I sat here for several minutes attempting to come up with a title for this post that did not contain the word slut; my first idea was That Slut Sarah, and as I tried to work it into a more acceptable title, I couldn’t seem to get away from that one word.  The problem is, continuing The Examiner‘s temporal anomalies series on Terminator, I’ve come to the second article, Terminator part 2:  Sarah Conner’s child, in which it is evident that whether or not Kyle Reese comes to 1984, Sarah Conner is going to become pregnant by somebody right around this time.  There has to be a child for SkyNet to want to kill before there can be one for Kyle Reese to protect, so she must have had a different child who John Conner replaced.  Well, that’s the main point of an article which attempts to summarize all the significant temporal events of the first film.

In other news, I am pleased to see that Eric Ashley has published a new article, a set of book briefs he recommends.  I have been of late encouraging Gaming Outpost regulars to contribute to the articles, reviews, and blogs of this site, in the hope that we can build a fresh interest in what is already here and perhaps rebuild the community to some degree.  Consider this your engraved invitation to participate.

Cold and snow have been the defining factors this year.  I’m sure that by some argument that makes perfect sense to die-hard believers the latter will be blamed on global warming.  I blame the former–my cold–on the latter, that I have been outside moving the white powder far more than I would expect for these map coordinates.  It snows here almost every winter, but rarely does it stick for more than two or three days at the outside, and shovels are more for clearing the deck so there’s a place to sit outside in the sun.  I hear its worse south of here in D.C., but we’ve had a few feet already since December started, and it has not entirely been absent since that first whiteout.  It’s also cost us power a couple times, but the crews around here are sent out to patrol as soon as the severe storm warnings are issued, so they usually have things back faster even than they expect.

Got to run–things to do.

–M. J. Young