Diary of an (Ex?) WoW Addict

Yeah I'm 20,000g out of pocket but gawddamn I wanted to officially complete Uldar (10) and have a fast ass dragon. So yay. Bribery does have it's perks:

As it nears the 1 year mark of me running this blog, I’ve started to debate on the long haul. I love this blog. I enjoy the constant upkeep and changes, tweeks, and even more tweeks that I have subjected it to. I’ve accepted offers, declined them, posted ads, written ads, and hell even blogged. To take a blog that was meant to quell my longing for WoW and to convert it into my personal shire of all things Gaming and Geek. I’ve even invested in the domain name to keep it personally mine. But I feel maybe, just maybe it could be time for me to take it up a notch.

I’ve used Blogger’s platform since day one. I of course tried to hide the tell tell signs but if you look not too hard, you can tell it’s a Blogger blog. Not that I hate the guys- they’ve done me well. And considering they are free (for a lancer on the cheap like I), that’s a cool investment. But eventually I know I’ll have to say goodbye.

But to where? There’s am army of sites that offer web hosting, vps hosting, mail hosting, Windows hosting, Domain hosting, dedicated server hosting, and that not including the myriad tips on how to self host off of your own server (also an option I’ve thought of since we run our own server here- but that requires getting more in-depth with Wordpress). But so many options…

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Diary of an (Ex?) WoW Addict

After fighting my toilet for the nth time I’m considering options. See I live in a house built in the early 60s. Now overtime people update and fix things. Well my Grandma…well lives under the assumption that things work forever. But I’ve made sure that things get fixed. Like the hall toilet. It finally got replaced with a newer toilet a few years ago. But the inner workings in the tank were dated. We fixed that. But now I have to hand push the pump to fill with water. This gets old very fast. See I wouldn’t have to do this with a Composting Toilet. I could just set it and forget it (literally)!

Why a Composting Toilet you ask? Well for one you wouldn’t have to deal with water, or the water bill. Our toilet was running for the longest time, jacking up our bill on top of it not working. With a Composting Toilet, I could cut the use of water all together. I could get an electric one that does everything for me.

There is the option of Toilet Composting where you do it without electric and well compose all the waste for an outside garden, making it so you don’t use electricity or water to run the toilet. This is the cheapest alternative though all of them are remarkably odorless and sanitary to use. And many come in smaller space saving sizes. Considering the hall bath isn’t all that big, seems like a sweet deal. Besides having less water usage overall would save house and environmental strain. Downside is I’d have to convince Grandma that it’s a good investment. I know I plan on one when I move out.

Diary of an (Ex?) WoW Addict

Yay heroic Twins Down! I also with my pent up angst broke the meter with 13k+ dps. Sawry? Onwards and upwards to Anub. And man is he not friendly. At all.

My raging Sailormoon geek came out in full force when I found this trailer! Too bad the project was scrapped, but damn what could have been: