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Shocked into action
Woke up this morning, made a cup of tea, and then turned on my monitor and fired up Vanguard. I leave my PC on all the time - usually running Azureus during the night. Anyway, I started chatting to my guild-mates, and suddenly I hear a *pop* from my PC. Through the grille on the side I see a flash of orange light, a wisp of smoke, and then everything goes dead.
So I'm finally forced out of my fantasy world and into facing all I've been neglecting for the last month. You might well ask what it is about games like Vanguard that's so appealing to me. Well, the ability to pretend the Real World doesn't exist for a while, I guess. Also, the chance to meet and play alongside some nice people, and *be* someone in that world. I'm a member of the largest Order Guild on our server, and I've built our guild HQ, and people ask me for advice and help with quests. I've a fair number of enemies on the other team, and get attacked on sight by a fair few of them, which has it's own prestige. I have a decent house-building business going. It's a world where I can achieve something - albeit ephemeral and virtual, but still meaningful to a large number of people.
So, in the real world, nothing much has been happening to me. Kurt and Gaelene have a new baby boy, Bruno and Karine have a little girl, Mandi and Angel have been to Kenya, but I've been sat in front of my PC for a month, while the grass grows longer outside and Mum busies herself with being busy (and trying desperately to involve me).
Well, I have been out on my driving lessons, which are going really well. My instructor says I'm on track to finish her syllabus by my tenth lesson, and then I should need another ten just for practice, going around doing all the test routes. I'm finally finding that some stuff becomes more automatic, and I'm more able to concentrate more on the road around me, the signs and cyclists and young mums pushing prams into the road in front of them.
So who knows, maybe I'll have my license before I go back to Canada in August? Mandi says that Angel's child-minder is off for the two weeks in the middle of August (11th to 27th effectively) so that will be the perfect time to go. It's a shame Kurt and Gaelene will probably be moving away from Toronto now that little Connor is here, as Angel loves babies. I suspect though that she will forget all that when she is up at Heather's cottage, with her two favourite pastimes - swimming and fishing - on tap 24hrs a day.
So I'm finally forced out of my fantasy world and into facing all I've been neglecting for the last month. You might well ask what it is about games like Vanguard that's so appealing to me. Well, the ability to pretend the Real World doesn't exist for a while, I guess. Also, the chance to meet and play alongside some nice people, and *be* someone in that world. I'm a member of the largest Order Guild on our server, and I've built our guild HQ, and people ask me for advice and help with quests. I've a fair number of enemies on the other team, and get attacked on sight by a fair few of them, which has it's own prestige. I have a decent house-building business going. It's a world where I can achieve something - albeit ephemeral and virtual, but still meaningful to a large number of people.
So, in the real world, nothing much has been happening to me. Kurt and Gaelene have a new baby boy, Bruno and Karine have a little girl, Mandi and Angel have been to Kenya, but I've been sat in front of my PC for a month, while the grass grows longer outside and Mum busies herself with being busy (and trying desperately to involve me).
Well, I have been out on my driving lessons, which are going really well. My instructor says I'm on track to finish her syllabus by my tenth lesson, and then I should need another ten just for practice, going around doing all the test routes. I'm finally finding that some stuff becomes more automatic, and I'm more able to concentrate more on the road around me, the signs and cyclists and young mums pushing prams into the road in front of them.
So who knows, maybe I'll have my license before I go back to Canada in August? Mandi says that Angel's child-minder is off for the two weeks in the middle of August (11th to 27th effectively) so that will be the perfect time to go. It's a shame Kurt and Gaelene will probably be moving away from Toronto now that little Connor is here, as Angel loves babies. I suspect though that she will forget all that when she is up at Heather's cottage, with her two favourite pastimes - swimming and fishing - on tap 24hrs a day.
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