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Seems like its been that long since I posted doesn't it? I've had some requests to update this thing so I gave in because I'm like that. So what has been going on with me lately? Well first thing that comes to mind is the parents visited week before last. It was nice seeing them again. I took them to all the touristy places I could think of: Gateway Mall, Trolley Square, Park City. I only had like 3 days off out of the week because of the way things were scheduled so they went sightseeing a couple days while I was at work. One of the things we looked at was ski equipment. There were a lot of sales going on since its the end of the season but I'm not sure that I want ski equipment yet because I kind of want to give snowboarding a try. My mom wanted to get my ski boots and the only problem I have with that is that if I decide I don't want to ski then they will just sit there in my closet. I'll rent until I decide on what I want to buy.

So the reason I haven't been writing these blogs lately has been because of World of Warcraft. I said I was gonna focus on my social life but yeah my social life consists of talking to people who I work with in game. The game is just so addicting. At first I was playing to level my character and do the quests. Now that my main character is at level 70, the highest possible level, I've been running dungeons with people and those usually take like 3 or 4 hours. Its fun because of the people you are interacting with and the strategy that is required to defeat high level bosses. For instance, in our 10 man Karazhan (name of the dungeon) runs, we have to have the right group make up to get anywhere. Generally the make up is 2 tanks, 2-3 healers, and 5-6 DPS. Tanks are characters who can't do a lot of damage but have a ton of hit points and can take a beating. These guys will generally hold the bosses and mobs on them so that they aren't going around killing the group. Healers generally have to heal the group and keep the tank alive. Their role is pretty obvious, and this is the type of character I play. DPS (Damage per second) characters serve only one purpose and that is to kill the bosses with their high damage output. My alternate character, a 64 Druid, is a DPS character but he is not yet geared enough or high enough level to run 10 man or 25 man dungeons. There is so much coordination involved that everyone in the raid gets on this program called Ventrilo so we can talk to each other real time with a headset and mic. Also getting the right group make up means we have to have raid signups in advance and be willing to commit a certain amount of time to do the dungeon. I usually sign up for the 25 man dungeons on Tuesday and Friday from 9pm-1am. There are ocassionally Saturday runs at the same time but I don't always sign up for those. Pretty much throughout the week there are 10 man runs too but I've only signed up for the Sunday runs. Its just so time consuming that I'm probably gonna scale back to just running on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we'll see.

Anyways, now that I've ranted, I think I'll go do some daily quests in WoW or something. I'll try to keep this up to date since apparently people do read it.