefully her schedule will normalize a bit more after cutting that extra work out of the week.  Personally it will be nice to have Ali at home a bit more.  For those weeks I came home to an empty house pretty much every single night of the week.

I have been working on a long term project in WoW for a few weeks.  I have been collecting raw materials and cash needed to build myself a rare in game mount, a motorcycle.  The hoops you have to jump through to get this mount are numerous.  In order to make the bike you have to be a level 450 engineer.  Just to attain 450 engineering is a large and very expensive undertaking. 

After reaching that you need to have enough reputation with the Alliance Vanguard in order to obtain the plans to make the bike.  Attaining the reputation means running endless quests and dungeons to raise you your level of reverence with that group.

  After that hurdle is cleared the money grind starts.  In addition to having to gather materials that require a lot of time and effort, you also have to come up with 12,000 gold to buy the parts needed to complete the construction of your chopper.  12,000 gold is a lot of scratch in WoW.  I have been doing basically nothing but generating gold for the last 3 weeks or so.

Well I am finally in the home stretch of this long term (in virtual time) goal.  Today I should finally have enough gold to complete the project.  Once I build my motorcycle I have plans to ride it all over the WoW continents for all to see.  There are very few motorcycles to be found on the realm due to the labor and money involved.   Count me among the few with sufficient determination and tunnel vision to get there. Yay.