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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...

Survival Games on Steam Sale

Aug 6, 2022

There are quite a few survival games on Steam's Survival Fest sale, going for the next two days. If that is your favorite type of game, you probably have many of them already. But it might be worth checking out for some of the newer releases. I'm considering getting V...

And Now for Something Completely… Not Gaming

Aug 5, 2022

If you've read my bio, then you know that I'm part of a medieval recreation group called the SCA and have been for years. So it will come as no big surprise that I like swords. As a fan of TTRPGs and reading fantasy novels, I'm also a fan of sorcery. A couple of...

Joining the Blaugust Discord

Aug 4, 2022

There is an achievement in this year's Blaugust you can earn for joining the dedicated Discord server that Bel set up for Blaugust. Several of the other achievements are wrapped up in participating on the server. Even with this list, I admit I was hesitant to...

I Got Nothin or Dialing it In

Aug 3, 2022

If you find yourself staring a blank page with no words to share or very little time to write (that is me this morning), it doesn't mean you can't get started and then edit your post to flesh it out more later. For some people this means saving it as a draft, but if...

Something to Tweet About

Aug 2, 2022

Good morning from day 2 of Blaugust. I started the day out staring at a blank page, not sure what I was going to write about. Usually when that happens, I head to my screenshots folders to see what shots I have taken in my recent gameplay. I had a few from No Man's...

The Who, What and Why of Blaugust for Me

Aug 1, 2022

Way back in 2011, I started spending more time on Twitter and I began to follow a few people who enjoyed the types of games and books I like. A few of them were bloggers as well and I thought it was a great way to share some screen shots and get some of my enthusiasm...

Reasons to Blog – Blaugust 2022 Achievements

Jul 18, 2022

Let's Get Started - It Begins With Intent I have to thank Belghast of Tales of the Aggronaut for once again organizing the Blaugust event this year. He has been herding we blogging cats for many years now and I'm glad he's willing to stick with it. I love the new...

Life in MMO Limbo

Jun 8, 2022

It feels a bit strange to be in MMO limbo, watching past gaming friends go back to old pursuits (WoW), watching current gaming friends start to drop subs and vanish, and feeling at loose ends. It gets harder to stand my ground where WoW is concerned, but the reasons I...

Getting rid of the ads

Apr 25, 2022

I haven't been here for... a WHILE now, as any of you who might still follow me have noticed. I loaded the site to get the URL and UGH, the ads are obnoxious. I'm going to set up a self-hosted WordPress site in the near future and stop subjecting you to the blinking,...