Servers down for maintenance all day and now cannot play, stuck on 'Retrieving Character List'. Argh, withdrawl pains. What else is there to do???

The most recent quests I have been on have been of the 'get twelve lots of rats ears' variety. So I go off killing rats and only about one in five them appear to have ears, and then only one ear at that??? Means I have to kill sixty of the things to complete the quest which is getting pretty tedious.
My plan for using copper bombs to draw out individuals for slaughter works when I get tired of waiting for them to appear on the periphery. At these higher levels there seem to be fewer people around willing to do group raids: maybe at level 14 the players are thinning out?
Had my first flight on a griffin: much better than walking, the lands are huge and there is a lot of too-and-fro to IronForge and back.
Just hope the quests get more interesting.
Twitterings

I know I would feel the same, I know that I would get stuck. Every time I see a wow box at the store I run. I have managed to stay away from it! I don't have the time, I got a family... I must stay away.. resist.. resist... Stop writing about WOW ;) Resist...
:)