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We are home. We have Burning Crusade. We stood for a half hour in 29-degree weather in the dark in a strip mall with one store open to accomplish this. I think this is an experience I would rather not repeat, on the whole, but it had its moments. People in t-shirts. People in shorts. The guy ahead of us in line was wrapped in a sleeping bag that came to his knees. From his knees to the top of his tennis shoes, his legs were bare. For all I know, he could have been illegal without the sleeping bag, though I assume he was another of the 'shorts' set. I was in pants and a jacket, and wanted long underwear, a hat, and gloves (having foolishly not brought these last). I am not cold-hardy. But we have the game. Installing now. Will begin patch and then to bed. Which will be very, very welcome not only for sleep but for WARMTH.
(And Scott came with. He has work tomorrow, I don't, so I had half-expected to go by myself and pick them up, and thought I wouldn't have minded. I would have minded. I'm glad he was there. Although I don't think that's why he was there - he just wanted the game! ;)
... I wonder if my parents would laugh at me, or understand? Neither of them played online games (with dial-up, who would play WoW? Yikes!) and I don't think they even played many single-player games like this (card games, yes, and stuff like Civilization perhaps, but not this). But we went camping in weather colder than this and they enjoyed it (so did I - how have I lost so much hardiness?) and Dad took me out to watch a meteor shower once. I don't remember the meteors much, or where we were, but I remember that it happened. And I know that when camping, and strongly suspect that when watching the meteor shower, we were better-prepared. I simply didn't think ahead, consider the time and line and weather and all, and prepare. Oops. I'm feeling better now that I'm warm, though, so perhaps the only price of this not thinking ahead is feeling silly.
(And Scott came with. He has work tomorrow, I don't, so I had half-expected to go by myself and pick them up, and thought I wouldn't have minded. I would have minded. I'm glad he was there. Although I don't think that's why he was there - he just wanted the game! ;)
... I wonder if my parents would laugh at me, or understand? Neither of them played online games (with dial-up, who would play WoW? Yikes!) and I don't think they even played many single-player games like this (card games, yes, and stuff like Civilization perhaps, but not this). But we went camping in weather colder than this and they enjoyed it (so did I - how have I lost so much hardiness?) and Dad took me out to watch a meteor shower once. I don't remember the meteors much, or where we were, but I remember that it happened. And I know that when camping, and strongly suspect that when watching the meteor shower, we were better-prepared. I simply didn't think ahead, consider the time and line and weather and all, and prepare. Oops. I'm feeling better now that I'm warm, though, so perhaps the only price of this not thinking ahead is feeling silly.
