bruceb

Wow. It's just plain a pleasant evening.

My Hordeside rogue went on the most amazingly smooth Karazhan run ever. We got a boss every half hour like clockwork, and had one partial wipe (accidental aggroing of ghosts in one of the balconies overlooking the opera stage) and two deaths in an accidental aggroing of patroling guards on the way to the Maiden of Virtue. And that was it. I ended up making out like a bandit, so to speak, on the loot, too. It was fun sharing the dawning recognition that we were in on something great, and working to keep it going.

I also got a bit of writerly pleasure out of my current reading, Scott Turow's 2005 novel Ordinary Heroes. The narrator's a recently retired reporter looking to find out more about his father, who's passed away just before the story begins. He says early on that he's intended to write a book but that it didn't quite work out, partly because, well, who really cares anymore about the decades-old story of the sensational death of an assistant prosecutor?