I was up early for real this morning. The alarm rousted me at six in the morning; it was sometime between three and three-thirty that I had closed my eyes, and closer to four that I was asked to shut off the light. However, last night I was told that the girl who yesterday told me she would not need to be picked up today did need to be delivered, so it fell to me to drag myself out of bed and get her where she needed to be. I am still up; here’s hoping she does not call in the next half hour and say oops, she needs a ride home after all, because having stayed up all this time, I’m running on fumes already.

That’s not good, because I received word mid-morning that a couple of my co-workers are headed this direction. They are not really coming to see me; they are coming because one of my house guests is proposing a business opportunity in which they might decide to become involved. However, as long as they are in the area, we’re going to get a signature on those stock certificates, which is one less worry for me in the days ahead.

Also, I have been asked whether I am planning to feed them dinner and run a game. I’d had no such plans; in fact, it had not occurred to me that they might stay so long (brain fogged as I am) until the question was asked; my reaction is that I’d better get some sleep if that’s going to be on the agenda, because I’m already falling asleep in the first hour past noon, and I’ll never make it to the first hour past midnight. These things need more planning than that, but no one plans them.

I’d better go see to the forums. I am unlikely to get any sleep at this rate.

–M. J. Young