Team America is a funny movie.

Apparently with my parents' current phone package, DSL only cost about $10 more than what they were already paying on the phone bill.  So they decided to get it.  And it kicks ass.  Since we still have Dway for a while though, my computer is the only one hooked up to the DSL line (since I need it the most anyway).  I made all the connections, booted up WoW, and for the first time since I got to Florida played with a ping less than a second.  It averages out to between 100-200 ms (in a glorious green hue).  But I found out that my RAM simply isn't enough to end every disconnect (It's happened once in two days for DSL, compared to at least twice a day w/ satellite).  Five-twelve used to be good.  Oh well, I'm gonna have 2 GB on my next computer (with a motherboard capable of at least 4) so it's not terribly bad.

If only I could get a job to pay for said computer...though I did put in a couple more applications at a few places in Lake Butler.  So I'm trying, damnit!

The GM in my new guild is pretty cool.  Few days ago, I searched for a guild that actually did stuff together (for a long time I was in one that I was randomly invited into and we never did anything as a guild since there'd only be like 4 on at any given time).  So I found one that looked like it may be what I'm looking for: casual enough to not have a strict raid schedule, but strict enough so raiding does indeed get done.  I look up the guild's contact and send her an in-game mail.  We chat a moment and I join the guild.  Apparently, one of the members claimed I grew on her (the guildy, not the GM).  I know this because sometime today or yesterday, the guild was disbanded.  BUT, I got an in-game mail from the GM saying she wanted to make a new guild with the "old" members because the guild wasn't what it used to be.  It also said I could get an invite if I so chose.  So she whispered me today pretty much asking if I wanted in.  I said yea (tabards look weird when you're guildless), so I'm in.  She said that I "grew on" one of the other guildies.  So of course I'm thinking, "Bitchin!  Someone likes me!"  Said guild member is a hunter, and my character is a druid.  It really reminds me of the WoW wedding where the two people (female hunter, male druid) met through a successful raid.  And of a funny comic I can't seem to find to link to.  Damn.  Well, whatever.

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to my bag's location?  Yea, I dunno either.  A month and a half later, and there's not so much as a "Well, the bag did/did not make it to Jacksonville..." response about it.  Well I learned my lesson: don't bring anything I can't stuff in a carry-on to the airport.

I found out why satellite gets so slow today.  There's a real reason, not just that it royally sucks ass.  The reason royally sucks ass, but if the 5 of us who use the internet connection watch our usage, it's actually okay.  We get 175 MB each day to download.  That includes everything that goes into the Temporary files folder.  One hundred and seventy-five megabites worth of surfing each day.  We go through that in nothing flat.  Considering how early it craps out on me, I think we use it up by noon, maybe a bit earlier on the weekend.  I've never had a limit on downloading.  Especially some pissant amount like 175 MB.  What the fuck?  175?  I've downloaded single files bigger than that!  It's fucking horseshit that we have a limit, let alone a limit that low.

But it's a real kick in the ass.  Since I'm not happy with our current bullshit internet situation, I have even more reason to get a job.  DSL is already available here; the only reason we don't have it is because my parents signed a 15-month agreement with Direcway, and they're going to finish it before we get DSL (which means we don't get it until July I think).  Ummm...fuck that.  I'm getting fuggin DSL and running it through my computer instead of relying on a wireless connection.

In lighter news, one of my cats loves me again .  But now since he likes to sleep on my bed, it kinda drove one of the other cats away.  It'd be nice if they got along as well as the other two cats, but whatever.

I wish I could've copy/pasted this

"Continental shall not liable for loss, damage to or delay in delivery of high value, fragile or perishable items, such as: Antiques, artifacts, heirlooms, collectibles; Antlers; Backpacks not desgned for travel, sleeping bags and knapsacks made of plastic, vinyl or other easily torn material with aluminum frames, outside pockets or with protruding straps and buckles; Business equipment and business samples; CDs, DVDs, MP3s; Chinaware, glass, paper/plastic bags that do not have sufficient durability, do not have secure closures or do not provide sufficient protection to the contents; Items checked in corrugated/cardboard boxes, including cardboard boxes provided by CO, except for items that otherwise would be suitable for transportation without the cardboard box (e.g., bicycle, garment bag); Electronic and mechanical items, including cell phones, electronic games; Eyeglasses, Binoculars, Prescription Sunglasses and Non-Prescription Sunglasses and all other eyewear and eye/vision devices; Garment bags not designed for travel; Irreplaceable items; Items made of paper (e.g., advertising displays, blueprints, maps, manuscripts, business/personal documents, historical documents, photos, books, negotiable papers, securities, etc.) Jewelry; Keys; Liquids, perfumes, liquor, jerry cans, zamzam water, Medicines, medical equipment; Money; Natural fur products; Perishable items such such as food, seafood; Photographic/cinematographic/audio/video equipment and related items; Precious metals/stones; Tools; battery powered hand tools, tool boxes/containers; Totally unprotected items such as tennis racquets and umbrellas, either individually checked or tied/strapped to the outside of luggage; Silverware; Watches (Timepieces); Works of art such as paintings; or Any other similar valuable property or irreplaceable property included in the Passenger's Checked or Carry-on Baggage with or without the knowledge of CO.

However, in the event you packed these items in your lost baggage, please include them on your claim form, as ths may help with our tracing efforts."

I almost want to work for these guys in the baggage claim office, but I think I'd get tired of saying "Sorry, we're not liable for that." 2.7 billion times a day.  It'd certainly be an easy job though.

