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Therefore Interactive invited me to fill their full time position as web-developer. Now i have to learn Drupal

Yesterday got some tasks, but currently (without Drupal knowledge), i’m not going to receive 8+ hours of work each day. Pretty motivating, right?

Yeah, that’s defenitely the best way i can describe this. Blizzard are worth of every cent we pay them for this game and it’s GTCs. Nice graphics, larger zones, interesting quests, old-Azeroth style environment. That’s what we were waiting for, much better in comaprision with Burning Crusade.

The first char who is discovering Northrend is Nagmara. Halfway to level 73 by now, rushed couple levels, trying to get 80 ASAP and join “Call of Blood” guild to start raiding from yearly days of this expansion. However my friends, who are already in this guild were level 76 yesterday and they are going to be 80 in next days. They have Naxxramas raid already scheduled and whole guild makes intensive levelling for this reason. A bit crazy, but i love such straight approach to raiding, tired of waiting for actual raiding when there was Burning Crusade.

P.S: Yesterday there was another thing that distracted me for more than 8 hours from World of Warcraft: it’s Fallout 3. I was waiting this game for years, and probably going to give my free time priority to it first, and only then to WoW.

Finally got my own Wrath of the Lich account upgrade. Cost me tons nerves lost, 4 hours of work for my customers from Canada on laptop with tiny display (terrible, really terrible), 3 hours of worthless tries to wake up my friends who taken Webmoney Transfer credit to buy just a CD-Key for WotLK. 3 hours in a train, and i’m tired like hell. No matter how Northrend is attractive for me, i want to sleep. Z-z-z-z-z-z.

Morning, I’m drinking hot tea now and thinking of what makes me work 12 to 16 hours per day when required and still not makes me hate this work. So far it’s only per-hour payments at oDesk. Was working for 13 hours yesterday on same project and will work for some time today on it too, but it’s really nice that i didn’t lose any percent of my motivation to work on this project - like it happense with large (or rush one) projects started on other freelance sites with fixed payments.

My friends are probably online and playing “World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King”, however Blizzard didn’t added direct download for addon files yet, neither they’ve enabled CD-KEY purchase through account. That means i will work couple more weeks without any distractions to this highly addictive MMORPG. Possibly will get another work, related to WoW by this weekend - to design a WoW guild site, slice, put on Wordpress, integrate with EQDKP and PHPBB3. Should be interesting, waiting for customers’ final decision on my candidature for this task.

Yeah, got some free time yesterday to gain some levels for Kats, again, no Hordes around so was alone when questing. But when i’ve returned to Farstriders Retreat to turn in completed quests i’ve noticed that there was a massacre there. Looks like this area wasn’t so empty as i expected and some Alliance must be had fun while waiting for Zul’Aman raid… i hate to wait for respawns. This is also true in regard to Horde NPCs.

Gods of this realm must be decided to award me for respawn delay and sent me a Tauren Druid in resto spec, named Seyriu who silently followed my char when I was completing troll quests. He just followed me, so I’ve decided to exploit this guy a little and make him help me with 5ppl quest in Deathholme. For all my attempts to start talking with him, he stayed silent. (more…)

Most likely I will not get WotLK files, neither I will get CD-KEY for account upgrade by the date of WotLK release. Only single though of farming something with 2 of my level 70’s when others are storming lands of Northrend make me crying. As result - new character called “Kats” of hunter class was born and successfully levelled 15 levels. Big cat with “Zyxel” nickname is helping him to kill these angry NPCs and earn these slowass experience bars. (more…)

Received this project through Scriptlance, to slice a contest page for new World of Warcraft web startup called “Manaview“, that will be started right before WotLK servers go live. Fresh idea, dark colors, nice graphical elements - I definitely like how it’s done and what it’ll be in a future. It was nice to work on this small task, since I’m also World of Warcraft player.

Things done: PSD slicing

URL: Local | Remote

According to Google Trends:

Great attention to rights of freelancers from side of oDesk staff makes this service more and more popular with every single day. Even with RentACoder that has fully featured arbitration system - i’ve found it too complex. While majority of freelance auctions often stand protecting buyer’s point of view, oDesk makes proper arbitration, so in most of cases they are protecting interests of providers (freelancers) from being scammed, abused e.t.c.

More freelance-related trends to be analyzed soon…

Wrath of Lich King to be released by Blizzard on 13 Nov. That was primary reason for me to unfreeze my World of Warcraft account and wait for release date.

I’m not sure if I will be able to get WotLK files and CD-KEY the same day when other people will get it from BOX version, but there’s always a time to wait until my friends will download a EU torrent of Collectors Edition that hit german torrent trackers by the night of Collectors Edition at 7 Nov. By today my friends already downloaded almost 60% of that torrent, so i assume the only problem will be to get enough money by release day to purchase a CD-KEY from russian PIN-shops.

2 characters are waiting for their time to step into cold lands of Northrend:

Navium (lvl70 Orc Warlock)

Nagmara (lvl70 BE Rogue)

This is second version of my former blog plus portfolio previously hosted on this domain. After unsuccessful experience of assembling the team of professionals i’ve decided to continue solo freelancing. For now everything is empty here, but it’s a subject to get this blogfolio filled with works and receive attention from me, doing daily blogging.