I spent the last chunk of time doing some work that I’ve been neglecting for some time–partly because it’s really volunteer work, and partly because I had forgotten how time-consuming it can be.  I have read, or in most cases skimmed, all of the articles that were published on this site in January of 2000.  I have added tags to them, cleaned up a few bad links, and put reviews in the proper category.

None of them were mine, although one was an interview with me.  It was an interesting read, reminding me where we were back then.

So that’s how I spent the better part of my evening on my day off.  There were several other options, but none which appealed so much as getting that done.  I’m trying to work my way through to the end of 2001, so I can pick up the Game Ideas Unlimited series for the next volume to be printed.  I could, of course, just jump ahead and do those, but I want to help straighten out this site as much as I can, and someone’s got to do the articles.

–M. J. Young

I was a bit surprised to have a bit of extra time last night, so I tackled the new project I mentioned yesterday, creating links pages for unofficial Multiverser support. I’ve only actually done my own, and it is a paltry beginning which includes links to the Martial Arts site in its new location, Intuition and Surprise, I’m Not a Lawyer, but I Play One in a Game, the three-part Law and Enforcement in Imaginary Realms series, and the three-part Theory 101 series. There are also links to Gaming Outpost (for the Game Ideas Unlimited series), and to the Chaplain’s Corner of the Christian Gamers Guild (for the Faith and Gaming series), but part of me says I really need to go through all those articles, re-index them, and select the cream of the crop for Multiverser support. It’s a lot of work, but I’ll figure it out eventually.

In that connection, I also already put a link on the file copy of the main support page to an as yet non-existent (O.K., existent but not having correct content) page of links to Eric “Tadeusz” “World-a-Week” Ashley’s support materials, which I consider a valuable contribution to the Multiverser corpus. I need to scrape together enough time to tackle those links, which probably will not happen today (it might, though), so I can upload the entire package.

I got an early start today thanks to the cat. I think she was looking for a new hiding place for her kittens and decided to look behind my night table. I was disturbed by the sound of her rooting around back there, and looked at the clock–which was blank, because it had no power. That can be any of several problems, of course, so potential panic arose within me, and I jumped out of bed to determine the nature of the problem. It turned out to be the least problematic problem–the cat had unplugged everything from the outlet–but by the time I’d visited the bathroom and returned, I figured I was awake. Since Tuesday has my heaviest online workload, I figured I might as well stay awake and get started.

So, I’m started.

–M. J. Young