I approach this post with some hesitation. When I arrived, I was logged out of the system; Aaron had taken steps to try to correct this problem, and in fairness I am not certain that they did not work–I have not had occasion to log in, I think, since he made the corrections. (The problem seems to have been that I was running two separate accounts on the one system. This arose because I came to the articles/blog side first, and created a login that had punctuation, then went to the discussions side where punctuation is not permitted. Apparently although there are different rules for the two sides of the site, they use the same membership database somehow, so that had one computer logged in to two accounts. Everything has been consolidated since, so hopefully it will work. If that’s not the problem, then it’s because I’m using software that is considered archaic to programmers, and I’m going to have to choose between upgrading to the latest garbage being forced down our throats by companies who make their money by making their own products obsolete, and living with the problem. I will probably choose the latter, with no offense taken from those who have attempted to help resolve the matter.)

The concern is that on any day when I have arrived to find myself logged out, I promptly lost whatever I posted. I am hoping that I have addressed this issue this time: I logged in on the discussions side, using that identity, and then closed all site windows and returned to load the site afresh. Everything looks good for the moment, but I won’t know whether it actually works until I save this post, after which point there won’t be much I can do if it doesn’t work. Thus this is an experiment.

It is also a legitimate post, though. Every time I have done this before, the lost post has reappeared eventually as a saved draft, and so I will be able to post it, even to mark it with today’s date, when that happens (it is September 18th today, which come to think of it is my little brother’s birthday; I should do something about that). Thus I should include the usual reports of my progress.

That progress is minimal. This is not surprising, given that yesterday was so rough just getting through the regular work, and today, being Tuesday, has a heavy workload itself. However, I have not accomplished nothing. Last night, with a few spare moments, I tackled the cleanup of a couple pages of the martial arts site; today, while I was getting the oil changed in the truck, I did some editing of my Romans notes. It’s not much, but it’s not nothing.

I also got news about the car last night. It seems that the parts that were giving them so much trouble arrived and were installed without any problem, but the part that they thought was fine was not the right part–one of those situations in which the car was manufactured near the end of the year, so some of the parts were from the next year’s design. That makes it most of another week before it will be on the road. It also means that our busy weekend will not have the advantage of two cars. We’ll manage.

–M. J. Young