Mystery of the Mystery Wires!

I picked up my first paycheck for the new job today. Yay! ^_^

Most of today consisted of tracing odd million-mile long wires through the Communications building at William Paterson. The first was confusing because it seemed to wrap in, out, and under this one bank of A/V equipment. The second... ran through the floor into the next room, under that room into the Studio B control room, under Studio B, up the wall, and into the ceiling of the main lobby.

We still haven't found the end! (Although, we suspect it ends in Master Control.)

The edit of Flight 62 has hit a bit of a snag... thanks to the combination of the new job, work, and the HOT weather, I've been too tired to really get any work done... for two weeks. Geez, I should be done by now (or close to it!), not grumbling about no progress. Ugh. I'll see if I can get some work done later tonight.

In the meantime, I have added some updates to The Race, without their Empire, ISOT to OTL 2007 (I really need to come up with a new title...) that wrap up my planned first act of the timeline: I describe the first Race-Australian war via a series of news clippings from The Daily Telegraph dated between November 2007 and June 2008. In the next act, I plan to wrap up the storylines for a few characters and explore a few ideas, including some semi-suggested by my readers: a radical Harry Turtledove personality cult, major societal decay and collapse amongst the Race, an Earthling virus jumping species, and the reactions of the Race to the slow realization that, yes, they are the only ones of their kind -- their homeworld and their Emperor didn't ISOT with them.

Also, I just realized that I've failed to move on my short stories at all. I really need to get on that. Argh, the summer is just such a lazy time for me... it's so hard to get anything done!