Grumpy drive home (RL x3!)

Usually I listen to NPR while driving, but for some reason my radio was set to the local news/talk station, so I left it there. In case you've missed the news, a college football coach knew an assistant coach was molesting young boys but did not call the police. He was fired. Now people are up in arms. Because he was a "legendary" coach.

So so so many things wrong with this situation. I don't even know where to start. If this "legendary" coach had said something, if he had picked up the phone and called police, a serial pedophile who acted for YEARS could have been stopped. And people are angry over him being fired because he's a coach.

I snorted out loud at this part: Some people are upset that he was fired over the phone. Know what? If he had picked up a phone to begin with, he could have prevented his whole firing! Not to mention, all the pain and suffering!

So many things about this make me so mad. I know this seems like a minor thing to complain about in the face of many young boys being molested, but it pisses me off that people act this way (angry he's been fired because he's a coach). If a scientist had done this, would people be up in arms? Why in the world do people collect baseball cards instead of cards with scientists and other smart folks on them? (Other than the fact that they don't exist...)

Grrrrr. Anyway, usually Friday night is my "free" dinner (can have anything I want), but I have an event tomorrow night and "eating anything I want" generally leads to higher chances of being sick, so I moved it to tonight. For the first time in many, many years, I went to Taco Bell.. Even the most mild food is generally too spicy for me, so usually I avoid Mexican, but they had a steak sandwich thing that caught my eye, so I went. I really can't explain my desire for the sandwich, other than maybe because it has been about two weeks since I last had red meat.

Anyway, somehow the sandwich was bland. o.O I can't remember ever experiencing bland food before -- even just a little salt on something is plenty of taste for me. I finished the whole thing for the novelty of the blandness. (That sounds wacky, but I kept eating it thinking there had to be taste I was missing somehow...)

And in good news, Ellie New Cat has forgiven me. I've been trying to pick her up once a day to get her used to it, but yesterday she freaked out. Big, big fear reaction, bigger than I'd seen in a while. CAT EATING MONSTER IS GRABBING ME! And for the rest of the night, she ran from me. It was so sad, such a big backslide, I kicked myself for breaking all the trust we had built so far. Even this morning she was still avoiding me (she kept leaving any room I was in!). But luckily, when I got home from work tonight, I had been forgiven. She's been on my desk rubbing against me while I've been writing most of this post. Whew!

The easy way, the hard way... (WoW, RP)

Icon is Little Dog, Haken and Morn's second wolf. RPing having a puppy around sure was fun! And I'm dying to start in on puppy RP again, even though the circumstances will be very different this time around.

As much as I love RP, yesterday I was feeling way too sick to do it. So what to do when you're sick? Why, something you hate of course! :P I quested. Ugh. Clove went from 12 to 20 so he could get a mount. (Does everyone remember how god awful Org is on foot?) I know the low levels go fast, but I've never done so much questing in a day before. Still! Felpony! EEE! I love that mount so much.

Today Reed needed some love, since he's still on foot. (I wish I'd stop being iffy about the name! If I'm going to reroll him, sooner is better than later! Plus he got a fishing pole from his reward bag already!) I quested for a while, but just couldn't put up with it. 12-15, then I said hey, why not try a dungeon. Oh my god, so much faster than questing! I got a level and a half in one single run! Gah! Plus we had no tank so I kept soloing my own mobs. Paladin is fun!

Friday is Naxx with friends for RP gear. Also, somehow tonight was the first time Thistle RPed not in his gear -- WTF, how does my main RP character not have any non-armor gear? Luckily he was wearing a black shirt under his armor, so I was able to use that as "casual".

RP tonight was great! I love most any kind of posts, long, short, medium, average, anything, but getting to write as much as I like with someone who writes as much as I do is rare. Buffer? We don't need no steenkin buffer! ...pretend that works.

Anyway, the RP was tons of fun, our characters just mesh so perfectly. Unfortunately the RL hour interrupted things, but IC SLUMBER PARTY! :D Thistle is staying over at his place tonight, which is just cute as a button.

Today, really, really, really feels like Friday. Tomorrow is going to be so hard to go to work! Oddly (but happily!) Taco Bell didn't make me sick at all, not even one little bit, so I guess I could have safely kept free dinner Friday on Friday.

Oh! And one last thing! Blizz posted an "day in the life" of one of their QA people, since QA work is about a third of my job, I was really interested in seeing what it's like in other companies. Two impressions from it: UGH SO UNPROFESSIONAL, I know it's a little thing, but people in a meeting at my company would not throw candy at each other. The whole thing felt really way too casual, too. The second thing was that apparently you can't compare QA stuff across two vastly different companies. There was very little in common between us and them, other than terms like "smoke testing", which are pretty generic. It was fun to see what they include in their smoke testing though!