The Horde suuuuuucks

Sigh. I said I'd come to Fan Fest early and meet up with some of the other blogfolk, but we didn't get done playing the World of Warcraft boardgame until 1:30am. This time, Josh and Jarrett were Alliance, Cory and Justin and I were Horde. I was a warlock, Cory was the warrior, Justin was a... oh crap, a hunter or something? I dunno. Josh was a rogue, "Mike" was a paladin, and I think Jarrett was a priest.

We got totally totally smacked down in the final PvP, because they had people (everyone, I think) at level 5 and we couldn't get there. I think we made several large tactical errors and got boned by our quests mostly being either 1) inconvenient 2) bogged down by independent creatures. Grr. At least we lasted three rounds of the final PvP... I think last time we played, we Alliance took out Josh and Cory's Horde faction in about a round and a half, though it was partially because Justin was using a slightly broken Mage power. Ah well. This time I also didn't get nearly enough cool loot. My character didn't seem able to use or wear ANYTHING we picked up.

Um, but it was fun.

I'm going to go try to gather together some stuff for Fan Fest and then try to sleep. I really do want to get there early, but who knows. I'll be hanging out with other Mariners bloggers because I don't actually have any friends nuts enough to go to Fan Fest. Here's hoping I get autographs from either Felix or Johjima!

Fan Fest and stuff

In short, I woke up at 7:30am and went to Fan Fest today. Hung out with Paul from Mariners Morsels and his brother-in-law all day, hung out with Conor from the Grand Salami and his dad for part of the day. Got Kenji Johjima to sign a baseball card for me. Did NOT manage to stutter out my planned "城島さんは英語が上手ですね!" which is probably just as well. I DID get my picture taken by a Japanese media dude, though, and I ended up translating Japanese conversation a couple times during the day. I can't actually throw a baseball 60 feet, as evidenced by trying to in the bullpen. Jarrod Washburn is really cute and funny, but I knew that already. I got Bill Bavasi and Rick Rizzs to sign my FF ticket and I got Mike Hargrove to sign a baseball card. Hargrove, Bavasi, and Howard Lincoln (the Mariners CEO or something) are all left-handed. Crazy! We ran into USSM uber-commenter MSB at one point when she was on her way out, and I also got a ton of compliments on my shirt but didn't run into any other blog folk. George Sherrill's brother called Paul while we were wandering around, too, which was pretty crazy. I'll write up more on Marinerds tomorrow and include pictures, although to be fair, most of my pictures SUCK :( Stupid lighting!

Got home around 5. Went up to Nykkel's house, where he and DJ and Phaedrus and Met were playing the WoW board game, but were already several turns in. Pam and Rumi and Farren and Minwiz were playing Tichu, and Met and Rumi had to leave... rather than me jumping in and taking over Met's character in WoW, I ended up playing Tichu with the others for like 4 hours. Then we all went to a diner-like place down the street from Nykkel's. I had a really good burger (or maybe it's just that I'm not sure I've had a burger in several weeks, period). Came back, they played Ra, I played Guitar Hero. My impression of Guitar Hero is that it's pretty neat, and the song selection is decent... but just like Guitar Freaks, it hurts my wrist after a while. Sigh.

Now I am home and exhausted. Should sleep soon I hope.