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This entry was written primarily so I could win free web hosting and the accolades of my peers. Tee-hee. It should also provide some insight into the obvious, as noted above.

When I was in college, I started blogging because it was a way for me to deal with uncomfortable feelings and the troubles that came with having too many thoughts in mind at the same time. As I grew older, I kept blogging, but I didn’t really understand why I kept on doing so.

After graduating from college, I became what could be called a professional video game newsblogger, and I loved most of the time I spent doing that, writing about something I knew and felt comfortable with.

Still, it wasn’t until I was forced to stop doing that job that I realized how much I yearned for the chance to write and be read by people.

I gathered courage and information, and eventually started Games and Geekery, and have been consistently writing about games and other geeky things for the past two years. It may not always be deep, and it might not be meaningful to a lot of people, but the important thing is that I blog because the act of writing about games is meaningful to me, and what other joy is there to be had than to do something you’re good at and happy with?

This is an entry to a blogging contest sponsored by Life with Ria and WebSpark.net

Japanator recently came out with an article I would have normally read, liked, but not written about, but then I decided to follow the breadcrumbs, so to speak, and found myself salivating over this upcoming album.

The RnB group Boyz II Men will release a new album filled with English covers to J-Pop songs on December 22, entitled Covered – Winter - and will feature two songs that I absolutely love.

The first is Utada Hikaru’s First Love, which was on my high school and college playlists for a rather long time. The second song I’m excited for is a rendition of the English cover of Itoshi no Ellie/Ellie, My Love, which I’ve written about previously.

I’m hoping to find out more about this cover album once it’s been released. Hopefully there’ll be reviews for the songs on the net.

I spent two days off playing World of Warcraft so I could better enjoy myself instead of burning out on leveling Steelwater, my Death Knight. Right now, he’s at level 70, and I just realized that I never actually went through all the Wrath zones, because I hit level 80 and stopped playing after getting the Engineering Flying Mount on my old Hunter.

Thing is, since I’m new to playing Horde, I have no idea what the progression of zones ought to be for a Death Knight in this case, and my neuroticism is acting up again.

Which zones give good rewards for Dual-wielding Frost Death Knights? Which allows me to make good reputation gains faster with important people (like the Kalu’ak!). How much is Cold Weather Flying? WHAT DO I DOOOOO?!

True, all roads lead to level 80, but I’m not sure which route to take: the expedient path, or the scenic route?

Can anyone offer me some advice or direction? Right now, I’m trying to just hit friendly with the Consortium folks in Netherstorm.

P.S. Yes, the picture does state that a Water Elemental beat a boss. I don’t know why…