I’ve been a bit fuzzy all day, to the point of being on the edge of a headache.  I think it’s because it was still on the early side last night when my wife suggested I put in something I would like to watch (she’s been watching ballet instructional videos of late, because she’s been offered an opportunity to teach a class in ballet as exercise at a local dance academy), so I put in the next of the Columbo episodes I bought some time back, and then stayed awake to watch it this time.  (I fell asleep last time, and am still wondering how that one went.)  So my sleep is more than usually disrupted.

We hit a setback on the publication of Game Ideas Unlimited:  Volume I.  It seems the print service we intend to use is forcing us to choose between keeping the 8.5×11 page size we wanted but using a spiral binding, or reformating everything for a 6.625×10.5 comic book size to have it perfect bound.  We’ve opted for the latter, so I have a lot of reworking to do to fix all the internal page references and make sure the fonts look good and are consistent throughout.

I was wrong about the directors meeting; it’s not until next weekend.  That gives me a bit more time to get the book together, but a bit less to get the printing and delivery done.

I think I was doing some work on the Gaming Outpost archives last night, but the days are starting to blur.  I’ve a son who needs to get back to his work address tonight, and a friend who needs to be delivered to Pennsylvania tomorrow night, and I’m not certain whether I’m going to be able to combine those trips, or whether someone else will manage one of them, or just how that’s going to work.

I’ve not heard back on the job application.  I’m guessing that means either they were so overwhelmed with applicants that they’ve let their response time slip, or they’ve filled the job.

So let’s wrap up the night and see what happens next.

–M. J. Young

It is evident to those who follow this column that I lost most of yesterday.  This was not entirely unanticipated; I knew that I would be driving someone’s girlfriend home, and visiting my still not healthy parents while up that way.  I also caught up with an old friend once again.  It was not entirely without any business purpose–one of those I saw bought a copy of the Multiverser rules, and another bought two of my self-published books, so there was some return for the investment.

However, it leaves me looking at Wednesday with the Tuesday workload still on my plate, and wondering in what sequence to do everything so as to get everything finished.  I am eager to check the e-mail, given that I am awaiting a reply to that job application I sent; I am not eager to put the Lutheran forum too late in the night.  Nor do I wish to delay those Gaming Outpost forum posters who have been waiting to learn what happens next in their adventures.  Thus everything seems a bit urgent, and yet it is not entirely clear what is most important.

Hopefully everything will be reached in time.

–M. J. Young