Zel-kun’s Words

Work has been coming in slowly these last few days.  Even my co-workers have been exlaming, “Damn, there’s nothing to do!”  As a team who’s sole purpose is to fix things that break, its a good sign for the company, but  bad sign for those who depend on the work ot be there.

Luckily, I have a year-long contract, but still.

I have commissioned a custom banner to be made for the site, with any luck, it’ll be complete in a week or so.  That ugly bridge windmill.. thing at the top is going away, as soon as I can figure out how to do it.

I’ve been playing WoW with far more consistancy than I remember doing in quite some time.  In this past week, I’ve gotten my Paladin from 51 to 56, and I’m still not tired of the game.  This is doubtlessly due to the fact that I always have someone to play with, added that my guild now has a voice server.  Being able to shout, “Look out, they’re coming right for us!” rather than typing it is definitely a lot more fun.

And last night I found an axe by the name of ‘Kang the Decapitator.’

For those who aren’t familiar with the game, all treasure is grouped into six categories, each more rare than the last: Poor, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary.  Each has its own colored font, grey, white, green, blue, purple, and orange respectively.  The drop rate on a random Epic is roughly 0.00001%.  Most players are lucky to see one after hundreds of hours of playing.  Last night, I found my third.  I have some crazy sort of luck in that game.

Well, I guess its Halloween today.  I remember that I would get all the candy I could as a kid, and stuff it in my desk drawer (yes, even as a kid, I had a desk), and that would be my stash for months.  Then I grew up, started being a slave wage, and found out that I could by a whole box of candy bars for about ten bucks, wihtout all the costuming and walking.

Halloween is doubtlessly our craziest tradition.  We dress up in costumes, grab giant bags, and essentially roam the neighborhoods begging for candy.  Crazier than that, people prepare for this, they buy massive amounts of candy to give away to these costumed strangers, and they do it happily (most do, anyway, others sit in the dark hoping the kids will go away).  To those that participate, Halloween represents the purest form of giving and generosity that in this humble man’s opinion, far outshines that of Christmas.

Truly ironic that there’s Christian groups against this holiday.  I know that the holiday is rooted in superstition, and that there’s even some Wiccan basis to it, but hell, so what?  How many of those kids care?  How many of the adults dumping candy into bags care?  My guess would be not a whole damn lot.

Well, that’s it for now.

Zel-kun out.