Yesterday was a bit crazier than usual for a Thursday. Part of it was that my youngest was exhausted from school, and part of it was that I had to do the grocery shopping sometime. The result is that the guest child wandered off when no one was looking, and then everyone was looking; and in the midst of this I had unexpected company. It was all resolved satisfactorily, however, and we launched a new player in my campaign here at home (or will on Saturday night when he returns with character paper in hand).

The excuse for the visit (the point being to start the new player) was the delivery of some mail in the company box to me. One of those items was two movies, gifts from a fan of the Temporal Anomalies site. I now have copies of Primer and Lake House–but with strings attached, that I analyze these and get those analyses posted to the site. I’m not sure when I will have time for that, but it should be a priority.

Another thing I decided should become a priority has to do with a section of the M. J. Young Net site that has been overlooked for too long: Martial Arts. There has long been a Martial Arts in Role Playing Games site on a free server, but the intent was always to move it here, as every other site I was maintaining was consolidated to this one location. It never seemed a priority. Now with the new support site at the new Multiverser.org domain, suddenly I want to link to the martial arts materials from that new site, and don’t want those links to be going to a site laden with advertising for competitors which I’m not certain I can edit. Thus last night I downloaded all fifty-four pages and three images to my computer. There is a significant amount of editing ahead, to repair bad links, remove Tripod proprietary code, and clean up the pages, but it’s a start.

On the other hand, there are some other tasks in which I should be investing this time, so I’m thinking I’m getting spread a bit thin. I might have to look into getting some help.

–M. J. Young