After all the trouble logging in Friday night, the hubby and I were able to get into STO with out any trouble both Saturday and Sunday. We logged quite a few hours and we got our guys to level 8.

I am beginning to really enjoy the game. Parts of the story are beginning to make sense and feel fully formed. Combat on the ground is still not as slick as I would like, but its still fun. Space combat has gotten easier for me, although I still think I need to go back to the Starfleet Academy for some basic flying lessons!

I am working on the first level of crafting. It’s laborious and I am not sure how much fun it truly is, but at first glance it maybe worth it to be able to upgrade some items.

Tribbles. Ohhhhh they are simply wonderful. In beta I wasn’t really sure what they were for. I went looking for a forum post on it tonight when I heard some of the chat from my guildies. Seems you can upgrade your tribble?

I hadn’t found one yet. I kept killing Klingon’s on ground missions looking for one. Seems the Klingon’s love their tribbles and are hoarding them. The hubby finally got one and stuck it in his inventory to look at later. By the time we had gotten out of the mission, he had two tribbles!!!

Yup, they breed in your inventory. If you have food in your cargo hold, they nibble it up and reproduce That’s just fun.

I finally amassed a few credits this weekend and starting looking around to try and figure out how to upgrade my ship.

I found the pink paint!!!

I know I know… no self respecting Starfleet ship should be pink… but I couldn’t help myself

I also figured out how to rename my collector’s edition ship as well as the registry number.

I am going to have “r” to the end of every new ship I get since I can only have a ship’s name once LOL.

In other news, I took part in a group discussion of DDOcast this weekend. The episode had been out 24 hours when there was already a complaint about my “whining and complaining!” *shakes her head* I love DDO, I just sometimes don’t love all of it. I suppose I should be greatful to have a reaction at all, but it reminds me why I haven’t been doing regular segments for a while. *shrugs*

Tomorrow is LOTRO day for me. Our guild is having our monthly meeting in our kinhouse and I am going to spend all day crafting to make something for the exchnge we normally have. I’ve been slacking lately. Hope I have enough time to make things.

I am off to bed. Bioshock 2 party at my locacl gamestop tomorrow at midnight. The hubby has duty. I don’t think I going to wander around the city that late by myself, so he will just have to bring it home to me on Tuesday. Plus, I have a new power supply coming tomorrow or the next day. Additionally, I still haven’t finished Mass Effect 2.

So many great games, so little time.

GAME ON!!!

After much groveling, I finally convinced my other half to sign onto Star Trek Online and spend a few hours killing Klingon’s with me The Collector edition’s had been sitting on our respective desks since Wednesday staring at us, begging to be used.

While I was messing around the forums and such, he went ahead and set up his account. Everything went smoothly. Oh, and for those wondering, yes they are offering a lifetime sub which has been raised $50.00 from the before launch price to top out at $299.99 bucks(for those wondering, that means if you paid 14.99 a month for 20.01267511 months you’d have spent $299.)

I’ll get right on that >.<

He needed to log into game and run through the tutorial, something I had already done in headstart, so I decided to keep reading online vent-a-thons on the Star Trek Online forums ( I love unmoderated forums, don’t you?) while he learned the controls.

He couldn’t log in at 7 or so in the evening on a Friday, the first launch weekend even, due to server maintenance. Huh?

Curious, I went delving into Dev posts. One thing I will give Cryptic is they are extremely talkative…sometimes they might stick their foot in their mouths, but at least they say something

One of the issues during open beta and headstart became the inability of their “single shard” server bank to hold the load of all the players. Cryptic hadn’t expected as many people as they had playing. I’ll swallow that…once!

Apparently launch week they forgot to feed the hamster. The server bank went down again due to overload and we couldn’t log in.

Within about half an hour, and after Zeff had already loaded into LOTRO to “check his mail” *coughs bull#&^%*, the game came back up.

He’s already a little cranky about STO, but he agrees to log in. I started praying to every god I could think of things would go well.

We played an hour or so. He’s made a character with huge breasts and subsequently changed his mind (could it have been the looks I was giving him from across the room?), customized his ship, explored and such. I begin to think he’s maybe getting the bug.

Our second mission we’re chasing down the evil guy who killed the Vulcan ambassador when we get disconnected from the server.

