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As of the time I am writing this it has been a little over six years since I started Tales of the Aggronaut and going on three years since I started my every day blogging initiative.  Reading those thousands of posts will give you all you ever need to know about me as a person.  That said I feel like I should still give you some sort of a shorthand summary for the sake of time.  I\u2019m the husband of an amazing rockstar school teacher that boggles my mind on a regular basis with her brilliants.  During the day I lead an excellent group of developers, and during the evening I choose to spend most of my free time with an equally excellent group of long distance friends in the form of my gaming community.  Tales of the Aggronaut itself has gone through a number of changes over these years.  It started its life with the extremely focused purpose of being a World of Warcraft Warrior Tanking blog, because someone far smarter than I was at the time\u2026  imparted the wisdom of needing to have a niche.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with niches is that human beings tend to change, and like most human beings I shifted focus.  My blog shifted to a general World of Warcraft blog, to a Rift fansite\u2026 before finally ending up where we are today..   my blog about things I am interested in.  More than likely you came here because you really like massively multiplayer online gaming.  You are most certainly going to find information about that, but you are also going to find a decent helping of my own personal life.  One of the realizations that I made pretty quickly during my daily blogging initiative is that if I am going to write every single day\u2026 then a good deal of my own personal failings are going to make their way into the text.  I like to think of my blog as a very long conversation that I am having with my readers, albeit a fairly one sided one.  I come here every morning and give you a snapshot of my world and how events are affecting me.  I appreciate that you are coming along with me on this journey, and I look forward to having less one sided conversations as well.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting the Blog<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every now and then someone asks me how they can support this blog.  I am fundamentally bad at accepting help, let alone asking for it.  Sure there are lots of expenses that go into this blog and the podcasting that I do, but in truth I would rather just have more people reading the blog and listening to the podcasts, and money to offset the costs of doing it.  If you really want to do something there are a few things that you can do.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n