The newest version of Wordpress fixed a registration bug that can be exploited by unscrupulous folk. This seems to be the latest in a long line of such bugs, so I’m going to turn off open registration. It won’t affect people who already registered, just that there won’t be new registrations. Everybody can use the comment form like normal.

Now that that’s out of the way…

Let’s get this party started!

DVD…check.
Text Edit open…check.
Logged in Wordpress as Admin…check.
The LucasClub™ of Idiocy Mark IX…check.
Pepper spray for the screaming fangirls in the front row…check.
Motion tracker to detect presence of the LucasClub™ of Subtle Storytelling…check.
Barf bags…check.
Sarcasm-O-Matic™, fixed…check.
Throat lozenges (for screaming at the screen)…check.
Bandages (for my forehead bruised from banging it on the keyboard in frustration)…check…

I’m out of Cheesecake?! Nothing goes better with a good shredding than a piece of New York Style cheesecake.

BRB

Okay, now I’m bored and I need something to get exercised about. I won’t see Indy 4 until it’s on DVD (not because I don’t think I’ll like it), so not much to rag on there. Except whenever Lucas gives an interview at a movie premiere.

Anyway, I’ve cracked open the ROTS script and I’m looking at what I need to do just to get started. There’s a lot of “dang it, why wasn’t this in the movie!” and I’ve only begun doing the opening scene.

No promises on a schedule. Only soon.

It’s April and still no shredding of ROTS? What gives? Mostly laziness and not wanting to slog through the script so soon after AOTC. I think this one deviates from its last draft more than the others. For instance, in the draft the opening scene was much longer and had much more dialog, some of which is fairly decent. And Vaderkin said more than “NOOOOOO!!!!!!” But it only makes him sound like a bigger whiny baby than he already is.

I’m holding off on doing anything until I update software across the entire site. There are some problems with the new Wordpress update, so I’ll probably wait for a fix to come out, which might be as early as next week.

Well, for one, I’m back into my own writing and moving old stuff into new software. Second, I’m still running to the hospital for dressing changes, and the pain loves to interfere with what I’m doing, so sometimes I’d rather take pain pills and go to bed than endure it. Third…well, the last part of AOTC makes me want to gag! You too?

I can’t get to ROTS until I finish shredding AOTC. I’ll find a way.

It was a solid month of hospital visits, doctor’s offices, and x-rays. And a medical procedure I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Much of the running around had to do with something that potentially could have been life-threatening. But all the tests came back negative and I can go back to dealing with the RA, which is bad enough by itself.

Once this week is over and I can update the software, I’ll be back to work.

I left out the all-important “Jar Jar is responsible for the Empire’s creation” scene. I’ll pick that up in the next post (Chapter 30a) before that wonderfully romantic “love pledge” scene in the Geonosis arena (Chapter 32).

Just after I posted the last entry, I had a medical problem that had to be taken care of, and since then I’ve been going to Occupational Therapy at the hospital twice a week for wound care. The doctor wants me to go for two more months. Blah. Anyway, I’ve used the time I haven’t hurt or been tired to work on a new part of the website. The Commentaries will benefit from some of that work, too.

So while I’m s-l-o-o-o-o-o-w-l-y healing, the last of the AOTC shreddings will be trickling out.

The site is back up, some new software updates have been installed, and I’m ready to smack around this waste of celluloid again.

The only thing that’s bothering me right now is that there’s some bug in the new version of WordPress that forces you to put an extra space before “classic” smilies. This [ ], but not this [ ]. This is especially annoying if the smiley is the last thing on the line. If I remember “two spaces before, one after” I should be all right. I’ll see if I can find a workaround for this.