So lately, I haven't been feeling too great.  I'm bored most of the time.  I want to do things, but I don't really feel like it.

I've got an unused time card for WoW lying around, but I don't really feel like playing.  I'm not really motivated or interested.

I'm going to try getting out of the house for a while tomorrow/today.  Maybe some time outside will help.

Medicine get.  So I shouldn't be all mopey and depressed for the next month.

Also, brought Orrenkor up to 42.  And now he has portals.  Yay.  Hopefully I can get him to 70 within the week, so I can get to Dalaran.

We'll see how that goes.

So yeah, Cataclysm content is out today and OHMYGAWDWHATTHEHELLDIDTHEYDOTOMYAZEROTH

Yeah, massive confusion on my part.  It took me a while to figure out where stuff was just in Orgrimmar.  Have yet to play on Zangarmarsh yet.  I might wait until I get my copy of Cataclysm so I can actually run Maleficious as a worgen.

But I finished reequipping Mal.  Used some leftover honor to buy a headpiece and better leggings.  Only missing one ring, I think, but I don't really think I'll be playing Mal that much.

Also, brought Orrenkor up to 32.  And so I got to relearn Slow Fall.  Yay.  That much closer to Dalaran.

Slowly getting back into WoW.  Reequipped Mal, for the most part.  Just need a helmet and I should be fine.

Also, it would seem that whoever hacked my account way back when was using Isaac as a mine drone, as now he is a Grand Master miner, which sort of explains all of the cobalt and saronite ore he has.

Also also, leveled up Mayhew on Zangarmarsh a bit and put in a placeholder for Maleficious, the name I want for my worgen rogue.

Mixed feelings so far about all this.

It looks like I got hit pretty hard.  I have lost most of my good equipment on Mal and apparently most of my equipment on Isaac.  I'm guessing just my higher level characters got hit, because Orrenkor looked unchanged (except for the fact that his guild tabard is now worthless.)

At any rate, I'm not too worried about it.  I can probably replace what I lost (with Mal, I had some weapons stashed away and he can always make new armor, and Isaac can build weapons and armor.)  I suppose the most annoying thing is going to be restatting everything.  Oh well.

Launcher has officially been updated to Cataclysm version, so I should be able to play soon.  There's a handful of things I'd like to do, but we'll see how everything has turned out later.

Reinstalled World of Warcraft to the C:/ drive.  Now I have to download the latest patch again.  Currently at 56%, but I'll probably stop it later tonight and continue tomorrow morning.  And I think I have now lost one week of game time.

In the meantime, here's this:

I just overloaded my computer and had to manually restart it.  Which means I have to run the updater from the start again.

I hate this system.  I hate the fact that it moves at the speed of molasses, even if I only have background programs running.  I hate that it can run all day and night and it barely makes any progress.  I hate that it doesn't remember what has been done previously and is doing everything all over again.  I hate that Blizzard is squeezing more time and money out of me that I won't ever get anything from.

What did I do to deserve this?

Blizzard Updater is ow at 50%.  It has been running nonstop for 2 or 3 days.  If it keeps progressing at this rate, my prediction about playing by the end of this week should be accurate.

Still, it won't change the fact that I'll have burned about a week of time just to get my game updated all the way.  I guess that's the price I pay for taking an extended break.

I find it hard to believe I am doing this.  But I did.  I purchased and applied a time card to my WoW account.

I have no real plans to continue on past that.  I want to get some of my lower level characters up there.  I might only play Mal to see if I actually got my equipment back, or if I've let too much time slip past and lost everything again.

But for now, I am running the updater.  And the time keeps fluctuating.  Sometimes it says 30+ hours to go, sometimes only 3 or 4.  Either way, this computer is going to be on for a while.  And I should probably revoke the automatic shutoff I have on, so that it doesn't stop itself when I go to sleep, which I ought to be doing now.

I go through so much bother for the simplest of things.  I wonder if it will all be worth the time and money.