As If I Were Partying
September 29, 2011 in Blogs
I am exhausted and frazzled, despite having gotten to sleep ahead of schedule last night. I was awake early, by my count, and struggled to get out of bed to get the car in for a scheduled and long-overdue tune-up. Rather than have them drive me home to do a small amount of work, I arranged to visit my friend and pastor a couple blocks away, where we spent longer than I expected catching up on events in our lives and the theology which drives us. He is one of the few friends with whom I connect on that level. But the car took longer than anticipated, and when it was ready there was a rush to finish a few errands before racing to rehearsal. I’m not sure what happened with everyone in Collision, but the pianist and I focused on the new parts for the five new songs, and I think we accomplished a great deal we could not have done as well with the full band. Hopefully next week we’ll get the others there.
Meanwhile, I almost forgot that I had an Examiner temporal anomalies article to upload, and rushed to do it in the middle of everything else, getting Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel part 10: partying in place and announced in what might be record time.
I know that there was something else I intended to mention, but my fogged brain can’t remember what, so I’ll turn my attention to the recent writings of Eric Ashley. Practise Bits: Advisor has a bit of a comedic element to it, as the hero summoned from another dimension is an accountant who knows how to correct the financial woes of the empire. In Practise Bits: Indispensable our idea of the scriff sense which gives you a straight line vector to your equipment is utilized by a clever character to coordinate a major battle. Of course, it might be interesting to see what the character does in his next world when all those fragments of cloth and metal scattered across thousands of square miles go with him, scattered across thousands of square miles and reminding him when he relaxes that he needs to find them.
Don’t mind me; I’m tired.
Good night, I hope.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on September 30, 2011
That’s a good question….and where do I get a copy of FAQ?
M. J. Young said on October 2, 2011
My copy of FAQ was ordered for me by a fan, sent to me by Amazon; it was region coded for Great Britain, I think–I could run it on my computer only after downloading an add-on for one of my programs, but my son Evan had no trouble running it on his. I think it was not officially released in America, and I don’t know why–although I recently encountered the word “imagineers” in connection with some Disney product, and the word is used in the film once, so there might have been trademark concerns or something. It says on it that it’s not for sale in the U.S.A., but Amazon did not balk at shipping it to me–although since it was technically purchased by someone in Australia, I don’t know if that made a difference.
As to my question, of course he could spend the rest of his life here wandering about gathering fragments and threads. He could try disowning everything and starting over, although that’s probably a more difficult way to do it–you might accidentally disown and fail to reclaim something you really want to keep.
–M. J. Young