Wizard's First Rule

Warning this post is mostly about life. But I am sure some of these people play WOW..in fact most of them play DPS classes in WOW.

Yeah..I recognize my highest character is a DPS class...and one that most folks find to be played by idiots.

Oh..for those of you who have never read the Sword of Truth series.

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid.

Or as K said:

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

For those of you who don't know, I work in customer service. I have heard/met all types of people. A person may be smart but once on the phone with a company they do business with they can turn ugly, mean and incredibly dumb.

For example:

Me: "Thank you for calling this is how may I help you?" (Sadly for 20 years of my life, this phrase has been uttered in most every conversation I've had with a customer...heck I've even answered my personal phone that way on occasion.)
Customer: (speaking rapidly or slowly or angerly or whatever) "Yeah I have a problem, something is wrong, blah blah blah." (okay numnuts, I just gave you my name, how about we start with Hi, Hello, Howdy, and maybe your name?)

Me: "Can I get your account number, please?"
Customer: "uh..hold on I don't have it memorized, or with me, or I am in the car and I can't be bothered to look it up." (Gah...how did you call a company and not know your account number, sadly I've done this myself, no I had my account number but by the time they answered I had set the paper with it down)

At my current job we have to verify who we are talking with, and we can do so with the last 4 digits of their SSN.

Me: "Could I get you to verify the last four digits of your SSN, please?"
Customer: "hold on, I need to find it, I don't have it memorized." (TBH, this comes from older folks normally, but still. How hard is it to memorize the number 25? /rimshot)


Okay little WOW tanking rant:

Normally, I explain to groups I am tanking for, that a paladin doesn't have a charge and needs a few moments of time to get aggro and positioning. Usually I say, "Hey DPS, count to five before you unload on the mobs. I have a simple rule, you pull it, you buy it." I exclude the healer from this as if they pull aggro, that's my fault.

Apparently counting to 5 is serious business...and is hard. I've had Lightening Bolts hit the target mob at the same time I got there. I've had DPS open with everything they had on the opening move. I've had ret pallies dropping consecrate to compete with me for aggro. Also, apparently downloading Omen is hard too. /facepalm

Oh and by the way, for those keeping track. Gert is now level 42. Uldaman is a cake walk. All guild run by folks who are BT cleared raiders and me. Fury warrior, Feral Druid, Resto Druid, Prot pally and me. The other pally was tanking. I was wielding two handers cuz I am just that good. ;)

Back In PIE!

Okay I am back!

The previously mentioned new job is going well. I have a lot of opportunity for advancement there and they seem to like me. Yeah, strange right?

I still don't have my main computer fixed and it has really put a damper on my WOW playing. It's just hard to play the game at the lowest settings and almost come to a standstill in the major cities. I haven't even tried to do any instances.

I made 69 but dang what used to be most nights 3-4 hours has come out to be very little play time and barely even playing on the weekends.

Rant on:
My server's economy sucks bad. I put on a bunch of greens from the outlands and sold very little of it. Oh sure the runecloth and lower healing pots sold. My first server was pretty new and after about 6 months it started settling down especially after the transfers were opened. My current server transfers have been open for many months and still the economy is horrible. Rant off:

My guild is not going well, we keep losing folks and not really gaining as many. Of course, I haven't been around much so part of the problem is I don't think we are recruiting. The server seems to be very small especially on the horde side so that adds to the problem.

Oh for those of you who don't know, BRK has moved. Link has been updated.

My cat is falling so far behind. I try to bring her out when I am grinding mats for leather working and primals but it so hard to get her caught up. Plus, that charge aggro is so very nice. The Boar appears to be my main pet now.

Here's a newish pic of me and him.

MEDIC MEDIC!!! Computer down

I built my first PC with the help of my brother in law. It is a good computer. Sadly, apparently the power supply died. I have tried to play WOW on my older computer and it's so frustrating.

I cannot step foot into a city or get 15FPS. Combat is fun because all my macros and key bindings are on my other computer.

New Power supply on the way, hopefully I don't find more problems once it's installed. Sadly, I have to order the power supply as the one I want isn't carried locally.

Cooking and fishing....

Okay so I have 169 Fishing and 295 Cooking. The only real yellow recipe for me is one that uses Mightfish, which apparently take over 400 in Fishing.

Seriously, why does a recipe that takes 275 Cooking need an item you need 100+ more in another skill to get?

I do suppose it's not horrible since you can skill up fishing by just catching fish. Heck I can skill up fishing for deviate fish so I can get my pirate or ninja mojo!

Technology can sometimes be difficult

So, Tuesday morning early, we have a set of thunderstorms roll through and take out the power for a few seconds a couple of times. In the end no major harm.....

EXCEPT

Our home gateway for our AT&T U-Verse (cable TV) and internet goes down...

HARD

An hour and half later last night and the tech says, "We need to send a tech out to swap the gateway."

Bummer. No cable. No internet. No WOW.

So, I watch the last couple of discs in the Band of Brothers set and the documentary on the real Men of Company E. Wow! Those men were heroes. I highly recommend the set and reading the book by Ambrose.

Oh, the gateway is like a really big modem, it controls the cable and the internet and the big red flashing light was very annoying.

Update on Rant

We didn't make our numbers. Oh, the warehouse had enough orders to make the number and then some, but couldn't execute. Sad, sad sad.

Update: Okay perhaps we did make our numbers but only by the hair of our chin..or skin of our teeth...

Still, soon I shall be out of here, hopefully in a new job.

Rant!

Okay so, I work for a sporting goods manufacturer, of sorts.

This week was close week. That time of the month where everyone loses their freakin' heads and we try and try to push more product out the door, because..well...we've sucked the previous weeks getting said product out the door and we need to make numbers. Wow...that was a long sentence.

So this month, we have 5 weeks to make our sales number. And of course, being the company lead by the insane, we wait until this week to push out over half of the number. WTF?? 5 weeks and we ship 1/2 of the sales number out in 1 Freaking week!

Seriously, you can't make this up.

So, here I sit at work at 4:30 wishing the clock forward, hoping an email or voicemail will come from my next job. Yes, I am looking for a new job. These people are dumb.

One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Hence..my calling them insane.