Catchup over Coffee

I know so many people that are tired, sick or just worn out at present. My sample set is not exactly diverse. My brother used to present the results of his polling saying that everyone thought x. When you probed you would find out it meant him and his friends. They were all engineers and male. For me, I'm a parent of young kids and therefore have a number of friends in that category and you forgo the privilege of a full night's sleep when you become one!

We are going through a particularly bad patch where my daughter enjoys my company so much so wants to have it for a couple of hours in the night (hence why I've posted this at 1am). My son was the same. It is my fault as both my kids have inherited my aversion to sleep. This time we have the advantage that we know it will end.

It is also the beginning of winter cold season. I think my family is going through its third set of colds. Add on top of that I've been very busy with work and have been working late into the evenings and you end up with a tired, tired Gameldar.

Given this state I was suprised by the reminder from Angelya of Revive and Rejuvenate that I've just passed six months of blogging (she started a couple of days after me). I feel like I've limped across the line, but at the moment I've got a building list of things I want to do but little time amd energy to do them.

The list looks like this:
1. Write a post on the official tanking forums about tanking and encouraging new tanks to take up the mantle with improvements in cataclysm, although I'm also waiting to see what is happening in the beta.

2. Test and help out with the development of the wow-pro tour guide replacement add-on.

3. Fix a couple of small things with my add-on mtarget and finally do a non beta release.

4. Work on another project I've got brewing in my head (not wow related)

5. Work on another project that is actually wow related.

6. Watch some of the world cup (even though Australia is out)

7. Relax and veg out with my wife.

So being tired in general I've only managed the last one (which is recurring - we've been revisiting Firefly) and therefore been rather quiet with the blog.

That said, I've still been thoroughly enjoying my game time. I've been spending most my time leveling my druid who is now a bearkin or boombutt or whatever you call a level 42 dual specced bear and boomkin. I need to try more dpsing on my boomkin spec as I was constantly running out of mana in the one instance I did run only to realise I was still wearing my tanking gear (I should have realised since I had more health than the tank). I've also been managing to cobble together my weekly ICC for a few weeks running and have got some nice tanking gear now - but I'm looking forward to extending the raid lockout and seeing more than the first four bosses soon!

So that is a bit of a catch up with where I am at. With the beta out now I double checked and I am signed up for it so we'll see if I get a key and them I'll have to make a real decision about playing in it.

Note the image at the top is from http://blogs.uab.cat/travellingaroundtheworld/2009/04/