Month: October 2020

It took a bit longer than expected but I was able to upload ASHIGARU #2.241 – #2.288 tonight. The general ASHIGARU page has been updated, of course, to link to the page.

It was a little difficult to find the time to do it tonight and I had to really just hunker down to do it, but I don’t think I will have much time in the coming days to do another. As usual, now that it’s done, I’m glad that I did it; only two more ASHIGARU pages left before I have them all uploaded!

I’m starting to get a bit of spam from the Contact form but that’s to be expected, especially since it’s just a bare-bones form and I don’t even have a captcha system set up. My backlog of back-end tasks is slowly growing but for the time being, I want to focus on getting the solutions uploaded. What’s the point of having a pristine back-end anyway if I don’t have actual content up here anyway?

I have one item on my personal to-do list left to do for today and I’ve been working for almost 12 hours straight. Time to get to it!

-M

Less than a week between updates; I managed it!

I’m happy to say that answers for ASHIGARU #2.193 – #2.240 have been uploaded. I will be honest and say that I really wasn’t feeling it this week since I’m beginning to feel pretty burnt out, especially with the second wave of COVID-19 beginning to spread across the globe.

But then I thought to myself, this might be THE TIME to be working on this. I didn’t do so well when I first tried to start this site. Now that more quarantine and lockdown appears to be imminent, it might be nice to continue to contribute to a game that has kept me busy for years on end and might help others who may be stumbling upon CrossMe Nonograms for the very first time.

On the back-end of things, the WordPress Media Library is becoming a bit unwieldy and I’m concerned for what that may mean for future updates that aren’t so large but I want to keep things organized. I definitely need to find a plugin. If there is actually anybody reading this site and also has a recommendation, please use the Contact Page – I’m open to suggestions!

On a completely unrelated note: I was listening to the album folklore by Taylor Swift. Very good stuff.

Let’s see if I can get another update done in less than a week again – keep the momentum going!

-M

After some delay I’ve finally gotten around to uploading ASHIGARU #2.145 – #2.192. It was quite the busy week but I also did manage to complete all of the new ASHIGARU puzzles that were in the update the other day.

I also took the time to do the very last puzzle in the CrossMe app, which is #8.368 in SHOGUN. I wanted to challenge myself and make sure that I’ve “still got it” so to speak. I don’t do these puzzles nearly as frequently as I used to and since my long-term goal is to eventually get everything up here I thought it would be wise to check in on my puzzle-solving skills.

The ANSWERS page has also been given some minor updates to the numbers. I think I was missing a few here and there but as of this post, everything is accurate as far as my completion is concerned.

I suppose this marks the halfway point of having ASHIGARU uploaded. If I’m able to find more time, maybe I’ll get another update done within the next few days. It really is a lot of work to get them up and labeled properly but I’m excited to be more than halfway to a full section, which I think does not exist elsewhere on the web.

That’s all for now!
-M

Tonight I’ve finished uploading solutions for ASHIGARU #2.97 – #2.144.

I’ve also had to go ahead and update the Answers and ASHIGARU pages since today there was an update released for CrossMe! I am now running version 2.6.62P of the app. The update included 128 new puzzles; 16 new puzzles for levels 2-9, which means my previous post is no longer accurate.

I’ve got 15 puzzles left now to have a complete ASHIGARU. I’m hoping to get those completed soon and I am aiming to get at least one more big batch update for the ASHIGARU puzzles. I was hoping to have this update that I just did done sooner but life always has a way of interfering with our goals.

A quick look at my tablet show’s that I’ve got four large batches (totaling 64 puzzles per batch) and then the one half batch. So I guess that’s about 288 puzzles need to be uploaded before I have a complete 2020 AHIGARU.

There is still MUCH to do!