Musings from a Late Friday Night

1. The Amanda McClendon ordered list format returns, at least for this one particular blog post. That reminds me, I haven't done Thursday 13s in a long time. It looks like they're still going; I may participate this coming Thursday.

2. RotD had a great run through the Karazhan dungeon tonight. We had 7 veterans and 3 freshly-dinged level 70s. Most of us who have been in that zone every week since April 2007 have everything they want from the zone, so the newer folks basically got to rake in the phats (and rake they did!). It was really nice to hear the excitement in their voices: "I can have that, really?"

3. The one bad thing about the raid tonight was that it ended at midnight, after the thunderstorm that hit Austin this evening had passed. Consequently, I cannot sleep tonight.

4. We finally, over a year later, have moved the piano to my house. I have discovered today that my skill in piano playing has...er...decreased somewhat. In this case, "somewhat" is defined as kind of a lot. In particular, I'm noticing that my thumbs really, really hurt. Also, I'm very consistently, especially on my right hand, hitting 1-5 chords when I mean to hit 1-6 chords. This seems to happen most often when I mean to play C and A and play C and G instead. It doesn't sound good. I may have to backtrack to something easier than O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.

5. I had lunch with my new co-workers yesterday. They seem to be a lot of fun; I'm looking forward to working with them. I got a basic briefing on what I will be doing, saw my new computer and where I'll be sitting, and all that stuff. I'm a little nervous, but overall I'm pretty excited.

6. My cats love the piano. Rain, in particular, seems to like the sound of G.