Tuesday (6 Apr) - Another Home Project

Tuesday (6 Apr) - Another Home Project

Wild might get an invite to the guild 25 man ICC raid Tuesday night. The idea that there should be a more even distribution of boss fights between the two raid nights seems to be taking hold. Using a raid feature called Lockout, some parity between the two nights of raiding looks possible. It would work like this. Normally a raid "resets" on maintenance day (Tuesday). That means that no matter how far into ICC we got on the previous Tuesday/Wednesday, come the next Tuesday night the raid will be "fresh" and we have to start with the first boss again. However, if you use Lockout after the Wednesday raid and before the following Tuesday maintenance, the raid will not be refreshed. The bosses downed the previous week will still be dead and the raid would pick up where they left off. So instead of facing the farmable content on that Tuesday, that raid would be facing the more difficult bosses. After that Tuesday raid the guild would "unlock" the raid, allowing ICC to be refreshed, and so the Wednesday raid would arrive to a fresh dungeon, with all bosses (even the ones on farm) available to tackle. By doing this consistently week to week, both nights would get opportunities on both farmable content and the tougher progression bosses. Since Wild initiated the idea of evening up the two raid nights, there was a chance Wild might get a Tuesday invite.

There was a second, even better reason for Wild's improved chances to get into the Tuesday raid. The Tuesday raid regular druid healer had reported on the guild website that he would not be able to make the raid. He is typically the only druid healer assigned for that night. So on this night a spot for a druid healer would be available.

However, we started a new home project on Tuesday, and I wasn't sure if I'd make it to the raid.

The project - finishing the garage. We also had a side project that fit quite nicely into the garage work. We had planned some maintenance for our RV, so it would be out of the way at the RV shop while we did the garage. Everything was planned out and ready to go starting Tuesday morning.

We had rented a truck, and were planning to pick it up at 10am. Before doing that, we needed to move our 27 foot RV from our driveway to the street, to make room for the truck. That's when we had our first problem. One of the interior tires on the RV was flat. Not just low. Completely flat. The truck had to wait while we got the RV over to the tire company. We lost almost two hours time.

Once we got to the Budget rental place to pick up our truck, they originally gave us the wrong truck (10 ft instead of the 14 footer we needed), and we lost another hour getting that straightened out.

Finally, with the RV at the tire shop and the truck in the driveway, I was able to get started. My job was to completely empty the garage into the truck, so that we could start work on the garage. We have a full garage, and it included two large 4x4 kennels for two cats we are fostering, as well as a heavy treadmill, a freezer, and of course tons of junk accumulated over the years. And this was after I had spent a week clearing out stuff that we really didn't need. That took all day and then some. The tire company had bad news. I would be buying more than just one tire, and not only that there were brake problems. Adding to that is that we found an electrical problem in the garage (amazing the things you discover when moving things around) that had to be fixed before we could start work on anything else. Luckily we have an electrician we've used for years, and he made a special trip to help us out. But it cost us more time.

At 5pm I left a message on the guild website that I was not likely to make the raid. It was after 7pm by the time we finished the "getting ready" part. Wild did not make the raid.

On Wednesday the real work starts - drywalling and insulating the walls, painting, and also finishing the ceiling. We still have to get the RV, back from the tire company, to the RV shop for maintenance. I wonder what surprises are still in store.