MSNBC on Gamers: “these are the weirdos that you already knew”

And I’m doing NaNoWriMo, where I’m writing a 50K word novel by 11/30. I’m logging about 2K words a day now.

And I picked up and completed a Freelance job this week, which may be an every other week deal for a short time.

And I have all those plates spinning, plus a half-dozen projects going on at work at any one time.

So what could POSSIBLY bring all those plates crashing to the ground?

By the way, I love my bangs

Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, baby! The WoW level cap has been pushed up to 80. Step aside, projects…I have Winterskorn to kill!

This pic was taken at work by the lovely Coworker S after I picked up the game at lunchtime. You’ll see there is absolutely nobody in the picture. That’ll get worse in about a month where you’ll probably be able to shoot a cannonball down the middle of the advertising side of the building and not hit a soul.

Ain’t nothin’ gonna to break my stride
Nobody’s gonna slow me down, oh-no
I got to keep on movin’

NB: If you care about my adventures in World of Warcraft, clicky clicky the “World of Warcraft” blog link in my gray menu bar to read my musings on this crazy game that is more addicting than bejeweled, texttwist and minesweeper combined!

I’ll be at GameStop
tomorrow
picking up my copy
with some sorrow
because I have to come straight back to work and toil until 5:30pm oh why did I take a day off for the Phillies parade because I know by the time I get home the servers will be clogged and I won’t see anything ’til at least Friday and all my unemployed guildmates will be 80 by then?

Sorry, where was I? Oh yes…ahem

I’ve been toiling away
each day
with dailies!
Whining for something new!
“QQ!”
They’d say!!

Oh!!

The Lich King comes out
Tomorrow
So we gotta hang on
‘Til tomorrow
Then we’ll play!!!!!

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
New Gaming! Tomorrow!
We’re only
A day
A way!

(Interested in WoW? All of my World of Warcraft musings are on my World of Warcraft blog)

WM and I like to peruse garage sales Saturday mornings. We mostly look for old books, old Disney stuff, and chickens.

WM’s mother collects chickens. Rather, she hates chickens and because of that he buys her the ugliest ones he can find. They are all over her house. On one of our jaunts, we found the above beauty, and he snatched it up for $3.00. It was meant to be sent off to Michigan.

It’s been 2 months now, and it’s still sitting on top of our printer, pointed toward whoever deserves to be stared at by a Judgmental Chicken of DOOM. (Right now, it’s WM. Don’t ask.) With each passing day, the hope that JCoD will soon leave my humble abode fades even more.

And still…it just stares…judgmentally.

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So remember when I swore off reading that blog that does nothing but scare me about layoffs? It was right. Gannett’s laying off 600 employees companywide. And the Courier-Post will be laying off 35 of its workforce early next week. We got the memo today, and now we wait until next week to see who’ll be shown the door. Will it be me? Conventional wisdom says no, because online is growing and online employees are valuable. But in the grand scheme of things, we’re no more valuable than anyone else there. The C-P has been a part of how I identify myself for so long now – I’d miss it.

Obviously, I could go on for pages about this. Won’t do any good.

Ironically, this morning I added headlines from my C-P World of Warcraft blog to my sidebar.