Monday, July 14...distinctly feels that I'm repeating myself

Here I was thinking this quick-jot blogging formula should make it simpler, so easier and more fun, for actually and regularly posting my current goings on. Well, that was only ever gonna happen in another reality: one in which I have a time machine, and weekends and getting about town would make for really fascinating reading.

So…been busy…yada yada…exactly – everybody’s likewise busy…and…time to get on with this.

Figured out that before I can properly outline the bones of a smaller story I’d really like to get moving I’ll need to fully flesh out the main conflict in the world the smaller story is part of. Thematically momentous happenings in the bigger world shape the smaller ones, after all. Kinda important that I think this through now, as there are several of these smaller stories possible – yup, the makings of possible sequels – each of them happening in this world I’ve been running like a simulation in my head…oh, no small count of years.

Logic work: so it all fits nicely together.
And fun, actually, because it’s always fun playing a small-g god.

Currently re-reading bits of:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carre


Current diversion(s):

Age of Empires, Age of Kings (Nintendo DS)
I’m Attila. I’m tryin’ t’be ruthless.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 (PC - PC's basic, so it's this FS version, or I'm grounded)

Virtually flying around the world, because it says I can, and in a small Cessna, because it’ll be very interesting ocean crossing in my little Cessna. Wanting to post screen captures from my flights, but have still to check that publishing such pix doesn't constitute some definition of theft as far as Microsoft cares.

Meanwhile, just my log, minus all those numbers, course headings, and time notations, that make navigation such fun:

Alamogordo, New Mexico, northwest to Trinity site.
Flew north along the San Andres Mountains. Eyeballing the many curious round bare patches dotting the desert. Also eyeballing onboard gps.

White Sands Missile Range: A-Bomb tests; captured German V2 rocket tests; ongoing ordinance testing, undoubtedly including cruise missiles. Got no permits - I could never over-fly in the real world.

Stallion airport in view. Circling. Saw that road trailing south from Hwy 380.
No one curious round bare patch stood out. No fenced enclosure, no tour buses, no ant-like tourists posing for snapshots at the Ground Zero cairn that stands 12 feet tall. And no pocketing souvenir trinitite – which the soldier-slash-tour guide will have cautioned against pocketing.

Basic computer and this older version of Flight Sim: wasn’t really expecting to see spectacular real world detail, tho would’ve been nice. Satisfied myself by gps-boxing the coordinates.
Landed at Stallion AAF.

An Admission

[The following section appears in my author profile on Protagonize. It's my content, I like it, and don't wanna change a word: just right that I say where first posted]

…I contracted Chronic Seriousness right after puberty. It has since shadowed my every heavy step.

Determined to remedy my sad condition, I've begun a flexible course of treatments, nothing too intense for my brittle constitution, because as with all medicines too much too soon of any good thing can be as bad…

Currently dosing with:

Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

…also, a short shot glass of:
My Favourite Brunette (1947) Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour