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Farewell to Frost

We are into season 2 of WoW's Midnight expansion and I'm finally benching my Frost Mage. What can I say, I'm stubborn and my mage has been Frost spec long before Frost was cool. Frost Mage has been controversial in the most recent expansion. Sometimes the damage is...

Blaugust 2026 Wrap Up: Meeting My Goals

My participation in this year's festival was never about doing a daily blog post. There are several participants who did hit that milestone and I will edit this post later to share the stats that are being gathered from the participants. My plan this time around was...

Blaugust 2026: Lessons Learned Group Project

I had it in mind that the final group project was August 31st rather than August 30th. A day late is about par for the course for me this month. August went by FREAKY-fast this year. I will post separately about my overall goals for this year's festival. For this...

Blaugust Staying Motivated Week

Motivation, goals, achievements... all things that gurus tell us we should have, track and celebrate. For today's group project, rather than a non-blogging achievement that I'm especially proud of, I'm going to write about an achievement tied to having a goal, and...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects – Blind Choice

This topic idea from Lucky Instar's blog can be done at any time during Blaugust. "Announcing a group project called Blind Choice - to introduce a bit of randomness to your blogging adventure. Also writing about my own entry for it, which ended up being about weird...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects: Dungeon Crawler Carl Achievements

(Note, there are some spoilers in this post if you haven't read past book 4 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books)Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl books have become very popular in the past few months. I've seen ttrpg games based on them and talk of making a TV...

Do You Ever Walk Away From A Book?

Jun 25, 2011

I've been reading David Drake's Daniel Leary series over the past couple of months. There are several books in the series, but I realized that it is taking me longer to finish than is usual for me. I even read a couple of other books in between these, and gobbled them...

All About the Snappy Rejoinder

Jun 21, 2011

I've been thinking about my book collection lately and the books that I'm willing to re-read. Most of them have a lot of sarcasm and gentle ribbing between the main characters. One of the early series of books I picked up, and read many times, was David Edding's...

To Rift or Not To Rift…

Jun 21, 2011

It finally happened. I logged in to Rift and I had no desire to do anything, even daily quests. I started thinking about emptying my character's mailboxes, the same thing I did when I was ready to mothball my WoW account. I still have the possibility of doing some...

Memorable quotes

Jun 15, 2011

I'm going to start building a list of some favorite quotes, this will take a while. SWTOR favorite line so far: "Is that a hair style or did a womp rat die on your head?" From Babylon 5, Vir Cotto to Mr. Morden: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they...

Screen Shots

Jun 15, 2011

I wouldn't say I'm an avid screen shot taker, but I like to document the occasional game event. I did a lot more when I was leading raids and working on my WoW guild's website, but the WoW days are over. Still, I have nostalgia and pictures gathering dust, so I think...

Putting yourself “out there”

Jun 15, 2011

I'll admit, I have held off on blogging for a long time. I usually have a lot to say, but rarely think it will be interesting enough to other people that they would read it. But my work is getting more heavily involved with all things social media, so here I am. If I...