An Ending and an Appendix
November 16, 2009 in Blogs
Late tonight I posted the final installment in the Examiner temporal anomalies series on the Futurama movie, under the title Bender’s Big Score part 11: that’s unwrapped. I have a decision to make about what to post next. The work on Butterfly Effect is drafted but needs editing and at least one more viewing of the movie to confirm details. I’ve got drafts of a few answers to questions, one of which I think is ready to post. Meanwhile, it has caught my attention that there are a few Christmas movies involving time travel–mentioned previously–and I was planning to catch the new one today, but life intervened, as often happens. Once I run the Butterfly Effect series it will be too late to start a Christmas or Holiday series, but I’m certainly not going to have the holiday materials done by Thursday. So I’m thinking about it.
Meanwhile, everything has been a bit disrupted by a rather major event in our personal lives, and although my wife objects to me posting personal information to the blog, she was putting it on Facebook to reach friends, so I think I’m safe to mention it here. Adam, the youngest boy whom I have mentioned before, was hospitalized yesterday evening with appendicitis, and had a laproscopic appendectomy today. He is expected to return home tomorrow. I was at the hospital for about twelve hours overnight, home for maybe six or seven this morning during which I did get at least a bit of sleep, and back for another eight to ten hours this afternoon. My wife is still there, although she took a break this morning when I did, the boy’s girlfriend staying by his side from the moment she helped us get him there until we sent her home this evening. As they say, she’s a keeper.
It will thus surprise no one that I am well behind on today’s work, perhaps more accurately on two days’ work, and not expecting to catch up any time soon. I do hope to catch up on some of the lost sleep, although I admit that when I get like this I tend to wander and stall, so I might be up longer than I intend without accomplishing anything. We’ll see what we manage.
That, anyway, is all the news I can manage to print.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on November 17, 2009
Good luck MJ. I think I can safely speak for everyone here when I say that we are all behind you and you have our prayers.
M. J. Young said on November 17, 2009
Thank you, John.
Adam came home this morning, a bit before noon, and is recuperating well.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on November 17, 2009
I think a more appropriate title would have been “An ending to an appendix”. I know I’m older than all of your sons, and I still have my appendix. I wonder what triggers that.
M. J. Young said on November 19, 2009
No, the “ending” was the final installment of the time travel articles on Bender’s Big Score. The appendix was my son’s. The play on words arose because an appendix often follows an ending, but in this case they were not related.
But I guess if I have to explain the joke, it must not be funny.
–M. J. Young