Failure...

I wanted to be a lot more active on here, but obviously I've failed at that.  Pretty lame, I know.

I've also been slacking on translating, getting 5 scripts ahead of the editing side always does that to me, but now that they're almost caught up I guess it's time to kick my ass into gear.  Time to do the last chapter of Anal Angel and say goodbye to that series after working on it for so long...  I dunno, I'm glad we did that series, but it also leads to a lot of awkward dynamics being a primarily non-H group and having something as smutty as that alongside our other releases.  It's certainly one of the most fun series I've worked on, since Sanpei writes such awesome dialog, and I'll probably miss having it in our roster once it's gone.  Mei is 6 chapters away from completion, so I'll slam out a bunch of that this week too, hopefully our editing side moves along on it a little quicker than the last chapter (I can't really blame them too much, Mei has such long chapters, two full spreads to stitch each chapter, and a lot of redraws and shit).  I know what I'm picking up next, people who visit /a/ frequently might have seen me commit to one of them, but I'm not really going to announce the new series until later; possibly as part of our 14th day stuff this month.

Anyone who likes J-core, hardcore, HHC, any of that stuff should check out the following link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uv07nyniyxecy#myfiles
Really good stuff.

Part of the problem I have with translating on a regular basis rather than in spurts is that I can't keep a circadian rhythm.  Just a few days ago I was going to bed at like 2 am, and now it's 5 am and I can tell I'll be up for a few hours more...  It's hard to keep a routine when your sleeping pattern won't keep one, it's like sabotaging yourself on a daily basis.

I was thinking of doing some top 5 anime lists by genre or something, hopefully I'll do that in the next few days, it'll give me something to post about that might actually possibly be interesting to someone.

Blah.

Yeah, so I know I said I was going to try and update daily, but stuff got busy for a while, and I fell off my routine.  I guess I'll give the scan-side lowdown up front this time, and then ramble about random shit afterwards for a change.

Anal Angel 6 is on the verge of release, look for it tomorrow after final QC.  6.5 and 7 of the same series are at 100% on translation side.  Since we bottlenecked on the editing side of that series, I started working on the next Mei chapter, chapter 11.  Cleans on Mei 11 are at 100%, script is at 50.235978016345897% (half the pages plus one bubble).  Look for that chapter later this week hopefully.  Really hoping we get the editing side moving a bit quicker, it's kind of depressing having scripts pile up without enough people to work on them.

Alright, now that that's out of the way...  My family likes to drink.  A lot.  Saturday night we had a St Patrick's Day party, and as usual my family bought a keg.  It's always interesting to go to these parties, since I'm in that fun age (mid-twenties) where you're an adult, but you don't quite fit into the conversation with the 40-60 year old crowd.  It's always a really cool mix of people, but weird conversation dynamics come up rather frequently.  One gem was a guy (about 60) telling us about how when his son was born, he didn't have him circumcised, and he was worried that he'd be pissed at him when it came up later.  Apparently he wasn't.  I'm not sure what the point of the story was, but I did get to hear a 50ish year old guy make comments about dick cheese.  I also got to hear really odd stories about a road trip that my uncle and his cousin took when they graduated from high school, including the time where they passed through Utah.  This one small town was really friendly, but (found out after the fact) had some issues with too small of a gene pool.  They were invited to stay in someone's home, and they were really congenial hosts - to the point of telling them that they could fuck the hosts' wives, with the stipulation that the women have a sheet over their face.  The thing that struck me as strangest about this was that not only did they make this offer, but it was front-loaded to the point where the rules were already in place...  Anyway, I'm sore as fuck from doing a bunch of yardwork yesterday (my parents had a tree cut down in their yard, I got to go over and chop all the fucking logs up) so I'm out for now.

Wah, what're we going to do on the blog?

