Yeap, I wasn’t joking around, every hour of free time has been in WoW but on friday I’ll ding 70 which is the max so after that it’ll be a bit easier. Last weekend I was so totally into it that I completely missed a blizzard that had swept over sweden last weekend with all the snow and all the minus degrees that I’ve been yelling for. I don’t like this cold but I like the fact that it’s cold.
The expansion to Warcraft was released today. Good bye.
(but before I go through the portal, here are the pictures from Italy)
Oh that was one of the best weekends of my life ! ! ! The background story : When I’ve played Warcraft in our old guild, “Evil Inc”, we had alot of italians. One of them was called “Dago” (real name is Mario). So now that our guild is kind of splitting up me and my buddy Mats decided that we have to pay him a visit seeing as we have been playing and talking to eachother over the internet for a year now. So on friday we started our journey to Milan…
Friday : After an uneventful drive to Skavsta we checked in. Knowing Ryan Air hates luggage we decided to only have one carry on with us each and they warned us about new regulations and bla bla, “whatever, I’ve done this a few times”… but oh no, now there are really strict regulations regarding how volume of liquids per container and all that stuff so they confiscated my shampoo, hairspray and stuff. And after that I walked 10 meters to the tax free and bought new stuff. Doh!
Flying down there was uneventful, found the bus into Milan and taxi home to Mario at around 9 pm. Then we decided to go out for a real italian pizza, a beer and just talk. Naturually it was one of the best pizzas ever and we had no problem talking about everything. Then we got home to his place at midnight. Great time to go to bed… NOT! Mario had called some of his students from the snobby school he works at and set us up at Milan’s hippest club where they had VIP passes. I don’t do the club scene that much but that was pretty sweet and they were great, but unfortunately you can’t talk that much. Came back at 4-4.30 something and tried getting some sleep but failed _totally_!
Saturday : After not sleeping at all it was time to get up at 11 for breakfast (and got served coffee in bed!). Then we went out to the shopping part of Milan where we found a huge, sweet cathedral and Mats went crazy with my camera ’cause he loves these things. And my own church – the Ferrari store! After some shopping it was time for lunch – best lunch ever! And after that we went out to his home town of Piacenza where we checked into the Holiday Inn and got an hour of sleep before we went to the next party! We met up with some 20 other warcraft players and some other randoms in a nice little restaurant outside of Piacenza and we sat down for a very long 4 dishes (and 4 hour!) long meal. It was so fun meeting all these people I’ve played with and the bizarroness of the situation, 2 clueless swedes with 20 crazy italians, half of which could barely speak english, it was just great fun. And the food was absolutely awesome! We got home at around 2.30 and this time I had no problem falling asleep.
Sunday: We got up at around 11 and got ready for another long day. We were all very very very tired so we stoped by a nice little street cafe for coffee and walked around the town for a bit, checked out the local cathedral and then we met up with some of the people from the night before for a little lunch. It was suppose to be little cause they said it was a “slice of pizza”. Yeah, it was a slice of a pizza – a 2 meter pizza!! And the crust was like an 3 cm. thick and 1/2 cm thick layer of mozarella all wrapped up in ham. Massive but oh what a feeling. Somehow everything tastes better in Italy 🙂
After that we went out to a little midevil tourist town and walked around in there for a while looking at swords and stuff we’d never get through customs, but it was nice anyway.
Then we went back to Milan to get the bus back to the airport. After the checkin and security screening and again being robbed of my shampoo and now even hairspray we were ready to get going home. But oh no, due to fog the plane had been redirected to it’s alternate airport so we had to take busses over there. That shouldn’t be a problem, right? but it took around 3 hours and we lifted off at 23:59:30 as opposed to 20:35:00! The reason I know it was 30 seconds before midnight is because the captain kept yelling that the aiport shuts down at midnight since it was close to a residential area and we had to leave NOW! And we made it with 30 seconds! Landed at 3 and got home and crawled into bed at 4 am, got up at 10 and went back to work!
Oh man what a weekend that was! It totally owned everything! The food, the company, the atmosphere, everything was just awesome!!!
