The Gaming Outpost

It seems that the good used computers available at my local shop (they prefer the description off-lease, but it comes to the same thing) are not actually at my local shop, but somewhere in Florida.  They arrive in “two to three days” which are of course what they call in the trade business days.  That means since I placed the order early Wednesday it will arrive on Friday, or else the next day which is not Saturday nor Sunday but Monday.  For an extra twenty dollars I could have guaranteed that it would be in the store Friday instead of simply hoping so; for an extra forty I could have had it there today.  I’m already spending more than I’d hoped (though less than I’d feared), and was not certain I would be able to get to the shop today anyway (and I knew that the guy who would have to install my old drives in the new machine doesn’t work Thursday, so there would be little point), so the difference between “probably here Friday” and “definitely here Friday” was not worth twenty more dollars.  At least, it wasn’t on Wednesday–if it’s not here tomorrow, maybe it will prove to have been worth a bit more.

Meanwhile, I’ve continued in my Examiner temporal anomalies articles to explore Adam’s relationships, in Hot Tub Time Machine part 6:  Adam and April, or planned spontaneity.  The articles in this series remain relatively popular, which is an encouragement; I’ve been a bit too sick to work on much else.

I’ve also given up attempting to keep up on the e-mail this week.  Installing and reconfiguring all the mailboxes only to have to do it all again on the new computer does not seem worth the time, so I’m only doing the main box (mjyoung) and that rather spottily, as the computer keeps crashing when I try to set my preferences to match my preferences.  So I’ll have some catch-up work to do once the new system is in place, but hopefully it won’t be too bad.

Speaking of bad, it occurs to me that my day is all out of sequence, I have morning meds to take (and even given that my morning never starts before about one in the afternoon, I’m behind on them already), and things I should have done already.  But I wanted to let you all know that the article had posted, and with that I’ll see to the forums later, Lord willing.

–M. J. Young