15-03.28.72 in Book Two: The Fifteenth Year of the Third Millennium of the Common Era

Hopefully, this will be as brief as I intend it to be.

Saturday was Destiny Raid day. There were… frustrations. We’d never done this raid before so I looked up some tips and tricks but the Raid Leader never listens to me. Fine, okay, whatever. BUT when things start getting tough… he stops paying attention. Like the stress of battle gets to him and so he takes his mind off the game and starts worrying about his dog or cats or talking with his wife. Then when we slam our collective heads against the same brick wall for an hour, the Leader suddenly has something to do soon so we’ll need to think about quitting and scheduling another attempt some other time. It is frustrating. One of the reasons I tend to start making Screw Drivers after 3 hours into the raid when we do this. This time… the raid went for a full bloody 8 HOURS! Some teams get through this friggin raid in 42 minutes! And the part that we kept banging our heads against? It has a 3 minute maximum requirement… which means… focus, follow a plan, then you have it. Over and over and over again Leader would say “Oops, sorry guys, didn’t see that” or “Shit, sorry guys, couldn’t react quick enough.” And I just wanted to scream at him but (1) he’s very sensitive; (2) he’s normally an awesome guy and I don’t want to offend him; and (3) whoever breaks first would have to lead the team for the rest of the Raid and I simply didn’t want to do that.

Problem is… through my Screw Driver coping mechanism… I went through the entire bottle of Vodka in one day. It freaked the hell out of my wife when she found out when she came back from work. Terrible thing is? I didn’t even have a hangover or anything the next morning.

Sunday wasn’t much of a day at all, really. Laundry and errands and cleaning… oh my. Today I had a spot of work but mostly my brain has been fixating on the bar… so I shake it, and it starts to fixate on Marriage Counseling… so I shake it, and it starts to fixate on Wedding Photos… so I shake it, and it starts to fixate on Mortal Kombat.... which slowly bleeds into thinking about the Bar again and starting the whole process over!

15 Days until Mortal Kombat
16 Days Until Bar Results are released
70 Days since the last time I heard from the wedding photographer: Jan 19th
1 Counseling Session Down; 3 Sessions scheduled.

I’m keeping track of my dragons and anxieties as best as I can… seems about all I can do right now.