The Worst Ele Shaman in Azeroth

So um yea.  I found out last year that I have stage 4 cancer.   This is like soloing a raid boss in Legion.    I am not amused.   Cancer is a funny thing.   Half the time you won't even know you have it until you're in big trouble.   Kinda like accidentally pulling the boss before the raid is ready.   Err, not that I've ever done that before, you know. But I pulled this raid boss. It was August 2015 and I felt fine. I decided to put the house on the market.   (Coming home from work and seeing water pour out of the garage from a busted hot water heater was the last straw).   Floods will make you do funny things.  I called the plumber and then called a real estate agent and put the house on the market. To get it show ready, I came home from work every day and cleaned out closets, crawled around on the floor and painted baseboards, painted ceilings, replaced bathroom fans that weren't working, cleaned out the garage, replaced...

Picking a name for your character is hard!   For my Tauren, I  had originally tried the "usual" cow names like Bessie, Bertha, Mooey.  Thank God some idiot already had those names taken.    After a few hundred (well, it seemed like that anyway) name attempts, I ended up with the name Calliea (now Callieaa).   There's one guy out there that named his characters Lamp and Chair.   That was some writer's block of sorts happening right there. Some names I see in game are very creative.   Some are laugh out loud funny.    Then there are some names that I just can't understand why, WHY would you name your character that?   Like Diarrhea.   Just the thought of hearing that name called out in Vent, or Discord, or Mumble, etc. gives me the shudders.    Must be that 15 year old boy sense of humor thing. My alts' names were easier:  Jynxee, Zallie, Echelone.  I really didn't put too much thought into them and ca...

It all started many years ago when I was on a two week vacation at Christmas time.   A few months earlier, two of my sons had just started playing a game called World of Warcraft and convinced me to try it. We set up a trial for me to play around with and at 2am I sent them to Walmart to buy me the game 'cause I didn't want to lose my progress and have to start over.   I was hooked, and it was all downhill from there.  Gaming runs in the family. At the time, there were no "pretty" characters.  I wanted to play Alliance because they were pretty. Well, the guys revolted at that idea, so I picked a Horde Tauren.   I was a cow.   That's about as "unpretty" as you can get.   Even an undead priest with their bones sticking out is more attractive than a cow, and they're only one small step above being a green orc.  But a cow I chose and a cow I stayed. I then made the fantastic decision to play a resto shaman.   Yes, I leveled from 1-60 as ...