It's September...er...8th

It's been a very busy month for me. At work, at home, and pretty much everywhere else to. About the only place that has really slowed down is WOW. I'm not in the beta and there really is nothing to do in the game now. Hopefully Cataclysm will hit in November. I was pretty leary of that, but I've heard that the beta is getting much father along. I'm sure there is still tons of work to do (there's apparently a LOT of unfinished stuff in the game still) but November might not be so unrealistic of a drop date. That means we might see the major 4.0 content patch as early as late October or early November. 2 months.

So, with WOW winding down I've been playing some Elemental. The game was virtually unplayable at launch, but two patches have helped the game quite a bit. It's not quite so terribly slow and it doesn't crash constantly anymore...at least until you reach the end game where you see constant 'out of memory' crashes. sigh. The game is a lot of fun though, I'll give it that (when it works).

And, I've joined the FFXIV open beta. Now that's a disaster of epic proportions. I've heard nothing but bad things about beta and even worse things about open beta. The torrent client SE has is terrible. I started the download last night and by tonight it was at least 15% complete. Oh, sure I was uploading tons but virtually 0 kps on downloads. After watching it for about 30 minutes; I went ahead and extracted the beta torrent file and started downloading it with uTorrent. 2 hours later I've got the patch files downloaded and installing even as I type this. And I thought the WOW patcher was bad...

I'm also getting psyched about the new TV season which is rapidly approaching (and in some cases already here). Lots of Blue Ray sets to check out (especially Fringe, Chuck, How I met your Mother, and Big Bang Theory). There are some shows I'm kinda interested in starting as well...The Event (hope it's good, looks good, but NBC can fuck up a show like none other. Nikita...female action star porn > me. That will get me started at least, and I'll see how other new shows fair. Some of them might be good, but who knows.

This summer has really been a dull and boring one. So I'm really hoping there is a good reversal and the fall really turns things around. It's going to be an interesting fall regardless though, what with work going crazy and all of the things going on at home.

Oh, one other thing. Last Friday another of my close friends took another job. I was pretty bumbed out by the first one to leave; and now I'm really starting to feel a bit lonely at my work place. I used to have friends to talk to, go to lunch with, and it helped me feel like I was part of something. With them gone, it's now just...well...it's now just the bad stuff that drove me nuts in the first place. It just sucks all around. But, until something better comes along I'll have to make do. I've done it before and I'll do it again.