Aug 03 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 73

As you saw on the main page, I managed to finish my work restoring the reviews. If my count is correct, with the ones I’ve been adding since the reconstruction work began, we have a total of 2285 reviews. Remember when I thought I’d be done by Easter? Good times. Anyway, this is one big step out of the way, and now I can turn my attention to the really difficult part: fighting with Drupal to get the site to look the way I want.

The biggest issue I have at the moment is that the way Drupal sets up its themes, it’s very difficult to make little edits and additions. There appears to be layers of redundancy you have to account for and a general opacity to how things work. Overall, I’m fairly happy with the theme I’ve been using, but there are a number of tweaks I want to make and if it’s going to fight me too much on it, I may have to take the long route of building things from the ground up. I’m not exactly eager to do this, but it may be the most efficient course if I want things to look exactly a certain way. Anyway, this is a concern for the days, weeks and months to come. Oh, what joy. In the meantime, maybe I should give the much neglected TWH some love. Stay tuned.

Aug 02 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 72

I finished Page 20 of the movie section and started on Page 21. I might’ve made it farther, but I discovered some errors I needed to correct, so that chewed up a decent chunk of my time. I also wanted to make more progress in the evening but didn’t get around to it, thanks to me recently discovering Metal Slug Attack Reloaded. The objective remains to get things done tomorrow. I’ll just have to work a little more at it. Stay tuned.

Aug 01 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 70-71

It would seem I forgot to post yesterday. Whoopsie. Anyway, over the past couple days, I’ve gotten through Pages 18 and 19 of the movie section and gotten about halfway into Page 20. In yesterday’s post that I forgot to post, I was speculating that I had two or three more days to go, and by now I’m leaning toward to the latter, so I expect to wrap things up Friday. Almost there. Stay tuned.

Jul 30 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 69

I finished Page 17 of the movie section. Moving right along, aren’t we? I don’t know if I can finish what I have left before the week’s out, but I can sure try. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

Jul 27 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 68

I made a bit of progress on Page 17 of the movie section. I would’ve gotten more done, but there was some work-work to attend to. I find myself being pulled in a good dozen different directions as always, but if I can chip away at each task bit by bit, it’ll be something. Stay tuned.

Jul 26 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 67

I finished Page 16 of the movie section. It’s not a huge amount of progress, but it’s progress nonetheless. I’m hoping to move further along next week as there shouldn’t be anything pressing to occupy my time, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

Jul 19 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 66

I made a little more progress on Page 16 of the movie section. I was juggling some other stuff, so I didn’t make quite as much progress as I would’ve liked, but progress is progress. Now I just have to continue to make progress and we’ll have one less task to do. Stay tuned.

Jul 17 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 65

I finished Page 15 of the movie section (which included going over my mini-essays for the Star Wars series) and started in on Page 16. Just have to keep on chugging along. Stay tuned.

Jul 17 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 64

I made a little progress on Page 15 of the movie section. I probably would’ve finished the page, but I was also spending time writing, which I suppose should be my priority. Anyway, I’ll keep at it in the days to come. Stay tuned.

Jul 13 2024

The Road to Reconstruction – Day 63

I managed to meet my goal of finishing the comics section, so now I just have to get through the movie section and all the reviews will be back up.

A coworker of mine watched the original House on Haunted Hill the other day, which prompted me to check my own review and realize there was no “The” in the title, so I had to go in and correct all the entries, so that counts for a bit of work on the movie section. It kinda reminds me of the time I realized there was a “The” in The Quintessential Quintuplets. And here I thought I had something for the Q section of the alphabetical list… A stitch in time saves nine, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and all that stuff…

Anyway, if I can average about a page a day, I should only need eight days to finish the reviews. I don’t expect to make any progress over the weekend, but who knows? I may find myself less than eager to get my tail whipped in Unicorn Overlord and may opt to do something else instead. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned.