I have to admit I've found some wonderful people through mudding. I don't get to visit Conner's mud as much as I'd like. He and Dragona are just wonderful people. Darwin, Davion, Samson and Paradigm: You all are awesome people. I appreciate the words of kindness and encouragement. It means the world to me.
I'm taking a brief break from building so much. The area that I have planned (a gnome laboratory) is at the 100 room mark right now, and I haven't even completed the laboratory itself. I did, however, manage to get most of Conner's enchanted garden idea completed. Just a few more progs to give some interactivity and I think that part will be complete. The gnome laboratory will be a higher level area, probably 75 to 100. Believe me, the players will need all the skill they have in order to get through this area. Puzzles, lots of mini-quests, and never the same thing twice. Can you tell how much I love building?
As for the depression I found myself sliding into a week or so ago, it's been coming on for some time. But when you have a family and other obligations you keep putting things on the back burner. That's the way some people are, and I know I'm one of them. Things are looking ok right now. And I keep telling myself we are luckier than half the people in this world. We have a roof over our heads, food on the table, and we're warm at night. I think about the homeless this winter. Some of them won't make it because they have nowhere to go, nothing to eat, and no one to care for them. Sometimes you just have to slap yourself out of depression or feeling sorry for yourself. I know I can't forget what makes this holiday season sad, but at the same time, I need to remind myself why I'm luckier than a lot of others.
Now that my kid is out of school I plan on doing a lot more with CSS and actually trying to learn to code some. I have the big C book and a shell. So far no luck with the code though. QuickMUD refuses to compile without errors. I've tried various versions. So now I'm off to give tbaMUD a try. Who knows what will happen? I think I do need to drag out that linux manual I had here at one time.
CSS is going well. I'm actually delving into the advanced section of w3schools tutorial on CSS. I was amazed at how much information this site had on a variety of programming languages. I don't know if I'll manage anything great yet, but who knows what it might do? Keep a few ole brain cells from turning to mush if nothing else! 
Merry Christmas to you all. I know I haven't been by to post in a few days, but that's why I'm here now. And I have almost three weeks to do nothing at all but enjoy myself, sleep, and relax! How cool is that?
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Wow, big update. :)
We enjoyed your company for the time you had to spare with us. (It's all good either way. )
Sounds very cool to me, I can't wait to be able to see what you were able to do with it. :)
Hey, if you can put the depression on a back burner until things pass enough that you can come back to it and say "the reasons behind are gone now anyway" and not have to deal with it at all.. why not?
I haven't toyed with QuickMUD or tbaMUD at all yet, so you'll have to let me know how the experience goes, but overall, if you run into trouble with the linux or even the C (or CSS), you've got a huge group of folks between the crowd here, MudBytes, TMC, and SmaugMUDS who are all willing and able to help out. :)
Merry Christmas back atcha!
Sounds very very cool. :)
Thanks Conner! So far tbaMUD has gone well. The documentation included with the code is amazing! Plus there seems to be a very active community that supports it! It compiled on Ubuntu with only a couple warnings. I'll get to those later. Right now I think I'd like to try plugging in some snippets to see if I can do that without major damage. I've tried coding a few times, even managed a couple skills/spells. It's the warnings I'm not so familiar with. I'll probably be crying for help before long though!
Yeah other things are on the back burner now. We have kids in the family that deserve a joyous season. I prefer to keep busy, as you can tell, because when I'm not busy is when I start to dwell on things.
Hmm, I may have to take a gander at it sometime after all then, I'm sure i've got a copy lying around here somewhere...
*nod* Understood.
If you'd like to drop by just to romp around and see how things work as a player feel free.
mud.mcp-server.com port 2333
It's only a stock mud and I'm must having fun messing with the building commands and finding my way around the code. Everything is really well documented as compared to most rom/rot/godwars/envy derivatives I've looked at.