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Last nights useful application of my time was applied to trimming the topiaries, small palm and hedge around the front of the house.  They were all looking a bit ragged.

Just as I was getting ready to call Pinch A Penny yesterday to complain about the tech not showing up Ali said he was there.  The repair took him all of 15 minutes.  Ali was a bit shocked by the $95 labor charge for the 15 minutes but I knew it would be around $100.  When I was a computer tech we had a minimum one hour charge as well on a service call as well so the concept is familiar to me.  I was fine with it.  I checked out the repair when I got home.  It looks good. For the first time in a few years the area around the inlet and outlet to the heater is not wet from dripping water.

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So this weekend we get mom moved into her new place.  We will be doing it on Sunday.  I don’t expect any major issues.  The biggest problem could be that I will only have females available to help carry the other end of something.  I am bringing my dolly with so I can hopefully minimize the amount of heavy lifting they have to do. 

I’d really like to get back on the treadmill at the gym today but my better judgement and the residual soreness in my knees is preventing me from doing so.  It’s nothing major but I need to wait until they feel a bit better before running again.

A guy I work with is a hardcore WoW addict.  He has been playing the game since it came out in December of 2004, a period of roughly three and a half years.  The other night he thought he would get a measurement of how pathetic his life has become by adding up the total “played” time on all of his Warcraft characters.  It added up to something like 410 DAYS!  Yes 410 days, real time, 410 days as in sitting in front of your computer for one year and two months STRAIGHT.  Basically he has spent a third of his time playing WoW. If you add in the limited time he gets sleeping as well as 40 hours a week working, it doesn’t take a math whiz to conclude he has no life. No, he isn’t happy about it.  A few weeks ago he was in my office talking to me and commented about how the last 10 years of his life have been basically sucked into a MMORPG void as he was involved in Dark Age of Camelot before WoW.  Compared to him, I feel like an amateur in my dedication to the game.  Luckily as time has gone on I have been able to moderate WoW into more of a casual thing that fills in the gaps when I don’t have other things going on as opposed to being THE thing going on.  Even so, I am sure if I added up my played time over the same period it would come out between 100 and 200 days.