I really don’t want to think about where I’m sticking my hand when I pickpocket one of these bad boys.

Hey, this taking down the login servers shit is getting as regular as the runs after an all-day drinking binge.

Let me do a quick mental calculation here: that was 3 hours ago that they admitted a problem, and although I didn’t try to login before now, I know that I can’t login at this moment, so I’ll take a guess that the login servers have been fucked for at least 3 hours today. AGAIN!

The WoW site itself is very slow as well, so maybe California is in flames right now, which makes my bitching rather petty. If I check the realm status page, it alternates between returning a Service Temporarily Unavailable page and showing all realms as up and playable!!

While California burns, and I feel ashamed of myself for complaining during their hardship, I ran across this Tyren (Blizz dude) post. (Post #8 in that thread in case I screwed up the linkage.) I don’t know the guy, but I know this much: never let them see you cry, noob. It’s like blood to sharks.

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Warcrack’s patch included some spiffy holiday decorations, special holiday quest rewards and holiday recipes for all the Warcrack chefs.

The patch also introduced a HUGE money sink: snowballs. At last count, I burned through 2 gold pitching snowballs at the back of groupmates’ heads.