Wish me luck. I have my first interview with 38 Studios next week. It’ll be over the phone, which is always tough.
If they like me, I’ll be moving to Boston in a few months time.
Needless to say this post is locked to “friends only” until I know more, specifically because folks at work read this.
Ahh, my ‘nom de guerre’, which is the title this journal takes, is “Ri’Hahn Na’Horain”. This name was given to me by Wolf many, many years ago and has become almost as much a part of my daily existence as the name on my driver’s license.
Seriously. Google ‘rihahn” some time, it’s scary. And you can see that I’m fairly ‘into’ gaming.
Let’s see, there’s the predicessor to ‘Ri’Hahn’ which was ‘Flinthorn Gamboge’… Which was the name of a character I created for D&D back in 1976-ish. This one can also be shortened to “Flint” by folks whom I’ve known for just short of eternity.
About, oh, 20 years ago now I created a “bad guy” in a role playing game named ‘Raeshlavik’ (Ravik for short) who is also quite well known and the name is usually spoken in hushed tones with a lot of glancing around to make sure one isn’t about to become an h’ordeurve.
I guess, in a technical sense, even the name I go by at work, “Bill”, is actually a nickname as my name is William.
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Here in Colorado we’ve entered the few weeks between winter and summer known as ‘mud season’. It’s oddly ‘Seattle’ outside; overcast, cool, and very, very wet with that patented Washington mist that doesn’t look too bad but will soak you through in short order.
This is one of my favorite times of year.
Everything appears clean and the closeness of the clouds seems to take the edge off of the world. It is still and quiet here on my deck as the world sleeps in for another hour or two and leaves me in peace.
There’s also the fact that the world around me seems more alive on mornings like this; when humanity is muted and the budding greens of the plants, fresh from their evening watering, appear more vibrant in contrast to the grey of the sky.
For the last few days there’s been this positively mental woodpecker flying around the complex. He seems to have decided that the metal chimneys and vents on the roofs are excellent things to bang on…
Every morning I hear his staccato banging on metal – “bbrrraaannng!” – then he calls out in that tarzan-movie jungle bird way that woodpeckers have…
The few times I’ve actually seen him he appears to be a Northern Flicker, which is pretty typical up in the hills, but I’ve never seen one down here in the flat lands. But, the guy is just looking for a mate and they tend to bang on the most resonate thing they can find for this purpose.
He’ll be done in a few weeks if the neighbors don’t have him killed first.
For me, he’s a welcome diversion from the herds of pigeons…
A week or so ago a lot of the guys and gals from my old WoW guild “put the band back together” with the goal of trying it again, but this time without all the drama a few select folks brought with them. Everyone is also more of a ‘Horde’ player so the decision was made to start up something on the Horde-side of the fence again… So “Wrath’s Hand” was formed and everyone was contacted to see if they were interested in playing again.
So I resurrected one of the first characters I made in WoW which I deleted about three years ago, a Tauren Druid named ‘Mishakawe’, and have been playing on and off for a week or so. I also rolled up a Tauren warrior, but haven’t made it to the double digits yet.
We’re on the Horde side of the same server I’ve been on for a long time now, “Tanaris”, and so far we’re raising a lot of hell and giving the poor Alliance folks daily panic attacks in the battlegrounds… The other day three of us from the guild; a hunter named, ‘Knoxic’, another druid ‘Arx’ and myself, kept 20+ Alliance out of Drek’Thar’s chamber in AV for over a half an hour while the other 30+ Horde players took the north end of the map and won.
3 on 20 and we were destroying them…
Later on the Blizzard forums we got a few compliments and a lot of grousing regarding our performance. We merely pointed out that we were actually from the server ‘Lightninghoof’, a PVP server, and cut our teeth on the hides of Alliance players back when the game first came out… The undead priest I have that replaced the druid has over 13,000 registered Alliance kills from back before multi-server battlegrounds and arenas – back when the warfare was far more personal because the figthing took place out in the world and was contained on the server.
So, yeah, I have been doing a little bit outside of work.
Went and caught the matinee of “Ironman” yesterday morning…
It’s a nerdgasm – might even be classified as ‘gadget porn’.
The movie is probably a must-see for the movies this year, and in my opinion the best comic-to-movie translation yet.
The actor they picked to play Tony Stark was, in a word, awesome.
Anyways, I’m off to work. Try to have a great day out there.