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Obviously, I haven’t been around much. Either in Whirled or here posting. There’s a good reason for that. Not only did work get quite busy, now I also have to deal with a big move. I’m moving from wonderful Oakland:

to wonderful Honolulu:

I’m very excited but I also know that it’s going to be a crazy time. I have four weeks to move to Honolulu and I’ll be busy, busy, busy dealing with relocation. I’m really looking forward to it!

It’s been a really hectic month and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to let up. Many weeks of travel, driving all around the state, are coming up. I also have to worry about a possible move and a minor hand injury. Yikes.  So I haven’t been doing much regarding Aliens Over Hawaii.

However, I did write music for 3 of the stages but I’ve had to rewrite them a few times. There’s an 8-bar theme, the ‘hero’ theme, which I’m building the music around.  But when I heard the three songs back-to-back, that theme got to be repetitive and annoying. So I’m dialing it back and using that theme sparingly in each song instead of repeating twice or thrice.

If I start putting too much effort into these games, it starts to feel like work and I already have a job so I’m trying to get too involved so that it’s still fun.  I don’t know when I’ll be finished with updating the game or Paint Factory but we’ll see.

Well I’ve been quite busy with work and in my free time I’ve been playing another MMO that shall remain unnamed. They have a Double XP this weekend so I think I’ll barely get anything done then. Heh. However, Cribbage Square is definitely coming along.  I just have to finish some minor tweaks and it’ll be ready for Whirled so I’m hoping to get it squeezed sometime during the weekend. Work will ease up after this week - looks like a fairly free July and August so I’m hoping to get some good time doing all those other games I have been meaning to get to - Plant Breeder, Gravitation, Auction Poker & Bartender.

So the site was down for a long time during this weekend. It was a busy weekend for me (8-mile hike!) so I didn’t notice it too much. I spent a big portion of my free time today trying to figure out what the problem was. It wasn’t the Yahoo hosting, since I could access other images and stuff not inside the blog.

Well, after a couple of hours of messing about (turning on/off plug-ins, changing the template style, etc…), it turned out the solution was to go inside a PHP file and comment out a line of code. I was already starting to migrate everything to blogger.com but I don’t like their styles so I’m glad I got this working.

One of the first things I had to do was upgrade Wordpress since it was annoying having a little notice “Please upgrade Wordpress” on every page. Anyways, it went well though I did booch it up for a few minutes. It’s all fixed now. Yay.