It happens sometimes–something hits me early in the day that throws me off balance and derails everything I’m trying to do, so I can’t get started. It just happens that today was a rather bad day for it to happen. I had a half rehearsal for Collision this evening–Brittany can’t make it tomorrow, so rather than miss her rehearsing completely, I met with her tonight. However, I was so late finishing my morning study in Corinthans that I had to interrupt making supper and push that later to work with her, and then finish that after rehearsal (at least I had the sense to keep it shorter than the usual two hours-I have another rehearsal with Baxter and Adam tomorrow night). Then I had a flurry of MySpace friend requests because I happened to mention my MySpace account on a list as part of a question about something only loosely related–and you all know how much I hate the way MySpace sucks bandwidth and computer resources, and would rather avoid it because it takes forever to do so little as load a page. Plus the time travel e-mail is still running a bit heavy. Today someone wrote about Kate and Leopold, and said that they found the site because it was linked from something connected to Terminator 3 page of IMDB.

So I’m busy, and it’s late, and it’s my own fault, really, for allowing myself to be so completely derailed by something stupid.

No, I’m not going to go into more detail than that. Let me get to the forum.

–M. J. Young

I did have some time to spare last night, but apart from taking a turn at the dishes and making sure everyone got supper, I put most of it into business matters: I attended to polishing the meeting minutes for the two recent directors meetings which the secretary missed. I also had to run an errand which had me sitting somewhere long enough to do a bit of editing on the Romans exegesis.

This morning I managed to complete the overly complicated registration process for IMDB board to post concerning The Sarah Conner Chronicles–a show I did not watch and have not decided to watch, but for which I’ve already been contacted and questioned. I posted there in response to a thread in which my Terminator temporal anomalies page was mentioned.

I’m hoping to get a bit of extra time today also, but we’ll see how that goes.

–M. J. Young

I did a fair bit of printing last night, covering the last maybe three hundred of the nearly nine hundred pages that comprise my Romans notes. When I do two-sided printing, the printer program ties up the screen for long periods, and I can’t really do anything else on the computer (a definite design flaw–it’s telling me to turn over pages that the computer thinks have finished printing but the printer hasn’t yet done). Thus while I babysat the printing process I also continued the editing process.

I also had to take someone to court tonight; it did not go well, and I’ve started working on paperwork for an appeal, but my wife has decided to bring in an attorney on this. That means my schedule tomorrow has gotten more complicated. However, I did more editing in the courtroom while waiting for the case to be called.

I posted the new character generation thread for our Multiverser forum game; I also called the mechanic, who told me that the truck would be ready late this afternoon, but that was too late for me to pick it up and be at court on schedule, so I’ll have to get it in the morning.

In other news, there is something of an unofficial announcement that there will be at least one more and possibly three more Terminator movies; here’s hoping they just go for the neat high-tech war stuff and stay out of time travel as much as possible, since (as I say in my Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines analysis) they’ve managed to resolve everything temporally, and anything more is likely to bring the entire story crashing down. Otherwise, I might have to add a rather scathing commentary to the Temporal Anomalies site.

I’ve more paperwork to do tonight; really, I’m trying to get my brain to relax a bit, so I’m doing this as filler. But I have to do this, too, so I’ll be bouncing back and forth for a while, I expect.

–M. J. Young