Trying not to panic, I tried to immediately sign back in. We both get back into the star map only to not be able to access any missions in our log, much less the one we had just been kicked from.

Frustrated beyond belief at this point, I logged back onto the forums and see the red dot telling me the server is down again.

That was an hour ago.

I couldn’t think of anything else to say. He’s back in LOTRO, I am considering playing some more Mass Effect 2.

I don’t know when I will be able to convince him to go back *big sigh*

GAME ON!!!

Update 3 hit DDO today and it’s been nothing but buggy. Even Turbine has announced they will be doing a hot fix on Thursday to work it out. As I type this, my static group is stuck in one of the new quests that is bugged

I officially took one of my DDO accounts free to play today. I was doing a game inventory and realized with STO I would have 3 MMO’s I was trying to play and pay for. Which to my mind is simply ridiculous. I don’t have that many hours in day.

So, I am going to take my static group account free to play and see how this works for me. Then the hubby will get an idea of costs per account to buy the adventure packs and we’ll make a decision on the other 3 accounts we currently pay for.

I am sad to be making this choice, but it is what it is.

I participated in the anniversary ice skating event tonight in DDO. It’s fun for about 5 minutes and then its bloody annoying. *shrugs* I am glad for fun things to pass the time with. Maybe I am simply snarky tonight.

They have done some aesthetic changes to some of the game elements. I caught sight of the bank in the marketplace and went huh? Whose idea was it to put ugly mosaic tile all over the outside of the thing? *ponders*

STO launched yesterday. I would love to tell you about it except I haven’t played it at all. I went and picked up our Collector’s edition boxes tonight. We ohhhed and awwwed, but otherwise we neither had the desire to immediately log in. In future, I think we will skip open beta’s. They sour our perspective prematurely.

I am off to bed. A GM never responded to our ticket, so bleh. We’ll just repeat the quest next week I guess.

GAME ON!!!

It’s gorgeously white outside.

Hey, I know a few of you you have this kind of wintery stuff all the time. I live on a beach. It’s not normal

Like a kid, I shrugged into enough snow-like gear to rival the Michelin Man for girth. Camera in hand, I spent an hour wandering through the State Park behind my house and just enjoying the enthusiasm of the kids hoots and hollers, the crying of the babies who were wayyy too cold and the strange sight of people on ski’s in a town known for surf boards!

Want to know the awesome thing about a snow day? I don’t have to go anywhere and I can game as much as I want

Yesterday marked the opening of Star Trek Online’s Headstart game launch. I really didn’t WANT to patch my game and log on, but I figured I should. With some trepidation and whining over how I wanted to play Mass Effect 2, I got to it.

I made a Science officer. From the first screen I could tell the game has gotten a layer of gloss. It looks better, feels better, and the explanations of things are right where they should be.

I made Rowan who is the captain of the USS Sea Tiger (anyone know where that is from?) and logged in only to hear the Voice of Spock, the real one Leonard Nimoy, in my headset.

They have added a cool cinematic explaining where the universe is now and how star fleet fits in, why the klingons are at war with everyone and a jumping off place in the time line for how you are going to save the universe.

My biggest complaint when I was in open beta was the lack of continuity. I want story. It looks like Cryptic has added it and I am looking forward to going where no man has to gone before with my phasers on stun in the next 30 or so days to see if they succeed where many have failed before.

I didn’t play very long. I had to get back to Mass Effect 2. I am totally hooked and I am hoping to get in many many hours of play this weekend.

Plus Bioshock 2 comes out on the 8th and I have it pre ordered, so well, there are only so many hours I can game. LOL

Jerry over at DDOcast put together this short Video from Mass Effect 2. I laughed and laughed. I find this hilarious

Game on!!!

Sometimes a launch goes swimmingly.

Then there are launches like yesterday’s of Mass Effect 2.

I know when I buy a new MMORPG and I log in on launch day there are going to be issues. I expect it, and steel myself for whatever frustrations may come.

Stand alone games “should” work, right?

After picking up my copy of the Collector’s Edition of Mass Effect 2 yesterday, I came home and popped the CD in my computer. While it installed, I decided to check out the forums for the game.

As I logged in, I saw post after post about issues with the install, not being able to connect to the games “server” for the Collector’s edition downloads, people using their codes on the wrong site, freezing of the game making it unplayable and so on and so forth.

