the mice will … get sucked even further into the swirling time suck zone that is the World of Warcraft! 

I went on holiday… and prior to leaving, I do believe I was co-habitating with someone.  Since coming back from my holiday, I’ve discovered that my previous companion has all but disappeared …. down a rabbit hole or something.  I was excitedly informed on my return that borysSNORC is now a Level 62 (still has the cold dead eyes of a killer) Blood Elf, has some sort of expensive strange tiger/pet thingy, lots of fancy new duds and I know not what!!!

  

Alas not all change is for the best.  He used to come out and hang with me from time to time…. was even known to take in a movie or sit and chat after a meal, but now…  sigh….. he’s been totally enveloped into the WoW and I think I can say with confidence that he’s officially a fully fledged, card carrying World of Warcraft addict.

So farewell Mr K, it was nice knowing you… for I can see you are no longer content to dwell on the fringes of the Wow and you are now only to be occasionally approached in the back room with cautious steps and no sudden moves…. where one might find you mumbling at your screen, rocking nervously, whilst smacking your veins and muttering ‘I can quit any time I want’…..
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Angel had Mr K send me some more screenshots of the borysSNORC elf thing that is running around the WoW this weekend.  I dont know what I find more disconcerting now, that it’s got my name, or that it wears a specially purchased pink frock, or that it has the cold dead eyes of a killer!   Truly creepy.  Why is it like that?  Is it supposed to be an undead thing or something?  Something about those awful eyes seem to render it genderless too… can’t seem to stop thinking about it as an “IT” even though it is wearing a rather handsome pink frock most of the time.

Anyway I thought I’d have a quick go at giving it pupils… not a a great improvement I confess…  But at least now instead of having the soul destroying vacuous gaze of a zombified undead creature….. it merely looks permanently surprised… kinda like Barry Manilow after too many face lifts and a little too much Botox.

I came home from an exhausting weekend in Canberra, and found something rather distressing….  in my absence, Mr K had been introducing my little man to the World of Warcraft.  I am not sure how I feel about this new and possibly detrimental influence on his young developing mind.  Who knows what the effect of being immersed in this sort of fantasy world can have on a young child’s psychological development.  I mean computer games for the most part seem fairly innocuous, right??? 

Also, equally distressing is the character they’ve created… it’s some sort of elf thing, and (really not pleased about this bit) they called it borysSNORC.  😐  So now it turns out I have a WoW presence, even though I’ve never even seen the damn game!  I was a bit pissed off at first – they shouldn’t be going around using someone else’s moniker… that’s just not cricket.   I’ve been using the borysSNORC nickname since some it was first given to me back in about ’92 and strangely enough, I’ve never had a problem signing up new email addresses or ID using that name.  Is it overreacting to get a bit bent out of shape about someone else using it?  I don’t know… feels kinda stupid to be bothered, but at the same time, I’m a bit pissed off.  I don’t want to be known as a WoW afficianado .  Maybe they’ll get bored with it and delete the whole thing.

I guess the Readers Digest version of this whinge is this – if you see me running around the World of Warcraft (I know the world has a name, but f@#ked if I know what it is) …. it’s not me!!!!