/giant cow yawn

So it’s been two weeks since I last blogged.

I have no tales of derring-do, no thrilling escapades with which to regale you. Essentially, the mind-numbing furious frustration engendered by School of Hard Knocks burned me out faster than a piece of dry tissue paper plunged into the fiery heart of a neutron star.

After collecting the last criterion for School of Hard Knocks, on Thursday, I logged out, realizing that I, well, really didn’t want to play. I spent my weekend playing cards- I am a fan and proponent of both Magic: The Gathering and, to a greater extent, the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Yes, I realize there is some irony in escaping from World of Warcraft to play… World of Warcraft. There are some key differences, but that’s a topic for another time.

Weekend ended and, well, I didn’t feel like playing WoW. The guild was going through drama, and the little voice in my head that is The Loyal Officer was hoarse from all the shouting. The I-Am-Stressed-And-This-Is-Not-Relaxing voice tied him up and dragged him off somewhere.

Guild drama shook itself out over the next week; we are now a smaller guild. I admit to being relieved- I’m on record as having stated I felt the guild was too big, and all but one of the recent /gquits were members with whom I’ve clashed at least once. Still didn’t feel like doing much, so I played my tiny fire mage from level 11 to level 14.

Yesterday I stepped back into the game proper (my druid) for the first time in almost two weeks. Four of us went and demolished Utgarde Keep.

I noticed that Typhoon, when glyphed, has a shift in its usage paradigm, and picked up a staff for my offspec. I also had fun chewing the fat with three of my friends as we turned vrykul into proto-drake kibble.

I guess I could be playing again, now. As for blogging… I took advice from the venerable Kestrel, who I will now paraphrase because I simply cannot remember his exact words: “You don’t have to post every day, or even every week. And the posts I like the best are when a WoW blogger posts about something tangentially or even directly related to WoW, rather than a rehash of game mechanics.”

Well, I can’t promise posts about game mechanics (or neat twists on them) will fail to appear here… but tangents? That I excel at.

N.B.*: I have not forgotten that I was tagged to do the Newbie Flailing meme. I will get there. I have not forgotten that I have failed to update NibNotes in about a month now. I have not forgotten the e-mail from Tyberiuss- shout-out to Ty and his buddies in AIE.

I have simply not gotten around to them yet. I probably will- please hold.

‘N.B.’. Abbreviation. Latin; “Nota Bene”, roughly “Note well”.