Disorderly Conduct
November 18, 2010 in Blogs
I was up early for errands–mostly delivering people to jobs, but also picking up a few things at the store–and it was disruptive enough that it made no sense to go back to bed. Instead, I started the day’s work with the publication of the latest temporal anomalies article at the Examiner, looking at a phone call made at what was very much the wrong time, Hot Tub Time Machine part 8: calling Courtney, or Mrs. Weber-Agnew. Nick changes the future by calling his then nine-year-old future bride and complaining of her future infidelity. How this change impacts future history is complicated.
Having done that, I tackled some other work and wound up here, doing the forum posts–only to realize when I had committed myself that I had not yet posted this Blogless Lepolt post. So I took care of that first, then turned my attention to this.
My scheduling has been all bollixed of late, in large part because I can’t get the Thunderbird e-mail client to work right. Seriously, I have uninstalled it, deleted all the directories containing the old e-mail, rebooted the computer, reinstalled the program, and had it somehow find all the e-mail accounts and freeze again. I am in need of another free non-Microsoft e-mail client so I can get back to the e-mail, which is undoubtedly backing up on the server. Suggestions are welcome, but please do not e-mail them to me.
In another temporal oddity, I bought an unbirthday present for my friend and colleague E. R. Jones. I saw something I thought he would like, and knew that someone would be seeing him within the week, so I bought it to send to him. As fate would have it, my unbirthday present reached him on his birthday. Happy birthday, Ed. I’m told you were very pleased with what was really only a trifle. I would hate to take credit for remembering your birthday when it was chance that hit the date, as long as admitting that does not revoke whatever credit I get for sending you an unexpected gift.
–M. J. Young