I figured this had to be everyone else’s issues because nothing was going to go wrong for me.

I am rather gullible aren’t I?

Thus began the 3 hours of trying to play the game.

Look, when its a stand alone, I expect to be able to play it with no issue. I am not worried about servers being down, why do I need one in the first place?

I alternately screamed and ranted at my PC as I sat on the “please wait” screen for an hour. AN HOUR.

For some reason I was begin taken straight into the EA login and not being able to circumvent it to just play the game.

I scoured the forums for ideas. They ranged form checking my ports to storming EA’s offices.

I am not in tech support. If I pay 60 bucks for a game I have been waiting a couple of years for, I obviously want to play the blasted thing.

I finally got everything to work about 10 30 pm est last night.

Trying to ignore the tension headache pounding behind my eyeballs, I pressed play and FINALLY was able to import in my character from Mass Effect 1.

Let me just say, that Bioware worked very hard to get information on the issues out to people in a timely manner yesterday. The problems were fixed, and if you load it up today, you should have none of the mega errors I had. I’m just lucky that way >.<

The game is beautiful. I will admit to feeling a little nostalgic about seeing my character again. By porting her into this episode, I gained a perks, but honestly nothing game breaking.

The biggest upside to using my old saved games was that the decisions I have made in the first game impacted Mass Effect 2. Characters I had let die in part 1, are still dead in part 2. I had been a lvl 45 paragon vanguard, and I could follow the paragon storyline in part 2.

I really could write a long long long blog about my love for this game, but to be honest, I just want to get back to playing it!

If you haven’t planned on playing it, and you love an RPG, please please please go out and get a copy.

If you haven’t played through Mass Effect 1, what are you waiting for? While not a prerequisite for playing Mass Effect 2, it does make the story richer.

The game has been streamlined, has new additions, and the storyline so far has taken my breath away.

I am off to play. I can’t resist any longer.

GAME ON!!!

Before you all start thinking I am buying luxury cars and a new house, I won a LOTRO lottery

And yes, its exciting.

How do they work?

Well, as part of the Mylotro community pages, you can enter your characters for lotteries during the week. It’s incentive to check back on mylotro, I think.

I found out about the lottery right after recording a DDOCast. We’d been discussing ways to get people to use Myddo. I don’t know how it could work for DDO, but I am hoping there is someone over at Turbine whose job it is to figure it out

Yesterday, I got a notice I had sold an auction. Since I am poor, I mapped home to Bree to check my mailbox and see my cash.

Surprise!!! I see 5 letters with the word “Lottery Winner” *faints*

This can’t be right, I never win anything.

I received the following.

As well as 200 silver Whoo hoo.

Nothing like celebrating the wonderfulness of pie

In other news, looks like update 3 is coming to DDO February 3rd. If you’d like to look at the release notes for the test server to see what’s coming, click here. Casual setting makes me want to puke, notice boards are for n00bs and generally I am disgusted, but that’s just me being ranty. I am glad we are seeing so many updates.

DDO’s 4th anniversary is being acknowledged this year with a party of sorts. It doesn’t look in anyway like the Marketplace event.

Which by the way, I am finding a fabulous foreshadowing of the game itself. They blew the gaming marketplace on their butts with this little experiment of theirs. Plus, in my own personal opinion, they blew the actual game into smithereens, but I am off topic.

Look I said something positive. I am shutting up now.

Star Trek Online has extended their open beta by one day.

Headstart starts on the January 29th. I guess I need to call gamestop and see if I need to pick up the box early or if they are giving out a code for that. I will play the game for at least the free 30 days, after that we will see. I am still not sure if it’s fun or not even after all the time I have spent in open beta.

Speaking of gamestop… I will be there at midnight tonight, waiting in line for my copy of Mass Effect 2, the collector’s edition. Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble Commander Shepard gets into this time. The hubby thinks I am insane. HA!

GAME ON!!!

Yuppers, it’s that time of year.

GENCON 2010 tickets went on sale today at noon.

Have you bought yours yet?

If you haven’t, please be aware that housing opens on Tuesday

I HAVE OUR TICKETS!!!

The hubby thinks he might actually be home. I have checked, and the tickets are refundable LOL, but my fingers are crossed. I have gone solo two years running. *prays to the gods* If he gets to go with me, I will consider it a belated honeymoon

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Have you ever had one of those gaming moments where you just go DOH!!!

