From the time I started playing World of Warcraft, my main character, Phenmar, has been on the Ner'zhul PvP server. I made many online friends in the Tourian guild. Unfortunately, I made a hasty decision, and I am no longer with the guild. I probably lost a bit of respect from the people in the guild. It felt like I had betrayed all those months of work, for nothing. And, like thinking about going back to that ex-girlfriend who nastily broke up with you, it just wouldn't feel right going back to Tourian.

So, I was reading the VU, when I saw that Special K got WoW and JonathonL's subsuquent post about starting a Horde guild on another server. I saw this as a great opportunity to start over. I have many, many, many alts, at least one of each race and class. But, I have always been most comfortable with my main Priest.

However, comfortable isn't what change is about. So, I'll probably start a melee character.

Hope to see you there.

Oh Lord, I've been playing World of Warcraft every day for the past 2 months. I've never, EVER played a single game for even a quarter of that time.

Just on my main I have 10 Days played. Add that with at least 5 hours invested in 12 alts, each, and it's adding up. I'm currently loving my Night Elf Druid on my RP server.

And, currently loathing the damned Robes of Lich. I'm still a little jaded about that. Long story short, they're awesome robes for my level and I got screwed out of rolling for them. :( I won't random group on that server for a while if I can help it. Hopefully some up and coming Guildies will soon hit 42+ and I can start taking them to good instances.

Also, is it so wrong that on my Role Playing server all three of my characters are Female? I have noticed one thing though, as a Female toon, I've gotten a LOT more group and guild invites.

I'm also playing through Final Fantasy X. I got stuck a long time ago and didn't pick it back up. So, I just wiped my saves and started over. Going a lot better this time around. I also borrowed FFX-2 from a friend, so I'll get to dig into that whenever I'm through with FFX.

But, that's been my life for the past while. Hopefully someone reads this and is entertained, and maybe I'll get a comment. *gasp*

-Pink

The band I'm in is finally starting to reap the benifits of practice. Our originals are getting much better and we now have a regular gig here in town starting the 12th of February. Hopfully this will be a nice platform for jumping into a real career in music. After about a year, we have grown much tighter than I thought possible. Our drummer is pretty new, but he's getting much better by the day. We're still only playing for tips, so that's why I call it a semi-real gig.

This gig will also test our stamina. We've not gigged for more than two hours. We'll be doubling that. We, also, finished the set lists we'll be doing. It's pretty diversified between Country and Classic Rock with a couple Blues songs thrown in there as well as a Godsmack song, "Voodoo."

That's what's been happening with me. That and World of Warcraft have been fighting for my time this weekend.

-Will

Well, I tried, but I figured what's the point in fighting the urge to get on here. I have drastically reduced my time on here, I'm usually on after work and that's it. My guitar playing has gotten better. In fact, our band (which finally has a registered name - Tipton Station) had a christmas gig on Monday, and it was the best one we've had in the year since we've formed. I'm extremely happy with this group of guys. We're getting more names and numbers, so hopefully that will translate into more gigs.

And, just as a shameless plug, if you want to here some stuff that I've recorded, you can follow this link (which hopefully will work). I think I have all the songs on so anyone can hear them.

That's about it. And, to all of you who said I'd be back, you were right. :D I don't think I can leave completely.

-William

Well guys, I've come to a tough decision that I thought I wouldn't have to make for a while. But, it's been on my heart for a little while now. I've been coming to these forums constantly for three years now. And, when I say constantly, I mean every day that I had an internet connection. I think now, it's time to leave. For a while at least.

During that time, I've noticed my guitar playing has slacked off. This is not a good thing. This is my career most likely. So, I need to get back on the ball with my guitar playing.

With that said, I feel like I'm leaving part of my family with you guys. I guess I get connected to people too easily, but you guys are so great that it's hard not to.

I'll be sticking around for about a week, then I'm limiting my time on the computer to just Games, E-mail, Shopping, and Composing. If you want any of my contact info, just PM me and I'll definately give it to you.

I love all you guys.

-William 8)

Well, I'll just go ahead and tell the whole story. It is fairly short anyway.

I work overnights(10pm - 6:30am) at the Target here in Maryville and about a month ago there was a Logistics Team Leader (TL) change. Our last TL we had was too laid back to really be a Leader. We were getting out of the store late, always. So he "left" and our new TLs are great. We're keeping more people that we hire and nights are going so much smoother.

Now, this girl comes in about a week ago, and I just think she's the hottest thing on earth. Long blonde wavy hair, same height as me, slim but not skinny. A lot more outgoing than I am. So, naturally I lay low for a few days. Basically, seeing if she's just putting on a show or not. Friday morning at around 3am (very light Truck that night) everybody left, but a few other people to help put up Electronics, because everyone who usually worked Electronics was scheduled off (D'oh!). Well, she was one of the people, along with myself, and we start putting up Electronics.

It's just the two of us at this point and we start talking, naturally. I was basically given no choice but to turn on the charm, right? :D We start putting up games, and she says "You must not be much of a gaming fan huh?" because I was having problems locating a certain game (MOH: Rising Sun for PS2). I'm just thinking at this point "Oh my God, she's a gamer too!"

So, we're talking about games and stuff, and she tells me that I'm just so sweet....and that she's going to marry me. I just say okay and move on. Then, we start telling other people that we're getting married....the next week. We're playfully poking and jabbing at each other...something I always do to test the grounds.

