Yep, I got my Darnassus faction last night. I’m now a human cat-rider with an epic mount. I borrowed 75G from the uber-powerful and sexy Earthcaller, my SexyWife’s level 70 feral druid. That used to feel like some incredible amount of money, but since I just had 477G lying around, accruing in my pockets as I played, I feel like I can pay her back pretty quickly, now that I’m not fighting in newbie areas. I did make about 5 gold doing it, though, and maybe 500xp:) The 18,000 faction points was unheard of in just a few hours. That was awesome.
So I got my mount and realized I was exhausted. Yesterday wasn’t physically all that great. I finally went home due to my back pain, and took a bath. I fell asleep in the bath, it was so relaxing and warm. And on these 71 degree days that’s an odd thing to say. JB cooked a truly awesome ham, and I made some truly mediocre au gratin potatoes, and went up to play WoW. That was my night, and why I don’t normally like to play WoW, especially in retrospect.
But I know my character and can help out in the instance this weekend. I won’t have time to play until then, so last night was the night to do it.
Tonight I’m fulfilling a promise to Girl, who has been good and not masturbated for several days. I’m not sure how that’s affecting her, but I have my hopes for a couple of different outcomes. She’s doing an interview for school this morning, I hope she’s just distracted enough to be relaxed, but I doubt it. Tonight is the big night, and I think I’ve got a good list of things I want to do. If I have some mental time later today, I’ll probably put together some ritual to put around it.
I think sometimes that we suffer from a lack of ritual — it can add purpose and intent to a space, and that mental state works on us in ways that can be very empowering, or even just focusing. You may think this is some mystical hoo-joo, but it’s not. Think of this, of the successful meetings you’ve been in. I bet at the beginning of the better meetings, someone stood up and said “We are here today to….” It is a ritual, setting the start of the group activity, and focusing it to the purpose gathered.
Since we’re very smart creatures, those rituals can be almost anything we can imagine ourselves to be. And that, I think, is part of the power of that kind of ritual.
I also need to play for the uber-D&D session tomorrow (and maybe Saturday). I’ve got some good ideas, but I need to organize them a bit, and make some notes. I know that as I have talked in front of people, I’ve gone from fully written speeches, to note cards, to just simple outlines. Nowadays I just have three or four words on a piece of paper, and that’s good enough. D&D is getting that way, but it has lots of details that need to be recorded (in terms of monster stats, for example). A fluctuation of 5-10% isn’t going to change the outcome greatly, but more than that really could.
If you think about it, the fighter class gets 5% better at basic attacks every level, gaining a +1 to every d20 attack roll every level, then every other level is a new feat which is a bigger percentage (if chosen well). So a 10% increase in difficulty keeps things within one level, but more moves it further away, and thus a lot harder.
Also today, I need to get some coding done, but I have to admit it’s really third or fourth on my list. I’d like to finish girl part 6 (part 5 will be posted on Saturday), and get it to my Girl for proofreading. Just to be mean, since she can’t masturbate. I’d have done it yesterday, but I hurt too much to write.