I got through 50 movie reviews. Because I spent a couple hours on writing, I didn’t get more done. (Also, I slept through the whole daggone evening, though even if I hadn’t been asleep, I probably would’ve been focused more on my anime backlog.) Anyway, I’ll be switching over to the TV section next, though I may not get all that much done because things are starting to get hectic at work. Stay tuned.

I finally got around to doing some story writing and got Chapter 19 of TWH pretty well done and ready to go for the weekend update. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in an earlier post, but I’ve got the remaining chapters plotted out and it’s just a matter of getting them written. I’ll see what I can do on that front. Stay tuned.

I got the remaining 75 reviews in the shorts section done, so that’s one more section taken care of. I then did some more manga reviews, but only a few as my evening was mostly spent catching up on anime and not the kind I want to be multitasking while watching. (You can look forward to more on that this weekend.) I’ll be cycling back around to the movie reviews, but I need to make some time for actual story writing if I want to get an update out. Stay tuned.

I only got 50 reviews done, mostly because it was taking so much time to go over the Kimetsu no Yaiba reviews. Then I go to the Fullmetal Alchemist reviews and its much more in line with my other reviews, a quick summary of impressions, generally spoiler-free, rather than what’s basically a full recap. One day I might go in and rewrite more summary-style reviews and make the recaps separate posts. Anyway, I’m going to switch over to the shorts section and hopefully wrap that up. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I was reminded of how much time new review posts take as I’ve restarted updates. As a result, I didn’t spend as much time on restoration work as I would have otherwise, but it’s really high time I start moving things forward. I only got 25 reviews up. It’s something. Anyway, as there are more comic reviews to be done, I’ll go ahead and switch over to that. We’ll see how much progress I can make. Stay tuned.

I once again let myself get wrapped up on the back end (not to mention spending an hour making adjustments to the currencies of the Tellus Arc and researching Hellenistic warships), but I still got 75 movie reviews knocked out (making my current total of reviews uploaded 666, just in case you find that at all ominous). In the course of some of the adjustments I was making, I discovered I had three more movie reviews than I originally thought (due to a couple absences of linebreaks throwing off my count), so eagle-eyed readers noting the change to the count in my “What’s in a Name?” post now know the reason for it.

I’ve got some big plans for Easter, so I may not make that much progress, but what progress I do make will be in the TV section. Stay tuned.

I was rather overoptimistic, thinking I might have a shot at finishing the shorts section all in one day. In my defense, I was doing a lot of work on the back end, things like the spellcheck sweep and making the naming convention more consistent throughout (as the shorts section was particularly bad about inconsistent file naming). Of course, all this work you can’t see will ultimately speed up the work that you can, so that’s something, I guess. I managed to get 60 reviews knocked out, so that’s nearly half. Not too shabby.

One minor thing worth noting is that I reclassified the miniseries Childhood’s End to the shorts section because, well, miniseries get covered there and it never should’ve been filed in the TV section. It always stuck in my head, but I could never commit to changing it until now.

Tempting as it is to just go ahead and finish the shorts section, I think I’ll cycle back around to the movies and continue with the iterative model of reconstructing the remaining four sections of reviews one chunk at a time. I’m definitely not going to meet my previously stated goal of having the site fully restored by Easter, but as long as I’m still moving forward, that has to count for something. We’ll see what the new day brings. Stay tuned.

Not having to run around and such, I was able to devote a lot more time to my work and got a much more respectable 75 reviews posted. I probably could’ve finished another page, but in the interest of future efficiency, I decided to to do a spellcheck sweep of all the reviews to add names and such to the custom dic to ensure consistent spelling and whatnot. This will save time that would otherwise be spent correcting entries as I go. There will still be some of that, but now there’ll be less of it. Now, if you’re wondering why I didn’t spellcheck them in the first place, recall that I haven’t added terms to the custom dic in years (for reasons I’ve explained in a previous post), so I’m used to seeing tons of red squigglies that don’t mean anything, which makes it easy to overlook actual typos and such. Anyway, I plan on giving the shorts a go next. If I’m super efficient, I could conceivably finish the whole section in one day, but I doubt I’ll do that well. I may knock out the remainder Saturday if I’m fairly close. You’ll find out the plan in the next post. Stay tuned.

The day’s progress wasn’t all that impressive, just 25 manga reviews posted. I think I might spend another day on the manga reviews before switching over to the shorts, try to get a little more knocked out first. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I decided to break into the TV reviews today and got 75 knocked out. I didn’t do quite as well as yesterday, but I had a couple big meetings at work and I napped a good chunk of the evening. Still, it was a respectable bit of progress. Next we’ll work on some manga reviews. Stay tuned.