2014 Wrap-Up

Well, I never made a Minecraft mod, and I never got around to playing LEGO Indiana Jones, though I probably will in January. 
On review, it turns out that LEGO Indiana Jones wasn't on my 2014 resolution list.  Well, I still want to do it at some point, since I do own it. 
Beating Myst again (after so many years) won't happen this year, unless I manage to squeeze that in tomorrow, which is unlikely. 
I did at least get into Minecraft for a while, though I haven't played in months. 
I did beat the Elite 4 in Pokémon X, but I didn't manage to catch 'em all. 

As far as blogging 4 times per month goes, I've got a note for each of 2 sudden short stories, so I just need to type those up to bring me to 3 this month, and then I need one more topic somewhere.... 

Quick Wikimancer Update

Well, I was going to post either a short story or something about math, but something came up tonight. 
To make up for it, though, I'm promising now a bonus blog post in November.  Both posts will happen next month.  They might happen Sunday, but another Y-Locke's Log is also likely (hoping to do a long one Sunday), so they might get pushed back to the next week/weekend. 

Poké-Plans for November 2014

So, the drop date for Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire is closer than one might think.  Unfortunately, I'm way, way behind on my generational team plans. 
Since I came up with all of the notes for it, I'm at least going to beat the game with my Generation I team before I go pick up ORAS on the 21st.  (Or was it the 23rd?) 
As I recall, the biggest uncertainty that I had was a 4th move for Jolteon.  I know that I wanted it to have Hidden Power (Ice) along with Rain Dance and Thunder, but I just wasn't sure about the final move for its Repetoire.  Double Team is the most tempting, but I'm doing a breeding rule, & getting all 3 non-Thunder moves might make this harder on myself than necessary.  @_@

That's all for now, but expect a post in November on how this goes. 

General Update August 2014

On the one hand, I'm glad that August had five weekends, since it meant that I got some much-needed unwinding time on the weekends.  On the other hand, August has absolutely sucked for me.  There was no one thing, really, but all of those little annoying things had to happen all at once.  I'm looking forward to unwinding a bit more.  Here's fun stuff that I'm hoping to do some time soon:

• Beat the rest of Naxxramas on heroic.  (Hearthstone)
• Play more Pokémon X & Pokémon Y before Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire drop in November.  
• Play more Mann vs. Machine:  Some time ago, TF2 added new maps & mechanics to their special Mann vs. Machine mode.  The main thing that holds me back from it is that playing a full round of MvM is like doing a dungeon in an MMO, & requires a fairly large chunk of uninterrupted me-time.  
• Get back into Minecraft, at least enough to further explore Thaumcraft.  
• Win a round of FTL on normal.  
• More DDO?  

I'm also going to be spending a lot of time cleaning my room.  That's not a fun thing, but it's there.  

I've Been Playing some Minecraft

Just as an update as to what I've been doing (and why I've been so late to post this particular month), I've been playing some Minecraft, after a long period of playing little to no Minecraft.  I'm finally getting back into it after playing so much Pokémon X.  I think that I'm playing less Pokémon X than I otherwise would, because I was rushed, because I needed to get ahead of the spoilers.  So, even though I'm planning to beat the Elite Four with a few more teams, that game's kind of shelved, for now, while I work on everything else. 
I'll go into more detail on my Minecraft blog, but I have added a few mods, and removed one. 
Also, playing Minecraft has allowed me to catch up on at least one podcast, so there's that. 

Reading Update: Late April 2014

I thought that I should give an update on my reading progress this month: 

• A Song of Ice and Fire:  Well, I don't think that I'm going to finish A Feast for Crows by the end of the week, especially since I've got such a busy weekend coming up, but I'm so close to the end that I'm pretty sure that I'll finish it sometime next week.  Then, I'll start on A Dance with Dragons.  
• Shadowrun Core Rulebook (5th edition):  I've barely scratched the surface of this mighty tome, but it's thankfully a reference book, so I don't really have to read it cover-to-cover or anything.  
• The Great Webcomic Catch-Up:  This has completely stagnated this month, but I'm going to give it the old college try, as they used to say, starting next weekend. 

That's all for now.  

Reading List: April 2014

Well, April's almost upon us, so I thought that I'd post a list of stuff that I'm hoping/planning to read in the fairly immediate future: 

• Shadowrun 5th Edition - I get to play this at conventions, so I'd at least like to not have to constantly ask about both rules and lore. 
• Becoming - I've actually started it, but I want to read the rest of it.  
• A Feast for Crows - I put this down to play Pokémon X, but now that I've finished it, I should get back to finishing this.  (I'm about 2/3 through.)  
• A Dance with Dragons - I'd only start this, and it would really depend on how persistent I was on my lunch breaks with reading A Feast for Crows instead of playing Pokémon X.  
• miscellaneous RPG book - I've got half a shelf full of unread RPG books, so I should read at least one of them.  

Obviously, I plan to read a lot more eventually, but  that's the list of immediate reads, for the near future. 

The Great Webcomic Catch-Up

I felt that this deserved a mention: 
About a year ago, I was having a rather stressful time.  I was already only catching up on webcomics on weekends as it was, and this kind of threw everything out of whack. 
Unfortunately, this wound up being a self-perpetuating thing:  The longer that I went without catching up on webcomics, the more daunting the task became. 
This will never stop unless and until I go out of my way to stop it; with a few exceptions, I'm about a year behind on most webcomics that I read, which is a shame because I do actually like reading them. 
As such, I declare this week, and however long it takes after that, to be my webcomic catch-up week.  If all goes according to plan, I should be caught up to at least January 26th on each webcomic by February 1st, at which point I'll only be a week behind, and quite capable of getting fully caught up. 
I really do miss the old days, when I would come home and spend a few minutes reading whichever webcomics updated that day.  It's the little things, y'know?

2014 Resolutions

Here are some resolutions of mine for 2014: 

• Blog at least 4 times per month.  This one's not new, but I still have trouble with it, so it stays put.  
• Beat the Elite 4 in Pokémon X.  Honestly, this one will be done by the end of January, or maybe February.  
• Catch 'em all in Pokémon X.  This one is much more ambitious, and is the one goal that I think has a good chance of not happening, but it also seems very possible.  It's made easier by the inclusion of most pokémon in Generation VI, Wonder Trade, and the coming advent of Pokémon Bank. 
• Make significant progress in one of my Nuzlocke runs.  
• Beat Myst again.  I'm planning to do this anyway, but it's also between me and my next goal.  It's been long enough that I remember pretty much nothing of it, so it should still be a mystery! 
• Get back into Minecraft.  
• Bonus goal:  Make a Minecraft mod.  I've already got 2 small ones in mind, so this should be doable once I get back into it.