It's great to have you a Member of ScriptUO.
Thank you for your service to America. I understand your story, as I have lived part of it, except the Armed Forces part.
I worked for Blizzard and worked my first title "LexiCross" and the WarCraft. I was one of the devolers for WoW, and felt obligated to keep playing it after I left the Company (went to work for Disney). I pretty much play UO 99% of the time as I feel the sanbox game of UO is much better than WoW.
I left Blizzard after many long long years soon after the release of StarCraft 2. Weird thing is when I left, the reason for leaving is that i did not want to spend 8 hours plus in front of a computer. Pfffft, what do I do now with UO -- you guessed it: I spend 8-10 hours in front of the computer.
With Blizzard, I was getting paid to be there in front of a computer...with UO I am paying them. That does not make sense!!!