I have, unfortunately, succumbed to World of Warcraft. Curse them. Anyway, for the first time I’ve had to queue to get into my usual Realm. Irritating, but the sort of thing that happens with a popular game.

Until I see the queue display. It has the usual things you’d expect, like “Position in Queue” and “Estimated Time” numbers, only they don’t appear to be anything other than randomly generated numbers. The “Position in Queue” number certainly doesn’t go down like I’d expect – I started at just under 100 and am currently up to 145. The “Estimated Time” bounces from 108 minutes to 11 or so, with no sign of rhyme or reason. I can certainly assume it has no bearing on the time I’m going to be waiting.

Do you know how bored and irritated I am? I’m seriously thinking of writing some Open Office dot Org Calc macros that would allow me to easily do a timeline. I actually want to see how the values change over time. Actually, maybe this just shows how geeky I am.

What definitely [Expletive Deleted]es me off is the “Position in Queue”. Why the [Expletive Deleted] is that going up?! Is there someone pushing ahead in line somehow? A couple of hundred someones? Why do they get in before me?

Or, failing that, why is the “Position in Queue” value so incredibly inaccurate? What the [Expletive Deleted] is it for?!

In other news, today I broke the entire work, and recieved a fake lottery scan by actual postal mail from actual Spain. I consider those things to cancel themselves out.