the Warcraft diaries :Entry ..oooh what number are we on now , lets say 1337

So as I may have mentioned earlier - the World of Warcraft thing has gradually slipped from being a videogame to achieving "hobby status".
This is not a "Bad Thing" as such, although as I've said before , at this level EVERYTHING is a huge time sink.I manage 2 nights a week - and maybe a spare hour or two at the weekend - about 10 hours of play a week .
This makes me a "casual" player.
You do not want to know the amount of hours involved in being a "hardcore" player,trust me.
I'm also playing a support character - a healer - these guys are basically like ,well the quickest analogy I can think of would be a goalkeeper in soccer.Its a gloryless, unthanked role, but its impossble to play with out one.
The Guild (Ronin and for those who havent been following up to now , a guild is like a large team of players), has just emerged from a little bit of a Dr. Who style regeneration.We've got a large number of high level players , and now have a hirearchy of "leaders" looking after what each class of player should be doing , helping out etc.We've also got the Vent (a voice over ip chat thing) server set up and running well now.

I know this as I look after it (and actually enjoy doing it!) .I've come to regard most of the guys in the guild as mates , and being able to chat real time with them ingame is great.
Anyway thats enough about WoW just now, more important though is the revolutionary stride s I made in gaming , just a few weeks ago ...yes folks I achieved the dream , I hooked up a Dancemat to a machine running track n' field(an old retro bash the buttons olympics game)!

more here (cos I cant be arsed cut and pasting)