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Still Alive…

This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
[from "Still Alive", Portal]

Given the date and content of the previous post, I thought the title of this one is somewhat appropriate…

Anyway, in the five months since that post, Joyce and I got married, went to New Zealand on our honeymoon, moved into our new place and have started to settle down at our new place.

For some photos from the wedding taken by Jenny, go to her website and follow these instructions:

1. Click on either the FLASH or HTML portfolio link.
2. Click on CLIENTS down the bottom.
3. Enter as password: “wdkj090328″ (colour) or “wdkj090328bw” (black & whites)

For some photos from the honeymoon, I wouldn’t hold my breath because I haven’t really gotten around to going through them yet… requires more emotional and mental juice than I have spare at the moment.  Hopefully they’ll be done in the next few weeks.

On another note, I’ve finally signed up for World of Warcraft.  It’s great to while the hours away between the time when Joyce sleeps (she sleeps early) and when I actually feel sleepy.  It requires virtually no mental activity (at least not at my n00b level anyway), and provides just enough stimulus to not be boring.  Great for zonking out after a tiring day at work.

One thing that I’ve found interesting is that the Auction Houses in the game are a fairly close analogue to real life markets.  At the end of the day, you’re faced with the big question “How much is this worth?” (pricing).  I’ve had my account for about four weeks, and really only started paying attention to the AH for about a week or so.  I’ve written an addon to mine the AH data for analysis and so far in the 3-4 days that I’ve been “trading”, I’ve made about 300g.  Not bad for about 15 mins each day on the AH… could just be beginner’s luck

Another thing I find amusing is the almost Pavlovian “ding! grats” response.  For those who aren’t familiar, whenever someone gains a new level, they shout out “ding!” and almost always you’ll get a bunch of people who reply with “grats”.  I think I’ll try an experiment where one weekend I’ll just march into an AH (where I believe it’s impossible to level up) and just yell out “ding!” just to see what responses I get…