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[First part is about my life, you probably should skip that. I talk about some other stuff after the first half]
A lot happened in this 2nd year. Of course, everything is relative, and what may look a lot for me could be ridiculous for some. But when I compare to what happened in my last years, I think this one was a bit busier and certainly more productive too.
And it's about time now that I'm closer to 50 than 20, which is quite scary actually. Not that I really mind to grow older, but the combination of the age and the situation in which I am is not really enjoyable and delighting, to say the least. The thing is that everything that in the long term would be good for me is done slowly, if ever done at all, after everything that has no importance at all. And I got this problem for so long now that I'm doing stuff in my life that I should have done at minimum 10 years ago.
So like 3 years ago, after years and years of inactivity, I passed a "psychological" test, something with tons of questions to determine what was supposed to be my "ideal job". At the end, I actually learned that it wasn't supposed to be my ideal job, but the ideal job that I had a chance to have in my region. Oh well.
Anyway, few months after that, I started a full year training for this job, with something like 8 or 9h of lessons a week, and even though I was afraid to go back to school and learn stuff again, semester graded were pretty good! And then, I had another full year of inactivity, because I waited too long at first, and waited even longer after cause I was already starting to forget everything I learned. orz
And we are now (in my story) at the start of 2014! I finally searched and found 3 months of work experience (needed to validate the training), away from home, so I had to live at my brother for months (which was really for me to live in someone else home for so long). Then wrote some report about it which had a perfect grade (!), and so I finally received my certificate! This is actually my first one since the baccalaureate (?). So yeah, 3 years to have a 1 year certificate, that's how I do things. :/
Months passed, and now I should search for this job, but all I do is waiting and doubting my choices and myself. It's so difficult to go forward when there is zero self-confidence!
Ugh… enough with the depressing shit, now more about TL and stuff.
What's new there? I gained a beautiful icon next to my name. We can all admit that this is the best icon on TL, right after the personalized puzzle of course. It was a big surprise to me when I was proposed to be staffed, and at first, I wasn't even sure if I should accept it. I don't regret it at all, since I actually do the same things than before, without having to bug everyone to have the things done. So I suspect this was the main reason to give me more power…Oh well, I'm fine with the results! :D
Nothing changed for me on Liquipedia: always some grunt work to do, trying to keep things clean, transferring players correctly, and of course, updating tournaments pages. I do that a lot. Way too much in fact, but I really like to have a completely filled page, with every maps! So sometimes, even if I'm not watching the game, I just have a match on the 2nd screen, and update casually Liquipedia. =_=
I guess that's a bit of OCD inside me, and one of those unimportant things I talked earlier. But it's so nice now with this fucking great template made by Clubfan that update maps statistics automatically!
2014 DreamHack Open/Winter So it's up to everyone to keep pages updated, time to work!Since I spend so much time on tournaments pages, I would like to improve them a lot, to add information about the state of players, who were the favorites, if something special happened during it, what about the games and stuff that was cool to watch and whatnot. I'm utterly jealous of what prech is doing on the Stracraft licky. I mean, look at that: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/WCG_2007 How impressive is it? Damn impressive I say!
I don't really know when or how, but I'll try to improve this. I could say it's a personal goal, but I'm really horrible at contenting myself.
In other LP news, I wanted to break the 30kth edits before this blog, and I think I overdid it a bit.
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So many wikis!
And I have to go to the 15th place just to show PhiL, such lazyness!
I also broke the 31kth thanks to HSCX and DHW. :x
But I realize one thing: I had 12k edits in 6 months last year, but this year, this means only 19k in 12 months! I'm clearly losing passion. It's just the beginning of the end!
But maybe my passion is just slowly moving to Dota2, which requires a bit less tournament editing. I actually started to play this game during TI4, and I totally blame dravenor and Ppingu for it (and fomal too). Goal was to create a noob team with those three and Androxide and learn together with fomal as coach (or something like that). But it didn't really work out as intended… dave suddenly decided that sc2 was better and left the team first, before it even really existed at all. Then pPingu foolishly decided that studies were more important. And the worst for the end, fomal went for the army with his new girlfriend Anabelle. Well shit, no more feeding for me lately.
Well, it's already too long so it's time to stop. So shoutout to the people of irc that weren't mentioned yet: boozebooze, phone tax, Chapatwork, salle[afk] and sorry if I forget someone, I lost my paper with all names written on it :<
See you next year!
