-
Social Media
-
What’s going on in here?
I suppose I owe the world - at least the tiny part of it that may or may not read this blog - some small explanation of where I’ve been.
Simply put: Life happened.
Taking it a little further, and to quote the Fresh Prince, my life got flipped turned upside down. Sadly, there is no tale of how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. Or any other town for that matter.
As I mentioned before, shortly after being dumped by my girlfriend of four years I moved to Alabama when the company I worked for was purchased by a man who lives here. The move soaked up most of the little cushion I had put away.
Those of us who were offered continued employment with the company were told we were chosen to remain employed because we were “the cream of the crop” so to speak. The man who purchased our company regaled us with promises of a huge corporate office, complete with a built in coffee shop. We would all be the directors of our own departments, free to operate things as we saw fit.
The financing for all this was already in place. In the meantime however, we’d have to stick it out in this tiny leased space above an insurance agent’s office.
Very soon after making the move, it became apparent that nothing was what it seemed. While we had all been forced to lie and hide from our coworkers (many of whom were close friends to us) the fact that the company was moving, the new owner had in fact been lieing and hiding from us the fact that the company was very quickly running out of money and had absolutely no promise of any future at all.
Yet, he said nothing and let us all uproot our lives and move anyway.
The realization that we had all been fooled hit us on the first payday that rolled around after moving. We were asked to provide a dollar amount that we could live off of for the next seven days, at which point the remainder of our salaries would be paid to get us caught up.
That was at the beginning of September, and although we didn’t know it at the time, it was the last money that any of us would see from that company.
We were continually lied to, being told that money was in the bank and we’d have checks tomorrow. The next day the money was gone. The money will now be available in five business days, but then it wasn’t available.
There goes the last of the money I had saved up. Just because my company isn’t paying me doesn’t mean I can stop paying my bills.
Myself and one other person lucked out and were offered jobs by a third party who happened to be working with our company. It’s not exactly the industry I want to be in, but desparate times call for desparate measuers. I’m being paid the same salary I was before so it will do for now.
I was still managing a bit of WoW time in amongst all of this, but then my power supply in my PC bit the dust. This was my own fault though as I was still using the same old 500W model I’d had for at least three years. It was pushing three HDDs, an Athlon 64 X2 4400+, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and a BFG Tech 9800 GTX OC2. It was all handling beautfully until about two weeks after adding that new video card when it finally gave up the ghost.
I do have a work laptop but it’s not worth trying to play WoW on a laptop. Especially since I’m spoiled by my dual 27″ LCDs and the laptop only has a 14.3″ screen. And that’s not to mention the fact that in all actuality I shouldn’t have been playing anyway. More pressing matters and such.
I just got my PC back up and running the other day after receiving my new Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ-1000. Oh, and while I was at it went I went ahead and splurged on a new case. I went with the Antec Twelve Hundred after having ordered one to build a server for the new company I work for. It’s an absolutely amazing computer case (and it’s on sale at Newegg - there’s even a combo deal with the power supply I bought). I highly recommend it.
So I reactivated my account and upgraded to Wrath, then logged in last night to much fanfare from my old guildies. That was nice. Such a good group of folks they are. I wandered around like a lost puppy for at least an hour. Then spent another good hour playing with addons (I had decided to delete all my addons and start fresh). After that I finally found my way to Northrend and did a few quests, upgraded all of my tradeskills to Grand Master, looked around the place for a while and said good night.
After logging in, I felt an almost overwhelming sense of being behind the curve. I feel like there is so much that I have to relearn now. It almost makes me not even want to play anymore since I’ll be the noob for at least a couple of weeks if not longer depending on where my current life circumstances take me.
At the moment I’m looking at jobs in the New Orleans area. I will be stopping by there to visit some people and for an interview on my way to Florida for Thanksgiving. Wish me luck!