I am swamped at work, and I scrambled to make sure my WoW Insider article went live on time this morning.

I just took a break to check my email…

I had an email from someone… I can’t say who yet. I can’t say about what.

But I’m stunned. I’m just flat out stunned. 

I will have an announcement later today. Define ‘later’? I can’t. I’m really swamped.

I can say that I am personally so happy that I can barely keep from just telling my boss I need a personal day so I can go /dance in delight for a few hours.

My announcement will likely leave you unaffected… but I am so damn happy and surprised and stunned… I had known TEH AWESOME was coming, but I had NO IDEA just how awesome…

No, I can’t deal with it right now. I can’t. I gotta go fix shit on the floor.

I’m trying something new (for me), I’m adding the ‘more’ page break in to my blog posts to see how you like it.

I usually just let it roll, but I wanted to try this today and get your feedback for whether you’d rather I break these things up.

I THINK a feedreader should still pull the whole article, so you don’t have to come visit the site to get the rest… but just because that works on my feedreaders doesn’t mean someone else isn’t going to have issues.

So please let me know how you like it… and why or why not.

Thanks!

I’m curious about your thoughts on some of the things I’ve done as special feature kinda stuff, so I put a poll on the left sidebar.

I’d appreciate it if you’d let me know what non-post things I’ve done, if any, you’d like as a regular Friday feature!

Thanks for your time, and have a great day, folks.

I want to give a thanks and shout out to Pugnacious Priest.

I did a little blog hopping from blog link to blog link, and along the way came across Pugnacious Priest for the first time.

Now, I gots me a 64 Shadow Priest, so I like Priest blogs in the first place, but I saw this post about How to make a quick and dirty blog or guild website banner image.

As many of you are aware, when I left Legatum Ignavis and raiding, I decided to remain in and open up the guild that me and my close friends have held for years, Sidhe Devils. It had been where our alts kept their home, it had some guild bank space to stash low level mats and give us a place to park our guys without clogging up ’serious’ guilds, you know. An alt guild.

Well, in opening it up to new members, we knew we needed a nice website, so Cassieann set up a guildportal site. And we would need some voice chat options for 5 mans, so we got a small Ventrilo server. (Thanks for the link to the vent server service, Matticus, I used your website link to go get the server. Their front end and quality seems to rock.)

This morning, I got an email saying that some, currently unknown, benefactor had paid to upgrade the guildportal website to a full feature site. Now, it wasn’t Cassie or I, so we have no idea who did it… but we certainly thank you.

In the process, I put two and two together… new paid-for guild website with forums… a post about how to make a quick and dirty banner image… hmmmm.

So I went and made one, and it took 5 minutes, no Photoshop like I used for my blog back in teh day, and it turned out very nice, IMO.

If you are in the position of wanting to make a banner image with text and borders for your blog or guild website, I heartily urge you to go and read Pugnacious Priests’ post and have fun with it… if I can do it, so can you!

Well, and other stuff too.

If you look over to the sidebar, there’s a link to my new Cafepress store.

The very first image is now up and available on a wide range of stuff.

Personally, I LOVE the image.

So you folks know the direction I’m taking the store, there WILL be nice “Big Bear Butt” logos or images available soon on various stuff, but I intend to do more than just have ‘advertise my blog for me, kthxbye’ stuff.

I mean, I do want to have a Big Bear Butt shirt. Frankly, I want to wear it myself. All the damn time. Everywhere. Okay, except church. Cassie would kill me.

But I also really want to have things in Cafepress that I would love to wear as a Feral Druid, and as a player of World of Warcraft. And maybe when I’m feeling in a catty mood.

So there will eventually be quite a few things on there.

For the first image, the first thing that came to my mind that I wanted to see was a shirt that would proudly proclaim to the whole world…

“I ain’t a tree, and I ain’t a chicken. I’m 100% Feral, baby, and damn proud of it.”

I hope you like it as much as I do, and I promise there will be more.