So the fuckers are liable for losing the clothes I had in the bag, my sai, and...actually I think that's it.  And of course I don't have the receipts for any of it, including everything else in the bag that they're not liable for.  Fuckers lose my goddamn bag and I can't get reimbursed for jack shit.  Well, hopefully I'll get my hands on the waste of flesh that lost my bag and rip his throat out before they haul my ass to jail for homicide (of said fucker, of course).  One bag made it.  Where the fuck is the other one?

Never trust Delta.  If it's not one thing that bites you in the ass, it's another.  Seriously.  Fuckers.

To save anyone else the trouble of looking it up, zamzam water is apparently water from a sacred well in Mecca.  I'd be pretty pissed off I was a Muslim and that stuff got fucked up in transit.

I have a dollar that has "Let health, wealth, and joy be urs" written on it

Ever notice how those 3 seem to go together so well?

Couple things pissing me off at the moment, but I suddenly don't care to write anything down...except for that goddamn "rogue" vs. "rouge" issue.  Is using "rouge" in place of "rogue" supposed to be cute or something?  Who the fuck came up with this shit?  This tells me that one day a while back (far as I know it started w/ WoW, but hell if I know) someone accidentally misspelled the word rogue and it caught on to be the new official term for the class.  What kind of retard would do something like that?  If it's accidental, fine.  But people use it as though it's a goddamn abbreviation.  It's not abbreviating anything!  You just switch two fucking letters around and make yourself sound like a complete fucking moron!  And yet it's accepted!  Why the fuck is it accepted?  People like that need to be burned at the fucking stake!  But no!  Sanctity of life and all that bullshit about how they're human and we can't be the judges keeps us from killing retards!  It's fucking natural selection!  If you're a fucking idiot, you need to fucking die so you don't spawn more fucking idiots!  Darwin's probably rolling in his grave.

Okay, I feel a little better.  While the "rouge" thing does piss me off to no end, I got more pissed much later when the shoulder armor I'd been looking for finally dropped.  Twice.  I ran fucking RFD at least 6 times (including yesterday) and the only time the damn shoulders dropped was when there were two other people in the party who felt it necessary to roll for need on it.  The first time it dropped, I and two rogues (NOT fucking rouges) rolled for it.  I lost.  At least it went to someone else stuck with leather armor so I wasn't overly pissed.  Not until the next run, anyway.  We lost one person who had to go, but it was still the same party so we went again.  Now the only leather wearers in the party who wanted the shoulders were me and a level 39 hunter (on the verge of getting mail, mind you).  The Fleshhide Shoulders drop again, and the hunter rolls for them.  Had I won the roll, I wouldn't have been pissed.  How long does this fucker really think he's gonna keep those shoulders?  He's about to get fucking mail and he feels the need to roll over a feral druid long after I display the sentiment that I needed it.  I'm pretty sure I looked it up and found the next best leather shoulders aren't until level 50-something (so that's how long I'd be using them).  This fucker, on the other hand, will find something better in a matter of gameplay hours.  So he's gonna end up tossing em like yesterday's news (probably tomorrow) and leave me with the same POS shoulders I've had since I think level 34.  So I left the party and hearthed out, mostly because I'm sick of running RFD and only seeing the fucking shoulders when I'm not going to get them.  Every other run I would have been the only one to roll on them.  The minute they drop, I got some fucker whose got no business rolling on it rolling on it.  And I don't mean the rogues.

Ten thousand George Carlins wouldn't renew my faith in humanity.

Also, where the fuck did all the DS lites go?  I've been trying to get my hands on one and the closest I've come up with (among 3 cities) is a beat-up used normal-sized DS.  Should've gotten it when I had the chance O.o

I'm in Florida.  I have returned to the land of the big BX.  Sadly, only my carryon luggage and one checked in bag made it with me.  The airline said they were looking for it and would deliver it once they've found it, but I have to wonder about their record when it comes to issues like that.  I'd have the highest praise in the world for them if they found it and delivered it (the lady sounded reassuring) but I still suspect that someone else may have claimed my bag since there was an unclaimed (but marked; mine wasn't marked) bag that looked exactly like mine except for a different brand logo.  I had a lot of cool stuff in that bag, so I really hope they find it and deliver as they said they would.

My druid hit level 40.  What sucked was that when he hit 40, I had 90 gold on him (enough for a mount).  Then I spent like 15 gold on new spells and abilities (Rank 2 Prowl, bitch!) so I've got some gold to make up before I'm riding around on a white kitty.  By the time I get the amulet I want from the Scarlet Monestary though, I'll probably have made it up so it's not that bad.  No, really, I've done like four Cathedral runs now and I've yet to even see the Triune drop, let alone win the roll.  The experience kicks ass though, so I'll probably be at least 41 by that time too (already like halfway there after the last run or two).  It was nice to gain a few levels outside of questing for a bit and come back to find the quests a lot easier to do, y'know.  It'll be a few levels before I even attempt another Battleground though (yet I still need 22 more marks for the Insignia I want...which means 22 more runs since my team never wins.  And I mean never anymore.  I won my first WSG and I think my second AB, but ever since then I've lost every single BG.  Someone mentioned that Alliance is still good in AV, so there's hope for that (haven't tried it yet).

Sparky gets annoying at times.  Whenever she sees one of the other cats, she'll sit there and growl at it.  She won't attack unless it's too close, but usually she just sits there and growls.  And the other cats don't care.  Especially the tiny one, Pooter.  He's a little orange kitten that adores me.  Bobbo still runs at the sight of...anything, and Chip doesn't seem to be overly fond of me.  Oh well.

Hopefully I can find a monitor to use for my laptop, and get another wireless adaptor (I forget the word) for internet, cuz it seems to be fast enough for WoW.  Which is good.

Jet lag sucks.