So it occurs to me that I missed my normal Friday deadline yet again. I'd stayed at the office 'til after 4 am Friday morning working on Star Wars Celebration IV emails and then came back in later that afternoon. Not that I was really productive at all, so when I went home I figured "Oh, I'll make a blog post later tonight." Nope, instead I just play some Halo 2 and Mercenaries. Very productive indeed.

I was just gonna let it all slip until this coming Friday, but I'm gonna have to talk about our absence (and silence) until we get back from Celebration IV, so I wanted to get in a quick note about registration this year. You're going to have to pardon this somewhat scatter-brained post, however. It's getting late and I'm distracted with the war in the stars.

No, it wasn't perfect, but once that problem with everyone checking, things went a great deal more smoothly indeed. Registration was way up, both in what people were buying and how many events people signed up for. Lots and lots of things sold out damn near instantly. Sounds to me we need to figure out how to get more events for people to play in... man, I can't wait until we get a bunch more space after the construction is done. I want to fill it all and start bursting at the scenes again right away. Well, maybe I don't want that, but I do want that many more games for people to play in.

 To get back to registration, however, I am sincerely sorry that checkout took so long for some people and that so many events sold out so quickly, but we're making incremental process on this issue. One of those things we can fix (and seem to have gotten right after the first hour or two) - the other we can't directly control, it depends entirely on what people submit.

But that brings me to the Question of the Week: if you have a suggestion for how the registration process can be improved or tweaked - aside from just making it just go faster and alleviate any/all server/connection issues - then send me an email to tell me about it. One of these days I'm actually going to get all of you to send me some answers to these questions I put out in my blog.

After the rush to get events reviewed and ready for registration, the actual opening of registration was almost anti-climactic for me... I mean, there wasn't any all-nighter or anything...