DarqByte

So this is a dual blog post apparently… I thought about splitting it into two, but neither subject is really long enough to devote its own blog post to, unless they’re short posts.

Basically, today had a 45-minute window of blog posty goodness. I called up my Mom to talk to her while I finished up some things here at home and while I drove to church afterwards. A short time after I left my house, I asked her what she was doing at that moment, and she said she was playing World of Warcraft… Yes, seriously. My Mom was playing World of Warcraft. She’s been playing MMOs for a few years now. She started with a couple Disney MMOs, Toontown and Pirates, I believe. Her guild leader in Pirates apparently suggested repeatedly for her to give WoW a try, so she acquiesced and got an account.

Now she’s hooked on WoW. And it floors me. My Mom, playing World of Warcraft? How the hell did this happen? The most popular MMO and she’s playing it. Not only that, I’m not playing it! The reason I try not to play MMOs is because I know I’d get addicted. I have in the past. I played Earth and Beyond for quite some time after its release and I played it just about every moment I didn’t have something very important to do. There’s just too much time required to play MMOs. But here my Mom is, playing a game not even I play.

It’s just a little strange to me… I’m supposed to be the gamer, you know?

In any case, a few minutes before I hung up to head into church, I got a call from a 1-800 number and ignored it. I didn’t recognize the number and I was talking to my Mom for the remaining moment I had before walking in to church (which is nearly midway through service at this moment). Laura called me right as I hung up the phone with my Mom and told me that ADT called her about our alarm going off. Well, I knew who the 1-800 number was now.

I started driving back home and gave ADT a call. Our motion sensor had tripped and they’d already alerted the local police about 10 minutes before I got a real person on the phone there. I let them know I was on my way home and they took down my vehicle information so that the cops would know I was the homeowner.

So I got home before the police arrived and tentatively entered my home… Nothing out of place. No sign of entry, nothing moved, the dog happy as a clam to see me, the cat upstairs. Nada. The motion sensor is downstairs overlooking the dining and living rooms… How on earth it could have gotten tripped without any other zones going off is beyond me. The cat only weighs 10 pounds at the most, and the motion detector requires 50 pounds to set it off. So I have no clue what the hell happened.

I called ADT back and let them know it was a false alarm… And decided to write this blog post in the meantime. I think that the police still have to show up because the call was made, but I’m not sure. We’ll see later today if they show up.