Now It’s a Series
June 30, 2010 in Blogs
With the release of the third article in the Adapting series, it now covers two books, and can be said to be more than one two-part article. This one, Adapting Stasheff’s Escape Velocity, is I think considerably longer than the last, but this is because the book offers a wider variety of potential settings plus a driving plot into which a player character could easily be drawn.
It was part of a flurry of typing I did yesterday, trying to catch up notes to articles. I’m concerned about the fact that none of that work was on the temporal anomalies materials, the only online articles for which I am currently paid; that, though, is my own fault, as I could have put the time into those, or into fixing the problems that prevent me from collecting on my articles here (bad links on M. J. Young Net disqualify me from Google Ads registration, but it’s such a massive site it’s daunting to attempt to track them all). It also concerns me because I have deadlines to meet on those and not on these; but then, finishing this article, starting the organization of the next, and getting the notes started on yet another is a good shot in the arm for the series, so I should be more encouraged.
It doesn’t help that I’m tired. I was up at the 9-5 Equivalent of three this morning–that’s nine o’clock for you regular nine-to-fivers, but since it’s six hours before the three-to-eleven shift starts, it’s terribly early for me. I had to be up so that an air conditioning repairman could give me the news to give my wife, that the central air repair will cost about ten times as much as she thought the high end might be. Then when I thought I was going to get a bit more sleep, there was another interruption, so I’m running on coffee, of which I really ought to go get another refill. Fortunately, today is cooler, and the computer is running a bit more stable. (I also had the bright idea of placing one of those two liter soda bottle racks under it to get better circulation, but I don’t know whether that’s really a contributing factor or not.)
So with that, let me see if I can get focused enough to remember what else I’m supposed to do today.
–M. J. Young