Supertech is on vacation this week, so I’ve been covering her shift. So far it’s been ok; Monday was fine, Tuesday we were running around, and today went pretty well. We managed to score ourselves a tech from a Maine store who’s not half bad, smells really good, and has all the front store cashiers swooning over him. He’s totally what I’d have gone after 10 years ago - that sort of cute but dorky type. You know, the type of guy just like Eddie. The RPh wasn’t bad today. I’ve got another 2 days of working with her though, without the A-Team of me and Supertech, so we’ll see what she’s like on Friday when she’s had to not only take it upon herself to correct every single thing that the other techs do but deal with her least favorite tech tomorrow night and the other things that drive her crazy. I could tell some stories, but I’m sure if she just Googled me she’d be able to find me without any trouble, so I’ll keep some stories to myself

We’ve been living here a month now, and so far things aren’t bad. I don’t freak out about every little creaking sound from upstairs like I used to do when Comrade moved around upstairs in Pawtucket, which is something that I was a bit worried about. We’re definitely eating better because Mom cooks us actual food, and we’ve been taking lunches to work (although I do get myself a #6 at Wendy’s once a week). Moneywise we’re doing ok so far. Eddie goes to work with Mom so we’re not making an extra work trip any longer, and the commute for me is only about 5 miles more than it was before. I have to get up a few minutes earlier to get to work on time, but it’s not that bad in terms of what we spend on gas - I put 10 gallons in today and it will probably last me until next Tuesday or so.

And those of you who don’t play WoW or don’t care either way can just skip this stuff. Eddie and I decided to take the plunge and leave our cushy little officer positions in the guild we were in. It was a tough decision; we’d been there since the guild was formed and had watched it grow from a handful of players to a pretty big guild. However, over the past few months it had really gone downhill, especially after the originally guild leader had left. Any time anyone had tried to set up anything, half the people who signed up wouldn’t show up, and the ones who did would wander on an hour after things got started at times. Eddie and I got tired of being considered 2nd string players and never, EVER getting invited to anything even though we’d made it quite clear that if we’re not on and someone wanted to do something we’re a text message away. For those of you who actually play and understand what I’m talking about, our guild managed to get into Kara as a guild once. Eddie and I were in there that time, and that was the only time we’d ever managed to get in, because no one ever thought to extend an invite to us. We were the guild bench warmers.

So this week we jumped ship and applied at a very large guild that has more organization than I’ve ever experienced, which is something that they’d need with something like 400 players (compared to our paltry 40) and something like 4 Kara runs going on at the same time every week just to farm badges, in addition to the extra ones that people organize on the fly during the week for folks who missed out and the bigger raids going on doing the 25-man instances. It’s quite the change, and really going to force me to totally go outside my comfort zone and actually talk to people. People that I don’t know. Thankfully, they seem like a cool bunch of people so far, and I’m looking forward to signing up for a run next week.

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