It would be a breach of the privacy of members of my family for me to say more than that I have had to spend extended time at two different hospitals in recent days.  Indeed, I do not really have the time to write this now, as I ought to be visiting those people again–but I am awaiting a call from a doctor concerning one, so I have to stay near the phone anyway.

One advantage of sitting in waiting rooms is that one has the opportunity to read–or to edit, provided one has had the foresight to carry materials to read and edit.  I did have this foresight, and so managed to complete a pass through The Third Book of Worlds.  Unfortunately, I found numerous spots that are going to require me to work here in my office or with rule book and papers in hand–calculating how to make stats work on NPCs and monsters, expanding the magical abilities of elves and orc shamans, and other detail work that makes these things so time-consuming.  However, progress has been made.

I also finished a final read-through edit of Do You Trust Me?.  Most of the corrections are simple punctuation oversights in the footnotes, but there are a few items that mattered.  I will have to update my copies and upload the corrections, but there are some rather more pressing matters at hand, which should be obvious.

So I have not been completely inactive during this time; I just have been using what time I could as well as I could elsewhere.

–M. J. Young