WOOO! I love it, it's so frikken awesome. It came with a certificate, a Newgrounds postcard, a P-Bot sticker and a tank sticker, this is the most awesome thing I have ever owned since I first got flash! I got 43 out of 100, I wonder who got 42. (I'm a fan of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so had I got number 42, it would only make this more unbelievabley awesome.) I'm so glad I got one, thanks Newgrounds!

It's 1914. I'm with boys as young as 13 and young men in their 20's. Everyone's happy and excited. Everyone can't wait to be in France. Except me. The only reason I'm there is because I've been conscripted. (I looked, they didn't use conscription until 1917.) I'm scared. Because I know. I know that most of the happy, excited young people I'm surrounded by aren't going to be coming home. I try to tell people around me. I try to tell a young boy, "Look this is going to be a bloodbath, millions of people are going to die!" He just looks at me and says, "Nah, it won't be that bad." I'm panicking because no one's listenning to what I say. I try another person, this one probably between 17 and 25, "This war is going to last for four years! It's gonna be really bad!" He puts a hand on my shoulder and says, "The war'll be over by Christmas, don't you listen to the radio?" People start walking outside to where transportation is. In my dream, it's a plane, but I know that planes weren't carrying passengers regularly until a couple of decades later. I try my best to run, to hide to escape from a one-way trip to France, but, in both versions of the dream that I've had so far, I've given up and been taken out to the transport where...

My dream ends. I tell you, it's not a nice dream when you're having it. Anyone else have any similar experience?

I've been keeping my eye on the portal recently, looking for the best day to submit my Interactive Kitten. Looking for a day when very few flash gets over 3.6. Basically, waiting for the best time to try and get an award. It's not cheating, it's strategy. And I think I may have just missed that day.
Daily 3rd: 3.45? God damn, my kitten coulda gotten a better score than that! Damn my tendency to be easily distracted and forget stuff. Damn!
I just know that if I'd been watching the portal, I woulda submitted yesterday. Damn, that's an oppurtunity I know that I missed. Dammit. I'll just have to wait for the next day that this happens.

Ok, so last night, I had a really weird dream.
So, I'm walking along the beach in Baltimore. This is weird, because I live in Northampton, England, and I've never been to America and didn't even know where Baltimore was until 2 minutes ago when I looked it up on Google Maps. Anyway, so I'm on this beach, which is surrounded by really big hills. Then, I see the water start to withdraw, and a lot of foamy water off in the distance. I start running in the opposite direction, because I can tell whats gonna happen. I head over one of the hills and down to where I live, which apparently is a house with everything except the toilet in one combined room. At this point, I get a cinematic shot of the tsunami reaching the massive hills. I meet people who I can only assume I know, even though I haven't seen their faces before in my life, and I tell them, "get inside", "get inside and get on the ground." That's odd cos the actual advice I would give in real life is "get inside and get upstairs." Anyway, so I wind up locked in my house by my self, laying on my bed that's in the corner, watching the glass door. And then wham! The house is hit by the wall of water, and is uprooted from its foundations, and swept past the other houses and a ferris wheel, up another hill where it gets lodged. The tsunami suddenly dies away really quickly. And that's all I remember from that dream.
Baltimore? Tsunami? What the hell have I been watching on TV?

Ok, so I'm at school, and there's a shower. It doesn't get you wet, and you stand in it fully clothed. This is in fact, perfectly normal. So people start leaving there cos it's time for class, but I stay behind for a second, and dismantle the shower that sprays water over a shower area that looks remarkably like my school's auditorium, only no chairs, and it's decorated with bathroom tiles. I take out the bit that makes the water go, plus another little bit that looks like a memory stick. I then leave and head for class. Suddenly, I'm racked with guilt, and fear that I'll be caught, so immediatley after leaving the showertorium, I go straight to students services.
I say something on the lines of, "yeh, I stole this, but I don't want it," holding out the memory stick-like thing, and the guy there, (there are four people, one of which is a fairly overwieght guy) just points to this bin full of memory stick things. He asks me why I had it and I just said that I stole it. At this, one of the three remaining people turns around and says "you stole it?" This turns out to be my mum, which is odd, because I'd expect her to be really mad, and not mildly surprised by this. So that sorts itself out, and I ditch the memory stick thing, and the thing that makes the shower go there, and head to class.
I realise that it's English, and that I have homework to prepare for my speaking and listening test that I haven't done. Big amount of GCSE down the drain. So I get in the line to go in, which was oddly long, so long, in fact, that they created two parallel lines. This was perfectly normal. So I'm fretting about my English homework, and we're about to go into class...

