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  • 254 weeks
    Update for June 2019

    I've been mentoring a grad student on "de-scoping". It's time for me to do that here too:

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  • 305 weeks
    Update for June 2018

    The good news is, I have a permanent job now (and it's one that I love). The less-good news is that life prior to this was not conducive to hobbies.

    My FIM-related queue is:
    - Finish marking up iisaw's fic and send the last section to him.
    - Do a detailed analysis of Bad Horse's code and dataset and send the conclusions to him.
    - Get my incomplete short-ponyfics in order.

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  • 452 weeks
    Update for August 2015

    I'm still alive, and still enjoying reading about ponies; that's the good news.

    The less-good news is that I haven't made significant progress on writing and I don't expect to soon. This is primarily due to a combination of job-search fatigue and burnout.

    (This has also been affecting my pre-reading time; apologies to iisaw for the delay.)

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  • 479 weeks
    Update for February 2015

    Writing-related:
    - Organized my notes for "LAN Party of the Night" into a coherent outline. This still needs work before anything gets written.
    - Continued making notes for "Time Loop Logic". I have a backlog of entries to add to that, and procrastination continues.

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  • 495 weeks
    Update for November 2014

    Writing-related:
    - Finished pre-reading Luna Cypher. Iisaw has indicated that he won't be making a second editing pass, so this task is now done. And the story was nifty :twilightsmile:.

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Dec
14th
2013

Update for December 2013 · 11:22pm Dec 14th, 2013

Continued to make no progress on stories. Reason this month: Work. The holidays may result in more writing time, but there are already two other tasks vying for that timeslot, not counting the "relaxing over the holidays" task, so in practice I'm unlikely to have story updates until the new year.

Did make progress on non-writing tasks:
* Finished an alpha build of the last tool in the book-processing toolchain. This toolchain/workflow process now works, though it still requires more manual tweaking than I'd like.
* Got a final version of the avatar picture; it's nifty. A cropped version is now my user icon here. I'll link to the full version in the artist's gallery when the artist posts it.

To-do list:
* Get first drafts of other CeleMac chapters finished and out to editors for comments.
* Revise the already-drafted CeleMac chapter and run it by proofreaders.
* Contact the first batch of authors for permission to distribute their works in printed form out-of-pocket.
* Register a DA account so that I can contact artists for permission to include their cover art in those printed works.
* Organize my notes about fanfics I've read so that I can draw up a proper queue for subsequent batches of stories to ask to distribute.

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