Tired!
Today's been a long day.
Waking up at 7am on a Saturday is not really fun, especially if you went to bed after 1am. But it was moving day for my mom, and of course I volunteered to help.
Apparently I was a bit too optimistic concerning the plans for today, as I thought it wouldn't take very long and I'll have the rest of the day to relaxing. That of course didn't go as planned, and it took several more hours than expected. So right now every single muscle aches, and I feel totally spent. Still.. it feels good.
After I came home I played some World of Tanks with my brother, as I felt I've been neglecting him too much lately. I've thought about going to the movies with him or something, but I just never get around to it. There's always so much else to do, haha. But it was nice to get some time for that as well for a change.
Something else I got some time for was testing out ToR, which I talked about yesterday. My gal' was visiting friends, so what better time to sit down, relax after a long day and unleash the geek on a brand new game?
Honestly I was a bit skeptic to it, and feared it'd just crash and burn like everything else in the MMO market trying to compete against WoW. But I got positively surprised by it, and it turned out to be quite fun. I'd probably continue playing right now if I didn't feel like my time is running out for this evening (no time for games? haha, a few years ago there was no such thing as "no time for games") . There's a lot of things that feels refreshing compared to WoW, but at the same time it's hard comparing the two at this stage. WoW really is a big MMO that's very social, while ToR almost feels like a single player game except that you can see the other players playing it.
That's both good and bad I guess. I'm probably very drawn to it because I love single player RPGs, and have played the Knights of the Old Republic games years ago. But having a good, compelling story line from the start, that's special to your class feels great. Lets you learn the story, and your character in a fun and calm environment. I've only played the first few levels, so I have no clue about how dungeons, pvp and all that works. But so far it's very interesting, and there's hope for it.
Almost makes me want to buy them game when it releases. Almost.
The Old Republic
Hey again!
I've been sitting here, doing a couple of minor things, and waited for my The Old Republic game client to finish updating. But I started running out of minor things and the update seems to take forever, so why not write a quick post? ;)
Tova's out driving around with a friend of hers, and I'm patiently waiting for her to come home again. While she's been away I decided to write a couple of emails, go through some financial stuff and just browse around. After a while I realized though, that The Old Republic beta is up this weekend, and I was lucky enough to get in ^_^ (we'll just ignore the fact that pretty much everyone can get into this weekend test if they just opted in for beta testing a while back.. I'm still special! :o) So I launched the client I already conveniently installed in advance to avoid waiting times, but that didn't really go as planned because there's that thing called patches. So right now I'm waiting for that to finish.
I don't think I'll be playing much though, especially not tonight. I'll probably not even get inside the game tonight, but I just want to take the opportunity to get a quick first look at it.
I like Star Wars, and this game is really hyped up, but I'm still not that excited about it. There's been loads of MMOs that were hyped before launch, and now you barely hear about them. Like Age of Conan, Warhammer and Rift. Maybe ToR is good enough to avoid joining that list.. or maybe it isn't. No matter which one proves to be correct, I wont be playing it in the foreseeable future. Unless you count this short beta of course.
Time constrains and especially money and computer power constrains just makes it tough. It's a game I want to try out, and I think it might be fun (even just for a while), but currently it's not a very great idea to invest in a new MMO that will cost money and time. A MMO that probably wont be extremely enjoyable either due to my current hardware. Sure I could run it, but I'm quite picky nowadays. I want the game experience to feel great, or I wont afford spending my time with it.
Maybe later though. If a trial pops up, school ends and someone upgraded my PC without me knowing about it.. I'd give it a shot
Five months later…
Oh hey, it only took me five months to save, transfer the sites and close down my old server. How much did my laziness cost me? *checks* Oh, apparently just about 125$ (850 SEK) that could have been spent on something else. Just pocket cash right?
At least I did it now, haha. The blog is now on my VPS server and runs more smoothly, and I updated the software while I was at it. So no need to worry about that anymore.
A lot has happened since last time. I've started my (hopefully ;)) last year of studies, which are well underway. And I've visited Tova a couple of times.. oh yeah, I got engaged ;)
Christmas is closing in, and all my plans have caused me to spend quite a lot of money. First off I'm going to fly up and see Tova, where I'll stay for a week and celebrate Christmas. Then we'll both travel down with train to Gothenburg, where we'll spend our New Year's Eve in a luxury suite. I can't wait to sit in that jacuzzi ^_^ And when she travels back home is still undecided, but we'll try to enjoy it as much as possible!
But before all that happens, I still have school to worry about. It's going better than last year, but it's still a.. burden in a way. Everyone feels that way I guess, but having such a hard time outside of school as well, makes it harder.
Something I used to do to relax when I was younger was play games. I've always been a gamer, but lately with my depression and all, it's just harder to get into. I never feel I have time for anything but WoW and school. I really wish I had, and I wish I'd be able to enjoy that time if it was given to me.
I don't really want to give up on it, because it's something I absolutely love. But I don't really know how to get back into it. In a way I think I need to have more "me-time", where I can pick and choose to do anything I want. And another thing that would help is to actually upgrade my PC, something I've been wanting to do for ages.
It just saddens me to have all these games that I want to play, but know that my computer is having a hard time handling them. And it saddens me even more, that no matter how much I try to save, there will always be an expense with higher priority than a computer.
Right now it goes to being able to see and be with my girlfriend, and things surrounding that. Soon it will go to gifts and other Christmasy stuff. Maybe after that? Nope, there always pops up something. Like if I'd finally get my hands on an apartment, the money would go to it. And then it would go to saving up for trips. And maybe after that to saving for a wedding? I need more money to solve my problems, haha.