It’s in the look that your significant other gives you when they tell you that Christmas is coming up! and that Thanksgiving is just another road-bump on your map to that final destination of commercialized heresy.

And once Christmas has finally come and gone, and we are celebrating the New Year - we’ll be taking our Christmas decorations down, only to put them back up again. Except this time, we’ll wait 2 days. And we’ll put them up again in preparation for Christmas once again.

Every year we start celebrating Christmas earlier and earlier - decades from now, our children’s children will not only be celebrating Christmas all year ’round, they probably won’t even know why they are doing it.

I guess that can be said about us in the present, as well. Apart from the money spent and the Rockwellian picturesque scenes we hope for each year, what exactly are we getting out of it besides fulfillment of material desire?

A quick fix was found here, however, it still did not fix all of my problems as the main reason for the graphics card itself, Star Wars Galaxies, was still not responding to it properly.

Taking it back to Best Buy, I decided to trade it in and go with an upgrade to the replaced graphics card - a step up from the GeForce 6200 series into the 8400 series (and with a 256 on-board vRAM increase to boot).

So I guess, in the end, it all worked out pretty well.

Been spending more time than I probably should be in the universe far, far away. And the funny thing is, I haven’t really been getting anything done there.

We wound up purchasing a Star Wars Clone Trooper toy - it’s actually pretty nifty. I haven’t taken it out of the package, nor do I plan on doing so. Not sure on which one we’ll get next time - maybe one of the iconic heroes (or villains) like Anakin Skywalker or Jenga Fett (whichever Fett they have in this line, anyway.)

I’ve also been keeping my eye out for new things to photograph - haven’t really seen anything. Maybe I’ll take another trip out to the Road to Nowhere - that location always seems to have the best things to snap pictures of.

Apart from the extended vacation time in the Galaxies as well as expanding my line of Star Wars memorabilia, I’ve been taking some time to just … create. Currently, I have plans on getting media together for another album (an as of yet un-titled project) and we’ll see where my artistic tendencies take me and whether that direction leads to painting.

I haven’t painted in so long, I’m starting to think that maybe I’m just running out of things to paint. Let’s hope not.

On a side-note, while creating a new forum sig, I decided to release the base image as a wallpaper (which is attached below). It’s based on the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game and features both the Sith and Jedi.

So here is your circumstance: you travel back in time 1 day. You do nothing. You wait until you arrive back at the time in which you traveled back. This time, however, you don’t travel back. You instead have a sandwhich.

The timeline would progress as it normally would, and existence would continue to move forward.

To assume that you’ve changed anything beyond the point at which you traveled back originally would be to assume that everything has already been laid out to happen. Fate, as it’s often called.

A “Reference Point” in time is any location you travel to within your own timeline before the actual event of traveling occurred. Which would look something like this:

• You travel from Point C to Point A.
• From Point A, you go to Point B.
• From Point B, you go to Point C at which point you go back to Point A.

Consider the movie “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”. At some point they meet up with their future selves, who tell them to do something they haven’t done yet. They then travel forward in time, at which point they find themselves going back in time to - you guessed it - tell themselves to do something they haven’t done yet.

From Point C to Point A to Point B to Point C to Point A again in a continual loop.

What is happening here is they have created a Reference Point in which their “past selves” are continually going back and forth to ensure that their “Current Selves” continue moving forward.

But, we run into the problem of how would they convince their “Past Selves” to go into the future if they didn’t go into the future to begin with. Would they have gone into the future without the help of their “Future Current Selves”?

This is one of the problems we run into with this reasoning. Because we don’t know if they would or would not go forward originally, we can only assume that they would because of the mere fact that they are in the future to begin with would suggest that whatever happened has happened already and they are merely part of a loop that has already been created.

Another good example of a Loop in media is that of “Futurama” in the episode in which the character Fry is given the chance to stay in the 2000’s. He then travels back and finds out that it was Nibbler who originally pushed his chair off, causing him to go into the cryo-tube, and decides that the future isn’t so bad and he lets it happen.

Nibbler, from the future, went back in time to Point A. He then made Point B happen, or rather, the future. Fry goes from Point B to Point C (the event that allows him to go back in time) and finds himself at Point A again, where he allows himself to go to Point B, which makes the entire loop possible.

In the name of the mighty Toteup

Still got the fire

I got the fire!