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Hi everybody,
I am still not back. It's sad, I know, but life is pretty nuts right now. 

Anywho................wtf, my android site - melissapugs.com  - must have been down for a while. Apparently Go Daddy got hacked, a few plugins crapped out, and the whole thing was evidently FUBAR for a while. After a week of beating Uncle Google to death I made mysql my bitch once more, and the whole shebang seems fine again. My ego hopes you missed me...my vanity hopes you missed my stuff for download. If you were looking for stuff, it's there once more. Mea culpa!

I'd love to tell all my Android/graphic design/twitter/FB/DevArt/XDA friends that I'm returning to fun and games soon. I really, really would. I would be lying if I said I know when I'll be participating in my digital life on a regular basis once more. After several months of a 50-60 hour work weeks and a 12 hour per semester course load, my body has begun to reject computing. I'm told I have carpal, tendonitis, and I'm getting tested for rheumatic and immunological stuff this month.  My fingers have utterly given up on all digital fun. Since I refuse to load my body with numbing chemicals, the braces aren't really working, I work too much, school can't wait forever, and some pretty intense pain...I now spend my sparse spare time sitting quietly, dearly missing my online fun and games. 

Please don't think I haven't missed the aforementioned communities. Never misconstrue my lack of response to messages/notes/posts/layouts to mean disinterest. I miss everyone here and on XDA very much. 

I hope all is well with you. Stay awesome for me. 

Digihugs, MP
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She's alive!

1 min read
Hey everyone!
I am so sorry to have been absent so long. Mea culpa! I work 60+ hours a week, then do school work, then try to be a balanced human otherwise...and I spent way too much time away from DA, XDA, and my other fave places on the net. I shall return to some semblance of balance soon, as I am assured that I am getting a new co-worker soon to share the load.
Dev on my phone (Motorola Triumph) is totally dead...but overtime pay means I can afford an upgrade soon. SIII or One X I think, gotta go take them for a test drive to test them out. Would love to hear what you guys are rockin'.
I am SLOWLY catching up to all my messages and feeback, as well as browsing the fantastical creations of my digifriends. Don't be surprised if it takes me some time to get up to speed.
I have missed you all and will chat soon. Hit me up here, XDA, FB, or twitter for now. I'm off to learn so much I've missed.
Digihugs, MP
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:O I am so, so far behind on DA - forgive me while I reply, thank you, respond, return the watch/llama/faves, etc. At 12000 messages, it'll take me a week I'm sure lol. Got a job, finishing term papers, and other life stuff interfered with fun time. I shall return for full fledged participation and  DA goodness in about a week. Digi-hugs, MP
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Random Stuff

5 min read
Hello wonderful pals of DA. A few things I thought I'd post, since I'll be preoccupado for un momentito...
Today I got a commission to work on a logo - exciting stuff! Hope to have something cool to add to my portfolio on that end soon. I'll be working on a small logo, maybe a banner version, and a twitter landing page for a gaming company that's being launcher soon, so that will take up a lot of my spare time.
School is INSANE this semester - I have a 20 page paper due in the end of April that needs a lot of work. Then there's the 10 page paper I've not even begun. I might not contribute as often as I had hoped until a few major things get done with school for the spring semester.  Not sure if I'll be going to school in the summer yet, but I should be able to spend a lot of spare time doing Android things then.
This weekend I'll be working on the logo project, a port for a GoLocker to MIUI ls, and a custom bootscreen animation for Mr.Rick of XDA...in addition to reading about 50 journals on white collar crime and social deviance. So the purple and chrome MIUI theme is officially on the back burner until I catch up with my big paper. SO CLOSE to being done with it, so its all the more difficult to temporarily abandon it (particularly in light of the increasingly short life span of MIUI Gingerbread as they prepare for ICS). I did hear some promising things about ICS/MIUI 4 dev on my phone, which put me in a fabulous mood.
After I get caught up, I'd like to move from MIUI to a project(s) that's geared more toward all Android users. I hear good things from another DA pal on Go Launcher customization without the dev tools, so I might try my hand at that. Bootanimations are fun, but I'm not sure I was meant to design in animation lol - REALLY painstaking business.
I need to figure out how to set up ADB and Eclipse environment because...I have an idea for an app. Who knows if I'll ever get around to it, but I'd like to at least stick my toe in the development river before I lose my nerve.
My website received over 1500 hits in a day earlier this week thanks to the Press It Icons being written up on multiple android blogs, which was thrilling. I will post there in addition to here my offer of more tutorials, which I haven't written in a while and seemed pretty helpful to people starting out with Android. Any ideas? xoxo, M

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Hey

3 min read
Been outa commission a while. Between the intricate new world of MIUI theming and real life, I am catching up on a lot of posts and threads. If I haven't commented on your layout, its simply because I'm at least a week behind :O
The MIUI theming is slow but steady - I am a bit lost, since the MIUI theme guider site has been down for a long time now. www.miui.com/themeguider.html
Does anyone have any other resources for me to check for maps of where all the theme images are? I've edited or created about three hundred images, still have a few to go lol. And some of the framework xml values are confusing the crap out of me, since two full examples I have are in Han Chinese or Italian and the descriptions are not translating well.
Back to work. -M

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