I am alive. Barely

It was touch and go there for a bit.

I exaggerate but it certainly felt like I was dying. Monday afternoon my stomach started to feel a bit perturbed. At first I thought it was because I was nervous about my dentist appointment, but the appointment went fine and my stomach kept getting worse, until at around 6 p.m. I went to go lie down in the bedroom. This ended with me on the bathroom floor, sweating and shaking, using roughly 99% of my willpower to avoid throwing up. I did not throw up, I managed to call sashagee at the other end of the house thanks to our Apple watches, and she helped me get into bed and put a bunch of cold compresses on me, which cooled me down. She did this one other time, when the fever returned in the middle of the night, but that was the last of it.

Not the last of the sickness, though. My stomach has still been on edge since Monday, and it actually feels worse today than it did yesterday. I barely ate anything on Tuesday, only really ate dinner on Wednesday, and we'll see what I eat today. But I'm back on the internet and making this post, so that counts for something. I'm also back at work after taking Tuesday and Wednesday (my usual days in the office) off. I'm not back at 100%--maybe 60%--but I'm still doing better than I was Monday afternoon so hopefully I can put in a good day.

Laila is totally happy and healthy and בעזרת השם she'll stay that way. Maybe her brain troubles have rendered her immune to lesser illnesses--she didn't get the plague when both sashagee and I had it either.

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The WoW token has come to classic.

From Blizzard's website:

WoW Tokens provide players with a convenient, sanctioned, secure way to exchange gold for game time or Battle.net Balance directly through the in-game Auction House. Getting gold has never been simpler!

Bluntly, it's pay to win, the exact scourge that is corrupting all of modern gaming with monetization and deliberately making games worse but letting you pay to make them okay again. Not necessarily by default, but Classic is full of GDKP runs--raids where people spend their in-game gold to bid on item drops. Being able to spend real money--at a $20 per token to 15$ WoW subscription price, no less--ends up with more power. And this is especially funny because Blizzard decided not to put the automatic dungeon finder into classic to maintain the community feel, even though the automatic dungeon finder was introduced during the original Wrath of the Lich King, but they are putting in the WoW token because they're throwing up their hands at combatting RMT and gold sellers. If you can't beat them [scammers and thieves], join them [scammers and thieves].

Especially funny because Blizzard president Mike Ybarra's guild sells raid boosts. I think they weren't so reluctant to introduce the WoW token as they claim.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be buying Diablo IV.