Well, I’m finally back after a long break, caused by, you guessed it, World of Warcraft.

If the game were a single player game, it would be incredibly boring. Get a quest, kill 20-100 monsters, turn in a quest, yay. You then bump the experience bar a little further. The Burning Crusade added grinding reputations with factions, which made it all that much worse, despite the rewards.

The thing that drew me back was the social aspect of the game. I really enjoyed hanging out with my guild members and drinking heavily. After I quit the game last time, I kept in contact on the guild forums because, well, I was hosting them in the first place. I really missed ‘em.

However, once I came back, the guild was falling apart. It was a matter of days before the guild disbanded. Friends moved to different servers and different guilds. I played my alliance druid for awhile and abandoned my warrior, using him only for PvP. That was fun until I got them geared up, but it was constantly frustrating me with shitty PuGs for instance runs and getting my ass kicked with premade groups in battlegrounds. I tried to find a good guild, but I just couldn’t find a group that made me enjoy the game like I used to. The straw that broke the camel’s back was simply a loss in a battleground. No huge blow-up, no huge rant, just more of a feeling of “I’m sick of this shit.”

I calmly uninstalled the game, deleted the directory, canceled my account, and to make sure I never came back, tossed the CDs in the trash, which now reside in some landfill.

I’m feeling pretty good about things now. I’m getting caught up with my degree program, losing the weight that I put on, and have time for other essential things, like paying attention to Vahl and not ignoring/putting off my friends anymore. I also came back to writing, and noticed that my WordPress installation is severely outdated, hence the title of this article. Major security bugs suck. I’m just glad the site wasn’t big enough to get noticed and hacked.