Thoughts on electronic relationships.

I’m a World of Warcraft player and belong to a progression guild that raids regularly. The group of people I play with have been together for over 2 years and in that time bonds develop through shared experiences and failure. We use a voice chat server so we’ve been exposed to each other’s personalities and manner for a long time through good and bad times. I’ve come to know the real names of most of my guildmates and we communicate outside of the game regularly through IM and email. Over the last 2 days there has been some real-life drama …

PUT THE AXE DOWN!!!

I’m still not smoking which is awesome. This is my 5th day and I’m doing better I think. The market on lifesavers here at work has officially been cornered. I was driving into work today, craving a cigarette and realized it had been 5 days. I first discounted it and thought “5 days is nothing in the grand scheme.” Then after thinking about it…5 days is pretty significant and it’s been tough. I know I don’t want to go through that again so it helps when I get cravings. Isn’t there a line in that song about “you’ve got your …