[WoW] Gold Making (Week 51) – 2025

Holidays are finally here, but my gold making has been pretty stagnant lately – which I’m actually OK with. I periodically posted to more than the base 10 servers I find myself on, but if there were no sales the day after I would just let the items lapse and collect them from the mailbox without reposting. Casual gold making seems to be working well for me, and helps prevent burnout. I know everyone is busy grinding holiday stuff and working on Legion Remix while they can.

The big sellers of the week (notice I’m not selling furniture or doing any current tier stuff, I’ll talk about this in a minute) included more ‘random’ items than usual. For once, recipes were not at the top of the list. Transmog wasn’t, either. This week I sold a very small number of expensive battle pets, and a large number of mounts and toys, for whatever reason. I also didn’t sell anything especially expensive, maybe folks are spending all of their gold on furniture these days. The most expensive item I sold ended up being 190,000 gold. Still, sales are sales, and I don’t mind the slow down. None of my items are in demand or are even from the current tier of the game, which is something I tend to do on purpose so I can avoid a majority of the competition. I don’t especially enjoy AH PVP – some people are all about that, and that’s great for them.

In any case, I hope everyone has a very happy, safe, holiday. No matter where you spend it. I’ll hopefully be spending most of mine in Azeroth, trying to finish the remaining class halls I need to get done and maybe doing some decorating, finally. We’ll see!

As always, happy gaming!

[Life] Tracking all of the things (TV Series) related

I’ve never really been much of a movie or TV watcher, but some days my multiple sclerosis prevents me from doing much, and I like to have something to watch in the background other times while I knit, spin, draw, or game. Unfortunately I’m also horrible at remembering what I’ve seen, and I leave off on some shows depending on my mood / interests – only to completely forget I was even watching them when I eventually return.

So I stumbled into a discord conversation about this exact thing, and someone mentioned a website called ‘Serializd’ (which I believe is a TV series version of Letterboxd). I signed up, and spent an evening browsing through my netflix/crave histories attempting to remember shows that I’ve seen over the years. I love tracking statistics, and I really like the minimalistic view of this one, for now at least. Whether or not I keep up the tracking, we’ll just have to see. I also wish that both movies & tv were tracked together, but I imagine that’s a whole other ballgame to handle.

Anyone else using a website to track like this? How do you like it? How long have you used it? Let me know in comments!

Now back to your regular scheduled gaming posts…

[Warcraft] Gold Making – Week 50 (2025)

Another week of gold making – but as a heads up, I did take wed/thu/fri/sat off this week from the daily posting happenings. I needed a bit of a break, the holidays are just about upon us and real life has been busy with all that entails. So, no posting happened then.

I made a grand total of 23 sales, for just shy of 3 million gold in-game. Most of those sales (as you can see in the screenshot above) came from recipes, although there were a handful of transmog scattered in there too. Normally I check my statistics on the tradeskillmaster website, but this time I opted to just take a screenshot of the in-game ledger. Either way the information is the same since TSM syncs with the in-game data. I have to say, part of the reason I enjoy gold making is because I just love data / statistics / charts / graphs. Who doesn’t!

I’m debating whether or not I want to do a year at a glance type of post at the end of the year, the TSM website doesn’t seem to go past 6 months, and I am pretty sure I wiped the in-game TSM data when I returned to the game because the files were gigantic. Plus I have information scattered across various accounts as it’s still pretty recent that I consolidated all of my auction house characters to one ‘account’. I’ll think about it more and then see what I can manage. It has been fun posting these weekly gold making posts, and I hope to continue doing it in 2026, that much I know.

As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

[EVE Online] Quiet Work in Quiet Places

(I know the screenshot is a shuttle, not a helios, but it’s what I had taken recently, so that’s what I used!)

Filed by E, Helios pilot, full-time wanderer

Some wormholes feel like they wake up with you.

This one didn’t.
It was already watching.

I slipped into the system in my little Helios, cloak humming softly around me like a blanket someone knit out of shadows. Today wasn’t about adventure or dodging hostiles or stumbling into some dramatic rescue. Today was simple:
tend the rescue cache, make sure it’s stocked, make sure it’s safe, make sure some future lost soul has a lifeline.

The hole was quiet. Not the dangerous kind of quiet—just that soft, endless hush that only deep J-space seems to know. The kind that makes you feel like you’re the only heartbeat for ten light-years.

I drifted toward the cache’s bookmark, navigating around drifting ice and slow-spinning gas clouds. Every so often, a particle shimmered off my hull like it was trying to say hello. Cosmic dust is friendlier than half of nullsec, honestly.

The cache was right where it always is—tucked away, invisible to everyone except those who already know it’s there. A tiny container of hope in a place that normally eats hope for breakfast.

I checked the supplies:

  • probes
  • launcher
  • a few nanite pastes
  • little handwritten note from the last tender, telling whoever finds it that they’re not alone

Everything tidy. Everything ready.
It always amazes me how much meaning fits in something so small.

With the practical stuff handled, I let myself just… float.

The wormhole’s star was off in the distance, a pale blue thing flickering like it was thinking of blinking out but hadn’t quite decided yet. Clouds of energized particles spiraled lazily between shattered planetoids. The universe does this thing sometimes where it looks like art made for no one, shown to whoever happens to wander by.

And here I was, a tiny speck in a stealthy little frigate, witness to all of it.

I know it’s silly, but I swear the ship felt quieter too—like even the engine didn’t want to interrupt the view. These are the moments that remind me why I do what I do. Why I wander. Why I help. Why I keep coming back to wormhole space even when it’s moody and unpredictable and occasionally tries to set me on fire.

The universe is vast and wild and often cruel…
…but sometimes it’s peaceful, and gentle, and full of small kindnesses we leave for each other.

I gave the cache one last look, whispered a soft “stay safe, whoever you’ll help next,” and aligned out.

Just another quiet day in the dark.
Just another reminder that even in forgotten corners of space, someone cares.

Fly your way. o7

[Warcraft] Gold Making – Week 49 (2025)

I had a few sales this week, but I also relaxed and let the auctions lapse a time or two for a bit of a break – I need to go through my banks and restock those AH characters, something I’ve been neglecting. So far I’ve continued to post auctions on 10/20 servers to cut down the amount of time spent, but I might start increasing this again, we’ll see (I say this every week but I haven’t actually moved forward with it yet).

I expect things in game to slow down a bit as we wait for March and Midnight. There’s no new content happening, and it’s a good time for people to take a break (minus player housing, of course). There’s a lot of gold to be made right now with furniture, so if you haven’t looked into that yet, you might want to!

For my own sales, gold this week came from transmog armor and then transmog weapons. Recipes came in third place, although that is probably because I need to restock more than anything else. I’ve been leveling characters to 80, working a bit on remix, and of course diving into housing (which will come in another post). As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!