Weekly Wrap Six

It's kind of says something that this blog's been rolling for two and a half months at this point and I've only done six of these things. I'm not very good at following through on things, in case you haven't noticed. In my defense, my weekends are pretty busy and the last few have been hectic but, you know, even if this was Wednesday Wrap-up or Monday Morning Quarterblogging, I'd probably still have skipped a few here and there.

Still, even though I've been busy and trying to race forward, I want to take the time to look back every now and again. I don't want to get unmoored, after all, so even though it's a pain to lurch forward and back and spin around and do it all over again, it's what I want to do.

So, we've got a lot to cover since I've been neglect in covering things. Blogger tells me I have over 300 posts now which is more than a lot of blogs will make in a year – some of those are drafts and notes to myself as I move from machine to machine but by my count only 25 or so. Which means I'm averaging nearly 100 posts a month. My posting average's gone down lately but I've been busy and I was expecting that – I've been making longer and more complicated posts when I do make them, though, so I think my output's been holding steady. Picked up another link which means I only need one more in the coming weeks to get the magic three that means I'm an established, veteran, moderately successful blog (The benefits of living on the long tail, it's really easy to move up a notch or three.) – well ahead of the average time it takes for such things.

This month has been about Guild Wars and...precious little else. Which, on the one hand I worry about because it means I've been suckered in by the siren song once again. But, on the other hand, this blog's about nothing so much as whatever I happen to be interested in at the time. In November I was interested in writing (And, you know, starting this blog and all) so that's what I thought about and that's what bubbled to the surface. Lately, I've been playing a lot of Guild Wars so that's what I've naturally been working on. Next month it could well be something different.

And, in fact, I'm hoping it will be. I'm getting a bit burnt out on Guild Wars, truth be told. Once I finish off the campaign with my latest character, I'm probably going to give it a rest. I have a few other games that have been collecting dust the holidays that I want to try out and there's plenty of demos that I want to sample although I'm going to see if I can stop short of completely quiting the game again. That's the beauty of not having a monthly fee, though. I can play a little or a lot, it's up to me. If I want to just drop in for an hour a day to run a quest or romp around the Arena, that's cool. And if I want to spend all day trying to get through the last several missions, hey, it's all good. I'm not bound to play if I don't want to - my costs have already been sunk and, logically, I'm free to quit or re-up if I don't like how my investment's turning out. So, if I want to play a different game for a while, I can. We'll have to see how that goes, though.

In the meantime, though, as somoene once said, “there's a lot of text” about Guild Wars to wade through. It's all under the Guild Wars tag - conveniently listed at the bottom of every post and on the right hand side of the page, just click on it and you'll bring up all the posts with that tag so you can look over them.

• The continuing adventures of my trip through the expansion's campaigncan be found in my Nightfall Progress updates. It holds the distinction of being this blog's longest running feature although I've scaled back on the scope of it somewhat – originally I tried to detail everything. Which, you know, no one cares and it takes a lot of time and effort.
• One of the reasons I skipped out on the weekly wraps is I was caught up in the PvP Test Weekend. You can find my feedback on the issue here, here, and here. And in some other places, too, but those would be the big ones.
• Another series I've started is Tales from Observer Mode. Basically, if I find something interesting on the GW TV, I'm going to post it up. An infrequent feature but it could be interesting.
• Amazingly, I did find some time to write about things that weren't related to Guild Wars at all. Sadly, not much 'd recommend. The strongest efforts I think you'll find in my take on the whole linkblogging meme.

All in all, I think it's been a pretty solid couple of week's. I might not have gotten as much writing or blogging done as I might have liked but, then, I'm just getting started here.