I felt like writing... have some things to say today, as that is usually what these are here for

First off, I've wondered why people have pictures that are bigger than their content blocks. Maybe it's just a mac thing () but it gets terribly annoying. Everyone does know that you cen set your content blocks to a certain pixel width? I have mine set at 325px right now because it fits my picture. A truly fitting display, of how people shouldn't do stuff like that

Anyhow, I guess that if I can ever find anything to write about, I will. Currently I'm gonna show some behind-the-scenes for folks from a comment Turakii said.

Hey, at least the Preliminaries eleminated a few, so we only have to re-read...sixty-two of them.

You call that bad? Well...actually it is, but what I'm talking about is much, much worse

Because BS01 was/is down, I had some free time. I could see that bones was having a bit of trouble with the S&T contest because of Real Life things. I'd thought I'd give him a hand. Come take a look at my past two days:

At first it started with a simple PM. I asked bones if he needed any help. He PMed me back and told me to find and compile a list of every single contestant who had a name change. So think about it. I'm sifting and opening each page, trying to see if anyone had a name change. About 10 or so did. (About 8 made it on to the semis)

So then I ask if poor bones needs anything else. He obviously seemed like he wanted to take a break and go eat something, so I took over and finished his list. So he PMed me his list. What list is this you ask? It's the one bones posted with the S&T poll timeframe with who moved on from each poll. (Thank goodness that all the polls I did, I didn't have to randomly pick a number and stop someone from going on ) That list didn't take too long. Not that bad. Bones didn't come back till an hour later, so I was bored for about an hour. During those last five minutes, I started to get the polls ready. No kidding. I was that bored. Bones couldn't believe it either. But we worked things out: Since I already had started the Metru Nui polls, bones would take Mata Nui and I would finish up with Voya Nui. Now tell me, can you sift through a total of 6 polls, one reall freaking huge list, and yet another list of who made it on to the semis and keep your eyesight, let alone your sanity?

I barely did. My eyesight I mean. My sanity is doing pretty well. So here's how it works: I have 3 polls. So-so many people make from the polls. I go down the list. First name. I check the first with the list I completed for bones to see if that person made it or not. If not, forget it. If so, I copy what bones has paste it in a PM that I would later send to bones. (Ya see, I couldn't take the direct code because bones locked that topic, so I had to do it the hard way *glares at locked topic*) So I basically do that until everyone from the first poll who made it is in. I do this for all the polls. Now I have everyone, but here's the rub. Poll B must be broken down because there are only two polls for Metru Nui. So I had to sort the people from poll B by word count, them move them to their correct poll. Then I add in the list. Basically I use the list tags and whatnot, so those weren't that hard. As I went on, I learned to put the list tags down first, and fill them in as I go. That way I would make sure I had the right number. So anyway, the hard part is yet to come. Because bones locked the topic, I had to go to the leftover topic and sift through the list post bones has, which is what literally caused my eyesight to go bye-bye. So I see a name on the make-shift poll I have in PM. I look down the list till I can find his/her name on the really big contestant list. Once I find it, I have to open that topic, copy the URL, and intergrate it into the PM I would give bones.

Now the finishing touches. The URL's are all there. The List tags are there. So just because I'm me, I copy what bones has at the beginning of his poll posts (Please make sure to read all 10 entries! etc.) and I added those in. Basically I had the polls literally ready for bones just to copy and paste. I saved bones a lot of trouble and time there.

So I completed the Metru Nui polls. Wanna know at what time? Let's say that I went from one day, and went well into the next. Go figure it out people. So basically I did that and went to sleep.

Next morn, I got up and did the Voya Nui polls. Now that I was used to it, it wasn't that bad. So, once again being me with a day off with not much to do in the morning before the afternoon, I quoted bones's leftover list and cut out everyone who didn't make it. That was really tough... Try quoting my list sometimes, and look at how much code you have to look over. I'm used to seeing a lot of code, because I work with the BS01 Wiki, but sifting through was hard on me ol' eyes. So I did that, read one story, and was bushed.

So the Dreaded Real Life took over for the rest of that day, although it wasn't actually that dreaded. My sister and I played around. She's in college, so it's cool to have a chance to have some fun again.

Then the next day. What did I do the next day? Well you're lookin' at it

Final note: I forever give my pity and sympathies to contest hosts on BZP. Seriously....give them a hand folks.

~U

P.S. - I did this on the fly so I don't really care for spelling right now

Or as I say it now..righs...