So, probably like most people who play WoW, I have started to accumulate a large number of "alts." I did this because of the (lame) skill system where I can only do two things. My blacksmith needed leather. My leatherworked needed potions. All of my characters needed bags. So I started making different characters to cover all of these bases, as trying to buy the items I need from the auction house is painful at best. Not because it's difficult, but because if you're a crafter and you're buying your supplies at the AH you're bound to be losing tons and tons of money.

This process lead me to create one of each of the four Horde races. My latest creation is an undead mage, and after playing the previous three races I have to say that being undead is really freakin cool! The atmosphere is appropriately a lot more "dark." After a tough battle I can eat the victim's corpse, which is just awesome. That ability doesn't even need to have any benefit for me, it's just a nice punctuation to show an enemy who's the man. Plus the undead have great one liners when you leave their shops like "beware the living." I'm telling you, I heard that. Those living MFers are always causing me problems. Plus the undead ride bats instead of giant winged lion things, and the ride into the Undercity is really, REALLY breathtaking and cool.

My only gripe with the undead is that a lot of the missions deal with killing other undead, which seems like the opposite of what I want to do. I guess there's some evil "Lich King" or something ... I'd have thought the undead would have a tough enough time of things without having pety squabbles and killing their own, but I guess not.

In real life news, Valentine's Day is coming up this month and I still have to determine where to take Amber for the weekend. I already have her flowers ordered though, so give me SOME credit.