It was date night. Zeff and I logged into LOTRO for a romantic evening of monster slaying and loot whoring. What can I say? In this economy a date in an MMORPG is a nice way to spend time together doing something you both enjoy!

We’ve had this one quest for a while out in The Lonelands. Everyone tells me The Lonelands is not as bad as it used to be. I don’t know what it was, but I know last night I almost crushed my mouse in a red haze of rage.

We had some quest to kill this guy out by the undead ruins. Yeah, those ruins. The one where the Master boss guy has an instant respawn which equals death.

It created a perfect storm of frustration in the both of us.

After death number 3, I asked if we could find something else to do. He agreed, which surprised me. He is a completionist. Leaving a quest behind simply isn’t done in his world.

We decide we are going to go kill gloom waters.

We tried to run out to where they were shown on our map, but were quickly trounced by some elite novice mob jerk who dealt death number 4.

We decided maybe we should go back and kill that other guy just to get it over with.

With some false bravado, we valiantly fought our way back inside the seventh ring of undead Hell only to DIE again.

After death number 5, I maybe screamed loudly and slammed my mouse down rather hard. Saying “Screw it”, I stormed off to make a smoothie.

A very wonderful guildie offered to come out and help us while I was downstairs cussing the uncooperative blender. Once he joined the party, he asked us over voice chat what we were trying to complete. We told him and he ran to meet us and join in on the death spree.

EXCEPT…

He ran in another direction than the one we had been in.

We pointed this out only to be told kindly that for 2 and half hours of deaths, we had been in the wrong place!!!

DOH

Since I had a smoothie, life had taken on a nice shade of delicious goodness and I could only laugh.

Quest was completed and we spent the next little while regaining silver to pay for our repair bill.

HA!

Game on!!!

There is a new patch available for Star Trek Online today. It’s got a release note page a mile long. I am patching as I write this so I can check things out before dinner. Supposedly all the new UI changes are in game. I am not sure what I am expecting, but I am hoping SOMETHING pulls me in.

In LOTRO, our characters hit 30, the magic number needed for skirmishes. The hubby and I tried them out last night and quickly discovered the ability to duo them is almost impossible, which makes me sad. They are fun, but built for 1,3,6 or 12 players.

If you’ve been a subscriber to LOTRO in the past, but haven’t been there in a while, now is the time. They are offering a welcome back weekend and it starts now.

After visiting Star Trek tonight, I am hoping to get a little time in LOTRO. I have my solo character soooo close to 30 and I am hoping to see how the solo skirmishes work out. Plus, I need to make some coin so I can afford more bank space, so a-crafting I must go

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In other news, I have been thinking about writing about military wifedom blog article for a while. Perhaps its my love for gaming, or maybe its just that I am an odd duck, but learning how to maneuver around the military lifestyle this last year has made me realize a few things.

So, I’ll quickly diverge from gaming stuff and hit the highlights of what I’m learning.

Uniforms are a beast all unto themselves. Half of my shared closet has been taken over by the plethora of uniforms. Long sleeved, short sleeved, everyday, dress blues, dress whites and so on and so forth. Have I mentioned he owns more shoes than I do to go with the multitude of uniforms? Or all the are different socks? T-shirts? *shakes her head*

The New NWU’s for the Navy have washing instructions telling me to turn them inside out. I have no idea why, but I follow the instructions as if afraid I will be fined by the Laundry MP’s. The new very expensive Gortex jacket is not washable. I need to do something with it, but I am not sure how to clean it? Even a google search has failed me.

I do not sew his new patches to the uniforms. I am not a skilled sewer and knowing my own limitations. I am quite happy to support my local small business tailor ship and the talented ladies who are exceedingly capable of doing the job. I am also terrified of doing it wrong. Friends tell me I am throwing my money away. I feel it is simply prudent to know when to say no.

Planning activities of any kind leads to frustration. All tickets need to be refundable. He says he will be home and I hear in my head “I might be home!”

I am never sure when he leaves in the morning if he is actually going to come home. Since we are a one car family, it has led me to have an agreement with a girlfriend for emergency car retrieval.

Duty days are a thing to learn to enjoy. I treat them like a mini-wife vacation. I don’t need to have dinner made when he walks in the door. I can talk on the phone to my girlfriends for hours without the guilt of missing time he is actually home. I can watch my chick flicks, eat ice cream in bed and game for a whole evening if I want to.

