My main is a lvl30 Hunter NE

Those in the know will have recognised the World of Warcraft leetspeak.
I've started playing less than 2 months ago, I'm hooked.

In a nutshell, WoW is an computer game that one plays on the internet. A massive virtual world has been invented and is hosted on an equally massive server, where every player has a character.
Of a given race (human, dwarf, gnome, night elf, Draenei, orc, troll, undead, tauren or blood elf)
Of a given class (warrior, mage, priest, warlock, hunter, paladin, shaman, druid, rogue)
And then on with a list of attributes that make it unique (or so they say).

Everyone character lives in the same world, so I can play with other characters to fulfill quests I've received in the game and that are too hard to complete by myself. When I meet a character from the Horde (bad guys, me Alliance good guy), battle ensues and I usually lose.
The items (like pieces of armor, weapons, potions, food...) I win from killing monsters (that aren't players from the Horde) I can use for myself, or sell to other players. Which means, if I need a new piece of armor, I'm going to buy it from another player too.

There are many things going for this game/type of game. It's become fairly popular, so the player population isn't only teenage male nerds with no social life. The fact that you can play many kinds of characters (fighters/healers, tall/small, cute/ugly, male/female, loyal/vicious...) gives the opportunity to be someone else "in there". The world is big and varied, the quests are challenging, the interactivity is pretty good. I like it.

So, what does it say about me?
I'm a night elf, the tallest and supposedly most beautiful race. I'm a male, that says what that says. I'm a hunter, I kill from afar and let a domesticated pet (a boar at the moment) get beaten for me. But I'm not killing from behind like a rogue. And I can play solo a lot.
My first profession is miner, because everyone wants metal and I can sell it at insane prices and be rich fast.
My second profession is enchanter, but I don't like it much.
I can cook, fish and make bandages (cuz everyone can and I need to feed my pet).
I'm level 30 in less than 2 months. I'm playing way to much.
Oh and I talked at the first person, which means that I'm a good audience, and that maybe I put too much of myself in there.

If anyone plays WoW on the european servers (in french or english), let me know. I'd very much like to try a horde chara, a warlock, and Engineering professions. And it may just be fun to meet halfway between the immaterial world of the blog and the very material world of RL.

Lhaatinn

a month of news

The sad news of the day (for an aircraft enthusiast)
We have received a little mail at work this afternoon that the A300-600 MSN878 has left the Final Assembly Line at Airbus today. This particular aircraft is the last aircraft of the Wide Body family that was to be built by airbus. It's the direct descendant of the A300B2 that first flew on October 28th, 1972 and launched airbus into the aeronautics industry.
!972 was years before my birth, by I still feel quite sad to see those airplanes go. Of course, those that have just been delivered will still fly for many years for their operators, but still, I'm sad. And those who lived in toulouse around 1973-1974 (as my parents who I sent a mail to to annouce the news) may feel a bit of nostalgy tonight.

Apart from that, you ask?
I'm going to Paris this week end, see friends, see Flo, see Manon, and party like hell.
I'm going to Holland for Easter, see the parents, see the tulips and eat a pannekoek.
Work is ok, better than it had been for a long time. Except I have maybe too much to handle at the moment.

Post scriptum: Flo, j'ai toujours la photo de ta gamine dans son fauteuil/landau ou autre sur le bureau sur mon ordi. A chaque fois que je vois la vignette, je m'arrete dessus. Et je dois bien ouvrir la photo 3 fois par jour. J'ai hate de vous revoir.

Post scriptum 2: everyone else, Flo has the cutest baby ever, and I'm seeing them both in 5 days!!! I stand by my statement.