1) I've been reading books about World War I (again), this time this one and this one, both loaned to me by Joshua. Tomorrow I return them and he's going to show me the WWI medals he's been buying online at auction. With any luck, I'll go away with a photo of myself wearing the Victoria Cross. I'm also desirous of visiting WWI battlefields, although it's hard for me to picture dragging Gloria and the kids there. I need to find some kind of technology conference in Verdun or Ypres.
2) Succeed in excavating my office to desktop surfaces, paying bills and once again identifying the key clutter issue—I have too many books.
3) Have got the first draft The Phi-Values of Various Games done, in its entirety, all 78 pages of it (and it's going to get longer) but can't make further progress (or at least, have convinced myself that I can't make meaningful further progress) until Aaron comes back from Burning Man. Greg and others are at Burning Man, too. Maybe I'll go sometime—ha! I dont think so. The problem with Burning Man is the same problem with Nebraska and with the novels of Willa Cather—they are too sandy. I'm not fooled when they call it a playa, instead. I'm going to be happier when I'm out of the mode of writing up math papers and can return to trying to solve math problems, instead. It's much more interesting and although I usually have little tangible to show after a day of working on math problems, it's more gratifying somehow. Just a little adventure, like a trip to a Jelly Bean factory, or an exploration of a castle. That's how I think of it. No one writes papers about trips to Jelly bean factories or castles, right? You just go, and have fun. Going to the Halifax Games at DAL meeting only reaffirmed this desire to actually do math, and not talk about it, or write about it. Yet if I indulge this desire to work on the math instead of writing about it, I will condemn Phi Values to be late. So, no—must keep writing/editing. Am I burning out?
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