Some spouses treat duty days as something to be endured. I simply try and find the joy where I can.

Friendships are interesting. Some people come into your life for a season and then disappear. Some are simply not meant to last and burn themselves out quickly. Just because we have husbands in the same branch of the service doesn’t mean we are going to automatically bond, begin having sleep overs, braid each others hair and paint our nails late at night.

One of my girlfriends equates military friendship’s like dating. A first date lunch maybe awesome, and I may leave thinking you are a great person I can enjoy my free time with every once in a while. After two or three outings with you, I may think you are a complete tool.

I now categorize friends. Acquaintances I may only speak to online or on the phone for support or a vent fest. Friends are someone I may hang out with sometimes and spend time doing normal girl stiff. True friends are someone I can call in the middle of the night when he is deployed and they show up at my door in the wee hours to take me to the ER or will stay up late with me on the phone to make sure I take my meds after surgery even though they are hundreds of miles away.

It cycles. One of my closet friends and I will speak non stop for days, then not speak for a month, then jump back without either of us being offended. It all moves around when the boys are home. If they are, we understand the need to give space. When they are gone, we use up all the cell phone minutes we’ve been rolling over for months.

The commissary should pass out armour when you enter. I won’t say my age, but suffice it to say I have been grocery shopping a while. My first trip to the commissary almost led to a fist fight. These people are in a class all to them selves.

I am not the only one who thinks this. We were running errands this last weekend and I asked the hubby to stop at the commissary. He looked at me like I had grown two-heads and was spitting acid from my forked tongue.

Rules I should have known about the commissary before my first trip include: the retiree may look old and sweet but they will mow you down in a new york minute, you park your cart at the end of an aisle and weave through the traffic to get the goods you need so as to not spend 10 minutes in a “buggy jam”, never go to the commissary on pay day weekend as EVERYONE for miles around has decided to shop at once en mass, always have cash for the sackers as they work for tips, and don’t forget your ID card in the visor of your car or people behind you get really cranky!

Tricare requires a degree to navigate. Never expect a same day appointment, bring a book for the waiting room and apparently 800 mg motrin is the “magic pill” that solves all ills.

I could write about Tricare and National healthcare for pages, but I won’t. I appreciate having insurance and when I needed surgery this summer it was a god send, but if you just need a prescription its a nightmare.

FRG’s are of the devil. I was on the board for one this past year. I felt I was revisiting my high school years. Gossip, back stabbing and who is wearing the best outfit. I was sure this was just my experience and so asked my girlfriends who were in different commands only to be told its pretty much a known rule that you only attend FRG meetings when the CO makes it requirement for information sharing unless you want to walk around with a knife in your back. Why didn’t I know this?

I’ll stop here for a rest. I’ll save up for a later post.

Can I just say that the “Marrying into the Military Class” I took when I was engaged in no way prepared me for the host of pitfalls I’ve run across in the last year. >.<

Game on!!!

TNT, my static group in DDO, is about to celebrate our 3 year anniversary.

Holy Moly!

For three years our group had been meeting once a week to play DDO for 2 to 3 hours. Hellmy, Key, Ostrich and Row have been the steady 4. Three years… in an MMORPG static group. It boogles my mind.

We’re all about lvl 17 now I think. To be honest, I can never remember. With our group the level hasn’t actually been the goal.

We beat the dragon as the six of us. My husband joined us a while back and Steiner brought his paladin along a year ago. Taking down Velah felt like a victory to us. It took careful planning and some luck, but we beat her in April of 2009.

At the moment we’re flagged for the Titan and the Demon Queen, and we almost have enough relics to flag for the Tor. We still haven’t messed around much in Shavarath. Honestly, most of us as still wearing plus 5 stat items, and while we are flagged for the shroud, I am not sure yet how we are going to pull it off.

This week, the Sorcerer I play got 1750 Favor. I was pretty darn proud of it. It’s taken a long time to get here and there is still a ton to be done. I went and got my first tome and spent 10 minutes trying to decide which one to get. After deciding on Charisma, I ported out to my team so they could all watch me eat my tome!!! Nom Nom Nom

Playing with our rules of no auction house, using what we find in chests or on a vendor, sharing coin amongst ourselves and never giving up has lead to a heck of a lot of fun and some great friendships I can’t imagine not having in my life.

