Because I seem to be stuck wanting to do too many things and therefore not working on *anything*, I figured I'd make a list of said things and start picking them off the list bit by bit. Sadly, these things tend not to be quick and easy things. *sigh*

( teh list )

Ouch. And from the list * (vol 18 translation) is probably going to be the first project while ** (manga vol 1 scanlation) is questionable for a project.

( the whyfor )

As for the 'how' for the first project... Since I'm wanting to challenge myself, I'm thinking about posting *daily* to my DW account at about midnight local (MDT) with whatever I've accomplished (to the end of the nearest paragraph, not chapter / section). This is to keep me honest with myself and my progress. I figure if I do it that way, since it's so visible a) people can poke me if I don't do anything (sic get on my case), b) I can't lie about what I did / did not do, and c) hopefully it'll keep me motivated and working on things. :P Of course, it also assumes that a) does in fact happen and that people will both follow my progress and will poke me (sic send hate comments) if I don't post. ^^; (I know it's counter-intuitive to send hate mail for not working on things like this, but I really want to get this done and suspect I'm going to need some prodding. Sort of like you sometimes need that slave-driver in NaNo. ^^; )

Anyhow, will probably change the date on this thing later so that it's always up top for the next few months or so. :P And the first couple posts for v 18 will probably be cross-posted but won't be thereafter since I'm going to translate to the nearest paragraph. That means things could end quite awkwardly in the middle of a scene some days. ^^; Anyhow, here's to hoping things go well and that we'll see a full volume translated in about 3 weeks time. ^^;

First post will go up tonight (might be a bit 'long' (relatively speaking compared to how things will be from hereon) since it was supposed to be done yesterday, but... *sigh*) . Shall see how things go from there...... ^^;

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Looks like the info for the manga with CD has finally been updated. ^o^ As expected, the other price was for the manga only. (Info from this page.) From what I can see, the CD drama (first half) is based on the story 'The Forgotten Children' in manga vols 10-12 (<-- yes 12), is an original story (sic was not part of the anime series), and is ~60 mins long.

*Reads* ROFL! There's a note at the bottom of the pre-order page that orders (from Kodansha) are only being accepted for people residing in Japan. ^^; Oh, almost forgot. The price of the manga with CD drama is Y2580 (with tax). Much more realistic for what's being included. ^^; (I think that's on par with the Tsubasa(?) XXXholic(?) with DVD manga releases.)

Otherwise... current spec on 2ch re HakuYou upcoming book is that it will be a main story novel. Speculation is based on the following:
- no SS book (3 to date) has had an original title; they've all used already published titles
- might not be enough pre-existing material (previously published SSs are all very short, but... *shrug*)
- next SS book will probably primarily be a Sylvanford book which the title isn't suggestive of. (They were seeing images of Edgar happily chasing after white rabbit Lydia...... ^^; ; at the same time, someone suggests that the title seems rather bright and sunny)
- price of SS books are on the lower end (Y500-540) whereas main stories are all higher end (Y540-560); (latest book is Y560)

Umm... yeah. The reasoning's pretty circumstantial. *laughs* Either way, I'm looking forward to the latest book. ^o^

And so, 'tis all done. :P I have to admit, translating this volume in this manner has proven to be rather interesting. And this was definitely an exercise in translating for quantity and not quality. But at the same time, there were some interesting little... quirks(?) to this project. :P

( translation comments )

Ah well, there's more I want to mention here about this project, but I think it'll wait until tomorrow or so. :P I'm really not looking forward to going through that thing... if I get around to it. I don't want to know how many 'it's vs its', 'their vs there vs they're' and 'your vs you're' that are bound to be in there. >.<;;

......Now to decide on my next project... >.>

Otherwise, a little something I discovered today:

To be released July 31:

Hakushaku to Yousei
Catch me in the Mirror World on the Moonless Night

......This is... what? The title to a straight to book SS? Which would mean that Koakuma, Miniature's Lover, Promise, and Flowers make up the rest of the book? Or could it be the title to a full novel...? Confuzzled. Also, don't know what's in the next Cobalt yet, so I don't know if I'm going to try getting it either. >.> Still, a new HakuYou book is always good. ^o^

On the wrong computer at the moment, so this is a note to myself to check something out later.

http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/gh/

With a drama CD?!? Say what?

Edited to add the following:

Okay, apparently, they've gathered the cast and staff of the anime series together again to include a drama CD with the comic. First part comes out Summer '09 and the latter part in 2010. The title is "The Forgotten Children" which would mean it's the abandoned school house story (sic the current manga story).

