What's With The Title?

There's a quest, in Dark Shore I think, where the adventurer must gather 8 corrupted brain stems from some creature or another. My wife and I were playing, WOW of course, her on the laptop, me on the G5 tower and when I looted one of these monsters, I shouted out "I've got a corrupted brain stem." The Loving Wife (TLW) quipped "I don't think you should be advertising that."

And it struck me as profound in a quirky, weird way. I suspect I *do* have a corrupted brain stem. TLW does too on some level. One symptom is that we gave each other a subscription to WOW for Christmas this year. That's not too strange in itself. There were probably thousands of such gifts this year if the number of n00bs in Teldrassil were any indication. What's strange is that TLW and I are in our mid-40's and we are just discovering our inner geek natures. We created this blog as a record of this self-discovery.