Secrets of Shadowbolting

So when most people hear “ZA raid on Tuesday” that’s no big deal to them. Well, I must be special as I see to have unique challenges wherever I go. Today was my first day at a new job and I go out to dinner with my new boss KNOWING that ZA starts at 9pm. I’m at my hotel by 8:10 – plenty of time to get set up for 8:30 invites. Except…it’s my luck. Nothing goes as planned. The “free wireless” only has 2 bars and alternates between 3 bars and no bars of service. No biggie. I’ll hop on my cell modem….. 2-3 bars of service.

Ok. I’m not panicking. There’s an Ethernet jack in the room….no link lights…. So I cal the front desk. “call our 1-800 support line” *sigh* fine. I’m a tech nerd but I’ll play by your rules. After sitting on hold for 7 mins the brilliant tech offers this solution. “replace your Ethernet cable”. Ugh. Fine. Called the front desk. The “internet engineer”/janitor/handy man stops by to see what the trouble is. I explain my problem, there’s no link lights and I don’t have a strong enough connection for my graphics intensive business meeting in 20 mins. The hotel resets their routers. Still no service in my room. Tech stops by again, has no luck with his laptop; concludes I am not crazy. Tries to find me a new room with working Ethernet but the hotel is booked. So he offers me use of his work room or a public line in the lounge area. Well I cant play wow in the open and pretend it’s a business meeting so I choose the workroom.

While we sort out ZA and the crew that is going the janitor stops by a few times to check on me. In the middle of clearing our way to the hex lord he brings me bottled water since I have been there an hour and a half. How sweet…except my raid members are laughing hysterically at me as I’m sitting in the janitor’s work room under the stairs in my hotel with my headset on and my mouse so I can raid.

I’m also on 4 hours of sleep since I was up till midnight doing a kara run the night before and was up around 4:30am for a early flight today. Talk about raiding dedication.

I go outside to get some ice before bed, run into the housekeeping guy and he says that i’m getting a room change tomorrow to a room with working internet.

oh to be an empowered female who wants her internet….

and now it is SO time for sleep.