And we’re back.
It wasn’t enough that I almost single-handedly saved my office from certain bankruptcy by covering for all the sick people last week — I had to spend my weekend hacking up black stuff and blasting snot all over everything and everyone, which is even less appealing than it sounds.
I would like to thank the nation’s schoolchildren for sending that latest flu my way via working parents. Revenge will be mine when I turn over a bankrupt Social Security system fifty years hence … or sooner!
So, yesterday the long-awaited Warcraft patch arrived. It’s a content patch, too! Look closely, the new content is in the first two paragraphs: a new dungeon, Dire Maul, and two new dragons. Mostly it’s a bajillion fixes with the usual smattering of nerfs we’ve all come to know and love.
Improved flight paths is a welcome change, especially the Auberdine to Talonbranch Glade run … that one was a bitch. I still wish we could jump off the griffs midflight. Annoying as hell to fly over my camp with a few minutes of flight time left. That’s another five or ten minutes out of my life that I can’t get back.