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I have two new additions in the sidebar. One is a Twitter badge. I had played around with Twitter pretty early on, but hadn’t used it in a while. A few weeks back, I rejoined the twittering world and it’s been amusing.

The other addition is a Raptr.com profile. I had heard about Raptr a while back, but had forgotten it until earlier today when it was brought up in the BA bloggers room. Invites went flying, and soon a ton of us all landed on the site, creating accounts and poking the new toy.

Will I be keeping them on the front page? Who knows. Right now, they’re helping relieve a little stress from no servers and wishing 12:01am Thursday would get here already…

First off, let me apologize if anything breaks, looks odd, or otherwise blows up here. I’m doing some experimenting, and while the majority of my changes are taking place in a safe location, some changes I test here. Usually it turns into a “GAH! BAD! GO AWAY BAD THING!” moment, and quickly vanishes, but just in case, you’ve been warned.

Last night, we proved that we have the Tidewalker fight down. As long as The Boyfriend stays alive, the whole thing is pretty much a cakewalk for us. I have to give major kudos to the healers, as they were on top of things last night. A couple of healers got sent to the Watery Graves right when it could have gotten bad, but quick communication and even faster reflexes kept the tanks alive with barely a bobble. Go team!

The Leo fight still is being learned. Last night was my first night there after our very first single attempt at him. Last week while I was out of town, they got a good couple of hours worth of work in on him. We get to work on him this weekend more for I think a good 3 hour stretch, which will either let us get into the groove of the fight and really learn it, or actually see him downed.

I really regret missing out on those learning nights, because I always feel like I missed out on the process, that I’m somehow behind in “getting” the fight, no matter how much I read up on it or watch other people’s movies. It just takes me back to when I first started raiding with these guys, and they’d been doing the instances for weeks. Then me and my total noob-to-raiding self wandered in with an absolute paranoid fear that I will Screw Things Up and kept muttering to myself “oh pleasepleasepleasedon’tkickmeIswearI’mtryingtolearn.” My Class Leader still laughs at me over those memories, and thank heavens she didn’t think that me asking 500 questions over the night was a bad thing (okay it felt like 500, but was probably more like 10-15). I told her later that I’d tried to keep them as intelligent as I could. Apparently, they were reasonable questions, cos they kept inviting me back.

But it kinda makes me wonder: how many people out there have this problem? That tiny niggling fear in the back of your head that says “Omg wth am I doing here? Please don’t let me get everyone killed.” Or is it just me and my paranoia? (Which is highly possible.)

In WoW-related holiday donations, consider donating to Child’s Play through The Bronze Kettle. Not only do you get the warm fuzzies of helping kids in hospitals take their minds off whatever they are there for, but you also have a chance at getting a gift or two for being a Good Person.

…instead of playing WoW, I’ll actually get around to working on this. ::le sigh::

Just a test post, since it’s going to take me a while to get this working the way I want it to. With any luck, within the month, this will be a place for me to post all my WoW crap.