Someone discovered the Temporal Anomalies site this week.

Actually, it might have been last week.  He read so much of it that he must have spent several days working with pages from the site.  Then he posted comments, and questions, to his own blog, and dropped me an e-mail inviting me to respond.  I did.

That has in fact been a substantial part of what I have been doing today.  It didn’t help that I had written several hundred words when a storm came through abruptly and knocked out the power; I used the blackout time to do some grocery shopping, and returned to start afresh.  I also decided that since I was uncertain exactly what LiveJournal’s response posting system would permit, I would do the answer as a web page on my own site.  Thus I tossed the pieces I’d already composed into the framework of pages for that site, finished the rest of the response, and tossed it on the site under the title Response to Vazor’s Time Travel Questions, and posted the link to his blog.

There is more work to do with this–the page is on the site, but it’s not really incorporated into the site; I have to decide in which section to include it, and then add links on other pages to connect it appropriately.  For the moment, though, I’ve done too much, and have too much more to do to mess with it, so I’m just going to leave it as it is.

–M. J. Young

I was awakened from a dead sleep late this morning (of course, one must recognize that I did not head for that sleep until early this morning–when you are going to bed while others are rising, late morning is an early time to awaken). The phone was for me. The person I did not have to retrieve from half an hour away the other day needed me to retrieve her today, in half an hour. Needless to say, I was late, as I am not a quick starter from a dead sleep. Then my wife was nervous because she was expecting me to drive her to work–the new car was getting some work done this morning, and even though it was back in time that she could have driven herself to work, that’s an adjustment we’ve not yet made. In retrospect I feel less sympathy for her, though, because apparently she was aware that I would have to run this errand this morning, but neglected to mention it to me.

I made a couple stops while I was out the second time to pick up a few needed items, so that put me behind a bit more. My morning study thus fell into the late afternoon–and then my Internet connection would not connect. I took a brief nap in front of a television show, until receiving a call asking me to run yet another errand which is still in front of me; I’ve also changed my mind about what to make for supper at least six times, and still haven’t decided, but with the sky darkening my options are declining. I’m just not really getting focused.

I was a bit unfocused last night, too. It kept coming into my head that I really should get the web pages ready for the announcement of the release of the new book About the Fruit, so I wrote some text and did some layout, and I’m completely dissatisfied with it but don’t know why. I was going to ask my wife for advice, but she had seven other things on her mind all of which are more important to her than my efforts to get this book in print, so it was not discussed. Still, it’s a start, and for reasons of financing it appears that the book will be delayed yet another week anyway, so I have time to address the matter.

So let me go deal with this errand, and tackle supper, and then I’ll be back to view the forums.

–M. J. Young