Darkhawk Report - 1st February 2010

In Today's Episode... "She Returns" continues, as Mane-of-Night and Mariella surprise each other on the way to their meeting in MDI space, while Darkhawk's peace is rudely shattered by news of possible party-crashers...

Release Notes... The "drop-caps" have been replaced with signature "tag" icons for each of the main characters - a gold phoenix for Darkhawk, a purple Egyptian eye for Mane-of-Night. A much more professional looking result, and very much easier to manage!

Development News... Making further progress with Chapter 5, which could - and should - be complete by tonight. One thread ends, the main one really gets moving...!

Coming Later... The Month 1 Report on my Mission 101!

Mission 101 - Month 01 Report

Welcome to the January 2010 Mission Update!

Tasks completed
68 - Forgive charity shops... (16-01-2010)
- A period of "work experience" at a local charity shop in 2007 deeply coloured my opinion of such establishments. You get that when you're the only male in the place, and get treated like a beast of burden, who's only ever thanked when he gets out of the way. That was, however, only one shop, which I shall never return to - and which always has signs in the window for volunteers. Guess they can't hang on to staff - surprise surprise.

There's a follow-on task (see below) that is already in progress...

78 - Build a kick-ass snowman (09-01-2010)
- See the blog post for more on this.

86 - Properly organise (and chronicle) my efforts!
- This is half-done, in that my list is now numbered. The "chronicle" part is a continual work in progress.

Tasks In Progress

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Tasks Explained...
I've already covered Objective 68, one that would get most people going "huh?" 91 - Create a "personal goddess" will certainly raise some eyebrows, but I'm still to get the concept properly fixed in my own mind. It's an art idea, which I'm hoping to expand on when I revamp my personal website, hopefully soon - I want its meaning to be clear enough to inspire others to create their own. The idea of starting something like that from scratch is rather exciting.

So, how about 65 - Celebrate each and every Spiritwalk (May 22) and Patent Saturday (December 1) like they really mean something (which they do!)? These are two "personal holidays", celebrating important events in my life, and there are often presents involved, especially for Patent Saturday - which is so called whether December 1st falls on a Saturday or not. On these days, during my Mission and thereafter, I'd like to do something out of the ordinary - spend the night at a good hotel, or something like that. Something memorable...

In closing...
This is going to be quite a challenge, and so far, it's been a welcome one, motivating me in several avenues of life. I'm sure that, as the year progresses, the dominoes will start to fall - several batches of tasks can be dealt with in one go, at the right place and time (anyone know a zoo that has aardvarks, binturongs AND orcas?) Interesting times ahead.

Constructive comments are, of course, welcome. See you all next month!