Nifty. The thing that I'm not sure about is the price of the comic. The price that's listed was Y440 which is not far off of the normal price, so it might be that there's a different special comic release with the CD drama. (As much as I'd love to think that the Y440 version will include the CD, I tend to be a bit more jaded than that. ^^; ) In any case, I'll keep an eye out for manga release updates and for updates to this site (they haven't updated for the Aug manga release yet) and will post once I know more. ^_^

This is the link for the GH thread on 2ch at the moment. Having read bits and pieces and pieces and pieces on the web etc. over the years, I sort of suspected a bit about this and sort of didn't. It's about Naru having sex. (NaruxMai fics I've read that deal with their having sex range from he's afraid of trying to he's afraid he'll end up essentially raping her.) ^^;

It looks like posts 79 & 80 touch on the Nifty serve chat from eons ago. I believe the log for it was reprinted in 中庭同盟. As it is, it can be a bit shocking, so you might not want to read it. (And since this comes from 2ch, as always take it with a serious truckload of salt.)

( You've been warned )

That said, I laughed when I saw someone refer to Saiunkoku as 'unkokusai'. ^^; (For those who are wondering, unkokusai=unko (ummm... 'excrement' is a good term!) + kusai (stinks / smells of))


[Edited to add: I should mention that the Nifty-Serve chat (from back in the late 90's or early 2000's) was a conversation with Ono Fuyumi. If it really is a clip of the transcript, it would suggest the statements (most likely) are hers.]

Ghost Hunt vol 11 is set to be released Aug 6. Hmm... it doesn't specify final volume, but I don't know if Kodansha does that normally or not. Link here Will have to keep my eyes open for it. ^o^

Quick note: according to 2ch, there will be a new vol out next month (Aug presumably) for HakuYou. I suspect it'll be a SS compilation volume (with a book only story), but am hopeful for the next main. I want to know what happens next! :P

(Will know for sure what sort of vol it will be [let alone if something really is coming out] once Cobalt's novel releases are updated (Jul 1stish).

Even I have to admit that (the day before) yesterday's post was pretty pathetic in terms of pages translated. But... I was distracted! :P I happened to read something somewhere and decided to look into an OCR (optical character recognition) program that was mentioned. It's actually rather amusing...

( text comparison )

What is that, 11 mistakes on the one page? Things get even worse when エドガー becomes ユドガー, アーミン : アーミソ, and レイヴン : レイヴソ. ^^;; Still, it's surprisingly not bad even with that many errors. Pretty readable over all. I'll have to see if I can try using this... :P

Otherwise, out of curiosity (because I haven't actually read any of what I've been writing for the past few weeks...), if anyone's been following the translations over on DW, does what I've been posting make sense?? Normally, even when doing 'straight translations' I at least try to do a quick read through of bits and pieces to make sure it's relatively readable. But this time, I haven't even been doing that much, and I've only been looking for red squigglies (sic spelling errors) when posting and trying to watch for the fingers typing something other than what the brain's thinking. (<-- This is a big sticking point because I've caught the fingers typing some pretty weird things that have nothing to do with the word(s) in the brain.) Likewise, sometimes the computer doesn't get everything I'm typing down resulting in the occasional dropped word. (Esp. 3-letter words like 'not'...)

Ah well, assuming nothing untoward happens, book 18 should be finished in four more days. I don't think I can manage 3; it would require averaging 16 pgs / day. :P

Watching Food TV the other day, they mentioned the amount of sugar that can be hiding in one's food. That's hardly any major surprise, but they were somewhat sensationalist about things. (A lot of what they do is pretty sensationalist, but... *shrug*) Anyhow, I already noticed the inventive 'portion sizes' companies put on their boxes having occasionally read food labels when bored and waiting for things, but I was a bit surprised at the amount of sugar per cup of apple juice: 24g / 250mL. That's 6 tsp. (10.8 tsp per 450mL bottle assuming 4 g/tsp a la sucrose.) Umm...? But the thing is that I don't know if that's a lot or not so much. It *sounds* like a lot. I certainly wouldn't enjoy eating 6 tsp of sugar (maybe I would've liked it when I was a kid, but not now). So I thought I'd look at something a bit closer to home. Lemonade:

3/4 c sugar
juice of 6 lemons/limes (+zest of 1-2 fruits)
water

Normally this makes ~1.25L. The verdict? ~7.5 tsp / 250mL (not including the natural sugars in the blueberries I add to my lemonade). ^^;; Maybe I should try cutting the sugar down to 1/2 c when making this stuff... *laughs*

BTW, is anyone else watching the 100 Mile Diet? (Odd, the one thing I will watch on TV is cooking shows. I generally watch so little else... ^^; )

Mrf. No more procrastinating. >.>

Whoops, a hint late at posting this since I was busy in the kitchen making fudge and butter (again ^^; ). I think next time I have extra whipping cream, I'll try something a bit more yummy like creme fraiche or something. (And promptly make myself sick.) :P

In any case, the next part. A bit less than I would normally do thanks to the above eating some time. This takes us almost to the end of pg 55. ^^; (I'm not getting as much done as I should be. Eep!)

( hmm )

And this will also be the last of the X-posts. The rest will be going up at shadow. Enjoy!

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