So, life is busy...  On top of the class shit, I've got several things going on.  I'm rearranging my room, making room for a new computer desk, another figure display case, and hopefully another bookshelf.  Tonight I'm going to take measurements and draw things up in paint to see what all I can fit, tomorrow I'll prep and make room, then Sunday I'm going to Ikea.  An added perk is that I'm going to pick up a chair that won't make my back feel like absolute shit after a few hours.  In terms of WOW!scans, we've picked up a little help here and there, and things should start running a little more smoothly again here shortly, which makes me happy as a bifurcated mollusk.  Also, Sakuracon is in two weeks...  I have a room at my favorite hotel for that con (the Sheraton, it's a really nice hotel and it's directly across the street from the con, kicks the shit out of any of the others I've stayed in), get to see a friend I haven't seen in like a year, I'll have room at home to pick up new figures, and it'll be the first con I've attended since starting WOW!scans, so I'll be browsing the doujin vendors with a totally different mindset this year.  Should be fun.  On top of that, the fact that Sakuracon is only two weeks away reminds me that Fanime is only a month and a half away...  first trip out of state in a while, first time seeing several online friends and WOW! compatriots in person, first non-WA convention, a full week vacation in a place where the weather isn't perpetually shit.  That should be even more fun!  I'm more than willing to kick it with any of y'all who will be at either con, I'll probably say something on the WOW! blog about which bar I'll sit at on Thursday or Friday night for Sakuracon.

Well, life tends to have it's ups and downs

So, a little mostly un-wow-related life stuff, and then some ranting and explaining, and some news.

The first two quarters I was down here at Evergreen, the classes always had plenty of room, so I felt fairly comfortable waitlisting classes this quarter...  that turned out to be a terrible idea.  Apparently, due to budget shortfalls, they decided to let in an unprecedented amount of transfer students this quarter, and didn't bother to make room for them by adding more classes.  So, at the end of last week, I was at wit's end, scrambling to get into classes, even if they weren't the best fit with my area of study, so that at least I'd end up at full time status and get my financial aid for the quarter.  Things eventually kind of worked out, I'm taking enough credits now, but my schedule is pretty fucking terrible.  This impacts wow stuff in two ways - first, I'm still on the way out of being in a shit mood, and I'm not terribly productive when I'm in a shit mood.  Second, it'll probably take a week or two to figure out where translating fits into this new schedule.

Alright, so here's two things that bug me about people who read our scanlations (I love our fans, I really do, but come the fuck on).  First:  if I anticipated your question and answered it in a blog post already, do me the fucking favor of reading it rather than asking the same shit over and over.  Second:  if you don't like one of our series, I really couldn't give a flying turd in space less.  I love to hear about it when you do like something we're working on, but telling me which series you don't like just sounds like a passive aggressive way to whine that other things aren't coming out as quickly.  TL;DR, I love NEEDLESS, it isn't slowing anything else down, and if you still have an issue, I'm all out of tissues for you.

So, despite my bad mood, I haven't been entirely unproductive...  I haven't gotten much translated, but we've rearranged things and Kaichu! should be getting a lot more attention now, which I know is good news for lots of people.  We also picked up someone who's going to work on an amazing surprise for you guys that'll seem like it came out of nowhere.  On top of that stuff, we've got raws for a future project in the mail, raws for some upcoming doujin projects in the mail, and I've been getting us a bit ahead of the game in terms of scanning raws.  Even when I'm not directly working on a translation, I personally can spend 6 hours in a sitting getting other shit done for the group and still not make a dent in what all needs doing.  Anyway, more later, class is starting.

Life, WOW!, and Everything

So, if you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that our releases come in spurts now...  What happens is that we get some stuff close to release and then i end up coordinating all the release stuff and don't have time to translate that night (or those nights, in the case of the past several days).  I guess it's fine since we're keeping up a pretty decent pace, but I thought it was interesting how the dynamic has shifted lately...

Also, I'm going down to my campus today to sort out my classes for this quarter, so we'll find out how busy I'm going to be and how much scanlating time I'll have left over pretty soon.  Other than my 4 credit Japanese class, I honestly have very little idea what i'm going to end up taking this quarter, so it could go either way.

/tr/ is back up.  I'm kind of surprised that they didn't lose their posts this time around, since apparently it was hard drive failure again.  In any case, I'm glad it's back, since a lot of freelancing anons gather there and scan/translate/etc, and I'm not really sure whether they would easily find a new place to congregate.

IS is a lot of fun for a generic harem, and as with all generic harems, I've taken a much stronger liking to one or two of the girls in the show.  Somehow I've lucked out, and the bros at kibitou4life (http://kibitou4life.wordpress.com/) have similar tastes, and have been scanlating lots of France and Germany doujins.