Realms are up
The extended maintenance has ended, and it appears most (if not all) realms are up and available for use.
Today's extended maintenance was particularly painful for me. I had to do the following, in order:
Wake up and write The Queue
Work on a couple other things for WoW Insider
Clean the cat's box
Go out to Barns & Noble and buy season 3 of Weeds and a couple books
Pickup a Strawberry and Cream drink from the Starbucks at B&N
Come home and take a nap
Wake up from said nap with my cat stepping on my liver
Make this post
Phew! But now that the realms are up I can get back to the thing I really love... riding in circles around Dalaran on my mount for hours as I wait for groups to form.