I’m not entirely happy at the moment, but here I am.

On the less than completely bright side, where I was less than completely bright, I did almost everything I intended last night–took the girlfriend home, dropped off the son, visited my friend, and finished the forum posts.  I even got the opinion of my experienced drummer friend on a couple pieces of the new drum set, which he said was surprisingly good quality for a beginner’s set.  The one thing I did not do, as I rushed out the door trying to remember everything, was take copies of the books with me, so I found myself describing the Faith and Gaming and Game Ideas Unlimited books to him without examples in hand.  So I feel a bit stupid, particularly since I’m not at all certain when next I will make that trip.

I returned home close enough to time to awaken people for school that I just stayed up and finished the postings.  Thus it was well into daylight by the time I said goodnight.

I’m also a bit perturbed because I was the only one to show for tonight’s Collision rehearsal.  No one called; no one showed.  I really don’t want to be the driving force in a band of people who are not interested or committed, and I’m worried that this is starting to move that direction.  I’m not, however, certain what to do about that.  Everyone can complain that someone else is less committed to this, less ready to play, than he is; that doesn’t get us anywhere, particularly since no one is really ready to play.

I practiced a bit myself, but finally decided my time would be better spent getting this work done.

–M. J. Young

I fell asleep sometime probably around ten last night.  I know that was the time, because I was watching something on television and looked at the clock at 9:47, and then when someone awoke me at 10:30 to ask me to add something to the schedule for today (which they asked me to remove from the schedule for today about five minutes before it would have had to have been done) the program was something I’d have changed had I noticed it.  I am not certain when I next fell asleep, because I think I saw the entirety of a Monk episode that ran from eleven to twelve, and put something on after that, but was asleep when my wife entered, whenever that was.  I had to put away supper and tend to a few other things, but was back to sleeping before four and up just after five, and then managed to get a solid five hours from seven to noon.

All of which is to say that I am well rested today, and not worried about falling asleep on my long errand to drive people tonight–the girlfriend home and the son to work.  I am hoping also to meet with the friend who is interested in buying the books while I’m up that way.

He will also be interested in the fact that amidst the confusion of today I picked up a free drum set.  It may be worth every penny, as my father would say, but it’s the best drum set I’ve ever owned.  My thinking at this point is that it might provide supplemental pieces for one of our drummers, although I’m not terribly impressed with the quality–and this from someone who knows very little about drums but that he has worked with a few drummers over the years.

I uploaded the updated pages last night, although I still don’t have a banner for the special.  Here’s hoping it will help.

I’ve more to do than I can in the time that remains, but I’ll do what I can and try to squeeze a bit of extra time out of this somewhere.

–M. J. Young