Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

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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When I watch this, in between laughing my butt off, all I can see is my boys in a few years doing the exact same thing.

I really wonder if these kids are homeschooled. And look at that house! Wow.

Real-life runescape skills Pt. 1
Real-life runescape skills Pt. 2

This seems to have become a fad on YouTube - if you check the “related videos” screen you’ll see there’s a lot of folks doing these real-life RS vids.  I’m sure after I show the boys they’ll want to make one too!

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This just looks like a load of fun. I want to try it!

Photo copyright Reuters.

Walk on water!

A girl is enclosed in a floating sphere on a river at a park on the outskirts of Beijing May 3, 2007. The ball-shaped device enables people to “walk” on water surfaces. China is celebrating a week-long Labour Day holiday, which started on Tuesday, a time when millions of Chinese people travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends. Picture taken May 3, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)

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