So the plan worked out: Wednesday night, The Boyfriend (aka Exar in the last post’s comments [yes dear, get a Frostmourne, we'll hang it next to my sword and daggers when we set up the game/comp room when we get a house]) and I went off to Best Buy. See, with the xpac coming out, I’d decided that I needed a new mouse. The Logitech G5 that I have was starting to act, well, “wonky”. It would stutter, I’d clean the eye and it would be fine… for 15 minutes. The cord on it has a permanent kink from how the desk is set up and kept getting tangled in the cats’ legs, or trapped under their bodies when they’d flop. I love the thing, but it was starting to slowly drive me nuts while playing WoW, and with the new content, that couldn’t happen.
So we wandered around Best Buy for a while, with me checking on the iPhone and remembering reviews and other bloggers’ comments. I’d asked for opinions from the BA chat room when I started thinking about getting a new mouse, and they were kind enough to make suggestions. My choices are slightly limited due to running on a Mac. I need either the mouse vendor’s software drivers, or use something like USB Overdrive, which is what I’d been using for the G5. But for some reason, USB Overdrive and the G5 didn’t quite get along. The side buttons were mostly useless since they’d get randomly reset constantly. Annoying. :/ So this time, I wanted manufacturers’ drivers, no 3rd party. End result? We walked out with me holding a new Logitech MX Revolution Cordless.
Then we had steak for dinner. No Tauren jokes were made. 
After that, it was off to GameStop where I’d prepaid for our copies of the CE. It being a small town, they didn’t open their doors til 10:30. We were the first two in and for a while, I was thinking it was going to be Exar, the GameStop employees and myself for the night. After 25 minutes or so, another guy came in. Then another. Then another couple. Then a whole group. By the time everyone lined up to pick up their copies, we’d all been chatting, comparing notes on servers/classes/races for a while, free posters in hand. There ended up being around 18-22 people in the store, and I was pretty pleased at the turnout. I made my call in to the TNB to say hi (and think I’d hit the babbling stage by then), and took a picture of the store as we were getting our copies.
(Yes, Exar’s hiding, as are about 1/4 of the people there. The Xbox racks were digging into my back.)
After that, it was race home, install, log in, and start slamming out quests. He and I had a little bit of an advantage since we’d both been in beta, so we were able to zip through quite a few quests. He started his Death Knight (conveniently named Exar) and got it to a point to start collecting rested XP. I played around with Siana and Wrenn, then finally collapsed at 4:30am, only to get up 2 hours later when he got up to get ready for work. I had one more nap, probably not any longer than 45 minutes, around 3pm. Other than that, I was in-game, questing, chatting, or flat out goofing off. At some point before 3pm, Siana became the first guild member to reach 71. When I went to bed, one of the other guildies had dinged 72 while about half the guild was at 71 or just about there.
We managed to get in runs on Utgarde Keep and The Nexus and I got quests done in both for Sia. Today, I’m going to try and get quests for both on Wrenn and see about taking her to a run with the Runtz. Or I might take Sia. Still wafflely I have to say, tho, that I love the instance designs on both. UK is dark, rustic, and very Nordic inspired to my eye. The Nexus was a nice change as well, similar in some ways to Tempest Keep but not. It’s definitely it’s own flavor.
Today and this weekend, I’m off to explore more, work on both Siana and Wrenn, and explore my brains out, looking at cool new things and being happy about new content. I’m sure in 6 months, I’ll be sighing “Boooooooooored.” But now, I’m thrilled to be exploring new areas and finding even more things that fall down and go boom in new and interesting ways.
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