Heather August 30, 2010

I’m a level 39 Gnome Warlock

I’m in the midst of a quest, trying to get my Felhunter Minion and just about 33,000 experience points away from a faster mount. I’m anxious to get a Felhunter because my Succubus is really annoying and not all she’s cracked up to be. I’m still pleased with the Voidwalker though. He seem to have the best DPS and the highest hit points, so let’s face it, he’s a tank! I don’t think he’ll be good in PVP situations though. I’ll always appreciate the fast mount after travelling thousands of miles and several continents by a horse that can only increase my speed by 60%. I’m in the Barrens at the moment, standing in a shallow river and I’m guessing I won’t be finding a mailbox to collect the loot I made from selling at the auction house. I do love gold. If I collect enough gold, I can buy the things I need to cook food and sew up some sweet clothing. After all this work, I may head to Goldshire for a drink and good laugh. People watching has always been one of my favorite past times. I am in the World of Warcraft.

We all play. Well, except for the baby, but he likes to watch the cute little Gnome battle her way through a dungeon on occasion. When we first started playing, we heard some negativity. “Have fun rotting away in your basement.” was what one former friend said to my 11 year old. Then I started hearing from people who don’t play anymore because they couldn’t pull themselves away from it. They used words like “addiction” and “will power”. All of this, over a video game?

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On Hearing the School Bus

It’s the first day of school and my seven year old son Easy and I were up. When we heard the school bus roll into town he told me his thoughts. I wrote them down as best I could and had the dictation approved by him. I really enjoyed his insight.

I don’t really want to go to school because then I can only learn about a limited amount of stuff. I like learning on my own cuz then I can learn what’s important to me. I like video games, I can learn new words, like charisma. I like to learn about guns and zombies. I have learned about about trees, lots of kinds of tools, how they work and what they do. I learn a bunch of math like 100+100 is 200 and 200+200 is 400. And 2+2 is 4. Its patterns.
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Meredith August 23, 2010

Peeling Back the Layers

I spent the morning looking through an online Pokedex with Morgan, pages and pages of Pokemon, lines of evolution, abilities, types, battle strategies… it was quite an endeavor, hours of one thing leading to another. I’ve done similar things for my own enjoyment, poured over a dictionary or thesaurus, an appendix or other reference work. I enjoy that sort of thing. Recently George got a new book on guitar making and we’ve all picked it up at one time or another and been sucked in. That sort of book is eye-candy around here.

Yeah, I know: geeksville.
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