Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

We’ll be leaving this Saturday (Sept. 1st, for archival’s sake) to head out west and take in the sights. Mom and Dad bought a big motor home after checking out the prices on renting one (egads), and we’ll be towing our van behind it. We’ll be gone for 3 entire weeks - it’s kinda mind-boggling. Wish us luck on the 7 of us, plus a cat and a dog, still being sane after living together in a big motor home for that amount of time.

This will be the first “real” family vacation we’ve ever taken - I’ve gone off for a week for business twice, once taking Mike with me. The boys have gone on week-long trips with their grandparents before, but we’ve never done it together. Needless to say, there’s quite a bit of both anticipation and nervousness about the prospect of it. 3 weeks is a long time to be in a camper together. Mike is really looking forward to all the time away from work, but I’ve got a feeling he’s going to be having withdrawal pains and won’t know what to do with himself after a few days with all of that time on his hands. I don’t even think he’s considered what he’s going to take along to keep himself occupied/entertained. I’ll have to talk to him about that tonight.

In the next few days we’ve got a lot of packing to do, cleaning the house up, and generally getting everything ready to go. Wish us luck!

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In a word - WoW.
No, seriously.
World of Warcraft - aka WoW.

We “rolled some toons” (created characters) on the Madoran realm and have been playing there. Madoran is a PvE realm, meaning “Player vs Everyone”. You never have to go PvP (Player vs Player) if you don’t want to, but the option is there. In the time that I’ve been absent from blogging, I’ve created and dumped many toons, joined and left two guilds, and finally (with some help from my friends) created a guild that’s going very well and has a great group of folks in it.

My main character is Druanna, a level 70 night elf hunter. I’ve also got a little gnome mage, a dranei priest, and a human warlock. All female. These are of course Alliance characters; for the uninitiated Warcraft has two main factions: Alliance or Horde. On the Horde side, I’ve got a blood elf mage and a blood elf paladin. Our guild, Death By Design, also has a sister guild on the Horde side - Undead By Design.

Mike and the boys have also gotten into the action; Mike’s got a human mage that’s coming along nicely despite all the overtime he’s been doing, and a blood elf warlock as well. Kelsey and Brendon share an account, and I can’t keep track of the number of characters they’ve tried out and deleted. Kelsey’s two main characters are a human warlock and a night elf hunter; Brendon is currently playing around with a night elf druid.

We’re having a great time; Warcraft is more vast than we ever could have imagined. Even in the 3 months that I’ve been playing there I *still* haven’t seen everything there is to see, nor even been to every area that you can go to. It really is an entire world, and it’s well worth the $15/mo playing fee. If you’re interested in trying it out, there’s always a 10-day free trial running on the World of Warcraft website, and you can hit up any of our guild’s officers for an invite into the guild. (Try whispering Tartan, Kajiyama, Elocin, Klinnsman, or Liquidfury - one of them is bound to be on no matter what time of the day it is.)

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