Making Up for Lost Time

I have a battery-powered clock on the wall over my desk.  I suppose it's a bit redundant, as I also have a clock with four built-in timers on my desk, plus the clock on the computer, and of course I carry my cell phone.  Twenty years ago or so I stopped wearing a rather sophisticated electronic watch, but I noticed that I would periodically glance at my wrist even after all this time, so when I saw a cheap ($5) watch with a step counter at Aldi's last week, I indulged.  I'm getting used to wearing it again.

Anyway, the wall clock:  a few days ago it stopped, and I realized just how much I look at it rather than the others as for two days it told me it was a minute before six, and the second hand feebly struggled to reach forty-one seconds.  Eventually I dug out the power cell (battery technically refers to a multi-cell arrangement, and this uses only one) and stretched across the desk to get the clock and reset it.  The next afternoon I realized that it was somewhere between ten and fifteen minutes ahead, and I'm still not sure whether I set it wrong or it somehow started running fast.  I joked that it was making up for lost time, for the time it was stopped.

Sometimes I feel like I'm doing that.

My copies of my two-volume An Analytical Commentary on The Book of First Corinthians arrived today, and I'm quite pleased with how they look on cursory inspection.  I'm continuing to read through, edit, and format the Second Corinthians sequel.  I'm also still waiting to hear that Multiverser is back in print and available as an e-book.  Collaborator Eric Ashley and I are moving forward slowly with the fifteenth Multiverser novel, When Verse Comes to Versed, as I do set up on the fourteenth, Verse a Tile.  I continue publishing chapters 141 through 148 of Con Version , the eleventh in the series now with Derek Brown fighting for the soul of New Orleans as Brian Cooper and Tomiko Takano are superheroes in Berkeley Colorado.  There was a mark Joseph "young" web log post #516:  Versers Stymied giving a behind-the-writings look at chapters 133 through 144.

Turning to the Christian Gamers Guild, Faith in Play #87:  Crosses looked at what it really means to bear our own, and whether our characters might have similar issues.  The Chaplain's Bible Study continued with Mark 14:55 through 64, and also posted Quotes ##235, 239, 240 and Quotes ##242, 243, 244, 245 .

Quotes continue on some of my social media sites, and you can keep up on my publishing there including through Patreon.  As a footnote, you can follow my Patreon posts without becoming a patron, so there's no cost or obligation there, although of course to a significant degree my online presence is supported by contributions there and through PayPal.me.