And that's where it ends. I don't normally remember dreams, but when I do, they're pretty bizzare. How does that dream par up with everyone elses?

Ok, while I was on holiday, I went to see the movie "Knowing". I wish I hadn't. It was so horribly rubbish. The central plot device, ie, the paper with loads of numbers on it, is a brilliant idea, and makes for an interesting plot, and a great mystery, but it didn't work. When the main guy learnt exactly what the numbers meant, he was able to do sod all to help. The action hero can do nothing to save the day. I mean, yeh, I know, the whole "one man comes along and saves the world" is over-used, and corny, but if there's no other way to end it satisfyingly, then that's what you gotta do.

The ending is ridiculous. Absolutely, mind-numbingly stupid. Aliens, that look like angels, take the kids into space, just so the studios can keep to the whole "kids never die" Hollywood tactic to make sure some people somewhere don't get upset. Then the world gets blown to bits by a solar flare.

Here's a few plot holes that I would personally like to see filled:
- How did the kids get the numbers into their heads?
- How did the aliens whisper directly into the kids heads?
- Where did the aliens come from?
- What the hell do the aliens have to do with anything?
- Why did Hollywood make such a crap movie?

I hate this film, it's the worst one I've seen since the Garfield sequel. I now, offically, have a least favourite movie. "Knowing" sucks.

I watched the portal all day, making sure there weren't too many flash with over 3.5, and after tracking it all day, I decided that there were unlikely to be many more flash submitted with over 3.5, and then just as I go to bed, a whole load are submitted, knocking my Shortened Shakespeare - Hamlet out of the top 5 or top 10 of the day. And the 9th and 10th placers are barely higher scored than mine! Gah! I was so darn close! So very, very, near to being in the top 10! They're so close I could vote them down to below my score!

Such a close call. Darn.
If you feel like it, you can watch my flash here.

Yup, after ages of doing squat, and then a few weekends or work, I'm nearing completion of the latest Shortened Shakespeare! This one's Shakespeare's Tragedy, 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'. It's gonna be the second longest SS flash yet, with a running time of 67 seconds ("The Tempest" is the longest so far, running for 94 seconds). I have a script written for King Lear, which will be the next SS flash that I make.
Oh, and I shoulda acknowledged this somehow, but, this series has been going for over a year, with Julius Caeser being submitted 23rd October last year! Wow. I'm surprised I've managed to keep at this all that time.

And now, after ages of work, I have run out of ideas to add to my Interactive Kitten, and it's gonna be ready to submit in the next few days. Woo! The release of my first ever game on to Newgrounds. I hope it does well, I'll be disappointed with less than 3.4, but I'll be pissed if it doesn't even hit the 3.0 mark. Well, we'll just have to see how it goes.

Due Dates: (dd/mm/yy)
Interactive Kitten - 7/12/08
Shortened Shakespeare - Hamlet - 14/12/08

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally gotten to level 19, woo! Next stop, level 20.

Yeh, so I've restarted work on Othello, and I now have the script for Hamlet, which like The Tempest will be about a minute long as opposed to 30 or so seconds.

EDIT: I've finished Othello, and I will be submitting it today! So if you're in the vicinity of the Flash Portal, keep an eye out for that!

Othello Progress: COMPLETE!
Hamlet Script: Sound recorded, background music to be added.