OK, so I broke down, I've succumbed to the man. I've bought WoW. I discovered I can pay online with my Citizens' Bank debit card, so that simplifies things greatly. I've installed it and created an account but I am d/ling 50+MB of updates at the moment, and the Blizzard Downloader is being frustratingly slow. It vascillates from nice rates such as 20ish KB/s to naughty rates like 2 KB/s. Very frustrating, especially when the 'upload' rate is a fairly constant 10ish KB/s. It looked promising for a moment when I reconfigured my firewall to open up the ports that the BD likes, but the speed boost (into the 30's) only lasted for about a minute. Curses. Hrm...perhaps I need to adjust my Windows firewall as well. I shall have to try that.
Aside from that, not much happening. I got a USB extension cable so that I'm done with the re-cabling I did yesterday but OfficeMax was out of/didn't have the command Cable Bundlers that I love so much. Therefore, I was unable to do the remaining cabling in the office, and now with WoW on my harddrive, I have no idea when that'll actually get done.
Dina'll be home tonight, by way of Zack's car. That makes me happy.
Nothin' much going on, hopefully tomorrow I'll meet up with SHSers and go crash the high school, mebbe grab lunch too, seeing that I still have a gift certificate to Alice's that I got for my birthday, and that certainly does me no good while I'm at CMU.
[EDIT:] Well, I 'reconfigured' the WindowsXP Firewall (by 'reconfiguring I mean turned off) and that seems to have helped (knock on wood) even though the 'Blizzard Downloader' was on its exception list. The download rate is now averating like 14-15 KB/s which is much, much better.
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