I’ve been away for a while. I got a life and – ironically – it was because of WoW. Two weeks ago I got my ass on a plane, then on a bus, and went to Ireland to play my cow.

Ok, that wasn’t exactly the plan.

Let’s say I went to Ireland to visit the real people behind the cows. We did end up playing WoW for quite a while. And Mario Kart on Wii. And got our asses kicked by a 4-year old.

Now that I’m back I can confirm that yes, people who are nice in WoW are also nice IRL and that The Game That Kills Social Lives doesn’t really – this is not my first WoW-related travel and it won’t be the last. We played, we walked around, we ate dead cow in various incarnations (does that make us cannibals?), and I decided that Ireland has very nice people and very bad weather.

A cow post will probably show up here in a couple of days, but for the moment my lunch breaks are quite busy (two new co-workers to train) and my evenings are spent playing (trying to get Khrista past the horrible 50s) and watching Lost. I don’t know when job no. 2 will hit again, so I try to make the most of the break.

P.S. Altitis is bad, mkay? I’m trying to raid, level Khrista (priest), level Avilion (SAN lock) and then a friend makes a hunter on Alonsus and I dust off my hunter and go massacring The Barrens. Oh yes, and when the new RAF mount is released I’m making a rogue. Then, if time allows us, another druid which I plan to X-realm to Defias.

Not that I have 2 more slots on Alonsus, that is. Gah.