The Gaming Outpost

I find myself racing against the expectation that the computer is going to shut down once again.  The temperature in the room has been creeping up–only the middle of the eighties at the moment, but I’ve had several cold shutdowns, forced restarts, and freezes, despite setting an ice pack against the lower intake.  With all still ahead of me, that’s not encouraging, even with a second ice pack in place.

So during one of the crashes that have interrupted this writing, I have arranged to take the computer to see a professional, hopefully to be diagnosed and treated between Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.  Here’s hoping.

Also not encouraging is that I have been less than entirely healthy this week.  It might be partly psychosomatic, but when they want to biopsy skin from sensitive regions, they first stab you several times with a needle and then come after you with razor blades, and if it doesn’t take you a couple days to recover from that you’re made of sterner stuff than I.

Also frustrating me is that I not only have not finished the Examiner series on The Time Traveler’s Wife.  Worse than that, I’ve written sixteen columns and am not at all certain how many more I need to write, or even whether I will have to insert one or more near the beginning.  But if I can hold the computer together today, maybe I can do more tonight.  I did post another about Primer, this one considering whether fixed time might resolve any of its problems, appropriately entitled Primer question 5:  fixed time theory.  I’ve also started tracking daily traffic to the Examiner articles, although the information available to me is only total views of all articles, so it doesn’t tell me what’s popular.

I know that the forum people are missing me.  I have been keeping up on the non-game posts, which I still maintain are the priority, although at this point “non-game” seems to include a lot of games in which I am not a participant but merely an overseer of sorts.  I have enjoyed what I’ve read, and particularly since these don’t require as much time or work from me even when they move fast.  Hopefully the computer will remain stable so that I can get back here in a couple hours and finally catch up on those, and then maybe even figure out what remains to be discussed for the temporal anomalies stuff.

–M. J. Young