We aren’t using the DDO store, the sorcerer’s haggle skill buys the cleric wands, UMD on the Sorc for heal wands is a must. We make decisions on spell slots as a group, and we go after all the chests in a dungeon no matter the danger!

So here’s to TNT (which depending on our mood still has different meanings… I still like Trashy Neekid Tramps best myself)!!!

• Keylet the rogue fires off her repeater like a machine gun, trap diva and our Experience hog!
• Hellmut the ranger who seems to keep out of trouble and be the last one alive jumping after our stones and who has a habit of dancing like a drunken dwarf all over Stormreach
• Rowanslash the fighter who dies valiantly trying to take all the agro on his fighter and who knows how to solve mazes, memorizes open maps and can navigate us like a GPS.
• Osthryth the cleric who has decided implosion is the best spell ever made and uses it to kill everything in our path.
• Rhaid the paladin who can raise the dead, smite things and has managed to get us through some tough spots.
• Borgii the sorcerer who UMD’s heal wands, loves firewall and generally dies A LOT!!!

Thank you guys for three years of fabulous fun! Here’s to the next three

Last year was full of changes, both personal and gaming wise.

I am trying to look at what I want out of this year and finding I’d like like some quiet.

I have commented ad nauseum about my inability to handle change well. This winter I simply “checked out” of all of the new things and tried to recenter myself. The game I loved felt clunky, the USN had my husband gone more than he was home, and I felt at odds with my own agenda.

I won’t say I am back on the wagon, but I feel a little more optomistic about the coming year:)

Gaming wise, I downloaded the Star Trek Online open beta and so far have played about 12 to 14 hours and am level 6. I have had some people write and ask what I think.

*ponders*

Honestly, I have an odd reaction. I am a HUGE Trekkie. I have the toys, games, dvd collection and so forth. Heck, there is a Pez display on my desk of the original Star Trek characters.

So many Star Trek games have been ho hum. I have been reading about, dreaming and hoping an MMORPG with the Star Trek IP would be delicious.

I am not saying I hate it. I don’t. It’s simply different.

Open beta is limited game experience. I will say I love the space combat. Ground combat equals weaksauce. The sector map for transitioning between star systems is lame atm, but it is my understanding that there have been tweaks to improve no only its functionality but its look in preparation for launch.

My biggest gripe so far is story. I actually LIKE a story. I am not a grind hog and sometimes when stepping away from the computer I ask myself what I accomplished in STO and I shrug.

It feels fabulous to go on the bridge of my ship and look around. My bridge officers are there and so forth, but its just me looking. I can’t actually DO anything from my bridge and there is no other part of my own ship to look at.

I’ve tried taking some screen shots to share, but I can’t seem to find where they are being saved on my computer

I want to like the game. I just don’t know yet. I have a pre order and will definitely play the first 30 days and re evaluate.

So to all of you asking. I don’t know yet is my official answer.

I am still playing DDO once a week with my static group. It’s nice to have the built in fun of 2 plus years of friendship to try and play the game with. It’s had such a major upheaval in the last year and it no longer has the feeling of familiarity I once enjoyed.

Sadly, I am not the only one. My husband hasn’t logged into his account in over a month. My Xfire friends list shows everyone playing other things, from Everquest 2, Runes of Magic, Lotro, STO, Dragonage. and so forth. I rarely see anyone in DDO anymore.

I read the latest release notes and went HUH? They are adding in a casual setting to the game. I am not sure why in the world it would be needed. Dungeon scaling has taken most of the challenge out of the game if you are short manning something. Now it will be so easy you can sleep walk through an adventure. Just sad!

For me atm, its a once a week visit.

If you are looking for me in a game, I am in Lotro. Vilya Server. The hubby and I enjoy duoing the game when he is home. Otherwise, I solo or play with my guild, work on crafting, or leveling or book quests.

The hubby learned to cook He even makes his own fires and such. Just had to get a shot of that.

He killed a bear and got a special skin to make a trophy. He just HAS to have it in his new house. Well at least he has a place to put his animal trophies besides my walls, right?

I am off to go gathering some crafting do dads in Lotro. So far I am enjoying my reaffirmed sense of self.

Here’s to a new year full of new possibilities!

Game On!!!