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Sorry for the expletives, but that's how I'm feeling right now towards Blizzard! Over the last week I've been cutting back on playing WOW in order to spend time every night grading essays for my part time job. It's a real life daily quest, complete with rewards & theorycraft behind it. Plus there's a huge glut of essays that piled in the queue & I want them all. In fact I'm annoyed at the moment because I wanted to grade some essays before my full time job but I can't since the site is down atm.
So I've kept my WOW playing to leveling rep with the Wintersaber trainers. Which means..Yup I'm back on Neren & I'm sending the greens & firewater to Peda to sell on the AH. I usually put in an hour to two hours on the rep grinding, it's not a lot esp for the wintersaber rep grind but I felt that when WOTLK came out, it would be L77T to have that cat as my mount through 70-77.
Then yesterday I got my draft notice from Blizzard in my email. "You've Been Selected for the Wrath of the Lich King Beta" Of all the times to get it, when I am trying to cut back on WOW to go clean, they send me a Beta invite. I installed it of course, I tried to be strong and resist but it's so "wrathful". Luckily for me I forgot that Blizzard never has the latest client available for download, so I was able to grade essays last night at a good clip as I downloaded & patched & re patched the Beta Client. Maybe sometime tonight I'll be able to login to Northrend but I'm having my doubts. I think this client will still be patching when I get home.

The Long Grind

Although my summer goal was to level a tauren druid. I've been hitting a mental barrier. Now that my character is almost level 68 I don't have the same drive to play him like I did a few months ago. Most of this is real life. I'm beginning to see there's a whole lot more to the universe than WOW & frankly the time requirements of the game are a bit of a nuisance.

With that said my wife reminded me that "Everyone needs a hobby" so I haven't hung up my Shadowstaff just yet. I decided to set a goal & that would still be epic but wouldn't require group time, so I can be more flexible with my schedule.

Therefore I'm going for the long grind, & earning myself a Wintersaber Mount. Although it's a long grind it's a goal that fits where my life is right now.

Update: I just realized I never posted this entry. Right now my rep is at 4k in Honored with the wintersaber trainers