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Game Set C has been completely updated, new bingo and lottery numbers have been drawn.

New Members: Kris, Selphine, Starr, Toto - welcome!
Hiatus: Luccia and RainboKat have both returned from hiatus, so if you’ve been wanting to trade with them - go for it!
Level Ups: Danae Cassandra, Erin, Joni, Lena, Saori, Shenny, Tex, Toto, Wyvern - hooray!
Masteries: Joni mastered rowling II, Lissi mastered grimm, Paula mastered vcandrews, Shenny mastered fielding, Tex mastered romance & mastery, Valorie mastered rice, Wyvern mastered tolkien - congrats!
Library Card: Joni completed hers - way to go!
Master of Masters: Tex has become our first Master of Masters!
Write A Novel: Danae Cassandra, Felicidad & Joni have completed steps towards writing their novels - yahoo! Joni has now written her novel!
Affiliates: Saturday Morning - a cartoon TCG; Evergreen - a Westlife TCG in prejoin.

Newness: A new puzzlebox set, 2 new regular card sets, and one new special set. You may take one card from both new regular sets or 1 card from the new special set, and comment.

• Heinlein, Robert A - regular, images from Danae Cassandra
• Kenyon, Sherrilyn - regular, images from Danae Cassandra
• Cloth Book - special
• Seng - puzzlebox

Newsy: Message boards have gone. There is now a Hints section in the sidebar menu for all your game hints.

Not News: Also, I know the sidebar freebies comment link doesn’t show up on the main page (this page) or several others. I’m going through and adding the neccesary code to the pages. However - the code is already there on this page, and the link still doesn’t work. So. Either visit another page when you need to comment there, or just comment in whatever blog entry is latest. I swear - if it isn’t one thing its another. I have no clue why it isn’t functioning properly on the WP page, and no clue how to fix it.

Newest News: I’m almost done with the contest judging! Heh. Sadly, since today was the deadline for the layout contest, and I only got two entries… Well, its pretty much null and void. But I am going to load up the prizes for the two people who did participate. Hah! Bet you all wish you’d done it now, hrm? Hehe. And I’ve got some great suggestions for new activities to do in place of the contests you all seem to be bored with. So, keep your eyes peeled - I’m sure I’ll post here when they begin, but I may get forgetful.

New Reminder: Please, when donating images for card sets, include at least 25 high quality images, and no more than 35. Otherwise, I have to hunt down suitable images, or spend so much time filtering through way too many, and I end up not wanting to make card sets.

New Addendum: Heh, enough with the ‘New’s already, hrm? Anyway, please also read the post below and leave your thoughts in the comments.

Update: I hate to do this to you all… But since we haven’t had many birthdays yet, this shouldn’t be a big issue. Everyone who was a member on their birthday, and received their special birthday card (that would be for the months of January, February, March, April, May & June) - please trade them in for one of the appropriate Zodiac cards. That means, if you have a birthday on January 28th, you would choose an Aquarius card. If you were here on my birthday (March 31st) please trade that in for an Aries card. If you have acquired a birthday card through trade that is not your own, please email me or use the doubles trade in form for a random Zodiac card. Sorry for the trouble, I know its kind of a P.I.T.A. but I just really don’t have the time to make the personalized cards anymore, and rather than let the birthdays fall behind, as I’ve been doing these past few months, I went with something still unique but not too labor-intensive.

Lastly, all July birthdays may choose the appropriate card for themselves (either one Cancer or one Leo card), and comment. Once again, sorry for the confusion. To offset the work you’ll have to do to update your files, please choose another Zodiac card as a reward.

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So, games update tomorrow. This has nothing to do with that, though.

Rather than hope that everyone is reading all the comments on the last entry, I’m going to summarize and ask for more thoughts here:

1. Most people wouldn’t be devastated without the forums, provided there were a system (probably HaloScan) to still ask for hints on the games.

2. Author Portrait seems to be the toughest game here - which I can understand, and haven’t yet decided what to do about… Like whether I want to start off offering a hint, or just keep it as is, and give hints as needed.

