It appears that the Brief Nine Hour Errand post I mentioned writing yesterday has not resurfaced. Permit me to summarize it briefly, if that is possible. These were the things done since Sunday night, mostly on Monday:

• The Multiverser.org web site was expanded with a fairly decent support section including On the Fly character creation papers, Magic Skills Worksheets, and hand-outs and maps from the world books. There’s a lot more to do, but at least there is something there.
• I took my mother-in-law to get medical tests. Since this included a fasting blood test, I had to leave the house around eight so she would not be starving; she was not ready when I arrived, and we had trouble finding the lab (which was inside a building which did not indicate anywhere on the outside that it was there), and then had to go elsewhere for the x-ray. We scheduled this for Monday so that I would not have to make multiple trips this week, but it meant taking her out for breakfast after the tests, which proved to be lunch since it was after noon by then. We stopped by the house before going shopping, and the brief visit to pack away her leftovers from the diner turned into a lost hour. Note that I am fighting for consciousness during the downtimes, and occasionally losing. The trip to the store followed, but my departure from her house was delayed a bit longer than usual because she missed her daughter’s birthday and needed me to deliver card and gift, which had to be prepared. It was after five by the time I was on the road again, and I was exhausted.
• Mercifully, one of our houseguests manages a sandwich shop/deli, and he was able to arrange for food for everyone at a cost considerably below what I’d expected to pay. On the other hand, it was not pizza, not the sort of thing that is shared among several, and two houseguests arrived late last night who were apparently expected, but not by me. Still, it was after six by the time I got home, and I was completely exhausted and glad to have brought supper with me, which I hid in the oven before crashing for almost three hours, asleep in front of a television. Then I began my morning study.
• That ten hours was not entirely lost. I took my Romans editing with me and made some progress, when I could stay awake to do it.
• As I mentioned yesterday, I was logged out on both sides when I got here. That seems to be why I lost the post.

So that’s what I did yesterday.

Today is not doing that much better. It is, of course, Tuesday, and that makes it my busiest day. I was looking for coffee when I arose right around noon when I was told that I had been asked to pick up someone and take him to work, so without coffee I got dressed and made that trip. It dovetailed into the next, taking my wife to work. I already knew that tonight my youngest would have to attend orientation for school, and this would bite into my time here; yet even as I have been writing this I got a phone call insisting that in the very little time I have between now and then I need to take him to the stores half an hour away (the local stores not having the right quality) to acquire a decent bookbag for the start of school in the morning. My predictions at this point have me starting the heaviest part of the workload sometime after midnight, getting up at six to get the boy on the bus before seven, leaving from then to take a houseguest to her school half an hour away, and picking her up from it around one in the afternoon. Hopefully I will be permitted to eat and sleep at some point, but it’s not promising.

However, I am grateful to the houseguest who has eagerly undertaken oversight of dinner. At least everyone will eat, and it will be good, and I might even have the opportunity to enjoy some myself.

I had better get that bookbag. Look for me on the forums later.

–M. J. Young