Anime blog: change of layout

I'm about to start changing the layout of the anime blog. It currently has too much pink, and the width of the post is kind of narrow. If posting an image as large as the one seen above, the side would be squished.

I'm aware of it for quite a while, but the Twitter and Facebook buttons at the side doesn't work properly, especially the latter.

Background image is to be removed, but I'm compensating it with images at the header, and ones in the posts.

It's been there for a while but...

It's been there for a while, but did anyone notice the translator badge on my profile? No one commented about it.

Rejected version of "Alternate Dimension (Part 76)"

This was rejected because it doesn't seem right, and I wanted the 6^th Story to be independent from the other stories.

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I'm kind of curious what Isaka's son is like, because his situation feels almost similar to Itsuki when he enters Mizuho for the first time so...

Itsuki: "Hey Saeko. Something interesting happened. A colleague's friend, who is a teacher of a high school not far from Kamisugi High, told me that a male student approached him saying that he lost his student ID, but found a girl's student ID of the same school during an event at Mizuho. What is strange about that ID he found is that, everything except the photo contains exactly the same information as the student who found it, and some mysterious force made the teacher say that the ID is his, despite the photo on it being obviously a girl. The name of the student in question was a second year called Isaka Tsukasa."

...so just as I was thinking about the person in question, Itsuki came in to talk about someone. Wait... That student's family name is also Isaka, and people think the girl in the photo is him... The Isaka woman who worked with me said she found a female uniform in her son's closet that has his own name instead of her daugher's sewn onto it. I have a strong feeing that the student Itsuki was talking about, and the son of the Isaka who worked for me as a supervisor, are of the same person.

Me: "So, exactly what are you planning? Just so you know, that student's mother happens to work for me in a senior position."

Itsuki: "Well..."

It seems that my mention of knowing the mother made him rethink about what he originally wanted to say.

Itsuki: "What about letting him buy whatever he likes with our money? Our combined income keeps coming in a lot quicker than we can spend them, even after including spending on the most expensive things money could buy."

"Where's story 5?"

The rough idea of writing a 6th blog story is starting to come inside my head. When I do publish it, people may ask if I've skipped a number as, if you look at the navigation menu, there's currently only no.1-4 listed, with the fifth entry listed as no.6 and might ask what happened to no.5.


Well, there is a 5th story, but I'm just publishing it for a friend who asked me to put it up on my blog on their behalf. Since then, there has been no new parts written for it and I don't know what that friend is up to. In other words, it got abandoned as soon as it got published, and I'm already busy writing for story 2 and 3.

So what exactly will the sixth story be about? Well, it's based on an idea of the manga I read a few hours ago. Initial plans includes an another person's point of view of Mizuho Girls' Academy, which the most recent parts of the second story is taking place in, but that doesn't really allow me to tell much about what the place.is like from a normal person's point of view. Hopefully with minimal interaction with the main characters of the older stories.

Mentally stressed now

Why why why? What's with the requirements being a complicated process and requiring things that I don't have or hard to get? Also, why do they use difficult words to describe it too? Too bad it's not like games where you can't restart/undo things, or have something to guide me.

Can't I just know and do what I want, get paid a lot, find a spouse, a nice place to live in, and be happy?

Backgound image changes

The background of my main blog in English has changed to an image taken in Ikenohata, Taito-ku in Tokyo, which was the same image previously used on my Twitter profile. This has yet to be applied to the Japanese version.

What I went through while Writing "Alternate Dimension" Part 67 & 68

1. Writing....
2. Thinking of what write while staring at "Footsteps of someone wearing high heels were heard, followed by the sound of the front door being unlocked."
3. Had an idea
4. Midway through writing, my body wanted to touch itself for some odd reason
5. didn't want to, but the urge made me unable to think straight
6. couldn't stop myself and it got more intense
7. I felt something liquid came out of me
8. it stopped and I regain consciousness, but drained my energy to resume writing and breathing heavily as though I had been running
9. fell asleep
10. woke up and went out of the house
11. arrived back
12. didn't felt like writing for some time
13. continued writing. Moved the latter part of part 67 to part 68.
14. Published part 67
15. Wrote some of part 68
16. Got distracted and wrote the end review of winter anime
17. got distracted again an wrote part 1 of the spring preview
18. Published "Spring 2011 Anime Preview Part 1"
19. Had work on the most of Friday
20. Published "End-Winter 2011 Anime Review" 
21. Made a new avatar for Twitter
22. Wrote and published "Spring 2011 Anime Preview Part 2"
23. Went to a museum the whole afternoon
24. Reached home and continued writing Part 68
25. No.4-8 happened again while writing (I find it irritating)
26. Decided that the part after the "End of a chapter" text aligned to the center in Part 68 be moved into Part 69
27. Published Part 68, finally. Almost 2 weeks after no.13

Thinking of changing Twitter avatar

I'm thinking of changing my current avatar as it has been in use for quite some months now, but I haven't figured out what that would be. That would at least be around December since I remembered making a santa version of it around christmas, but didn't actually use it.

The avatar is a crop of a vector I did recently at around the head. Perhaps an uncropped version?

(Looks at this blogs' posts) Wait, It's been 3 months since I last posted something here?

End of the year things

I am writing this right after publishing S2P64 on the main blog, so to let you know I'm not dead in case you didn't follow me on Twitter and noticed that I've never post or update my blog after a long time. Also, I know I've not been updating the anime watch list widget: it a pain to manually update it by looking through all the code and multiply that by 4 every week.

So, to tell you the truth, I have been playing video games a lot that I've never gotten to play during the rest of the year. The Final Fantasy 13 (PS3) game I bought is last played at some large plans I can't seem to get pass due to strong monsters. That was on first try and never played a new session. Then there are these games from 2004 too that I'm playing on the PC at the same time. I've too tried to install Fallout 3 for the PC, but I've never gone any further than the "New Game" option, when it crashed. This means I've never gotten to actually to play the game. I know there's a PS3 version, but I don't know if it's in stock now and don't want to bring out extra money.

Speaking of extra money, the TV the PS3 is connected to seems to be faulty as the colours have gone all crazy. I don't know where the problem is as anything on the TV itself seems normal, but all the inputs (Composite, Component, SCART, VGA, HDMI, S-Video, RF) are rendered strangely. There's another TV in the house, but that is a CRT letterbox that only has Composite and RF inputs. Refer to the right image if you don't know about this problem: it's not edited at all.

After publishing this post, I'm thinking of writing of the end-year/Autumn summary on the anime blog I promised. I've just watched OreImo 12.

Minor Change to the Stories Navigation Menu

At the bottom of each of my posts on the main blog with the "story" tag, I have been using the following format for quite some time.

← Part 59

Part 61 →

However, when I click between "Edit HTML" and "Compose" modes at blogger, this formatting seems to have been lost. Also, for services that extract my posts (including Wordpress' post, and Facebook's RSS importers), I noticed that the formatting did not appear as I wanted. To save me the effort of having to type the code again each time this happens (yes, I type the code manually), I'm going to simplify to just links at the bottom that is separated with only spaces and a "|" aligned to the center. It looks like this:

Part 59 | Part 61

I will be applying to this code when editing earlier parts that would cause the above to happen since there are too many to edit. If you search deep enough you might come across the version before the previous where the link for the previous part is at the very top.