Cocktail Confessions

Two of my favorite activities are drinking beer and playing video games.  Both allow me to enter my own alternate reality where the day to day minutuae is temporarily forgotten and I block out the outside world.

Now if I chose to, I could spend $189.99 and combine my love of World of Warcraft and my drinking skills by purchasing a “Legendary” edition beer stein.  These comes of the heels of the previous released 4-version “Epic” steins that sold for roughly half (approx $100). 

Representing either an Alliance or Horde faction, these mugs have 18k gold lids and trim and are limited to only 999 for each design and hand-signed by Blizzard artists.  For those anti-socialites who fear the warm glow of a real sun and really need to know the characters that adorn the sides, the Alliance gets Glenn Rane, and the Horde gets Samwise Didier.  The only other information I have is that are planned to be released for in March of 2010, so you may want to go to Blizzard.com for more information.

If I had $200 just lying around like Tiger Woods does for wiping his tuckus, I may be tempted to buy one, for they are pretty (although like most, I’d go for the Horde one as it is much coller looking).  But other than placing it on a shelf and pretending I may drink out of it (I wouldn’t, and ergo defeats the actual purpsoe of buying a stein to begin with).  However, there is so much other stuff I’d like to spend money I really don’t have on first, say cool Star Wars or G.I. Joe memorabilia, or pesky bills and home improvement projects.