Hey there, friends; happy Saturday morning to all of you faithful followers/"Super Mario" music arrangement enthusiasts! And more importantly, happy "Leap Day" (which means, yes, we're still in February, but it won't be long until we officially hit the month of March in less than 24 hours from now)! I'm currently in "weekend mode" as I write this, but just giving you all a quick update on three music operations management related things.
First, I still haven't forgotten about my doing our formal statement marking this operation's "10th anniversary" that we gave a quick shoutout on via this post a few weeks back. I won't spoil any details, but will state that although I'm determined to keep this passion of mine alive for the long haul, there are certain angles that definitely need to be addresed and/or implemented, especially on the "interactive community portal" front. Speaking of which, I'm still closing in on making finishing touches to get our "Forum Portal" part of the site back in action again; so many "real life obligations" outside of these operations have been getting in the way again, especially today. I'm keeping fingers crossed that we'll get this knocked off the "maintenance backlog" during the course of March and accept new account registrations when the forums open again; stay tuned for further details.
Second, on the music arrangement efforts front, same case as the first - the "real life matters", plus dealing with other "fan projects" as well. But I'm still determined to press through and knock down the backlog here. This music arrangement file addition that I posted a few weeks back is just the beginning. I'm not kidding; as shown on our "Music Arrangements Progress Page" for this site, as well as what I can see on the backend, we've got a long ways to go which includes my doing new Super Nintendo music style arrangement covers targeting a 3DS game installment which doesn't have a page here yet, but will about to get one when the time comes. You'll won't want to miss it when the time comes; thanks in advance for bearing with me regarding this angle.
Finally, it's been a long time coming, but I'll be heading out to my town's local "comic convention" this weekend (specifically on Sunday, because I've had work obligations yesterday and I have to deal with other important business today). I haven't been to this "annual gathering" in my town since two years ago, so this moment has been a long time coming for me. Hopefully I'll run into some Mario related happenings there during my journey there on Sunday, especially in the respective videogame departments.
Until then, all of you have a fantastic weekend in general, and I'll see you folks next week itself as we officially start the month of March. Later, everyone; I'm out.