Left sitting, workin, retribution

This morning it was quite chilly by Florida standards, 46 degrees according to my personal weather center.  I went out to the truck and turned the key, a couple turns and then nothing.  I have had issues with it starting recently but I have attributed it to the positive battery cable connection being loose.  Normally I just have to jiggle it a bit and it’s fine.  So I jiggle, same thing.  Jiggle and jiggle and jiggle some more, no dice.  Now I am getting frustrated.  I’m cold as I am still refusing to wear a coat since I have lived in Florida.  My hands are especially cold.  So I back down the Camry and try to jump it.  Still, a click and dead.  I have a hard time believing the battery is dead because it is only a little more than a year old.  The possibility of a dead starter flashed through my head as well.  My buddy at work had a 99 4 Runner that had the starter die.  So after f’ing around with it for a good 15-20 minutes I decided to just pull the battery out, throw it in the party van and get it tested/replaced over lunch.  Thank goodness for the party van.  I really need to pick the insurance back up on it.

Tonight I am staying late at work and depending on what gets done, working tomorrow morning as well. I am replacing our network switches.  We were running 100 megabit, I am throwing in gig switches.  It will be interesting to see how noticeable any performance increases will be.  I am a bit worried that some of the cabling we have in the building is not up to gigabit specs and could therefore cause issues.

Yesterday was a big payback day in WoW.  I normally don’t go looking for fights in game.  If I see horde in the same area, rarely will I attack them first unless I am in a really bad mood.  Yesterday I was leveling my paladin and got attacked several times.  The first time I was running into the Tanaris area, as I ran I got passed by a horde rogue on horse.  He rode by me and /wave to me, normally a sign that he has no intentions of starting crap up.  He was a level 48 and my paladin is 39 so it would be far from a fair fight.  So I am running along thinking it was nice to see a horde player acting friendly when all of a sudden I am jumped.  The same rogue that waved to me, rode ahead, went invisible and attacked me!  That mother f’r.  Luckily before he killed me I popped my shield that made be invincible for a brief time.  I managed to get close enough to town that the guards attacked the rogue and killed him.  As he was netted I shot him a quick /lol laughing at him.

Later I again was minding my own business when a horde shaman starts attacking me.  Shaman are a particularly tough class to beat and he killed me.  We fought a number of times and I managed to only kill him once and he killed me 3 or 4 times.  I was annoyed as hell.  So I brought my level 60 hunter to Tanaris to teach the shaman a lesson.  I came running up, sic’d my bear, Smoky, on him and dropped him in seconds.  Then I waited for him to resurrect and killed him again.  Then he wouldn’t resurrect because he saw me waiting to crush him again.  So I dismissed my bear and used shadowmeld to become invisible.  He rezzed and again I dropped him immediately.  I killed him 7 or 8 times total.  Hopefully he was bright enough to realize that my hunter “Deadeyeduf” was related to my paladin “Immortalduf”  I wanted to inflict a painful lesson on the dangers of unprovoked attacking.  Eventually the shaman just logged off the game, tired of dying by my hand.

Finally, there was a horde tauren warrior that was flexing his muscles killing alliance players nearly 20 levels less than him.  I tried to run over with my paladin to assist but by the time I did, he had killed the two alliance players and killed me in short order as well.  Well once again it was time to pull out Deadeye.  I log him on and go to the area of my death to find the offending horde bastard.  I unleash my bear on him and as he is getting chewed on I am raining down arrows on him.  I kill him and then wait at least 15 minutes for him to resurrect but he won’t.  Eventually I leave the area and he rez’s.  I see him again in town where guards are present.  I don’t attack him because the guards would then attack me. However I follow him around for 10 minutes doing nothing but firing off a macro that constantly spewed taunts at the guy.  It had to be driving him insane.  Eventually he cracked and tried to attack me, his aggression towards me brought the wrath of the guards down upon him.  As he was being netted and pummeled to death I just stood there and laughed at him some more.  Retribution feels damn good sometimes.