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Stuck In a Moment

One thing that is true about my personality, I am prone to action paralysis.  It comes in one of two flavors.  Flavor one is that there are so many choices of things to do and so little time.  In this case, I’ll just sit there and do nothing.  Flavor two is when things get difficult or overwhelming and in that case nothing happens as well.  Rationally, I understand that if I’m burnt out on gathering badges that I just don’t run instances and do something else.  Irrationally there’s some internal-only idea that it’s what you do and you have to do it.  Then, I’ll just sit there.

I’ve been trying to get over that paralysis everywhere in my life, but, it also applies to games and gaming.  They are hobbies, so, why shouldn’t I just decide to go on to something that doesn’t feel like work.  I’ve been more willing to do that as of late.  I am enjoying achieving things at my own pace much better.  Playing Star Trek Online, I’m still at the first level of LC, but when I play, I have a lot of fun with it.  In World of Warcraft, if I don’t want to grind Argent dailies, then, I pick something else.

So what is on board for tonight?  Guild holiday, of course.  This is when our World of Warcraft guild lets our hair down after a long week.  Usually, we run an old world raid for reputation or to get an achievement.  Who knows what we will run tonight?  Karazhan?  AQ40?  Maybe, I will see if we can do Magtherodon.  I don’t even know if I spelled that right and I’m going to be a rebel and refuse to look it up.

End of Resolution Days

I have failed to update my blog as much as I like. I have been so behind on everything and this morning I made the effort to catch up. Let’s see how this goes! At the height of my attempts to balance everything, I was sleeping better at night and so much more active. Since December, we worked so hard on Firan for the Kinslayer War. The bulk of this has been resolved and we just officially finished Resolution Day yesterday. It’s such a good feeling. I think it proved if we could run that high and hot for 3 months that if we backed it off to medium…the game can still be interesting and fun without full burn out.

So what does one do now? I’ve been getting a renewed interest in World of Warcraft. I have lost the desire to grind out instances for badges, but, I did level a little bit and do some achievements. I think I’m going to work on Bennett’s mining some here; it can be relaxing to run in a circle gathering minerals. I got my Star Trek character to LC which means I get a cooler ship with keen powers. I haven’t had an opportunity to try them out, yet. I may wrestle the Xbox back from Bill, who is playing lots of Mass Effect 2, so I can continue my Overlord 2 game. I also have Quake 4 and Assassin’s Creed. Yes, there is a II. Yes, I am the slowest gamer in the world. I like the savor the experience, OKAY.

We are clearing to Saurfang Jr. pretty regularly now. I’m happy for that and the chest piece I got last night. I need to gem it before my Shaman leader gets angry. You wouldn’t want to see him angry.