We eventually finish up in electronics and it's time to clock out and go home. Well, she has to call her sister to get her some gas, and like the absolute IDIOT that I am, I do not offer to wait with her or offer to get some gas for her. No, what do I do? I go home. I realise once I'm out site of the store what I have just done. I may have just blown my one and only chance, because I'm off for the next two nights.

The whole weekend I didn't stop thinking about her. I couldn't.

Now, I go into work Sunday night (this past night, which is basically my Monday) absolutely PRAYING she didn't quit or anything. She didn't thankfully and is the first thing I notice at the clock station. So, I clock in and she's waiting for me (Yes!!) and we go to the backroom together. She's telling me how much she missed me Friday. At this point we're walking arms around each other.

We go through our usual routine (Unloading the Truck, going to Green world to start stocking, blah, blah, blah). We're finishing up Blue world (the second section we stock) when it happens. These three guys start talking ****. Telling her to STFU (remember I told you she was outgoing) and all that Jazz. She starts getting pissed. And, I start calming her down. Hugging often, listening to her, talking, basically what I did in High School. Trying to keep her happy.

Red world (3rd section) comes, and it subsides for a while. Then they start again (ugh, I hate IDIOTS). She's pissed again, and I'm seriously connecting with her (this was the same **** I went through before, so I really related). So, I lightly kiss her on the side of the head and hug her, and she says "Thanks."

From that point on we're really friendly. And, not afraid to walk around arm-in-arm. Basically flipping the bird to those guys and saying "FU, I'm not gonna get pissed at anything you say." They, surprisingly shut up the rest of the night.

The end of the night came and we clock out and I walk her out to her car. I hug her to leave, and I didn't even think about it and just went for it. I kissed her, and to my surprise, she kissed me back. So, I was and still am extremely happy. :D

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Now, on a gaming tangent, I bought MGS3 and HL2 and they roXXerZ my BoXXerZ. Love both.

Thanks for reading and hopefully commenting.

-William

Edit: No that wasn't long at ALL. :D

Well, I got Halo 2 (duh!), and the MP rocks. I'm playing the campaign on Heroic, like I did with Halo the first time through, and it's not too easy. But, I'm having a blast with it.

Also, I'm going to see Metallica in Nashville with a couple of my buds Thursday. I'm really excited, because we got much better seats this time (one of the benifits of being in the club). They are six rows back from the General Admission (read "Mosh Pit") area. No way I'm getting in that mess of a crowd.

Anyway, other than that I suppose I forgot to inform (as if anyone cared) that I now work for Target's overnight stock team. So my days are pretty f'ed up right now. But, I've gotten used to it. See ya online.

-William

So, I went to GameCrazy to pay off my pre-order of San Andreas and the guy said that they will be getting them in tonight around 7. Now, I'm excited. It just sucks that I have to work tonight. :cry: Oh well, at least I'll get a couple of hours in. And, if I'm not posting in this journal (which seems to be the majority of my posting now anyway), you know what I'll be playing. 8)

I'm calling it, right now, Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door will be, at least, The Gamecube GOTY for Gamespot.

It is so great. I absolutely love this game. I picked it up today, and proceeded to play for 3 1/2 hours straight. I haven't done that since FFX (which I played more than 40 hours in two days!).

Also, last night/early this morning, I played in a play money Texas Hold 'Em tournament. 6000 entries was the max. It filled up in less than 5 minutes. :shock: Anyways, I played slightly conservitavely and placed 312th out of those 6000. I was beat on a kicker! The other guy had a 9-6 in hand and 9 on the table, I had 9-3 in hand. and I had to go All In because the blinds got up to $400/800 and an ante of $75 and I only had 1800. It was hella fun though.

I don't want to put the name of the program for fear of advertising publicly. So, if you want to know which it is, PM or respond here.

Well, last night I completed Fable. One thing I forgot to do, however, was to sit through the credits so I could save and continue on. Beat the last guy, which took a little while because my brain didn't comprehend the semi-strategy involved at first, then skipped the credits (something I always do given the opportunity) then was prompted back to the main menu. I thought "well, that's funny, usually they let you save." But, apparently, some "brilliant" designer or programmer or someone at Lionhead, thought it'd be great to make you sit through the credits to continue on. Other than that little oversight, and the short main quest, the game was great. About 10 hours of the hyped 100 hours gameplay that Peter and LH promised. Now, I know what to expect out of Ol' Pete's next game, about 10% of what's promised.

On a happier note, I bought The Sims 2 and am loving it so much. I was quite addicted to The Sims for a while. I got out after Hot Date was released, bored of the fact that there were no goals in the game. Now, in The Sims 2, there are day to day Wants and Fears and the overall Asperation meter, and they make the game so much better than the original. Another thing that detracted me from the original, by my own fault no less, were cheats. Specifically, the cheats that gave you a lot of money. I now have conciously decided not to use money cheats unless I'm supporting a big family at the beginning of their game.

I also went looking for Star Wars: Battlegrounds for my XBOX. Not one single copy left in all of Maryville. Not one. So, I figure in about a week I can get my Battlegrounds goodness on Live. And, what do I do to compensate for this loss? I buy three other games. Counter-Strike (XBOX) - $20, NHL 2k5 (XB) - $16, and La Pucelle: Tactics (PS2)- $20. Counter-Strike is really fun. I don't know much about hockey, but I enjoyed getting beat by Anaheim with my Preditors 2-1 in overtime. And, I haven't played Tactics any yet.

Have a nice day. 8)