The Gaming Outpost

This morning–what is early for those of us in the three to eleven world, but wouldn’t sound so much so for those on an earlier shift (the Nine-Five Equivalent was about three in the morning)–an alarm clock began sounding.  The son whose alarm it was being away for the night, it kept sounding.  It did not disturb me, but it put the dog in a tizzy, so I was forced to find the noise and attempt to divine the controls on an unfamiliar clock CD/radio to silence it.  Then I took the dog out, and prepared to return to bed–and the thing started blaring again.  This time I think I deduced the operation sufficiently to deactivate the alarm system (without smashing the device), but by that time I figured I was up, might as well start the coffee and the work.  So here I am, ahead of schedule and thinking I might even manage to swim a bit as part of my birthday celebration, assuming I get through everything else all right.

Everything else is well underway.  Today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article has been posted and announced; The Lake House part 4:  reconstruction sketches an initial history of the critical events that must have happened to bring everything to Daley Plaza, where the magic starts the time travel.

I have also finished the copious notes I was taking on the book I’m using for an online game, and turned my attention to the next Adapting series article, another complicated sci fi political piece that has some promise but requires broad backgrounding.  I don’t expect to have it done this week, and I’ve a few other projects needing attention as well.

So here’s hoping that the celebration today of yesterday’s birthday will come together before I collapse from lack of sleep.

–M. J. Young