Guild Wars!

Time is like Playing Guild Wars. In that I felt like playing guild wars today, or at least making sure it still worked so that when I'm super poor I still have stuff to play.

They've recently changed their log-in procedure though, where you need to enter your character's name (or one of them) or it won't let you log in! Considering I usually choose a random jumble of letters that sounds almost pronounceable in most cases, this presented some difficulty to me. It's been quite a while since I last played it, and I couldn't remember.

So I did the only logical thing I could think of. I guessed. Boy did I guess!

Every guess was wrong.

So since it suggested I contact their support if I was having trouble remembering. And I was. So I did. The following is the actual e-mail I sent to their support...

Hi Guild Wars Support,

Let me tell you a little story. I was a little bored, so thought I'd go through whichever games I had installed on my wonderful lappy, and see which I hadn't played in a while, then download updates. I saw Guild Wars and thought "oh yeah! let's give that a whirl."

So I download my updates, and think "noice, I will play this."

Unfortunately I... well there's a few unfortunalities (it should most definitely be a word, though spell-check doesn't like it.)

The login screen had defaulted my old email, so I thought I had it wrong. Uncovering emails I found I'd correctly changed it to this one sometime ago. Of course, then I wasn't sure which of my plethora of passwords I'd used. But I guess the real kicker:

It's been so long (don't hate me!) that I can't remember the names of any of my characters! I tried my usual Daemensleyaarr, Aragandagormli and Jeffrey, but to no avail. (Okay, so those might have been made up)

Can you help me out with the name of a character? Preferably in the form of the name of the character, as a Jeopardy question type response where it says "This name was used as a character on your account" where I have to reply "Who is 'X'?" is probably not going to be much help. I'm also hoping it's not X, because that would make me look kind of foolish, wouldn't it!

Much thanks in advance,

I look forward to updating this post with whatever else happens on this.

Update: They gave me my name. No fun-ness beyond.

Sobriety, tact, and... no, I'm not buying it either

Time is like... gone. I should have known this might happen. Somehow it's now a month since I last blogged, and that last was barely much at all. Like, what the heck? So to recap the amazing month I had might be difficult, but here goes.

I got sick.

Yeah, amazing story right? It pretty much killed the creative part of my brain for that whole period of ohgodkillmenow, where I successively had a blocked nose, bleeding nose, runny nose, blocked ear, runny... ear??, dry cough, wet cough, internal-bruising cough, smokers cough (and I don't smoke), headaches, chest pains, arm pain, sore throat, dehydration, itches, scratches, boredom, and pity. In hindsight, I should've seen a doctor.

Well, it's not the extent of EVERYTHING but a huge piece of it. I actually went a week without using my lappy. I also gave up coffee at around the same time, so it's plausible my body said "You can't do this to me-RAWR I MAEK U SICK!!" I think it's forgiven me now.

It went on way longer than it should've, and it's only this week that i've really gotten past it.

I've still been living life- you know, going to work, paying bills, sleeping. Cause I'm a good boy.

^_^

So Friday night I got totally drunk and had an awesome night, unexpectedly. When I finally returned to sober, inhibited thought, I found that I had brought back a little of dream-me/drunk-me. Earlier this week I'd started writing again, something new. I said that just having all the pieces and knowing what the end result should be isn't enough to make the puzzle for you- and it was about how deep down I'm pretty shy, but deeper down I'm not. Deeper again I'm a time-travelling dinosaur named Freckles, but that's another story.

So through getting that drunk, I learned some things about myself. I can be cocky/forward. I still won't succumb to peer pressure on something like smoking. If I'm going all out here, I'd even say while I'm happy with who I am, and I feel like I don't need to be in a relationship to be happy, I'd still like it to happen. If that means I have to keep having my own 'Pineapple Incident' time and again until I can be all the me I'm meant to, where I say stupid things to girls, then so be it. I mean, I'm saying stupid things to everybody else, may as well be consistent.