*sigh* I suppose my posting streak had to break at some point. I made it 42 weeks without having to miss one. That’s the longest posting streak I’ve ever had.
This week was the fall reading week at school, so I spent my time gaming, catching up on sleep and chores, and getting some renovation work done. First, I needed to deal with a mortgage issue. The automatic withdrawals were never updated to the correct amount on the bank side, so it was a tad short this month. Fun. There is a healthy extra amount in there now and they have corrected things on their end, so it shouldn’t happen again. Any extra I can put towards my property taxes later. End of boring adult stuff.
I also updated some video games and got ready for the upcoming release of World of Warcraft Forever. It isn’t out until November 4th, but some people got to reserve three character names on Tuesday. So the plan for that day was to continue getting ready for countertops, get my names handled, and then relax.
One of the games I decided to leave behind is Satisfactory because I don’t enjoy it. I really wanted to, but the building often doesn’t match up well with the landscape, so I can’t even enjoy making roads. Couple that with it being such a grind to get all the materials to do anything and it’s just not a fun diversion for me. I have so many better games like Warframe, Diablo IV, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Sun Haven, Stardew Valley, Wuthering Waves, Infinity Nikki, and Cyberpunk 2077 to be playing instead. Life is too short for dull grinding. There is some grinding in other games, but not to the extent that it is in Satisfactory. My rating is unsatisfactory.
I’ll be auditing my other games and only playing the ones I really like from now on.
It was over an hour and 15 minutes before I could actually get into WoWF and reserve my names. It kept putting me through the queue only to disconnect me. Then, when I finally got in, it took ages to create the characters. It kept timing out on the character screen. At least it didn’t kick me out at that point. But I finally got the three main characters made. No one was all that surprised that we were having issues. Classic Blizzard and all that. Some things truly don’t change. I survived WoWF name reservations 2026. I doubt anything will work on release day if today and the past couple of decades are any indication.
While I was waiting, I attended a writing webinar for NovNov or Novel November. This is the front runner to replace the former November writing thing that had too many controversies attached to it to continue running. I left when I learned adults were doing inappropriate things with children. Some continued beyond that. Anyway, a lot of the platform has a similar feel. They have a bunch of past webinars that can be replayed. Looking forward to checking those out when I have more time.
Tuesday evening a couple of friends helped me with getting my countertops handled. On Wednesday, I got them oiled.
It feels revolutionary to have countertops again. There’s a lot left to do yet, but it’s a wonderful change!
Otherwise on Wednesday, I planned to work on the whole Halloween costume thing. I didn’t have time or energy for anything extravagant this year. I decided to be a zombie peds worker. My fun scrub top fit and it would be quick to pull together. I went on a search for some makeup and actually found what I needed already at home.
On Thursday, I tackled some cabinet innards. I ran into a rather big problem. I was missing parts that connect drawer fronts to the rest of the drawer. Because I had to fix my small drawers anyway, I stole from one of them for my large drawer. I figured it was easier to store the smaller one until I either find those pieces or can get IKEA to replace them. I’m not sure what happened. I’ve been keeping the cabinet pieces all together, but I guess I either never received it or have lost them somewhere. The doors were annoying too, but I got the cabinet together.
I decided I will leave the protective plastic on the cupboards until the work is done.
I didn’t have an inner shelf, and I decided to wait on that. I went out to see what I could scare up for a Halloween costume at Spirit Halloween while everyone else would be at work. It was actually fairly busy. I got some witch items to be Circe as my friends were Medusa and Hades all from Greek mythology.
The following week was back to school and rather hectic.
I got my flu shot. The last time I was in school, I skipped it and ended up with a very bad case of flu. I don’t have time for that in this program. Several assignments were finished and handed in.
World of Warcraft: Forever launched mostly successfully. It was a bit of a challenge logging in initially for me, but given Blizzard’s usual track record, I thought I wouldn’t be able to play at all. A friend had more difficulty with bugs, but it was fixed by the next day. Smoothest launch ever.
I struggled near the end of the week due to the content in class, my own life experiences, and what a friend is currently dealing with. More on that on my Ko-Fi blog.
The school week ended with a bowling outing on campus with classmates. It was absolutely the diversion I needed. The campus only has 10-pin and the balls were really big and slippery. Gee, that sounds unintentionally filthy. I’ve always been terrible at bowling, but I didn’t come last. In the first game anyway. We only had time for part of a second before we had to head off to Anatomy.
I missed an event on Saturday. I was still feeling emotionally unwell from the week and I completely forgot about it. I felt so bad for missing it.
Apologies for another late posting. I don’t like it, but it may become a thing until Christmas. There’s just way too much to get done.
Catch you on the flip side,
Rae
