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Meeting Imminent

September 21, 2007 in Blogs

I still am not ready for tomorrow’s stockholders meeting, but I am a heck of a lot closer now than I was thirty-six hours ago. I have the meat, for one thing. Also, the notes are done. Someone mowed at least part of the lawn, but I do not know more than that because although they were working on it when I left the house on some imposed errands, it was dark and they were gone when I returned.

Yesterday’s schedule became even more shredded than it appeared when I wrote the Shred-and-Paste Scheduling blog entry about it, to the point that it was easily five in the morning when I got home, and it made perfect sense to stay up until six thirty to talk with our houseguest who is working on the car and make sure the youngest caught the bus. I was going to take the car through inspection, but I fell asleep and was chased to bed for a few hours. I’m coming to the end of tonight’s episode, I think, or at least I’m not going to be able to keep going too long.

Incidentally, the car went through inspection not exactly while I was asleep, but in the care of someone else. It failed, but I knew it would–someone had replaced a sideview mirror with a bit of reflective plastic, which is not legal in New Jersey. The engine light came on, too, and they won’t pass a car with the engine light lit. Then when it was being driven back from the inspection to its temporary home, it died. There is no word yet on why, although there has been some speculation that in fixing the top of the engine our mechanic managed to increase the oil pressure and knock out the pump. Anyway, he says to give him a few days to see what he can discover, which is fine by me since my alternatives are to pay to tow it fifteen miles to a mechanic who will charge me, or junk it. Then again, it’s not really my car so it’s not really my call.

I’ve a reminder note here that says I did some work on the martial arts web site. With the number of other things that are really pressing, I’m almost embarrassed to have done that; but it was something from which I could walk away at the drop of a hat, which is why I chose it. There’s still a lot of work to do for tomorrow–but I said that already, so I’m repeating myself and should stop doing so and turn my attention to what needs doing.

–M. J. Young

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Done.  All of It

September 9, 2007 in Blogs

I am very happy with how much I accomplished on Saturday.

I set up enough of our new web site, Multiverser.org, that people will be able to find it and still find M. J. Young Net without too much inconvenience. There a few apologetic placeholder pages, a few dead links, and a few existing pages that need attention, but there is something there on which to build.

I also organized my notes for today’s directors meeting–a task which turned out to be of less importance than anticipated. One of our directors had informed me over a week ago that he was going to be out of town this weekend; one had a death in the family midweek and between the funeral and the visiting relatives anticipated being otherwise occupied; one did not make it for reasons that are as yet unclear to me. Two directors is not sufficient for a quorum, so our meeting notes were more a mental exercise for me to work through what I needed to remember.

I made an appearance at the funeral Saturday morning before church, and connected with the couple who were interested in the audiobook version of What Does God Expect? at the fellowship meal following Sabbath school to deliver the two-disk set for their perusal.

The meeting was not a loss, however, as the two directors present happened to be the vice president for development–me–responsible for product and product support, and the vice president for public relations–not me–responsible for publicity and promotions. As you probably can deduce, between us we split responsibility for website design and content, and this gave us an opportunity to talk about what steps to take next.

I also managed to pick up the 7dB equipment. I still have to decide where it will live for the present now that it’s here, but at least it’s not there anymore. Late in the evening I remembered to send the other four Quick Word radio show recordings, and even managed to listen this week, to hear the show myself.

Of course, not everyone was happy with what I accomplished on Saturday, and I got reprimanded for failing to do a few important errands, which I did this afternoon instead, so I’m not too terribly unhappy. I also remembered to update the autoresponder letter on the e-mail account for the radio show, so that people who write for information will get information immediately, and I can answer their letters leisurely.

So I’m headed into the week with a good feeling about the accomplishments of the weekend, despite the amount on my plate in the days ahead.

–M. J. Young

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