Two New Chapters in Life's Book

Well lots to tell and where to begin with it all. Perhaps we'll just jump right in and see where it leads. Sound good? Here we go.

I got fired.

I look at those words and the fact that they apply to me somehow doesn't quite seem to fit. Men in America, at least when I was growing up here in the Midwest, were raised to be providers for their familes. "A man shouldn't lose his job" ... "you be a good provider for my daughter" ... "a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat" ... those were phrases I grew up with. Maybe you've heard them too.

So I'm struggling a bit with this to be honest. I know I'm not my families' ultimate provider, that is a job for God and Him alone. I get that. I do feel I have a responsibility to stay employed at all times though, thereby doing all I can to keep things running smooth. So I'm bummed that this happened and I do feel like I failed.

Probably more on this later. Right now I'm just still absorbing information/feelings about it. I'm sure it'll all come tumbling out someday.

And now back to the game.

Oak is nearly level 67. And I've moved servers, leaving behind the land of PVP for the glorious and unbidden rapture that is PVE. I even messed around and started a guild called appropriately, Quest In Peace.

There is an old saying .. Life's too short to dance with ugly women. Yes that doesn't apply here but it brings the opportunity for a nice segway to a new saying that I will coin in simlar fashion.

"WoW is too long of a game to spend your time being ganked in world pvp".

There is the long and short of how I feel about pvp servers. You may disagree. That's ok. I'm sure you're wrong about other things too. Most likely you also believe in evolution and aliens. I forgive you.

When you do read this and come to your senses though, there is a good guild waiting for you where the questing is easy, the leveling is unabated, and the only sounds you hear are the casting of your ranged attacks, the whistle of a blade through the air and the thud of another mob hitting the ground, all bringing you ever closer to the level cap.

That's my rambling for the day. I do apologize that it's been so long since my last writing. And too, I'm sorry for the fact this post is sorta "mean" sounding. I'm still a tad bummed.

May all your hits be crits!
Oak