The Road to Elysium

This is basically my first post here. Well, in this category anyway. I’ve been a World of Warcraft-fan for ages, and have played it for about 2-3 years. I wrote a post a long time ago about being in a guild named Distinguished on the Steamwheedle Cartel-realm. I never found a home on WoW like it. Packed with great people, great atmosphere, the works. Unfortunately, a series of events followed that made the guild fall apart. Taking a break, then after a while moving around from realm to realm, I slowly came to realize that nothing like it would ever be found again. Not unless a real effort was made again.

So here we are now, back on Steamwheedle Cartel, with my good friend Kevin (who plays a rogue named Pendarric), trying to rebuild the guild back to it’s former greatness. And we’re doing good so far. :) We’ve got a paladin named Krisavery who’s just an awesome guy, and his friend Saphireheart. We recently aquired a nice warlock, Faeragest, and another bloke named Jaxe. The social aspect of the guild seems great so far! Now we need to get the numbers for raiding :) Once we do though, this is going to be even more awesome!

Oh, I play a 80 priest named Nathael. Never could do DPS or tanking. Always a healer at heart. ;)

It’s been a while since I’ve written (again). And as usual loads of things have happened. Marte is ill (again), Michael is well though, but I’m starting to see where he gets his stubbornness from. :P Courtesy of the Barrera Family.

Anyway, there are so many things I want to do! I want to improve http://cf.fbarr.net, I want to move all of my sites to a FreeBSD machine (courtesy of a friend), I want a week’s vacation with Marte and Michael, I want to learn Perl (god knows how many times I’ve tried that), and simply (or not), I want to be happy.

I had a real bad day last night. My regular weekdays fly by incredibly fast. I get up in the morning, shower, get dressed, head to work, stay there for 7+ hours, get home, see my son for an hour, feed him, put him to bed, feed us, an hour in front of the TV, then pretty much to bed. I feel like I get nothing out of the day. And like I said, yesterday was bad because I feel that I have nothing that I do for myself. I don’t have any real life friends to hang out with. I live like an hour from the city, and have to get up at 5.30 in the morning to be at work at 08.00. I’m at home at around 17.30. So that doesn’t leave me with much time to do things. On weekends I’m exhausted, so I don’t do much then either. Sometimes it feels like it’s just me going through this. Anyone else out there in a similar position?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always wanted a family of my own, always. I just feel that I don’t do much to cheer myself up.

What do you do for yourself, to keep your spirits up on a rainy day? Give me a couple of suggestions, I really need them. :)