Yesterday was Sunday. You knew that. At the time, I knew it. I was behind on everything, but pressing toward completion, and then I was, I thought, finished. The problem is, my Sunday workload includes file backup and system maintenance, and I’d retired to my room without doing either.

I remembered the file backup when I returned to my office to prepare for bed. Yes, home offices are strange. I get dressed in mine every day, so that’s where I leave my slippers and pajamas (actually a really cool Multiverser long sleeved T-shirt from our Cafe Press store, and a pair of sweat pants). So I started the file backup while I was getting changed, and then this afternoon when I got to the office I did a bit of drive cleanup in anticipation of the system maintenance, which I will have to do tonight. What irks me most isn’t that I forgot, but that I forgot last week, too.

I slept in today, and then rushed around a bit because I needed to do laundry before I could make the trip to take my mother-in-law shopping. I made dinner and carved through a substantial amount of e-mail at the same time, but then left orders for people to finish certain tasks and go to bed while I did the big errand. I was going to stop at the bank on the way home, but forgot that, too, so I’ll have to run out tomorrow.

There was one interesting piece in the e-mail: Someone in New York, I think a film school student, wants to do a documentary on Dungeons & Dragons. He wanted to find out whether I lived close enough for him to come film one of my game sessions. I apologized that I rarely have game sessions at home anymore, and even more rarely run Dungeons & Dragons (because of the demand for Multiverser, and my interest in a stack of other games I never get to run). However, I indicated that I was eager to help him, and suggested that he might be able to get a lot of what he needed at Ubercon–which apparently is going to be held in April or May this time around, but no date has been announced. We’ll see how that goes.

On that note, I think I’d better tend to the forums, or I’ll never bet to ged.

–M. J. Young