(pictures coming soon)
After almost two years I’m going back to Italy today! Only for the weekend, coming home on sunday night. It’s a perfect example of just how social playing computer games can be – I’ve gotten to know a bunch of italians that I’ve played WoW with for about a year and now that our guild is splitting up and the WoW expansion coming on tuesday we thought “it’s now or never”. So now it is! So me and Mats are just about to leave now for a weekend that will be awesome!
And today I did something I’ve never done before – I passed the annual “let’s see if your car is road-worthy”. They have pretty high standards, MTV actually had a problem finding a car for “pimp my ride” since all cars were in such good condition due to this. And I’ve always failed on the first one, but that’s good cause you get a list of things that’ wrong and you go to the shop and say “fix it!”. But today it passed with flying colours!!
Had a weird dream last night. I don’t dream alot, or as far as I know anyway. For some reason I remembered alot of dreams when I was out travelling, but normally I don’t. But last night I had a really interesting dream that got me thinking. It was basically me waking up on my 14th birthday and changed some of the things in my youth and making my teens better. Some specific things in there but nothing I’m gonna go into. But it made me really think and consider if I could do things over and change stuff… would I, and would the outcome still be good? How many things in my life that are some of the most awesome things would never have happened. I wouldn’t have applied to college in Växjö if I’d known then what I know now. But if I didn’t do that, I might not have gotten the job at MinDator. And had I not worked there I wouldn’t have ended up at Pulsen and getting the job to travel the world. And I wouldn’t be here at the lawfirm either…
I don’t like dreams…
Sometimes when I write things here I don’t really think about exactly how other people will interpret it or feel about it. And as I was chatting with one of the girls I had dated last year I kinda realised how terribly special she must’ve felt about me saying “went through 3 girlfriends”. Didn’t really sound that good did it? And I don’t wanna be too nasty against the other two, but the only one that really had any affect on me was the last one, for alot of reasons. The other two didn’t work out and it didn’t really affect me that much and I don’t regret breaking it off. But I do regret not fighting more for the last one…
Anyway, been spending 2 days adding my diary entries for 2001-2004 now so you can all ready what pissed off back then. As always interesting flashback reading from when I was out travelling the world!
This weather situation is reallt gotten me worried man. I mean over the past 10 years the freezing cold & snow has arrived later and later every year but atleast it’s gotten freezing cold and we’ve had snow. So far this season I’ve yet to see the temperature go below zero and except for the blizzard in november and the 10 minutes of snow 2 days before christmas I haven’t really seen any snow at all. And it’s the 5th of january! I mean all of these “global warming alerts” have said we’re in trouble in like 50 years or something, but the way it’s now it’s gonna be in 5 years.
Every family has there odd little thing, habir or trait and ours became embarassingly obvious during the New Years Eve that I spent with my parents and sister. We were mostly just sitting around and enjoying the company and relaxed mood. And watching Vh1/Vh1 Classic and singing along to all songs, good or bad, old and new. Unfortunately there’s really no logical reason why I can sing-along to “I’m a Believer” but I can. And there’s really no reason why I know the videos so well that it took me one second to recognize the video for Lionel Ritchie’s “Dancing on the Cieling” but I did. One of these days I’ll stuff something usefull into that part of my brain…
That’s 2006 done with. Let’s do a little positive overview : I went through 3 girlfriends, had a blast at work, took myself out of the country twice, got my finances in order, lost a bit of weight and haven’t been to the hospital once (not counting my blood donations). A negative overview : I went through 3 girlfriends, only got out of the country twice, still don’t have a savings account, I’m still at 100 kg and I ended the year in a sad “where is my life going?” kinda way.
But overall 2006 was a good year that will mostly be remembered as the year of Warcraft for me. I would never say I wasted my time on it since it was so much fun and I made so many friends. I’m actually going down to Italy to party with a few of them. But it does feel like 2006 went by way too quickly and I could’ve, should’ve, done more with that year than playing a computer game that much.
So what does 2007 have in store for me?