I've been sitting here for the past hour idly hitting "retry" in the PlayOnline viewer, waiting for my chance to download the most recent update. I need something to help me pass the time just during the updates. :D Plus, right now, I've been doing nothing but crafting hardcore in Bastok. I've got my goldsmithing up to 44.1... but I think the most recent Auction House changes are going to kill my profit margin. Doh.

All right. In response to a deluge of e-mails (and prodding from Matt Boyd and Safety Monkey) I will consent to TRY World of Warcraft. Much of what I saw was back in the beta, and it looked pretty enough, but didn't grab me back then. Now, to qualify this a bit, I don't really know if I can afford to spend the extra money a month right now (keeping up with more than one or two MMORPG's at a time can be expensive) and I can't afford to just go out and buy it. So IF I can manage to get my hands on a copy of the install, and IF I can get my hands on one of those 10-day trial coupon thingies, then I will try it out. I ain't leaving my FFXI, though. Not no way, not no how. I'm also going to be giving Neocron 2 a try... it looked kinda interesting. Thankfully, they offer the client free to download. :P

Oh, sidenote... Real Life now has a working RSS feed. Those of you using firefox should see the RSS icon in the lower left, those not using firefox, don't look at me. I don't know how this stuff works. I just know that Ukyo said "hey Greg, RL has an RSS feed now", and I said "Hey, cool." Try searching for RSS reader online or something. You got me. :P