It seems as if I've lost a couple of prereaders! It's almost like I can't just disappear for months on end without people losing interest in whatever it is I do. Shameful! If you too would like to follow in their footsteps and eventually wander off in disgust, let me know!

1. Writing
2. Buying a house
3. Working through the entirety of Friday afternoon
4. Keeping the dinosaur happy in the springtime. Why does typing anger him so?
5. Coming across allusions to the idea that Lesson Zero is not the greatest episode of all time. I assume it's one of those collective lie jokes, where everyone pretends some obvious untruth to drive those not in on the joke to madness, but come on people. We don't even joke about that.

I am trying to write again! It's difficult, for a few reasons. One is time, a second is the seething hatred I develop for any of my work that's more than a day or two old. Together, these make for an endless discard and/or rewrite cycle on any project I attempt. In an attempt to break out, I'm trying something new and awful: chapters.

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It's probably a symptom of my profession that I tend to go nuts with datasets. Either that, or I ended up where I did because of the existing predilection. Whatever - there's a chicken and an egg, and as long as they're both accounted for it doesn't matter which one killed Colonel Mustard in the library.

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Fixed an issue where the script would take its ball and go home when there was no data yet on brand new stories.
Fixed a potential thread lock when the user's system date is in the past.
Fixed an issue where data for the current day was not displayed.
Modified favorites accumulation timeline to take into account the listed total when it's greater than the number of favorite events received.

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Did the chart thing (previously mentioned here). Tested with both greasemonkey on Firefox and tampermonkey on Chrome. Other userscript plugins exist for other browsers, but I'm not going to test them. Read all about it here.

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Seriously. Are you seeing this?

So I wrote a userscript to replace them!

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