Token Female Gamer

I do so love to close out most years with a glance back at my performance, be it cringe-tastic or worthy of a small pat on the back. Though I prefer the pats, I do tend to learn more from those cringy moments. =D

2011-

Reading Challenge didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. I started off strong, but burned out around October. Though I only read 35,101 pages of the 50k I had planned, I still managed to hit the 100 books read tally. It does look like 50k pages is a bit ambitious, life is a bit too busy. Maybe I’ll aim for 40k this year.

91 Posts this year, eighteen of those reviews. Always a goal to ramp that up a bit and I think I managed that nearing the end of the year. One thing that helped was realizing that not everything I post has to be a five page dissertation. Soundbites are fine sometimes.

Tumblr was a big fail. I so don’t have time for extended social media. Sorry. What it really comes down to is that ultimately the site is here to give me an opportunity to get more writing in. Though I would like to get my post count up, I have more chance of succeeding, if that is what I focus on instead of trying to juggle various social media extensions.

Podcasting was fun, though its not something I’m very good at. Like all things, I would need more practice to get better at it. Though I have run out of spare time to do more Podcasts with the Mulititap folks, I might record some of my own. Eventually.

One great thing about having the site, is that it has encouraged me to branch out and try a larger variety of games. I think 2011 was particularly successful in this regard. (Taking a break from WoW was also a huge help.) =p

Knowing that I will be reviewing something also makes me struggle through more of the content. I’m always trying to give the game more of a chance, so I can review it with as much information on hand as possible.

Overall a pretty good year for TFG. Onward to 2012! <3

I finally updated my pages read yesterday and something tells me that I might not make the 50k pages I was aiming for. Granted I still have 26 days left, which is only 636 pages a day.

Yeah that’s not going to happen. Oh well. I still managed to read 94 books, giving me a fair chance at hitting 100 books this year. So yaay.

Moving right along, ElfQuest was one of my all time favorite graphic novels when I was younger. I just found out that every single edition is online!! http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html

Not quite as good as the real thing, but since they are all out of print I thought it a pretty decent find. =)

Super awesome bonus, someone made a fan film. It’s all the female characters which is great, but thats only half the story. Ah well. Its quite impressive production quality. http://elfquestfantrailer.com/

Guess its time for another Fantasy Football update. The news isn’t good.

My team is currently 2-9. That’s right, two wins, two losses. That puts me firmly at the bottom of my league’s pile. Though in my defense I do have the most points scored against me.

Take this past week for example. I scored 84 points, my opponent 115. Clear win, yet had I played almost anyone else in my league I would have won. The second highest score for the week was 90 points. Just my luck that on a poor scoring week I get to play the one exception. ~sigh~

So only three weeks left before Fantasy Football Playoffs. Since only the top 8 of 10 will make it, I am pretty sure that I have no chance.

Poot!

300 Posts! Now if only I could think of something witty to say for the occasion. Still yaay for me. Never though I could write this much. =D

Thanks for reading! <3 TFG

So I opened up the comments to anyone meaning that there was no log in required. I was getting a lot of email spam and was hoping to cut it down.

Result: email spam went down, but comment spam skyrocketed!!

Conclusion: Though time is saved on email, more time is spent on comment culling. Thus for authors sanity’s sake requiring log in for commenting is suggested.

There you have it folks. I am choosing sanity over open commenting. Sorry.

So I am only at 57% of my pages in my 50,000 page book reading challenge! With only four months left, I’m clearly falling behind a bit. Ah well.

At this point if I hit 40,000 pages I will be happy. =D

It occured to me after I added up this last months pages read that I probably should have checked in math terms to see if its even possible for me to read the number of pages I challenged myself with.

To hit 50,000 pages in 52 weeks I have to read 962 pages (rounded up) a week. Should be doable and I am currently on track to hit it, but I have been pushing my reading limits. Its not clear to me that I will be able to keep up with the reading pace I have been on. (Being sick really helped!)

This challenge is certainly a step up from last year. But so far so good. =D

Well its been a pitiful January thus far. The end here is punctuated with a stomach flu making its way around the house.

Its been fun!! Yeah, I am hoping that after recovery, inspiration will kick in again. But then a whole week of feeling like ass has left me dubious about wanting to do anything besides sleep ever again.

My husband has managed to guilt me into leveling my druid to 85 (in WoW) with his call for guild healing. I was leveling her anyway because I want to get the all classes at 85 guild achievement, but now I am going to have to actually heal. I have no idea how to heal as a druid since they changed everything, plus my head is all fuzzy (being sick and all) that everything I read about it so far hasn’t been making much sense. Sleeping is helping to keep my panic over healing at bay. =D

Anyway, I hope everyone is getting through flu season a little more unscathed then all of us here at the plague house.

<3 TFG

How do people manage to post stuff about stuff every day, sometimes upwards of ten times a day! I’ve got nothing!! Down on inspiration.

/sigh

I’m quite pleased with my 124 books read last year. Its certainly well beyond my intended one hundred. /flex

124 books translates into 46,346 pages (give or take a few hundred for user error). Now that is an impressive number!

So this year, instead of going for books read, my goal will be to read 50,000 pages. I will still be doing my challenges and reading roughly ten-ish books a month (I will actually be running quite a few different challenges over at Goodreads.com) but I will refrain from boring you all by posting about them. =P

The idea came to me last year after I had finished a monster book worth 850+ pages. It just felt so unfair that this huge volume only counted as a single entry.

This year size WILL matter. I can aim for meaty books and not feel like I’m limiting myself because each page will count!