First Post

Welcome friends and strangers alike. I am featured all over the web most commonly with the alias PaladinBladeX or PaladinBlade, and as a contributor to the Massive Echo! network among other things. You can call me Tom.
Don't bother writing to tell me how geeky my display name is, I'm aware. I'm not some big D&D junkie (though there is nothing wrong with being one), I just had a few email addresses with the name PaladinBladeX from when I was much much younger, and I've clung to the alias and used it in dozens of places all over the web because it tends to be a name not never taken.
The Paladin's Refuge... I was considering The Paladin's Sanctuary until I googled it and found it to be the name of an Everquest forum... I didn't want people thinking that was where I drew my alias from. Paladin ideals and mythology were just fascinations of mine when I was much younger and became something I identified with, and I'm too lazy to change. At any rate the name reflects my sentiments toward my blogs (as well as my car), places of escape, meditation, prayer, or whatever I need done. Places of refuge from life's troubles.
I have nothing much to say other than thank you for reading.