Me and the King

See that? That's me and the Lich King. He's a bad guy. You know, the guy the entire expansion was named after. Soon we're gonna kill him.

I was actually pretty happy to be there. I haven't raided in something like 6 weeks. I took some time off to deal with the move but beyond that, my computer just couldn't take it anymore. All my video/graphics setting were at their lowest possible setting and it was still really bad. Boss fights were going at 1-4 fps. It could take me 3-5 minutes to log off one toon and on to another. Coming in to Dalaran it could take minutes for me to even see other people. And the highest fps I would get there would be about 30 (remember at the lowest possible settings.. so theres hardly any detail or anything).

So on the recommendation of a friend I purchased the parts to build my own computer. Overall, it's cheaper to do it that way. It ended up being a nightmare of epic proportions for me that I do not care to detail, however after mailing the entire thing to friends to fix, I received it back Saturday and it's AMAZING.

So last night I was asked to help out in a ten man and I got to see what it was like to raid with this computer. I run about 75 fps all the time now, the boss fights took it down to the 30-40. 30-40 fps in the middle of boss fights with my graphics on high settings! Thats what I got standing still on my old computer with crappy settings. I am seeing things I never actually saw in the game before. My most commonly used phrase right now is "Oh so that's what (insert zone/instance/city) looks like...."

Anyways, what you have here is one happy priest ready to check out a 25 man raid tonight!

So far, so good...

Well we're moved in. The actual moving part was hell. We rented the truck Wednesday and a friend of Moms helped us load the heavier stuff. Then a friend of ours came by later and helped with boxes. It was during this time I realized it was a GOOD thing only the largest truck was available.

Jason hadn't gone thru any of his tools so he said he had to take them ALL and sort thru them later. He always wanted to take the old bike he hadn't worked on in over a year. And his toolboxes. Our bed is huge, we have alot of TV's, Mikey's bed, some bookcases.. well add it all up and we used pretty close to every spare inch and I was SO TIRED.

Dad got called out Wednesday night so he was unable to help us move in but fortunately my Mom's friend could and we couldn't have done it without him. No way I could have helped with some of the heavier stuff. That day also sucked. Jason went back to the house and got a cat plus some other things and didn't get back home till 1 am. He also spent almost all day Friday cleaning the old place and brought another cat home.

So now we are unpacking and setting up. It's hard to find new places for stuff but we'll get there. I took Mikey to get registered at his new school yesterday. He was not happy about the new school at ALL but he turned around once we got there and looked around! They have a computer lab (wooo). His teacher told him they could talk about Sonic. And he loved the huge picture of all the students in the hallway. He wants his picture RIGHT in the middle haha.

So I took him back today and spoke with the teacher a bit about my concerns. She had already made some Sonic laminate cards for Mikey's areas. She told him he could be in charge of turning on and off the computers every day. I left him a note to read if he missed me and although he seemed a bit weepy as I left, he still seemed in good spirits about it.

Dad, Heather and I picked him up this afternoon and the teacher said he had a very good day. He got a bit sad at times and said he missed me but overall, he did great. I am thrilled because changing schools was my BIGGEST concern for him. Hopefully, although I am sure there will be hurdles, his good attitude remains for the rest of the school year.

Now to finish unpacking..