News & Updates in December 2019

Added a Classroom of Atonement Image Gallery and added sexually explicit images to the hentai anime profile Classroom of Atonement.

Hope everyone had a nice holiday and got some good presents if you celebrate a holiday that involves receiving presents. We celebrated Christmas at my parents' house and since nobody else came over we were able to just stay in our pajamas all day. Treese got me some Star Wars Black Series action figures: Lando Calrissian in Skiff Guard Disguise, Bounty Hunter Droid IG-88, Sabine Wren, and a Jawa. Sabine is a relatively new character from the Star Wars Rebels TV series that premiered in 2014 while the other three are from the original trilogy. I had action figures of them back in the 80s. Remember those figures? They had such articulation as their limbs moving up and down... and maybe the head would swivel. Their little guns would either immediately fall out of their hands or would be pointing off to the side. Action figures sure have come a long way since then. I also got a Bob Vila Signature Series BVMTH01 Workman's Multitool from my auntie so I'll guess I'll have to find a new project to work on so I can try it out.

Experimenting with displaying the feedback form in an in-page popup instead of going to an entirely new page.

Added and updated some entries in the PS2 HD Loader Game Compatibility List.

Posted the character profile of Daichi Sawamura (from Haikyu!!).

Posted the article 5 Reasons Why We Love Kakegurui.

Posted the article 4 Subgenres of Romantic Anime.

Posted the character profile of Shota Aizawa (from My Hero Academia).

Posted the character profile of Yuzu Aihara (from Citrus).

Posted the character profile of Toshinori Yagi (from My Hero Academia).

We saw Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker last night and absolutely loved it. We both went into it without having seen any trailers, interviews, reviews, or even any of the toys. We purposely avoided any and all potential spoilers so we could go in a fresh as possible without any expectations. From beginning to end we thought it was fantastic. I was surprised to find later that a lot of people liked it less than the previous movie in the saga, The Last Jedi. I thought it was a ton of fun and am excited to check out all the new toys!

Added a Dragon Pink Image Gallery.

Added images of DVD covers to several hentai anime profiles. Updated the Dark Cloud 2 PS2 HD Loader entry.

Added adult content images to the hentai anime profile Dragon Pink so the adult content notification would kick in. Add larger character pictures for Bobo and Pias (from Dragon Pink). Added additional sexually explicit images to the hentai anime profile Bondage Queen Kate and added a Bondage Queen Kate Image Gallery. Replaced the main profile images of Countdown Conjoined, Weather Report Girl, Imma Youjo - Volume I, Imma Youjo - Volume II, Imma Youjo - Volume III, Imma Youjo - Volume IV, and Imma Youjo - Volume V with larger versions. Added some genre links to the anime dropdown list in the top navigation menu. Trying out a new ad company on the hardcore hentai pages.

Posted the character profile of Ruka Urushibara (from Steins;Gate).

Posted the article 5 Ways To Meet Other Anime Fans. Fixed a bug where hovering over a link to a local video file could cause the web browser to significantly slow down. This happened because it was trying to load the video in order to popup a preview.

Posted the article Best Anime About College Life. Added a tweet button to each individual update on the News & Updates page. It will show up when the mouse cursor hovers over the date. A link icon also shows up and clicking it copies the text of that update plus the link to your clipboard. Updated a couple PS2 HDLoader entries. I noticed the supplemental PS2 HD Loader pages that would show how to fix some problems and let you download some useful files for doing so were returning a 404 Not Found error even though the pages were actually there. I found the problem and got that fixed. By the way, did you know I had a page just for displaying anime videos? Neither did I! I found it while fixing the PS2 HD Loader supplemental pages issue. Apparently it used Google's API to search for and display anime videos. I don't know what version of the API it was using but it no longer works so I removed the page. Perhaps in the future I can make a page that displays all the video clips found on this site. I slightly changed how I handle dead links, and made them consistent (dead links in section footers were being handled differently than dead links in content blocks). I have given them a dark blue color, a tooltip title saying that the link is dead and showing the original URL, and when hovered over with the cursor I turn the color a darker red and display a strike-through line.

Posted the character profile of Mikasa Ackerman (from Attack On Titan).

This past weekend we went to a dinner party put on by my wife's work. It was smaller than last year's James Bond themed party, or perhaps it just felt that way since it was a smaller venue. This year the theme was 1920s. Everyone was dressed up and looking good in their costumes. There were a lot of guys dressed in black shirts with white suspenders which is what Treese was originally thinking of putting me in, so she was happy we did something different. We went with a white shirt with black suspenders, bow tie, and then a hat. She wore a short black dress with a pattern of silver sequins, a long pearl necklace, silver and black earrings, and one of those headband things with the feather sticking up.

Added 24 additional images to the Bible Black Image Gallery, four images for each of the six episodes. Posted the article Seven Video Games That Feature Marijuana.

Posted the anime profile of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Added four more images to the Anime Fiction Volume 1 Image Gallery. Added four more images to the Another Lady Innocent Image Gallery.

