User blog:Monsoonjr99/Pezzy Blog: Solar Eclipse Camping

So on August 17, 2017, I will leave on a camping trip to Oregon to see the Total Solar Eclipse. From August 18-23, for the first time since December 25, 2014, I will be absent from the Wikia and won't make any edits. I won't be able to answer Minecraft Server questions on the Wikia nor in Skype, and I won't be playing MITW, so any games you start now will likely die before I get back.

In the meantime, you will have the rare experience of TFOE without Monsoonjr99, while I have 2 minutes of daytime without the sun. I also warn those asking for a new Minecraft world to figure it out with just Batran & Xenodine, or wait for my return.

Timeline

 * August 17: I'll probably be active early in the day (late August 16 my time), but will then go inactive after bed and will remain until I get back from my trip. After waking up in the morning on August 17, my family and I shall leave on our road trip.
 * August 18: I'll stay at a hotel in Redding, CA, at the end of day 1, then we'll continue to Oregon.
 * August 19: Late on the 18th my time, we'll arrive in Madras, OR, and set up camp.
 * August 19-20: While camping, there will be an eclipse festival in town, so we'll likely be attending some nerdy events (Science!).
 * August 21: Eclipse day!
 * 160644 UTC (9:06:44 AM PDT): The Partial Eclipse begins... (Note: These times are for my location in Madras, OR)
 * 171936 UTC (10:19:36 AM PDT): Totality!!!
 * 172037 UTC (10:20:37 AM PDT): Maximum totality (360 degree sunrise/sunset)
 * 172138 UTC (10:21:38 AM PDT): End of totality :(
 * 184106 UTC (11:41:06 AM PDT): End of the Partial Eclipse (R.I.P. Eclipse)
 * August 22: Packing up camp and beginning to head back home...
 * August 23: We'll stay the night of 22-23 at a hotel in Reno, NV...
 * August 24: By late on the 23rd my time, I should be back home. Idk if I'll be active right away or after I wake up on the 24th my time.

Once I'm back, I'll probably be less active than normal as I'll be focused on enrolling in a college, but I should be able to keep the next MITW alive. As for the Minecraft Server, I'll assess the situation when I get back and figure out how involved I should be in the world switch. Also, as per usual, I should have a new mapping vid out by the end of the month (just a Mapping Lounge tho, I've already been quite busy this month even before the trip).

Btw, I Went WAAAYYY Beyond Wiki Hero
Yeah, I earned that badge on December 25, 2015, but I decided to make at least one edit every single day (UTC time) for a long time since then for plain old bragging rights. From making an edit every day from December 26, 2014 to August 17, 2017, I will have ended a streak of 966 days (inclusively counting). Even though this is just a month before 1000 days, this clearly cements my longest edit-every-day streak record, and it will be very hard for anyone else to surpass it. After ending this streak, I will no longer be fucking OCD about editing the Wikia every day. If someone does manage to surpass it, reaching at least 967 days without a single day missed in editing, I will award them the unofficial successor to Wiki Hero, "Has No Life". By ending the streak now with a trip to see a total solar eclipse, I prove I have a life. If you manage to prove you have no life, then you can make it to 1000 days for "Has No Life+" and to 3 years (1095 days) for "Triple Lifeless". Four years (1461 days) is "Quadruple Lifeless", and each and every 4 years after that, you'll win a black hole to devour the TFOE Wikia with.

Proof of streak

 * (December 26, 2014 - August 24, 2015)
 * (August 24, 2015 - February 17, 2017)
 * (February 17, 2017 - August 17, 2017)

Here are some sections of my Special:Contributions to prove my streak. To prove this for yourself, go to Special:Preferences and make sure your time zone is set to UTC. Then, go to each of the links above (Contributions is limited at 5000), and use the function at the bottom to check for missing days. On each contributions page, press F12 (if you're using Chrome), and paste the function in the console, then press enter. On the first page, type  in the console, replacing the placeholders with the date at the bottom of the contributions page, and the date at the top (Note: I included the last edit before the streak in the first page, so just start at 12,26,2014). Press enter. Then repeat with the following pages, using the respective beginning and end dates for those pages. I've already done this, and once the function finishes on each of the pages (with the "undefined"), there should be no dates logging in the console between what you typed and the undefined. The function is designed to log any dates it is unable to find on the page (i.e. No edits that day). Please note it tends to take several seconds for the function to finish searching through for missing dates, please wait for the "undefined".

function checkMissedEditDates(m1,d1,y1,m2,d2,y2){ var month = m1; var day = d1; var year = y1; var months = ["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"]; var mLengths = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]; mLengths[1] = (year%4 == 0 ? 29 : 28); while(yearmLengths[month-1]){ day = 1; month++; if(month>12){ month = 1; year++; mLengths[1] = (year%4 == 0 ? 29 : 28); //Sorry about February 29, 2100, I was lazy }       }    } }