Kyanobenthes' Scratch Pad

Happy winter solstice and other related end-of-year holidays. ^_^

with the job hunt. [le sigh]

So my chapter 1.12 starter draft is 11 pages long in Word, by the way. I really wanted to close part 1 of Syncope in June, but that obviously didn’t happen… Edit: People are being fired left and right from my current project group. XD Scary.

I thought I could avoid the corporate drama at Ultra Big Company while contracting, but apparently that was simply not meant to be. Ferchrissake.

As to the cancer comment I left a while ago… Said person finished chemotherapy earlier than expected. ^_^ Much stress is now alleviated, though they’re not out of the woods yet. Onwards.

I finally got around to adding excerpts to the chapter category page, which means if you click on “fic chapters” in the left Categories menu, every chapter post in that list will show the first paragraph. May help in quickly identifying which chapter has what. In the meantime, I’ve started editing 1.7 and onwards, having [...]

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Apparently there are still registration issues. And PHP errors. Which I don’t get. So I’m opening non-registration comments as well, but requiring the usual name/email/whatever, and of course, I have Akismet installed. The biggest problem with piecemeal software upgrades across core and plugin apps is that stuff will often break. Hmph. At least I’m pretty [...]

Thanks to zelene2004 for the nudge and nonpresence for being patient and helpful. Some quick notes: -Updated the WP software and a whole bunch of plugins, so hopefully any technical issues have been cleared up. Also added a contact form in the About section. With login/reg troubles, I can also manually add users. *It appears [...]

I’m waiting to hear back from another promising job lead, which will hopefully lead to a roughly 1-hour round-trip commute instead of this over-3 right now. Meanwhile, I’ve also started my Nanowrimo project, so other hobbies will come to a halt for this. (Syncope has been smouldering there behind my shoulder, kind of like an [...]

Well, I hit a rough patch as my job search stretched on longer and longer than I hoped it would, and with that I got a bit depressed and stopped doing anything creative. (I mean, how can I waste my time inventing stuff when I could be doing something productive that actually pays my rent, [...]

Sometimes it really does feel like the world is conspiring to keep me from doing stuff I want to do. Like finish this chapter and entire part. Bleh-desu.

Kateigaho International magazine. In English with romanized terms, available with overseas subscriptions… Wish I had the money!

Two transitions left. But they are rather vital. Progress, nonetheless!

Moving into a rented house in January. Moving, moving, moving along…