Warlords Quest 1 – Circumvent TWC Roadblock

Over the weekend, I got a beta invite for Warlords of Draenor and was pretty stoked.

To be honest, I haven't played much WoW in the past few months. I have a tendency to get excited when an expansion comes out and enjoy playing my characters up to max level, but once I reach max level, I tend to lose interest. I'll run through a the dungeons and LFR a few times once I max out a character, but it never lasts long. I usually slow my playing to a trickle by the time the 2nd set of raids is released, and if there are more, I am usually on to some other game. But I always come back to WoW when an expansion hits. I suppose there is something to be said about my comfort level with the game.

So I got my beta invite this past weekend and downloaded the game. A funny thing then happened as I tried to fire it up for the first time – I launched battlenet, hit the play button, and the game started up nicely. I copied over my main character and started the entrance to bring me into the world of Azeroth, but before I could get there, the loading screen said 90%, the game crashed. Funny, I thought. All these people and blogs talking about how they are having a great time in the alpha and beta, and I get a crash the first time I try to start up. Oh well. I submit a crash report and try to load again, but I don't even get to the start screen this time. That's when I see that there are no lights on my router. Great! Time Warner Cable – gotta love em.

A router reboot and another try and voila – I am in Azeroth and ready to see what Warlords is all about.

Hope this expansion maintains my interest for a while.

Core Challenge Day 3

Continuing my challenge, I've been trying to get my exercises in right before my shower so if I start to sweat – which will start happening as my workouts get more involved, I am already headed to the showers. Today, I forgot and ended up doing my workout in the afternoon. Good thing it was not too strenuous.