Texas

I went to Texas with a few friends from my WoW guild, Panda Attack, last week. We had a blast. I wasn't going to be able to go, but Dan (Weshea is his in-game name) wanted me to be there and was willing to buy my plane ticket for me.

The night we got there a group of us went to Ihop. Dan and I were there of course, but so was Jason Salsbury (Jase), Jeremy (Hitsuji, who came all the way from Japan), Angie (Miranda) Kurtz, and Scott Kurtz (Skull), the leader of our guild.

The next day, we went to a LAN center to play WoW. It wasn't the best environment, but it was a fun experience just because of the 14 year old punks who spend their day there yelling obscenities at each other. My new favorite term is "homogayfag". One kid, who was upset with another kid, said "stop being gay" at least 8 times in a one minute span (I think the other kid was spawn camping him). After a few minutes our crew were all calling each other homo's.

So we left there and all setup computers in Scott Kurtz's living room. That was a good call, just because it put us all in a quiet environment (or at least one we control), and we had a great time.

Some of the other people who showed up were Becky (Naraktrako) and her husband Mike, Gary (Ghulof), and Gary (Xindaiel).

On the iPhone's first day on sale, Scott Kurtz and I went and got in line to try to get a phone for he and his wife Angie. It was pretty fun for a few reasons, I love gadgets like all the folks in line, I like "first day" kind of things, and Scott Kurtz is an entertaining person to hang out with. He told me later that he was thankful for the company in line. We got one for Scott and one for Angie, both 8 gig models. Those phones are very sweet, and I'm stoked that Apple upped the ante this way. It will force Nokia and Motorola to do the same. All the competition will be great for us the consumers, as prices will drop and feature counts will go up.

Hitsuji got each of us some swag from Japan, mostly just inexpensive toys, but all of it is pretty cool stuff. My stuff got lost when I was there, but the Kurtz's are going to mail it to me.

On the last day, we played a little bit, and then packed up for our flight. It was sad going, but we had a good time. I was kinda hoping our plane would be delayed because of the horrible rain we had, off and on, all weekend. But alas, I had no excuse to stay and headed back home.

On a side note, I got my Druid to lvl 61, and should hit 70 in a week or so.