This Blog post is a request for donations for charity, and if you’re not into that, you can feel free to ignore it.

I don’t often make this blog personal, but for this cause, I feel it’s important to get the word out.  I know it’s not everyone’s thing, and I know that some people don’t have the means to donate to causes which mean little to them personally, or even causes which mean a great deal to them personally.

Much of the text below is copied word for word from the email I received from the National MS Society, I just added in the personal stuff.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is kicking off the annual Walk MS: Nashua. I am walking, and I am asking you to join me in creating a world free of multiple sclerosis by making a contribution to support my effort. This will be my 4th MS Walk in the past five years, and I am hoping to meet my goal of $250 in donations.  You see, my friend Heather has MS, and has been participating in the MS Walk for the past seven years. Last year she and her husband made it about 1/4 of the way through the walk before she was unable to continue. This year, she is unable to attend the walk due to a family vacation that was planed before the date of the walk was announced.

I plan on walking in her place. Along with a group of friends and coworkers we have created a team: Team Atrium. Our collective goal is to help raise $1000 for MS research, education, advocacy and support. I hope that with your help I can meet my goal, so that next year, or the year after, Heather may be able to walk the full three miles with her Husband, Daughter and friends.

The National MS Society is moving research forward by relentlessly pursuing prevention, treatment and cure. They are moving to reach out and respond to individuals, families and communities living with multiple sclerosis. They are moving politicians and legislation to champion the needs of people with MS through activism, advocacy and influence. They are moving to mobilize the millions of people who want to do something about MS Now. And, they are moving to raise $1.25 billion dollars by 2010 to help create a world free of MS.

Last year, the Central New England Chapter spent over $8 million on MS education, support, advocacy, services, and research to benefit more than 16,000 individuals and families who are affected by MS in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and 400,000 across the country.

Please help by making a donation – large or small – to create a world free of MS. Or, why not join me on the day of the walk? Become a walker, and as teammates we can work together to raise the funds to make a difference.

Whatever you can give will help! I greatly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.

Click here to get to my personal page and make a secure, online donation.

To send a donation: Make all checks payable to: National MS Society
Mail to:

National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Central New England Chapter
P.O. Box 845945
Boston, MA 02284-5945
1-800-344-4867

http://www.msnewengland.org/

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Reading over The Cranky Healer’s 9-part UI post over the past week or so has made me decide to go ahead and do a UI post of my own.

But UI posts take forever to put together! It’ll be a while, but I’m going to post a UI post or 2. Probably not 9. Keep your fingers crossed, but don’t hold your breath. I don’t want to kill anyone here.

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Moonglade’s been taken over by Warlocks, Mages, Warriors and Shamans. I’m sure there are Rogues and Death Knights there too, I saw at least one Priest, and A paladin or two.

What is going on? We Druids used to have Moonglade as a sanctuary. We could coexist, Tauren and Night Elf, all knowing that the ties that bind us as Druids are stronger than those which hold us together with the Alliance or Horde. With the influx of all of these “others” it’s like a free for all. I’ve seen more death in Moonglade than ever before. It’s sad.

The Lunar festival should not be used as an excuse to fight a war. It should be used to honor our elders. Right? Well, one of the ways that we honor those elders is to gain Elune’s blessing. There seems to be some confusion as to how that gets done. The main way to do it is to get into a group to fight Omen, fight until he’s dead and stand in the moonbeam that shines upon his corpse. What most people don’t know is that you can just walk up once he’s dead and stand in that moonbeam.

One word of advice for folks though. If you show up and there’s a group already fighting Omen, Help DPS him down rather than just standing there letting them do all the work. Nobody likes a dick. Beam poaching makes you a dick. We don’t need or want dicks in Moonglade. It’s a classy place. Dicks need not apply.

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So, for the past few days I’ve been playing Star Trek Online. It’s pretty fun. Still very buggy.

Today, I logged in to do some dailies and get started on Love Fool for Maerdred. Oh, WoW how I missed you. It’s been since last Sunday that I actually spent any time playing, and Man I forgot how great this game is.

I like the spaceflight part of Star Trek, but the ground combat is nothing to write home about. WoW, with all its bugs and complaints seems so polished when compared to STO.

I’m not really planning on getting into the differences in depth, since the games are completely different to begin with, but man… I’m not giving up WoW any time soon. I can tell you that much.

As I write this, the Saints just took the lead in the Super Bowl… See you after the football Season’s finally over.

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