<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh&#039;s Index]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/author/xaeyruudh/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Coming Home]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I have a short attention span, and a lot of interests.  Games including Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft, Age of Empires, Diablo II, Morrowind, and a few others like Torchlight.  Writing topics running the gamut of politics, religion, gender roles, fashion faux pas, and celebrity behavior.  Various regular or sporadic distractions like fitness and computer problems.  I built my computer back in 1998 or so&#8230; I&#8217;ve had to reformat a couple of times but I&#8217;ve had no major problems with it so it&#8217;s easy to accept that its first apparent death a couple nights ago might also be its final demise.  I think I have the problem narrowed down to either the motherboard or the CPU, but the 16 years of advances and marketing since I purchased these parts makes it very unlikely that I&#8217;ll find replacements that are compatible with the other components I have.  For example, who sells dual-channel memory sticks anymore?</p>
<p>Behind all these distractions, though, Faerun has been my home since 1987.  I buy some game time to play WoW every once in a while because I enjoy the visual representation of a world, but it&#8217;s never more than a pale glossover of the detail packed into the Realms, and I stopped logging onto WoW with 3 weeks still left on the cards.  Morrowind, too&#8230; more detail than games like AoE or Diablo, and I enjoy the visual presentation, but it&#8217;s just a distraction.  The Realms calls to me.</p>
<p>So.  I&#8217;m back.  And I have been working on new pages, but I&#8217;ve been favoring an offline wiki over WordPress due to the ease of adding new links.  I may transition into using this page as more of a blog, adding lore posts more slowly in the future.  As with everything else, time will tell.</p>
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