Posted the article Who Are Anime's Moon Princesses?.

Posted the character profile of Annie Leonhart (from Attack On Titan). Added four more images to the Advancer Tina Image Gallery.

Posted the character profile of Historia Reiss (from Attack On Titan). For some reason IFTTT hasn't been recognizing the updates in the news feed and thus hasn't been posting the updates to Facebook and Twitter.

Added our Twitter feed and Instagram feed to the Facebook page. Removed some unused tabs from the Facebook page.

It was quite cold the day we returned from Thanksgiving break so I cut on the heater as soon as I walked through the door. An hour later we were feeling no warmth so I checked the vents. Cold air. Our nice new efficient heater wasn't heating. We had only used it a couple times prior and only for a couple hours but it had worked then. I contacted Cold Snap, the company that installed it, and one of the installers, Jon, came out the very next morning. After checking things out he determined that he had accidentally put a cap in the wrong place during the install which allowed condensation to build up instead of draining, thus clogging up the system. He spent a while up there getting it fixed. When he was done we had hot air again.

Everything was great until the next evening when the house started getting colder. I checked the vents and felt cold air. We let them know and they said Jon could come by in the morning. It was still happening the next morning but then suddenly it started blowing warm air again. When Jon arrived and did his inspection he found a hose to be the likely culprit. He said he noticed a small slit in it at the end and from what I understood, when he would touch it then it would no longer create a vacuum. So he got a new hose put in and everything seemed to be working... except that he was seeing an airflow error light show up every once in a while during the tests. We eventually found that to be caused by three of our vents being closed. Once we opened them the error went away. I also replaced the air filter for good measure.

We noticed some cold air blowing from the vents again today, but the house didn't get any colder from it. We asked and apparently that is normal. The furnace is designed to continue blowing for a few minutes after the heating stops in order to remove the heat from the unit. Makes sense. I have a heat gun that does the same thing. Now we just have to angle the vents so it doesn't blow the cold air right on top of our heads. I'd also like to say that Jon really seems like a great guy. He's been very polite and professional throughout everything. He was the one that came out after we demanded American Home Shield send someone else out for a second opinion and has been through the install, all the inspections, and now the repairs. He never made us feel like we were inconveniencing him and when he noticed he made a mistake he owned up to it and didn't try to pass it off on someone else. I respect both him and the company and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

Posted the character profile of Ymir (from Attack On Titan).

In order for Cold Snap to get our new heater up through the attic entrance they had to cut off the half inch of drywall on all sides. This was the part that held the attic entrance cover so when they were done they screwed the drywall pieces back in place. But not all of it survived so there were gaps which didn't create a very good seal. Putting my hand up there I could feel cold air coming through so I knew I had to fix it. I got around to doing that the day that we left for Thanksgiving break while Treese was still at work. I started in the morning and was able to finish before we had to leave.

I went to Lowes and got two 1"x3" 6' whitewood boards as their actual dimensions (0.5"x2.5") were approximate the same as the drywall. I measured out the sections I needed and used the Black+Decker Matrix Trim Saw Attachment that mom had gotten me for my birthday to do the cutting. That attachment is so convenient for small jobs! Then I got the pieces lined up, drilled some pilot holes, and attached them using leftover deck screws I had bought to fix our garage ceiling. The attic entrance cover sits nice and level with no wobbling and I can no longer feel any cold air escaping so I'm happy with it. Later on down the line I may paint the wood and pick up some kind of drywall tape to hide the seams, but there's no rush on that.

Posted the character profile of Mei Aihara (from Citrus). Added a Hentai Image Gallery Page. Posted the article One Outs - the Overlooked Classic.

Posted the anime profile of Citrus.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We visited my parents for the holiday which was nice. My sister, Julia, flew in as well from Colorado and it was great getting to hang out with her. Thanksgiving dinner was a bit smaller than usual with only my grandmothers and Uncle Billy coming. It was still nice, though, as that made it more intimate. And the food was delicious thanks to Treese and Mom.

On the day after Thanksgiving we did a 2.7 mile hike to work off some of that food. Unfortunately Treese had homework to do so she couldn't come. It was cold out but a clear day. The hiking trail was a bit muddy from the previous day's rain but not bad enough to turn around. I thought the cold air really helped as I think if it had been warm out I probably would have been all hot and sweaty by the end.

Then the next day Julia took me to a indoor climbing gym. She was a regular but this was my first time and it sure was a lot of fun. Definitely showed that I need to work on my upper body strength. I made it to the top on my first couple climbs but after that it became much more difficult. By the end I could only make it half way up an easy climb before my arms refused to pull my body up any further. Dad came along to take pictures. Afterwards the three of us went out to lunch. Mom and Treese came to join us after we texted them our plans. We were trying to go to an Indian restaurant but when we got there we found it was permanently closed so we went to the Mexican place next door. It was a good meal and a great holiday break.