The Gaming Outpost

This week has been fraught with problems, chief among them the failure of the washing machine necessitating other means of keeping up with laundry which cut into available time otherwise.  One might think that in another universe things were working better; but as today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article, Timeline part 12:  multiple dimensions observes relative to that movie, parallel dimension theory never really solves anything, it just obfuscates the problems.

Today’s problems include that I have to squeeze a laundry trip between work and practice, and already someone has messaged that he has scheduling problems with practice, so I’m pushing things as it is.

I’ll be back, Lord willing.

–M. J. Young

I have been dragging through today due in part to the fact that the dog did not let me get more than three hours of sleep in a row last night; but then once I was up this morning I figured I might as well get started, posting today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article, entitled Timeline part 5:  Professor Johnston.  Timeline has been getting good response in comments and e-mail; I’m glad it mostly works, because I’d hate to be demolishing a story everyone loves–which might yet happen.

Meanwhile, Baxter asked if I could teach him music theory, and after thinking about the best way to approach this, I started a Facebook group under the name Mr. Young’s Music Theory Class.  I have already posted the first four lessons, and had to tell the several members that they should take it at their own speed, not at mine, but feel free to ask questions.  I’m also mentioning it here because the group is open to anyone interested in my take on music theory.

Well, let me drag myself over to the rest of the work I should have finished hours ago but couldn’t bring myself to do, and maybe I can get some sleep tonight.

–M. J. Young

Today’s contribution to the temporal anomalies Examiner series brings us to the starting point of the core story, comparing the history known in the future with the last known trip to the past prior to the one that starts the problem, Timeline part 4:  Taub, who made that trip.  On Monday we begin looking at the impact the professor himself had in the past prior to the arrival of the rescue team.

Meanwhile, time is against me here–in barely an hour I have to be at the church for rehearsal, and that means loading the car and driving over there, only to return home late enough that time will be limited on the other end.  Hopefully I can still squeeze everything that matters into the time available, but it may be more complicated than I anticipate.

So I guess I should stop kibbutzing and get to work.

–M. J. Young

Well, it’s a pretty meaningless title for the post, but I have to call it something and I’m pretty sure I’ve not used that one before in the nine hundred seventy-nine previous Blogless Lepolt posts.  I’m using it because today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article is entitled Timeline part 3:  Decker, and addresses the problem created by the fact that on one of the previous trips the company left a wounded marine behind who just might be angry enough to change history.

I am a bit disappointed, maybe disconcerted, concerning the music at the church.  This is not really the place for me to be discussing it, but I don’t really have a place to discuss it, so I’ll be brief.  I was in essence asked to make a serious commitment to helping the musicians at this church pull together their efforts, which means I have to be at every practice and every service.  It seems that only one member of the church’s music team feel they need to attend or support this effort.  I’m not certain why it should be important to me if it is not important to them.  But then, it’s early days yet.  It will take some time to get them focused and organized and doing something worthwhile.  So I should not judge too quickly.

I will have a talk about it this practice.

I’m also tired; I seem to have thrown myself off schedule somehow, and am not certain how.  But here’s for pushing forward and getting finished before I collapse.

–M. J. Young

I have a rehearsal this evening with the musicians at that church, and enough has already gone awry to start to annoy me.  I do not yet have the music printed, although that’s just a matter of printing.  But tonight I’m expecting several people who have not yet made it to a rehearsal, and I even specifically requested that the instrumentalists arrive half an hour before the vocalists, and then this afternoon the guitar player who got me into this and promised that he would provide transportation texts me to say that he’s got to miss tonight due to a subsequent commitment, and can I set aside time on Saturday to work with him.  Well, probably I can, but I sort of needed him tonight, and I had to arrange alternate transportation.  But isn’t that how things usually go?  I had to arrange alternate transportation last week, but that was because my ride got held up at work and was going to be late, so at least he was there.

Meanwhile, the new temporal anomalies series at the Examiner continues with a look at what things in the movie Timeline have to be assumed never to have changed to give us a starting point, appropriately dubbed Timeline part 2:  the unchanged.  It seems to be a popular film; I hope I don’t alienate its fans.  So far, though, everything is positive.

–M. J. Young

I keep a few extra articles on my hard drive–most of them unfinished, some of the delayed in publication for various reasons.  One of those reasons is that I like to start a new temporal anomalies Examiner series on a new movie on Monday, but since I post two per week and don’t always do an even number of entries on any given film (writing fluff to fill up the extra week is not really profitable) I sometimes have a Thursday to fill with something that is going to be worthwhile and interesting but isn’t part of a present series on a particular movie.  For this I sometimes include answers to reader questions, when for example a comment requires more of a response than can be put in a comment, but this time I answered a question that I asked myself:  what happens in divergent dimension theory if the time traveler who does not have to go back because he is already there goes back anyway?  Thus this week I am posting Temporal theory 101:  a problem with divergent dimension theory, actually the seventeenth article in the Temporal Theory 101 batch, not including the two articles addressing reader questions there.

Monday will see the launch of Timeline.

I’m feeling some pressure today, because I have a music rehearsal tonight for the church I’m helping.  So I’ve got to rush.

–M. J. Young