Little later than usual

So I broke, then unbroke (and probably will re-break) 30k this week. The glyph marked has contributed probably about 22k of that cash (and more of the profit since I spent 2k on two copies of Cold Weather Flying for my Priest and Druid), with the rest most likely coming majorly from Enchanting and a minor part of Jewelcrafting and Tailoring (bags). I'm looking to get one of my Alchemists up and running tonight, or by the weekend at the latest, sitting at 350 so all I have to do is level up to the Transmutes I want to consider that "done". That will probably get done tonight if I buy the mats, on the weekend if I feel frisky enough to farm them up myself.

Really I'm mostly just finding that I don't have enough time to get everything that I want done finished up. I'm usually cancel/posting on my Glyph posters two or three times a day, dealing with Saronite Ore (and soon Titanium Ore) on my Jewelcrafter, or just doing a Daily Dungeon/Weekly Raid on my Paladin. It's been really quite hard to get the time to keep everything going and smack around on an alt in some Random Dungeons, although I did get several done last weekend in-spite of how busy I ended up being.

The real time killer has been the Saronite Shuffle though. Prospecting all that ore (did 4500 ore last night...) then processing the gems in to disenchantables just takes a lot of time. So I've started scoping out the raw gem market to supply my Rare Gems and the Enchanting market to supply enchanting mats. I may have to raise my thresholds a little to ensure I don't spend more than I make for the enchanting stuff, but by carrying more enchants at once it really should balance out the load/demand of the whole thing. What it really means though is carrying a larger burden of stock in supplies or not-currently-sell able goods.

Overall though, the automation that I've been able to bring in has improved my efficiency by a huge margin, it's just I'm still pushing myself to expand in to as many markets as I can and the expansion in learning/supplying myself is starting to be a little tiring. I should just stop things for a day or two every week just to do other things in game that I want to do, like continue leveling my Death Knight who has stayed at 71 for a couple weeks now (at least a week...)

But such is the toil of an Auction House Mogul in the making, but do I really want to be that or just a supplier of stuff? We'll see what the time/reward works out to be in the end.

-LaFollet