Hurt to help, Hardcore

Last night Christine used these suction devices on my painful back. They are basically “cupping” tools although it sure seems like they are industrial strength. You attach them to problem areas. Once turned on they apply strong suction, infrared heat and vibration. It’s painful at first until the area sort of goes numb. 20 minutes later you are left with what you see in the picture.

Christine said the dark color is actually a good thing as it indicates that area was getting inadequate blood flow. The procedure is supposed to encourage healing, we will see. Right now it looks like I was attacked by an angry octopus.

Last night I did a couple things I had not done in years, played Classic WoW and streamed live on Twitch. The reason I played classic WoW was because I wanted to try “hardcore” mode. In the normal game if you die, you resurrect. It’s inconvenient but there is no big penalty for your virtual death. In hardcore when you die, that character is actually dead, you can no longer revive him. It adds a unique twist to the game I have been playing since early 2005. Every action now has to be carefully assessed as one wrong move could result in dozens of play time hours going down the drain.

I decided to make a warrior as that was the first class I ever played in WoW. The nostalgia factor was high and I enjoyed getting to level 6 or 7 successfully. I think I will keep at it as long as I am enjoying it.

As I mentioned I live streamed it on Twitch, I don’t think I had any live viewers which I could care less about. If you want to see the roughly 90 minute session feel free to click the link below. My channel on Twitch is Duf67

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1857597356