Pwnage

Back to work again, I'm exhausted. I've been moving incredible amounts of stuff all weekend into the new place. I haven't had this level of physical activity since.. well, the last time I moved. Nick was nice enough to lend a hand moving boxes and boxes of stuff saturday and sunday. After more or less moving boxes constantly for 12 hours a day, 2 days in a row, I had to come into work last night to do some server maintenance for a couple of hours, and give my brain a workout. all went smoothly.

So now we've got enough stuff to actually live in the new townhouse. bed, bathroom, computers, kitchen. I'm sort of piggybacked on my neighbors wireless internet router for the time being, until rogers comes to move the internet this saturday. Suprisingly I'm able to twist the anteanna just the right way and get 100% signal now, which is probably better than my neighbor is getting out of it. I also won't have satellite TV till saturday either. I've hired someone to come set up the dish, which seems like a lot less hassle than actually doing it myself.

Went to costco this weekend with the membership and got some storage racks for the basement. my friend here at work has these things called gorilla racks, which are these enormously heavy steel and pressboard shelving units. so there won't be any complaining that we dont have anywhere to put things in the storage room. they can apparently also turn into a workspace too, if i ever decide to become a handyman.

So all we're missing is the heavy stuff. the couches, the kitchen table, the dressers, the bookshelves. thats where the movers come in. there's still lots of utter crap that we don't really need. i think a good lot of the "stuff" thats left in the apartment right now isnt really necessary, and we need to throw it all out.

In other uninteresting news, I've still been playing world of warcraft the last little while on and off. Playing pvp on the evenings and weekends when i have a spare hour. I play the horde faction, and I've noticed something: The horde always wins. My theory goes like this, the horde are played by more mature and skilled game players, who have a sense of need to get organized and accomplish the pvp goals. the alliance faction are played by a larger percentage of children, who run one-by-one, headlong into the hordes organized, ruthless band of bloodthirsty competitive gamers. I can say this because out of the 50 or so pvp matches I've partaken in the last two weeks, I have lost a total of 1 to the alliance. Others might argue that the horde has overpowered characters, but i think its balanced, and the only real difference is player skill.

To those not in the know, the horde is comprised of mostly monster-esque characters. orcs, the undead, trolls, and the tauren. whereas the alliance is mostly human-ish: humans, dwarves, gnomes, night elves. more pink squishy sorts. I think children are more often than not are drawn to playing alliance. its also a well known fact that on most servers the alliance faction is overpopulated compared to horde, on about a factor of 2:1. so we're the underdog, and we still win. go figure.