I've spent approximately 1800 hours of my life looking at the rear end of a midget with green pigtails while she tip-toes around in the shadows and stabs monsters to death.
In other words, I have a level 80, female gnome rogue on the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
That's what this blog is about, in addition to occasionally talking about the various alts I've created and sometimes play. What this is, is an outlet for me to talk about WoW while I'm at work, since I can't play it here, and there's only so much theory-crafting and min/max-ing and gear shopping I can do in an eight-hour period.
I don't get enough WoW for my tastes. 1800 hours might seem like a long time, but it's not compared to many, and it's spread out over the past four and a half years. Although to be honest, I have at least that many hours spread out over my other alts. I sometimes think I could play WoW full-time, twelve hours a day, and maybe around five to six days per week. I think this while I'm at work, wishing I could be doing nearly anything else other than work. I think this as a hypothetical situation if I weren't married with two kids and a full-time career. I think this in bitterness at all the various forms of responsibility that prevent me from spending more than 8-10 hours per week on my beloved little Lewt.
Sometimes I read about gaming addiction and breathe a sigh of relief that it's not me. I get by at work and even excel occasionally; I spend time with my wife and kids and have an all-around healthy family life; I bathe and eat somewhat appropriately. I often see these things as the obstacles that prevent me from enjoying the game more. In fact, they are my anchors, the things that keep me from drifting off into the WoW Bermuda Triangle.
But even with those healthy elements, I still desire more of WoW, and since those circumstances aren't changing anytime soon, here I am, blogging about my little gnome rogue, named Lewt.
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