WoW Vacation

Not feeling the urge to log on to do anything or that I have to log on and play WoW either at this point. So not motivated to log on and do anything.

And I don't think I'll be missing much to do either.

Taking a long WoW vacation while its early and there is plenty of time to do other things for a while. And while I'm at it maybe play other things that's new and fun for a change.

In other news bought me a new Mac Pro laptop earlier today, to somewhat upgrade my Mac G5 desktop I've been using a few years now which still works fine. I guess wont be putting WoW on it for a while either.

Anyway taking a long WoW Vacation.

Not Really Motivated

Not much to talk about this week. Since I've barely logged in and played WoW much all week and from the weekend, not that much to really feel motivated to talk about or passionate to spend several hours writing and constant correction even writing about something.

I don't have any goals either at the moment to feel driven to accomplish and though I can maybe think of many too long to list, I'm just not feeling motivated and motivated to make any. I like to play and do whatever motivates me to do so and to my own internal beats.

Often its a struggle with some form of balance in having a life and playing WoW. Its good to have a job, its good to be employed. But some days I'm just so damn tired after work and that feels like all the time that is. I'm up at 4am in the morning for my long commute and have to be at work by 6am. I don't get home till by 8pm usually. Its the same when that flips and work at nights. Its quite often physically draining and mentally spent.

Last thing on my mind on those days thinking about sitting on my PC and trying to write something interesting to update my blog is not that close to mind. Logging into WoW and dealing with all else that comes with logging in and dealing with guildies and their constant drama is not something I want to have to deal with when I really want to unwind and get a little peace of mind or be left alone. So I don't feel that motivated to want to log on at such times.

But day by day I fall behind on my 2 daily Frost of Emblem that I can gain from Heroics daily or even the weekly quest. I'm ever so slowly getting falling months behind on that since I'm slowly not feeling internally motivated to log on daily to do so.

I'm just feeling tired from work life and the daily grind of going through life and being damn tired and feeling too tired to do some other things while needing to do other things or besides WoWing.

Many a times I've thought about logging in to play after a long day at work. But a few mins on the couch to slowly unwind and before you know it a complete new day or too late and never even made it to playing WoW let along Blogging. So I slowly fall months behind on things and on my Frost Emblems and day by day it feels even less motivating to even try and catch up. The reality of things is i'll continue to fall behind and thats not motivating to me.

A bit hard to be that motivated at time. Just the reality of life for one guy playing WoW. So goes my Life and Times. Life keeps happening to you while doing everything else, even while trying to enjoy playing WoW whenever that is.

We all have some form of real lives or complex lives each of us all and that has real impact on how much or how we even play the game itself.

Happy Veterans Day!!

Happy Veterans Day to all you Veterans and whatever branch of service you freely served in and Wars past! And to all you who freely serving in harms way during this Veterans Day keep it safe.

And Happy Veterans Day to all you salty behind the ears squids and shellbacks like me from the Navy. I proudly served there too.

I remember my very first Veterans Day as a Veteran. Iraq had already invaded Kuwait and I was on deployment aboard my first navy ship in the Arabian Gulf with out navy battlegroup awaiting orders to strike. I was in engineering a GSM and I was barely 18 years old. I remember all those days, I used to think all day long if i would ever see home, my friends, my family, if i would make it to 19 years old. I guess i did. Served 8 long years.

I will always miss my buddies. They were like a brotherhood that only someone that's been there can ever understand.

Wish all you who both proudly and freely served or payed the price in service to country, Happy Veterans Day!

My old ship and last command USS Bunker Hill CG-52. Its a she, and she can do and deliver allot of solid fast dps!

Its Been a While.....

Being away from the game so hope the New Year is going well for many of you. Haven't played WoW in a good while since I stopped playing a while back. I just flat out quit playing and just kinda focused more time working on real life and personal issues. Nor have I really kept up with much with blogging or the happenings around the blog community either. Its was relaxing to just not have to worry about doing either.

Not playing a game you enjoyed relaxing playing like WoW is and was not easy and it wasn't after deciding to just not log in anymore and just focus on life issues. I though about the game when I wasn't playing for a while having played it a while as well. Eventually over time you think less about the game as time goes on worrying about other things in real life. At some point I realize you can really quit playing and eventually stop thinking about the game. Yet from time to time you still do think about it. 

One the hardest thing was missing the community of blogs I often read. After all I read most daily and was really hard to just stop reading about players perspective and daily happenings in the game even when I wasn't logging in anymore. For me that was just hardest thing to quit doing. But eventually I stop thinking about the game being busy with other things in life and forget about reading blogs as well. I guess when I got bored of things it was easier to find the time to read a few blogs and see what was happening a bit around the world of Azeroth. I never felt much to updating the blog though it sat on my desktop, so just never did. But was amazed of how many people stopped here to read old blog entries even though I wasn't writing anything. Many thanks to those who did.

I can say I've missed the game. But at some point you make a choice to spend more time dealing with real life issues becoming more important vs playing a game and dealing with its issues. Yet its good to escape life as well from time to time just not completely.

Some days ago finally got around to cleaning up my computer and reinstalling things including WoW. It can really take like a whole day almost just to reinstall WoW with all the numerous downloads and patches. I finally got around to buying WotLK as well. I had ordered the collectors edition on WotLK release, but since I stopped playing I just never bothered to go pick it up or get my deposit back. So few days ago just downloaded the WotLK installation patch straight from Blizzard and all the patches as well. 

I haven't really played much at all. Just long enough to log in, say hello to some guildie friends and make the trip to Howling Fjord in Northrend. It looks very empty the starter zone, most people at this point since release are way beyond lvl 70 as well. With work being very tiring and dealing with other personal things in life, Its being really hard to find time to just log in and play. I guess whenever I log in and play its just going to be casually at best and trying to level to 80 ..................... for the second time since WotLK Beta. But when I do i'll have just fun doing it my way and casually at best since i'll be doing it all over again.