Having survived the slightly turbulent flight home and in deference to watching stupid, ugly people on television, I decided to install the WoW expansion and have a butchers at the new content. And blog about it too. After all, why not?

21:40 - Load disc 1 and start install
21:55 - Things progressing nicely
22:04 - Disc 4 fails, installation stops, swearing ensues
22:08 - Start copying discs to hard drive. 15 mins per disc? Wtf?
22:09 - Launch WoW, starts to download 2.05 update
22:12 - Try getting into WoW again.
22:13 - “Your account is registered for the expansion which requires newer files. Please install these files.”
22:15 - “Failed to copy disc 4. Cyclical redundancy doodah encountered.”
22:30 - Locate torrent of required file after discovering that disc 4 is fucked up for a lot of European users. But 12 hours to download? Damn!
22:38 - Pour another glass of wine. Try cleaning disc 4. 16 hours left on download. 16? Wtf?
23:17 - Finished perusing Zach Braff’s blog (Scrubs is teh funnae!), try one last time to copy disc 4 before going to bed. It works! Jaw hits ground.
23:43 - Out of wine, on the Baileys. Expansion installed? Check. Patches reapplied? Check. Terms of Service agreed to? Check. Time to go to bed? Quite probably! Sigh!

Two hours to get it installed - typical IT project all in all. More tomorrow.