3. Puzzles - you all want borders. Which (pardon the pun) puzzles me, because I always put borders on them. 4 sides on the easy one, and 2 sides on the hard. But I’ll just make them more stand-outty. And Jewelie mentioned she preferred them separate, is that the general concensus, or do most of you not care?

4. I’m going to ask for one (1) staff member to handle book shop forms, doubles trade in forms, bingo and lottery winngins forms (you would still be eligible to play bingo and lottery, as I would still be the one drawing the numbers). I know I’m going to get more than one volunteer, because you all are such wonderful people. So, anyone who is interested in this and can do it in a timely manner, please email me and let me know.

5. Does the site load slow for you all? Carole and I have issues with WordPress taking freaking forever to load. I’m thinking about tossing it into an iframe again, becase, oddly enough, that was actually faster. Yeesh.

And this isn’t really related, just a curiousity… Someone (I forget who just now, but its written in my notebook) suggested a “book discussion” type thing. And that could be done with HaloScan, too. So, my question is - if I set up a HaloScan area for this, and there was a book picked each month (free-for-all sort of; people would make suggestions, and a book chosen from them) would it be something you’d participate in? Like, “Book XYZ” is chosen, then over the course of the month, you would read it and discuss it in the comments? It would be completely optional, and likely only a very minimal reward for those of you who had the time and inclination to do it. I don’t want people who haven’t the time or desire to feel like they’re getting shorted on cards or whatever. Mostly it would just be an extra feature on the site. If there’s no interest, I won’t bother - but if its something a few of you think you’d be into, I can easily set up an area for it.

Let me know!

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This post will be editted in the future to reflect level ups, masteries, various achievements; and any other pertinent information that may arise between now and then.

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New Members: Abigail, Boosette, Katharine, Zooey - welcome!
Lost Members: Luna, Sam H. - so long!
Level Ups: Bluegin, Jen, Katharine, Kathryn, Paula, Stacy, Zooey - way to go!
Masteries: Carole mastered carroll (hehe); Danae Cassandra mastered irishsidhe; Joni mastered potter; Paula mastered authorsfem: I; Saori mastered Norton - congrats, everyone!
Novel Writing: Stacy has completed a step towards writing her novel - well done!

Games: Game Set B in its entirety, has been updated. New lottery & Bingo numbers have been drawn.

Game Oops: I broke the puzzles. Don’t ask how - I’m sure I don’t know. But I’ll putter with that tomorrow, too. The puzzles work again - finally.

Overdue: The Writer’s Block has been updated (for June & July both, since it seems I forgot to upload it last month, as well. Next time holler at me!

Sidebar Freebies: Have not been updated - these are the same ones I put up on the 1st of July. If you haven’t chosen one yet, feel free to do so - if you got one before I switched the layout, please don’t take another.

Goodies: A new layout, I hope everyone likes it; so there’s a layout card for all, and another oc card to celebrate the world cup (which was this Sunday past) for all. Comment if you grab them, please.

New Sets:

• Avi - regular, images from Shenny
• Blume, Judy - regular, images from Tex
• Cleary, Beverly - regular, images from Tex
• Dickinson, Emily - regular, images from Jewelie
• Le Guin, Ursula K - regular, images from Jewelie
• Oppel, Kenneth - regular, images from Shenny
• Serendipity - regular, images from Bluegin
• Silverstein, Shel - regular, images from Jen
• Wells, HG - regular, images from Jen

Whew. Lots of new sets, yea? Yay! So, everyone can take a total of 9 cards from them - no more than 2 from any one set. As always, comment with what you’ve chosen.

Info Grab: I’m thinking about discontinuing the message boards, since they’re not terribly popular… Majority rules here. If you use them, or plan on using them, and want to keep them, you need to tell me. If they’re largely unneccessary, then I’ll do away with them.

Also, have we got games that you just never bother to play? Seems like there must be - so let me know! Comment and tell me if there are any games you really hate, or that are waaaaaay to difficult.

if the forums do go, I’ll have to figure out another way to deal with game hints and such, but since a lot of people just email me directly for hints anyway, I don’t think even that would be too big a problem.

Anyway, comment with your thoughts on those two issues, and you can take another regular card of choice.

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