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In the World of Azeroth it has only been 30 years since the Dark Portal first opened. In those thirty years we have seen three world shaking wars. We have seen the rise of the Scourge. The creation of two grand alliances. The end of immortallity for one race and the creation of another. Three races have fled permanantly their ancestral homelands. Two have only recently reclaimed the damaged remains theirs. Two races have been saved from extinction. ~130 years ago the Orcs were a relatively free shamanistic society. ~75 years ago their enslavement to demons began. 31 years ago the mostly demon-tainted orcs swelled into Azeroth for the first time. 23 years ago they were free of the taint but collapsing into a depression/lethargy and effectively dying. 21 years ago Thrall began uniting the Orc Clans and re-awakening his people. 16 years ago Thrall had moved his people to Kalimador and the Horde was now an alliance of three races. 1 year ago The horde was four races and a had been free of ...

So right now I have a level 22 Drenae priest I never play on a server I never play on. I also have Zujoo my level 40~ warlock that I almost never play anymore. I also have Dammerung my level 58 Shaman who I plan on playing again at some point but I fear I won't because he doesn't have a guild or people to talk to. And I have Dammerung my level 37 Survival Hunter who I play currently and I'm not sure what to do with. I'm thinking about sticking D-Shaman into Battlegrounds at 59 and just sitting there. Forever. I'm wanting a low level twink for alliance battle grounds but very rightly this needs to wait until I have D-hunter up to 70. I like battle grounds. I like them more than I like parties. I'm fairly certain I won't like Arena as it is too twitchy and closed in. I'm not sure how I'll feel about raids but I'm afraid of the time block commitment. I'm thinking *I* will become a BG pvper while *she* will become a raider. Both of us thinki...

Alrighty... I know everyone is -incredibly- curious so... here you go: My goals currently are in this order: 1) Exalted with the Horsey people. Currently about 5700 rep away. As of this morning 2900 2) Be able to mine IRON. 3) Get to level 39 and farm a ring and a sword and a bow from Arathi and Warsong. 4) Get to 40 and ride horsey. 5) level past 40. What I expect to happen?: 1) Exalted with the Horsey people. Currently about 5700 rep away. As of this morning 2900. 2) Give up on leveling mining for now and get to 39 3) Play one game and think about horsey rest of the night. 4) get horsey 5) Suddenly want to level 6) Get to 46-47 and want to play bg's. 7) Make plans to stop at level 49 for bg's 8) Level to 51 for the xbow. 9) See the pattern? Part of the problem is that all the other new SD people are passing me. I used to be one of the highest level n00bs. Now? I'm solidly middle of the pack. Stupid horsey people. Dang Xilah and Bluesummers are MACHINES. This sounded wrong...

I'm not very familiar with the ban-hammer of Bliz. I do not know their procedures. But this sounds like someone's name got on the wrong list some how: http://temerity-jane.com/?p=669 http://egotisticalpriest.com/?p=237 http://gunlovingdwarfchick.com/blog/?p=164 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/ba-shared-topic/setting-loose-the-bloggers/ http://sonvar.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/help-for-lamaa/ Just voicing my support to the request that more effort be spent looking into this and hopefully explaining why Laama got banned and giving him a path to redemp-un-banning. I agree with Kirk that the bans were necessary and I do not think they should be rolled back straight up. I am only requestion appeal.

No organization in this post! Not even an attempt at one! So yesterday I had two freak outs. The first one I'll tell you last, and the latter I'll tell you now. I signed on to Beowulfa last night, my bank priestess. There was conversation going on, something about BBB watching us all .... I said "yikes, that's scary" or something like that. Anyway, my loving and caring guildies started joshing that there was a hidden camera focused on the Orclette who, lets face it, is one of the cutest little things you could possibly hope to see. And I know there's no hidden camera. And I tell them that they're not allowed to look at me anyway 'cause I'm in my jammies . And then, the freak out occurs. BBB knew exactly what my jammies looked like! I think everything stopped for just a moment. I could not figure out HOW he would know such a thing. And then Dammy whispered me and told me that BBB had asked right beforehand, that no, there wasn't a hidden ca...

