I did get back into WoW this week, with most of my time playing wasted by downloading patches. I have gotten my character to level 9, so it’s not as much of a frustrating mess as it is when you begin. But I promise that I won’t endlessly ramble on about the game, since most conversation on it makes for dull material.

Staying up late to wait for said patches to download, I watched a really great documentary on Roy Orbison on KERA. Afterward, when the download finally finished, I downloaded his greatest hits. I never realized how awesome this guy was. Some of his stuff can be really haunting, but so enjoyable. If only I wasn’t creeped out every time I hear In Dreams. Thanks, David Lynch.

This week I also discovered an amazingly stupid feature of my Mac mini. The microphone jack isn’t powered. I was wanting to use my run-of-the-mill Logitech headset to see if I could use Skype or talk on WoW, but no sound would be recorded. It detected the microphone, but picked up nothing but silence. A little searching around on teh interwebz revealed that unlike most computers made in the past two decades, the microphone jack is unable to power passive mics. I pretty much have to have a mixer or a USB microphone. Oh well, guess that gives me an excuse to get a badass mic and try to get a little voiceover business going.

This next week is going to be busy as hell, with work plus finals. It won’t be fun, but it’ll pass by quick, to be sure.

I was accepted for a credit card this past week, a Citi student credit card with a shockingly high $1,200 limit. Now I can see how dumb bastards get carried away with these things. My first purchase? I dinner at Long John Silvers, followed by a $48 tire from NTB. Look out! I’m goin’ craaaaaazy!

A friend of mine just got back into World of Warcraft this past week, and has been trying to get me back into the fold. I quit WoW after a little over one month due to my moving out and being unsure if my budget would allow for it. Now, I think it can allow for it, but I just have trouble spending that much time in a fucking computer game. My friend has said, however, that they’ve dumbed down the game a bit for noobs, and leveling up has gotten easier. Who knows, maybe I’ll do it, because there is a shockingly large amount of people on campus that play. I see gobs of laptops with WoW icons on the desktops.

Oh, what a moral conundrum.