My wife does not like this blog.
She does not read it. Others read it, and then contact her about events in her personal life. She does not consider herself a public person, and does not wish for people to know the events in her personal life.
This blog was created for the very specific purpose of letting you, the readers, know what was happening with the various projects on my plate, and particularly the Multiverser work. It has come to be more about all the things that get between me and the completion of those projects–or as one reader suggested, me grousing about all the people I am forced to help. I don’t see it quite that way; it is more me giving the reasons for my failure to have more to report. However, I can see how others might see it thus.
The complication, of course, is that to some degree I am a public person, and thus the details of my life are rather public–and inevitably those details which for her are private for me are considerably less so, because our lives so overlap that large parts of what is her life is also mine. Periodically, when something that she perceives as her private business which I perceive as significantly impacting my life winds up going through the blog and back to her via concerned friends, I bear the brunt of her ire for having made her private life public once again.
She wants to tell me to end the blog; she won’t do that, because she knows that she does some things I would like her to end, and she is not willing to do that, either. However, those who perceive this as taking some of my time are correct–not nearly so much as they seem to suppose, as the compilation of even a long blog entry is not more than a quarter of an hour unless my multitasking includes simultaneously making supper and doing laundry–and that time would be better spent working on those projects. Thus I am going to bring the blog to an end with this, the seven hundred thirty-fourth entry in the Blogless Lepolt series.
I am tempted to attempt to wrap up oh so many unfinished stories here–what is happening with my various sons, the band, not to mention the web sites and books–but most of those stories are in the middle, and I do not yet know the endings. Those who read the blog to find out what is happening with Multiverser product will still get word through the forum when something concrete happens. Those who read it to find out about my wife’s personal life should correspond with her, so that she can tell whatever she is willing to share (which is, I expect, considerably less than I would tell were I to permit myself to give out such answers). If there is new information on the Web, I’ll try to mention it on the forum, too, so people can follow their interests.
My sincere thanks to those who have read and encouraged this blog in the past.
–M. J. Young
June 5th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
MJ, you mentioned in a different post that you had a 6 quart Crockpot that took a long time. I just checked, and mine is a 4 quart, and it’s ready in 4-6 hours, tops. Or does 2 extra quarts really make that much difference? I could imagine that.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Keep Us From Pettiness
Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretenses and meet each other, face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.
Let us take time for all things; make us to grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put in action our better impulses-straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things of life that create difficulties; that in the big things of life we are as one.
Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind.
Amen.
- Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots
Hello all,
My heartfelt apologies to anyone anywhere who has been hurt by my husband’s boorishness. I am truely sorry if your association with me, and thus with him, has caused you pain or embarrassment through his complaining about helping those who I asked him to help. The most odd thing is that he never actively complained to me, and since I never had the time or inclination to read “the blog”, I am afraid I never realized how “put upon” Mark felt when he was asked to help around the house or to help me with my mother or my friends. Again let me say how sorry I am and reassure you that if I helped you, it was because I loved you and wanted to help you and I am sorry if this led to any pain or embarrassment through my husband.
Love, Janet
June 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The blog enlightened me to some degree. I wondered why I could put together a huge mass of work (inspiration, design, puzzle it out, write it, rewrite it, bleed my way through the math) and find that it took longer for someone to simply read it and make a decision on it.
I still don’t entirely understand, but before I thought it extremely odd to say the least, and worth inspiring a considerable amount of anger (and those who know Tadeusz know fury). Now, its somewhat understandable, and although I can’t say I’m happy about the time or the decisions, I at least can see that it was not done from active evil….which is a good thing, ’cause some people have called me the Sledgehammer of God. :/
As MJ quoted a week ago…your system is designed perfectly for what it produces.
There are considerable numbers of fans who have wondered why Valdron Press does put out work so Very, Very, Very (hard to overemphasize this point) slowly. This blog, along with some of my conversations with MJ and Pharaoh, have let me see the problems of external demands and internal mindset that led to the place of stasis for Valdron.
I try to stay reconciled to stasis, to realize there is nothing I can say or do to change things. It took me a long time, much anger, and thought to reach this point of peace. The only thing left for me to do is to learn, to do the work of a game designer as it amuses me, and to enjoy friendship.
Best of luck, MJ.