coffee I love coffee. Have since I was 12 years old, which may explain why I'm so short. At least, that's what my mother always told me. And this love for coffee is not an on-and-off thing, a habit picked up now and again. No, it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken (woot! I remember my shakespeare, or rather, my austen). It is an enduring passion, a flame, yet also a habit, a sacred ritual. Mornings are my favorite time of the day. I can convince myself to get up even when I'm dog-tired just to turn on my coffee pot and let loose the wonderful aroma. Without coffee, I'm irritable and my day just doesn't go right. Without coffee, my brain doesn't think it's supposed to be awake. And now on to beauty, and then back to coffee. beauty (Just a disclaimer, this part is me musing on God and how he should be worshiped, at least by me.) I could become a total, far-out radical. Today when we Christians say that we worshiped God, we freque...

My dearest awesome hunter just tagged level 37 last monday night. Now sitting at 210 agi he's very happy with recent developments. I'm pondering spending a hour or two getting another 3 agi from RFK weapons. I'm also pondering spending a week or two doing battle grounds at 39 for rings and boots and things like that. Survival so far has been very fun. I enjoy it more than BM mostly because my agi is higher as survival. Infact..thats the only real reason. I love stacking [x] stat. It makes me happy. My poor guildies get an update EVERY TIME my agi goes up. I don't say "ding level blah" I say "ding 210 agi!". Yeah I'm special like that. It would be really really cool to break 300 agi before level 60. I doubt it will happen though. Gear on this server is prohibitively expensive. I'm pondering making a mage at the moment. And seeing how much int I can stack on it. A good old gnome mage. Frost. Although Arcane tempts me with Arcane mind. I've...

In the Jaws of the Dragon by Eamonn Fingleton I read the first 1/5? of this book on Sunday while walking Orclette around in circles. It makes me think. Now I don't care much for Eamonn's very harsh view of the East-Asian countries. He takes the information he has and paints a bleak picture of Asia abusing the US. I agree that the trade/debt flows are not good. Are very very not good. But my first thought isn't that they are abusing us... its that we're being lazy. When I, an economic layman, view our nation's economy/trade relationship I'm worried. #1 We're in debt. Debt is -bad-. Not hmm okay.. but BAD. It is a lazy habit, borrowing is. It shows lack of patience. #2 We're out of budget. I think. All I hear is that oh this side or that side will fix our budget. Not sure here but yeah. If we are out of budget then we need to stop spending money, or make more somewhere. #3 We're operating with a trade deficit with other countries. Trade i...

So.... Sooooo........ I WON! WOoooooo. WHY AM I SHOUTING? I'M NOT SHOUTING. Hehe. Sorry about that. Turns out that Teeej thought I didn't care too much about winning. So she was all sad and crying and Doom had to send her flowers.* So when I heard about this... I had no choice. I had to wait almost a full week or two and post a big loud post about how I'd won. I seriously wouldn't shut up about this the day it happened. I told everyone I knew...I just didn't tell the interweb. So thats what happened. Also btw... while we're discussing T.I.(the Icky). I have a theory: Someone... seems to have a lot of conversations with “The Red(ponytail) Head”. One ponytail red and one ponytail brown. Maybe she's really TJ-the-Demonic-Ogre-Ponytails. Maybe thats why she need TWO headbands and TWO anbu masks... huh? Seriously you guys should be worried about this. *Possibly made up completely almost uncertainly isn't completely not true.

From thought to reality, apparently once was all it took. Nine months growing, move to another city, one car between three adults. She sits in their apartment all day, wishing she could turn back time or give it up to another couple who would actually want this child, and occasionally, if she would admit it, getting rather excited about the whole thing. 24 hours labor, blessed epidural, best ice cream ever. Realization that hospitals have no privacy. Parents come, she lets everyone hold the baby. She is too tired to do anything else. To much fanfare she is escorted home, where she lets uncle and grandparents and husband hold the baby. Grandparents leave, she relies upon husband to tell her what to do, to help her walk, to fetch her food. Husband has to return to work, she is left with the baby. Reality sets in, she is alone, she does not know how to do this. Baby cries, she cries. For the first 3 months, she and baby tolerate one another. She wakes up early to have baby-free time, bab...