One goal down, seventy-four-and-a-half to go.

Wonderful. The MMW rush has ended. Finally my schedule is cleared to pursue various relaxation, right?

Haha, I wish.

The Mirror Mirror World hype ended just in time for me to catch up on my reading of Homer's Odyssey and write a daily reflection. And a fair amount of my Thanksgiving break was spent finishing up a biography on Einstein (don't even ask when I'm gonna throw together the reading log, timeline, random scene thing, collage, etc.). This weekend I can't work on that, though, cuz I gotta do some dumb ol' "Personal Odyssey" in which I describe my life through both a fictitious map and narrative. Tomorrow is dedicated to (after finishing my nightly Odyssey reading and reflection, despite skimping on the remainder of the log stuff) organizing my biology notebook and doing a paper related by: selecting various pieces of work and reflecting upon them in several reflective paragraphs, grading my own notebook, discussing the study skills I used, and informing my teacher of where I need to improve. Then I need to make my momma read through my bio notebook (oh fun), read some choice pieces of work (what, like notes on Cnidaria?), and comment upon it.

Well, at least I get a break at lunch time, right? No class and all that?

Wrong. That's the time specifically dedicated to finishing math homework and ensuring that I remembered to write those Odyssey discussion questions. *lesigh*

Tonight I spent two and a half hours (no joke) reading through a book for history class about Lewis & Clark. I started reading Monday, and I'm gonna start writing my report in class tomorrow (Thursday). 480 pages, medium-sized margins, something around 8-pt font. Don't get me started on the vocab test in English and that one in Spanish, either. 5-minute cram sessions always worked before, and they'll have to do now.

Maybe it will let up in December.

Maybe not.

Culmination

Yep, I never thought I'd see it happen. But the Something Has Happened plot is released and complete.

Wow.

I feel like there's this huge burden suddenly lifted off of me...

Which, of course, will be un-lifted once I have to start patrolling for even MORE passcode guessers and blah.

But you catch my drift.

Ready to play? Go click on that link over to the left over there and get started ^^

~Matchu

P.S. I love your PMs. But don't PM me unless nobody else on the forums could possibly help you in a million years xP

Approaching Final Destination...

The end is near, my friends. The "plot" itself has been complete - at this point I'm just cleaning house for you guys.

Last night I wrote up all the debriefs and started redoing the explore overlay code - primarily because it was MUCH easier to rewrite the code than it was to add all those worlds to the old script. I've just now finished it, and you'll notice that the explore map has a new look of sorts: it helps the loading process not throw off the entire page and helps it look a good deal cleaner :)

Tomorrow night I need to finish off the cookie jar codes and see how long it takes for The Mini-Secret-Project to take root - it may or may not be ready in time for full release.

We're looking at a release date around Saturday... in fact, I think I'll go send out a bulk e-mail.

There's light at the end of the tunnel, folks! Release will occur - I'll make sure of it.

~Matchu

Bringin' the U to the 'pdate!

Life goes on. I'm still in the process of finishing the last few pages of the final mission - heavily plot driven, a lot of photoshoppin', etc. Expect release... soon enough. I still have a few more ideas to work in ;)

Additionally, the hacker incident has not yet been resolved. Check back in for updates, cuz hopefully I'll have some for you eventually xD

Don't lose hope, brethren! The Final Hour approaches...

(P.S. Hope you share my taste in music! ;o)

Ahem.

Hey there.

I'd like to ask the wiseguy who's been hacking my site to please... not. I assume that you're an avid Mirror Worlder who wants the plot to be released, and instead of finishing it today as planned I'll be busy tracking you down instead. The rest of the community has you to thank for the further delays, so please say "you're welcome," kay?

Apparently Freewebs must have some MAJOR security flaws. I'll be working with them later in the day to both disqualify the hacker and, ideally, deny them access to the Freewebs domain to prevent further attacks.

I'm a hacker at heart, as well. I've actually worked with many of the major Neopets help sites in the past that y'all are familiar with in order to help eliminate crucial security flaws - I found the problems before malicious hackers could, and the webmasters were greatful. This is what we call GOOD hacking.

This person, however, has done nothing more than give me a scare and overwrite a page that took me a fair chunk of time to code (I'm just glad the explore page isn't on the index anymore Dx). I'd like to ask EVERYONE to please refrain from malicious hacking the future, because it's a pain for both me and everyone else. You may think it makes you cool, but it really just earns you a ton of whacks on the head. Seriously.

On the other hand, if you notice a page that I messed up that gave you access to a file listing or something, then by all means report it so that I can patch it up. I'll be quite greatful. DON'T mess with my site in the process.

Kay hacker man. You have been warned. Prepare for a smackdown.

~Matchu

Muahahahaha!

Just figured I'd let you know that, due to a previous mix-up in the official Hive tables, my standings were a lot lower than they really belong.

You're now looking at the SECOND PLACE HIVE HIGH SCORER PERSON OF DOOM =D

...kay. That's all for today ^^ Final mission is in progress, will be completed when my teachers wrap their minds around the fact that I have more to do with my time than just homework.

EDIT: Meh. 2nd place, tied for third.... same thing xP

On the other hand...

Homework is still a pain.

Today I had PSATS, so about half of my teachers didn't have the chance to assign anything. And yet, I have a Current Events paper, Lyrical Analysis paper, and a Bio Lab write-up due tomorrow.

I really should be working :x