We're into the final two weeks before this year's trip to Wales! We've already bought most everything I'm bringing, including the vintage digicam for good measure. (I drunk bought another AOL PhotoCam a couple days ago for cheap, though fully working with pictures showing it powered on and in-box, so that'll be arriving tomorrow as well. What can I say? Fourth time's the charm.) Now all that's left to do is wait.

If you're not following the RSS feeds for my album reviews and game reviews, go do that! I implemented a really simple tweak in PHP that will let me schedule stuff to go up, and I'm being very smart lately and writing a ton to go live automatically each week while I'm abroad. I suspect I'll write some more stuff while I'm on coaches and things, so ideally, this will be the start to a backlog I can feed very healthily while I'm in the mood and then not worry about when I'm not feeling it as much. I'm also revising how I do the "catalog reviews", where I cover an entire bunch of albums from a single artist. Since I feel having a bunch go up at once makes it more likely that people miss stuff, I'll probably evenly spread them out throughout the month alongside the normal reviews, on the same day or maybe something twice a week.

As a final point of housekeeping, scores with game reviews are no longer displayed or even fetched from the database. I never found a way I like to score games, and I'd rather just talk about what I find interesting about them rather than try to rate it, easier as that is for folks to glance over (and I really don't yearn for glanceover traffic anyway). I've got summaries and some cutesy extra text instead, which I'm much happier with.

Anyway, back to score hunting on Rock Band I go! I've got 55/58 gold stars for the first game's setlist and 11/18 for the AC/DC Live Track Pack. I doubt I'll be able to full game gold star RB1 and I'm not even trying with the AC/DC pack, but the fact that I've gotten so close makes me damn proud.