Sometimes I wish I had a time tuner like Hermione in Harry Potter. There are so many things I want to do in my day, and there simply is not enough time to do them all. One of the things I want to do most is play video games, especially World of Warcraft but this week I found myself faced with the problem of time. There was always something else to be doing besides WoW, even as the idea of playing with my druids danced through my head, I was preoccupied with other tasks. Why can’t there be an infinite amount of time to do the things we love most?
World of Warcraft is not something you can really only play for a little while and then put it back on the shelf – At least not if you are trying to accomplish a lot of the things Wrath of the Lich King has to offer. There are achievements, daily quests, Death Knights, raid instances, battlegrounds, arenas, keeping up with friends, farming, grinding… etc. etc. etc. The biggest time sink for me are the achievements.
I logged on the other day just to say hi to a few friends, and during this would-be short conversation, they happened to tell me about a mod called Overachiever: A mod that will mark all of the recipes you need for achievements, add comments to your targets to let you know if they are part of an achievement, or even suggest convenient achievements for you to work on. Being the mod-lover I am, I immediately used my WoWMatrix to download it. I had to give this amazing mod a shot (for the sake of science of course), I spent the next six hours completing nearly every cooking/fishing achievement I could possibly accomplish. Ugh. That's just one small portion of all the achievements available. I looked at the clock and mourned the time I lost while I dilly dallied on rather pointless in-game tasks. All of this made me realize that my time management ability could use a few skill-ups.
I also participated in my first 25-man raid since Wrath of the Lich King was released. It started off rocky because I forgot I had a raid that night (sorry guys), and I then had to endure the wrath of my raid leader for the next 45 minutes. If that was not bad enough, I guess my computer was having a bad day because it simply did not want me to stay in WoW.
Every couple of minutes I was disconnected from the server and, more often than not, these DC’s were during a very important boss fight. On Grobbulus I disconnected as I got the Mutating Injection and I exploded in the middle of the raid. On Thaddius I disconnected right before a Polarity Shift, and ended up killing myself and a few other people while I was busy helplessly cursing at my computer to let me back in the game. I was not the only one with computer problems that night, and after a while the constant DC’s and terrible lag wiped the raid one too many times, and we called it a night. I am crossing my fingers that the DC’s won’t be a reoccurring event.
This week I spent so much time trying to manage my time better, I ended up wasting even more time. I am definitely investing in a calandar, or a flux capacitor.
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