….knocks us down and repeatedly beats our face into the concrete.

In a nutshell, things have gone to hell for me yet again. After circumstances led to it being necessary for me to move out from where I was living I’ve had to make an unexpected drive of 800 miles to leave my cats with my dad to take care of for a while. After that I will be staying with someone kind enough to offer me a bed for the next month until I make the move myself. Where I will be staying there is no internet. So I will be out of game and offline for the foreseeable future.

I have one more Ithrene story snippet in my head based on an event in game if my stress level will let me actually write but I don’t guarantee anything.

So for now, I will be off tending to my crappy life and will hopefully get to return to something resembling stability before Christmas.

Thanks to my friends, my readers, and everyone that has touched my life recently through WoW and beyond.

<3 Nau

You know, generally we only hear stories of the rotten customer service experience. Having worked in customer service I know that road travels both ways. Sometimes the customer is the butthead and the agent really does all they can to help and gets heaps and heaps of undeserved abuse. So I thought I would share my recent experience with Blizzard Customer Service.

I decided to re-race a character. Simple process really. Go pay the fee, choose the character, log in and find the magic button that actually performs the action next to the character on the login screen. Piece of cake!

So I go in, pay my fee, choose my character, finalize and off I go to log in!

TO FIND THAT THE MAGIC “CHANGE ME” BUTTON IS NEXT TO ITHRENE!!! NOOOOOOO!!! Dun wanna change the dwarf!

Think Nau! Don’t touch anything! Ooo! There’s an 800 number. Quick, its still early! CALL!

So I dial up the number and there is a 45 minute wait just to talk to someone. /sigh. So I put the phone on speaker, and putter around with other things and chat. During this time my poor little brain overworks itself almost to a frenzy. What if they won’t let me fix it? What if they CAN’T fix it? I’ve just wasted my chance to re-race that character! Oh noes!!!!

So I wait and wait and wait and chew on my nails and fuss and whine at my friends and wait some more.

FINALLY a customer service agent comes on the phone. I will call him T.

So by this point I am completely whiny and scared that something is going to happen to Ith and not to the one I intended and I immediately start babbling my tale of woe to T. It seems T is used to fussy gamers babbling and crying and whining at him because he quickly understood what the blazes I was saying, found the issue, and said “I can help you with that.”

Really?

So he starts explaining what he can do to fix it. Because I wisely did not touch that magic button AT ALL mind you! Because once you touch that magic button, game over! Now honestly, I don’t remember all of what was said, I was happily babbling at him in giddy relief now, telling him all about the new gnome (more on that later). But it involved refunding the transaction and clearing it off the account. And something about he needed to get some sort of approval and this and that. I pretty much figured it was going to be a couple days until everything was done and I could complete the intended process.

So I asked him about it. You know what he said? “You’ve been so nice and waited on hold a whole hour, I sure would like to be able to help you out tonight. Let me see what I can do to get this all finished for you.”

AND… to make a long story short (too late)… he did. Everything was resolved in probably about 20 minutes, I was able to go back and re-do the transaction and get the change done and even play my new gnome for a while before bed.

All of that thanks to T. He worked so hard, was so polite and friendly and did such an incredibly awesome job.

Thanks T. You really deserve a raise.

<3 Nau

The past couple weeks (or more) the blogging has been sporadic and lackluster at best, finally trickling down to none in the last week. My apologies for this to the few people that actually read this blog. Honestly I’ve been having a great deal of difficulty working up the energy or desire to write.

Some of you are aware that recently my stress levels have been way way way beyond excessive and my moods have been pretty…. moody. Rather than inflict them on others that really shouldn’t have to deal with me being emo (and likely don’t want to anyway) I’ve just backed away from everything.

Looming in the near future I have a physical move of over 800 miles. And as stressful as that sounds, it will actually lessen some of the stress I have been under lately. However during that process (which isn’t happening RAIT NAU but will be before the end of the year) it is not likely I will be in game or doing anything with this blog.

I do have one character that is talking and so until that time I will be trying to write some fluff posts for her. Nothing deep and meaningful but a bit of light entertainment. I should start posting those before the end of the week. Light RP posts, though, are about all I’m feeling up to right now.

Again, my apologies and hopefully I will be able to get back up to speed before too long.

Nau

I’ve been working on my pinup calendar project again and as you saw last week I posted the drawing of the Dwarf pinup girl. Now is your turn to help choose the next pinup!

Which race would you like to see drawn as a pinup girl?

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I’ve always had this idea to put together a WoW pinup calendar of my artwork. It is slowly coming together. I hadn’t shown any of my artwork in a while so I thought I’d give a little preview.

Keep in mind this isn’t colored yet. It will be amazing once I color it!

Even the chunky girls can be hawt!

I hate PUGs. I will admit it that getting thrown in a group with four complete strangers is so stressful it makes me want to vomit. Even having one person in a group that I know makes it much easier. So when Benemus asked me if I wanted to go on a Random I was all over it.

My was I surprised when I got there and found the group waiting for me.

The PUG that waited for me.

I could learn to like PUGs like this…

Who's tight ass is that under that shield? That's Benemus!

Hey everyone, my dad is coming to visit me this week so starting today I’m going to be scarce. I’ll put up a few filler posts here at TDRP but don’t expect anything spectacular!

-Nau

Bleh. As I’m recovering posts I’m discovering that 90% of the board is still broken. I’m trying to figure out why. So if you’re getting errors when clicking links, that’s why.

-Nau

Wow. Okay quick explanation. We crashed. Hard. My blog is hosted on a friend’s server and the server got cooked. Poor server.

We’re up and running again but we lost the backups for anything after March of this year. I still have the text of the posts but all the comments have been lost. Sorry folks.

I’m going to be working on getting all the recent posts back up but its going to take some time. Please be patient. I should have TDRP back in order in no time.

-Nau

Recently I have been relearning about addons. They can be great for enhancing your game experience, improving performance, or just plain fun.

One of those that falls under the category of “just plain fun” is the addon AddEmote.

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