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Since returning from Gen Con, I haven’t posted any significant updates to The Gamer Hotsheet (GH). I apologize for that. One reason is the downtime of my main laptop (which contains the primary copy of the software I use to identify game news updates on the Internet) after attempting to reconfigure it for some non-GH activities. Another is that I’ve been trying to take some free time and learn a bit more about the Lord of the Rings Online MMO (LOTRO) and World of Warcraft (WoW) to share with you here.

The laptop downtime should be ending pretty soon, as I’ve sorted out what was going wrong. I’m hoping to bring it back to life tonight and get some news up. But I’ve got some family responsibilities to attend to that may prevent me from doing much tonight.

The learning about WoW is underway, though largely finished. When it’s done, I should (I hope) be able to present a guide to how to effectively level up certain trade skills that I’ve not found detailed elsewhere on the web. But that means getting my own characters’ skills to the max level possible, which I have yet to do, then replicating that on a new character.

The learning about LOTRO is underway as well, but is much farther behind. It will require more time to understand the game and its philosophy, after which I hope to provide a review and contrast relative to WoW.

I haven’t abandoned GH, though I did walk away from it for a little while to sort some things out for myself. I will be getting back to it very soon. Thanks for bearing with me during my short absence.