The houseguest who was hospitalized a few days ago came home today, on his own birthday. His birthday gifts include a large pillow.
Let me say that I am pleased at his return quite apart from the fact that it should also mean that I do not have to get up quite as early–he can get his own son on the bus, and I can sleep an extra half an hour. I’m getting to the point that being able to get a bit of sleep is rather important. Last night I was wondering which of several projects should get a few minutes of my attention before I called it a night, when I was asked please to drive to Delaware to retrieve a son who having a few days off from work wanted to spend them with us. (We seem to be popular this week; the son at college is coming down this weekend, no reason given.) Then, as eleven o’clock passed and I was waiting to perform this errand, I was told that as long as we were over there we were also going to take two sons and a daughter-in-law out to dinner, somewhere around midnight.
Of course, I shot myself in the foot, too. I left the television on, and when I came in to go to bed one of my very favorite shows, Seven Days (yeah, I actually do like a time travel television series), was airing. That means that it was after three o’clock on the east coast, but since it was an episode I did not recognize I stayed awake to view the rest, sort of. That means it was about ninety minutes between when I stopped trying to pay attention to the television and when my alarm alerted me to the necessity of getting someone up and dressed.
For me, I could use that time machine scaled down. Make it seven hours, and I’ll be able to squeeze a night’s rest into the scrap of time I have. Oh, I forgot–the work I did in that time would be undone; or would it? No, I think not–but I’m too tired to work out the details at the moment.
My second awakening this morning was just late enough that I foresaw having trouble squeezing in my hour of study before I had to be dressed and moving; then a phone call from the hospital alerted me to the release of our guest. That would not have mattered, as he had his car there–but he also told me his mother was “just around the corner” from me, coming to see him, which meant I should anticipate being interrupted. I used the time to write a couple of scripts for the Quick Word radio show, about King David. So I did accomplish something besides e-mail and such today.
I’ve more ahead, though, so let’s see what else I can do.
–M. J. Young
October 17th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I like Seven Days a lot too-Eric
October 17th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Try Journeyman-uncontrolled time travel–its new–Eric
October 18th, 2007 at 2:58 am
If you’re looking for a project to drop, why not the Temporal Anomalies site? You keep saying that I am the only Multiverser player to come from there, why work on it at all? I would drop it like a sack of bricks, but that’s me.
John “A1nut”
October 18th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Since we’re offering MJ suggestions on his workload, which I do occasionally, the best suggestion is —-DELEGATE.
John A1nut can take over writing for TA, I’ll write Game settings, MJ will write novels and Christian books and so forth…
October 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Someone mentioned Journeyman to me earlier this week. I have not yet bumped into it anywhere, though, so I’m not sure how I’d have to rearrange scheduling or taping to catch it.
The Temporal Anomalies site actually gets me a fair amount of “cred”, including that I’ve been approached a few times about consulting on time travel projects. Thus far none of these have reached the stage where I got paid for it, but it’s bound to happen eventually. (One reached the stage where we’d agreed on a figure, but the script has not yet reached me for that.) I’ve also been quoted in newspapers and magazines, usually in connection with new time travel films as background on time travel. In one, the president of Sci Fi Channel was the other interviewed authority. It makes me something of a “known name”, and I can’t say no one ever bought the game from the site, only that they never said so.
I have attempted to delegate, but I just don’t have good people where I can work with them, really. Yes, you two are very good, but those tasks are very high on my supervision list (that is, worlds for publication need a lot of attention from me, and temporal analyses have to be right to my satisfaction before I’ll post them, so I wind up doing almost as much work overseeing these projects as I would just doing them). I’ve tried to get some people to take over building the new Multiverser.org web site (E. R. Jones is supposed to be heading that up), but I can never seem to get a straight answer on how that’s going.
It also doesn’t help that I don’t really have a budget for these things.
–M. J. Young
October 19th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Hmmm, well I’m trying to learn how to do the math of the system so I won’t have to ask someone else to fill in the math. Its slow going, but I’m making definite progress. So I can see one benefit to this of forcing me to learn a system. OTOH, I’m starting to think of the ways I’d do it differently.
My experience with writing Temple of the Dying Sun was that while the system mechanics of it was major work, the majority of the work was the writing.
Ideally from my view, I’d have someone else do the math, and I’m a little surprised I didn’t get takers on that.
In any case, I’m working my way through the skills and weapons for Music War so you should soon have another item for your website.