WoW Blogging Challenge - Day 12 – A usual day in your life/online time

Well, on a normal day, I reluctantly get out of bed, get ready and do a round trip of 6km on the bicycle to drop my son at Kindergarten.

I get back home, make some breakfast, and fire the PC up.

First things I open are my chat clients.. and yes, I'm an introvert, but there are a couple of people I can stand to have around me all day without feeling exhausted :P

Next up is my crappy crossword. I don't feel like the day has started until I've groaned at the clues.

I then go through the forums of all the guilds I'm members of, chipping in if I feel like it.  I never read official forums to anything, I just generally find they're full of wankers, jerks or trolls..  Besides, if there's anything of note (and this applies to the entire internet, not just forums) someone will mention it to me so I don't have to sift through piles of crap myself.

Then I open my blog up, and read through the latest posts in my links.

I then have to make sure I'm ahead of all my Facebook friends in Bejeweled Blitz by a margin of at least 100,000.  (Moi, competitive much?)

Depending on the time, I might then open something like WoW and do a couple of daily quests, or a quick dungeon in DDO, or bimble around in LOTRO.

Then I have to do another 6km round trip on the bicycle to fetch the little un.  I know 6km isn't much, but I am unfit dammit.. this is the most exercise I've ever done in my life.

We have lunch.. and yes, sometimes that consists of pootling out to one of the 6 nearby bakeries for cakes or pastries..

Afternoons are interesting.  The little un and I do drawing, reading, making monsters out of play doh, playing Crocodile v Captain Hook, or Crocodile v Shark, then he's allowed his computer on for a bit, and his favorite websites are Nickjr.com, Disney Junior - and he is great at the games and activities, and youtube, where his current favorite videos are this one, and this one.

In between doing all that, I'm usually logged into one game or another giving it about 20% of my attention.  I die a lot.

I'll sometimes watch a film, or an episode of a series instead.
As it's now X Factor UK season, I'll now be trying to watch as much of that as possible.
Speaking of X Factor, I'm loving the new panel.  I was very much a Dannii fan, but I think the new panel gels really well together.  Also, I'll out myself as having been a closet Gary Barlow fan.. I have 100s of unsent letters to him from my youth :P 

In the evenings, add a cocktail, or a glass of wine or beer, into the mix,  and rinse, repeat, really.

What game I play, and which character I log in, are really dependent on mood at the time.. and that is infinitely variable :)

Of course that's all just a normal day, you'll have to wait for my memoirs to read about me being an underworld spy, or winning the races at Saratoga...