Let me see... bylines this week on pages 12, 26, 28, 35, 36 and 53! Not bad; I believe that's two up on last week!

It's good to look back on my journal and see it looking a bit more complete. All the typed-and-emailed-to-myself entries have been posted now and I'm just working on the handwritten ones now. To be honest, I still have a vast amount of post-Ireland handwritten entries to get up, from what I recall was that immense Internet downtime that ended some time in October. I do remember getting my Internet back shortly before NaNoWriMo.

There's yet another crazy idea rattling around in my head. I've been considering creating a Minecraft blog - that is, a blog through the eyes of the little dude you play as. You can imagine, due to the nature of the game, it would be quite zany, and obviously screenshot-heavy. The thing is, the 'print screen' button on our keyboard has died. Well, it occasionally works - one time in every twenty I press the button, anyway.

Happily, Ashley has informed me that there's an in-game screen capture function so if I can figure that out, all will be well and I'll be able to start my Minecraft blog whenever I want! I'll just have to buy an original copy of the game when I go to Ireland.

Jason's back tomorrow, and he'll be back for a week! Yay! I'll be meeting him on the platform and I can't wait - we've been in contact by text and phone all week so it's not like we've been completely cut off but nothing beats having someone you love there in person, does it?

So he'll be in St Helens for a week before heading back down to Exeter to start his course properly. I think he'll be there for three weeks, which means he won't be up here when I finally go to Ireland. Had it been just two he might even have been able to see me off but it's looking unlikely. It's a shame, but there's nothing I can do. We can't exactly negotiate term times with a college, can we? These things are usually set in stone unless said otherwise.