August came in at 2 hours and 24 minutes.
That number is wrong and I want to say so before anybody gets attached to it.
Here's what the tracker gave me. 1 hour in WoW. 56 minutes in Guild Wars 2. And then 28 minutes filed under something, somewhere, doing who knows what. I have no idea. It's a rounding error with a mystery attached.
The real number is more like 10 to 15 hours, and almost all of the missing time happened in Vancouver.
We went up for Junior Pan Pacs. Jake was traveling with Team USA, which means he was with his team and I was a guy in a hotel room in a foreign country with a laptop and a lot of downtime between sessions. So I played. More in that week than I'd played at home all summer, actually. And apparently almost none of it got recorded, because I forgot to update the app, and then the new patch also updated the game, and I don't think I ran a new scan. Whether being outside the country made it worse, I honestly don't know. Seems like the kind of thing that could matter.
So there it is. A guy who spent an entire career on the quality of reported numbers, publishing a monthly figure he doesn't believe, in the same month he wrote thirty-one blog posts about the game he apparently only played for an hour. Beautiful.
Speaking of which. Blaugust. Thirty-one posts, thirty-one days, all of them up.
I have never finished Blaugust before. Not once, and not close. I've started it plenty of times and always trailed off somewhere in the second week when life got loud. This year I got all the way to the end, and doing it for Bel is the only reason I made it. I'm still a little surprised.
In terms of the play itself, I ran through all the new content and the new zone. It's interesting, but I'm not sure I'll be doing a ton more of it. Seems a bit grindy to me. I also finished up Loremaster for Midnight on Joar, which is something I'm always proud of. I like to see all the quests and side stories.
The brief excursion into Guild Wars 2 is because I'm not fully current on the content there, so I did a little bit of that and unlocked some new areas and things. It had been a while, so I'd forgotten a bit about where the story left us, but I'm getting back up to speed.
September should be a normal month, whatever that means anymore. Back to a weekly-ish posting schedule, back to the warlock, and back to a tracker that I will now be checking before I start playing rather than three weeks later while writing one of these.
Cheers,
Joar
