Bell, Book, and Double-ended Candle
July 19, 2010 in Blogs
A car abruptly and unanticipatedly was disabled over the weekend, with the result that someone needed transportation to and from an overnight job. I got the from end of the deal, an errand that had the alarm ringing by five this morning (that’s eleven at night on the nine-five equivalent) (that’s the bell), but I also was serving supper around two to the person who got the to end, so my sleep was short (that’s the double-ended candle). I also had a regularly scheduled errand at ten, and since being three quarters of an hour away from home at six had me home around seven and expecting to be rousted afresh around nine, I just got an early start instead. I cleared a fair amount of work out of the way before collapsing for a couple more hours before noon.
One thing I did early was upload the latest Examiner temporal anomalies article, continuing the series with The Lake House part 15: Persuaded by a Book (and there’s the book). Alex returns Kate’s copy of the book Persuasion by putting it under a loose floorboard in the bedroom of the apartment in which she is going to live in the future–but if the floorboard was loose all that time how did she not know it, and if it wasn’t loose how did it get that way? The problem of the floorboard is considered.
I’ve got other irons in the fire, but if I manage to keep my computer stable in the heat I might be able to move ahead on some of the pressing projects, which would take some of the worry out of me.
So, let’s press.
–M. J. Young