Our luck = others loss, Classic
So my long holiday weekend was not anything like I expected it to be several days prior. It looked like we would be seeing some significant impact from Dorian as it was forecast to drift more into the middle of the state before turning north. I figured we would be doing some serious hurricane prep, just short of putting up the plywood. The entire area felt the panic as gas lines sprung up all over the place last Thursday with a ton of pumps running dry, it was crazy.
On Friday the forecast path started to change with the storm being more east and north. SW Florida was officially moved out of the “cone of danger” and you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief. The gas lines instantly disappeared and life pretty much went back to normal. Our good fortune was more than offset by the Bahamas bad fortune. Dorian has basically destroyed the place that we just happened to be scheduled to cruise to in October. I have a feeling the destination will change. The storm is going to be a factor all week as it crawls up the coast, the damage will be proportional to how far off the coast it remains.
Despite the lack of hurricane action, the chicken area has been flooded for a good portion of the last week. As a result we had given the birds access to high ground in the rest of the yard. It took them very little time to start digging up landscaped beds and holes into the ground, it’s what they enjoy. I almost felt bad when the water subsided thanks to pumping. The hens would stand at their fence line staring at us, waiting to be granted freedom again. I am convinced I will be unable to bring in fill and sod until wet season is completely over. My hope is this is the last year that the chicken area and other spots around the yard are flood zones.
I did a lot of testing with the 16X demo wheel over the weekend, going down to Marco Island on Saturday and then doing my longest ride ever on Sunday to Ave Maria, over 43 miles according to my tracking app. It was the farthest I ever rode a wheel without charging, the amazing thing is I had almost 30% battery left at the end of it. I have really been impressed with the 16X, I didn’t think any wheel could give the Nikola a run for it’s money, I was wrong.
While I was away WoW Classic was released. For years there has been an underground of players that continued to play the original version of the game on private servers. The modern game has gotten “easier” with time which a lot of people didn’t like. A couple years ago Blizzard announced they would officially re-release the original version to appease this large sector. Well that sector apparently was much larger than anyone anticipated.
The launch of the game has been huge with Blizzard scrambling to bring additional servers online to meet demand. Even with them doing so the wait times to get into many servers is miserably long. Last night I waited almost an hour before I could step foot into the game. Blizzard has done an incredible job of recreating the classic WoW experience from 2004/2005, the good and bad. Because of the increased difficulty of the old game, teaming up with other players is more or less of a necessity if you want to progress. In modern WoW that is rarely the case. The end result of this in Classic is a more social experience which was part of the original appeal of the game.
I have chosen to level a druid which I thought would be good because it can perform all three roles a player can do, DPS, healer and tank, instead of the one or two other classes allow. This versatility comes with a price, being a jack of all trades means you don’t do any role great. I have been having a hard time getting stuff done as quickly as some of the other high damage classes like mage. Despite the slow progress, I have been having fun jumping back into a WoW time machine to play the game as it was meant to be played, interactively with others, many, many others.
This is my first day back at work after more than a week. Stepping back into my daily routine is something that is good for me.