Livejournal has screwed up its syndicated feeds *again*. That just means that when they finally get around to fixing them, my friends list will be laughably overloaded with post after post from them. Probably a few hundred at once. Man, I wouldn't be so annoyed about it if they hadn't just gone through this same thing a couple of weeks ago.

The other side of this problem is that it reveals how slow-moving LJ is these days. Man, I miss the old days, back when everyone posted and everyone kept track of things. Nowadays the majority of people have taken off for goddamn Facebook or just plain disappeared, which is one more uncomfortable reminder of how I'm losing track of friends and people I value.

On a related note to that, my no-AIM efforts are going reasonably well... such as they can. Every so often I miss talking to people enough that I'm tempted to fire it up, but then I remind myself that even with it on I won't be talking to anyone anyway. It's a lousy choice, kind of like the difference between going to a party where you know no one will talk to you and you'll be stuck in the corner all night, or staying home from that party. You'd think after a couple of decade of being reasonably unpopular I'd be used to this sort of poor-man's dichotomy, but somehow I never seemed to find acceptance of that. At least I still have friends I can reliably speak to through other means.

My training at work has accelerated rather pointlessly -- by which I mean to say that I'm taking on new duties, which is good as it will lead to me being promoted properly, but I'm being assigned a ton of extra WORK, which is completely pointless. One of the less... well, less anything-positive-at-all people here took off yesterday at lunch, and I got stuck doing her work. Today she's "sick." Uh-huh. She's "sick" the same way I'm "the King of All Cosmos". (Boa tarde!)

I have the worst loot luck in WoW. I've been a little more aggressive about running PUGs for things our guild normally doesn't take on (we're clearing Trial of the Crusader weekly), but considering that (a) paladins are ludicrously popular, and (b) random loot is random, I'm really getting absolutely nothing out of it. Monday I literally carried a group through VoA10: no DPS broke 3k, the OT was wandering around like a sasquatch hopped up on mead, and the boss was about a couple of seconds from enraging while I masterfully deployed all my cooldowns to stay alive (OT being dead at this point). What dropped? Double DK loot. Son of a bitch! I know internally the loot is randomly generated but you'd think at SOME point, cosmic karma would come into play. Then I smashed through an Ony yesterday and... nothing. Blew every single roll. Meanwhile, even during guild runs, the bosses apparently have forgotten they have tanking loot on their table. How many times do I have to kill Anub before I see his freakin' shield? Or tank weapon? I'm still using a crappy Naxx one and I'm watching tanks run around with his shield left and right. Goddammit! Cut me some slack!

I'll be very, very glad when I have Saturdays free again. I picked up Phantom Brave: We Will Meet Again, along with a used copy of Okami (since I've been wanting to play it ever since I returned it to ehzoterik). Add that to the Metroid Prime Trilogy and I have plenty to do and no time to do it in. At least I can play KH: 365/2 Days on the Metro.

...Wow, I wrote a lot today.