I don’t know why, but the surreal side of my existence has popped up and said “hello world” today. Completely out of the blue.
I think I started it off last night playing World of Warcraft. For reasons that made sense at the time, but which haven’t survived the lag since, I decided that I would take my character exploring. I wanted to know if you could get into an adjoining area on the map that is usually out of bounds – at least without long detours into other areas, because of a combination of ‘tougher than thou’ bad guys on the passes and impenetrable mountain chains.
The answer – which takes less time to tell than it does to discover – is yes. Yes, you can. But you probably shouldn’t bother. If you have a long time to burn, you can round the coast in a combination of swimming and yomping. It’s probably not worth the effort to be the only player character to ever have trod in some of these places that look suspiciously repetitive until you eventually hit a populated area.
Having gone to all that effort, it is better to end up in an area where you are significantly tougher than the natives. Unlike me, who wound up in a place where the sheep were significantly tougher than my Night Elf. Still, I filled in a bit of map, though it may be an increase of a good 15-20 character levels before I ever go back. A couple, of sharp, bloody character deaths later and it was time for him to go home and me to bed.
The upshot was that this morning I didn’t want to get up. Even by my standards I really, really didn’t.
I wandered downstairs and had breakfast. Wandered back upstairs with my coffee to check my emails and take my meddies. It was 8.15am: plenty of time for someone who goes to and from work post rush hour. I scratched my chin and decided it was time for a quick shave. Suddenly it was 8.40 and I still hadn’t got dressed.
So: pour self into clothes, lace up boots, grab bag and pile out onto street. Resign self to missing favoured 9.02 train, then spot approaching bus. Pile on bus to gain back valuable missing time. But bus is diverted, so get off early; somehow still make up enough time to catch usual train with seconds to spare. No longer late.
Phew.
Today the bus is diverted? Pah.
Get to office. Need coffee. Go to coffee bar to buy ginormous latté. Costa franchise in office has run out of coffee. Eh? Sadly buy tea and somehow end up in a meeting where we discuss how late we are with the work we stopped doing to have the meeting to talk about how late we are. Er…
Today is going well.
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