Someone significant is in jail tonight. To some degree it is my fault–I was unable to keep him out, despite putting a significant amount of time and effort into the task. It also fell to me to deliver him at the scheduled time. Although the appeal is pending, the courts rejected the motion for a stay of the sentence pending appeal.

I might also be driving one of my sons to his brother’s later tonight, and am trying to work out the scheduling for delivering a guest back to her school in a timely manner, but those have been lower on the priorities list.

I’m not feeling too good about all this, but trying to keep going with my other obligations.

–M. J. Young

I got shorted on sleep last night. It is entirely my own fault–I knew that I had to get to bed, but I put on a tape of an Inspector Lindley Mystery that I had failed to watch several times, and then instead of falling asleep during it I stayed awake through it. This was despite my full knowledge that I would need to get an early start this morning in order to handle the details related to the appeal of last night’s court decision. We wanted to talk with a lawyer before proceeding. The bad news is that he did not agree to represent us through the appeals process; the good news is that he looked over the filings I’d drafted and said they looked good, and didn’t charge us anything for that. I then put several hours into making that happen, and will have to do a bit more legwork tomorrow to finalize it.

The truck is back. I’ve a number of other errands, not yet finalized, to accomplish tomorrow, but I’ll describe those that need description at that time. Meanwhile, I’m having trouble keeping track in my own mind both day and date, and have wondered several times why I was doing whatever on either a different day or a different date than actual. That suggests I’m really too tired for much of anything–but hopefully I do not have to do much of anything more, and it’s early enough that perhaps I will get my rest before it’s too late.

–M. J. Young

I did a fair bit of printing last night, covering the last maybe three hundred of the nearly nine hundred pages that comprise my Romans notes. When I do two-sided printing, the printer program ties up the screen for long periods, and I can’t really do anything else on the computer (a definite design flaw–it’s telling me to turn over pages that the computer thinks have finished printing but the printer hasn’t yet done). Thus while I babysat the printing process I also continued the editing process.

I also had to take someone to court tonight; it did not go well, and I’ve started working on paperwork for an appeal, but my wife has decided to bring in an attorney on this. That means my schedule tomorrow has gotten more complicated. However, I did more editing in the courtroom while waiting for the case to be called.

I posted the new character generation thread for our Multiverser forum game; I also called the mechanic, who told me that the truck would be ready late this afternoon, but that was too late for me to pick it up and be at court on schedule, so I’ll have to get it in the morning.

In other news, there is something of an unofficial announcement that there will be at least one more and possibly three more Terminator movies; here’s hoping they just go for the neat high-tech war stuff and stay out of time travel as much as possible, since (as I say in my Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines analysis) they’ve managed to resolve everything temporally, and anything more is likely to bring the entire story crashing down. Otherwise, I might have to add a rather scathing commentary to the Temporal Anomalies site.

I’ve more paperwork to do tonight; really, I’m trying to get my brain to relax a bit, so I’m doing this as filler. But I have to do this, too, so I’ll be bouncing back and forth for a while, I expect.

–M. J. Young