I survived Patch 3.3 …

Who needs a shield when you have an axe?

... and all I got was this lousy shield.  Of course, by lousy, I mean totally awesome.  Not only does it have a delicious amount of haste, but it makes me look just like Batman.  (If, y'know, Batman were a seven foot tall bipedal cow with comely green eyes and a wicked two-step. >.>)

In other news, guess who neglected to start the attunement quest for the new Icecrown Citadel 5-mans, thereby wasting the reset (not only for herself, but for the four others who were too loyal to continue on without her)?

*raises hand*  *shameface* 

While I'd love to divert attention from that embarassing admission by sharing my first impressions of Icecrown Citadel, the truth is that I missed most of it.  I spent the first 30 minutes of the raid on /follow while I tried to figure out why Grid, Dominos and Buffalo weren't working, in spite of having been updated via the Curse client just moments before.  (For the record, it was Button Facade, which I hadn't bothered to update pre-raid on the grounds that it was "purely cosmetic."  Once I disabled it, I realized that my custom UI wasn't broken, merely hidden.)

For a patch night, the realm and instance servers were remarkably stable.  There were a few glitches, including a 10-minute window in which several players who had disconnected were unable to log back on.  When they finally made it online, they were ported to Dalaran (one of them dead! — fittingly, a rogue :p) and were unsummonable. 

Still, we managed to down Lord Marrowgar and Lady Deathwhisper before calling it a night.  I know some guilds on our server cleared the entire wing, and I'm torn between disappointment that we weren't one of them, relief that we were able to raid at all, and excitement that there is still new content to look forward to tonight.