First of all, I would like to send out the best wishes to all for the new year. I hope that it will be a very good year for all of us, with good health, lots of love and good fun.

Now then, onwards to other stuff.
As Garron put it in such lovely fashion last year: It's the future.
And that means it is also the future of the Owls.

Recapping on last year, we've seen a lot of things happening. We've had people joining us, but alas, also seen a number of people leave us, who all will be missed. Luckily, some of the people who have left us, are not gone forever, and still available for us when we need them. Of course, we have also had the (literal) falling ill (He fell, and then he good ill, so he fell ill, or something) of Garron, our "glorious" leader.

I think the Guild Leader Elections that followed were fun (although the reasons behind were not that fun), and I'm not saying that just because I won. I believe it gave an extra opening for venting new ideas and some "freshness" into the guild. I must add to this that the GL Elections were only an extra catalyst for this, as I believe that in this guild we can always say what we want and if there is a new idea, anybody can always say it.

With the coming of the Lich King, we have seen our first people reach level 80. Kudos to Kamieryn to be the first to reach it. And thankfully, we didn't put real money onto that bet .

Enough with the past. Let's have a look into the future.
As more of us are venturing into the Level 80 region, I hope we can start getting our runs back on track and start to get used to each other's playing style more and more. Moreover, as I've promised in the GL Elections, I want to get the Sunday Night Fun Runs back, and I think now is a good time to start planning for these. I will try to post up a bunch of them into Group Calendar (not the Blizzard one, but the addon) so people can sign up and hopefully join into the fun, both in-game and on TeamSpeak, as that still is wonderfully good, especially with Garron online.

I would also like to stress that if there is anything you would like to get of your mind, you can PM it to one of the Council Members on the forum, or post it on the forum. Council is here to help you out wherever we can, and I believe that in this guild, everyone should be able to speak their mind freely, without exception.

That's about it for now. See you all soon.

Regards,
Necomancer