* I’ve decided to use foreign-style dates (month/day/year) in this page, so that Outer World readers can make out what they mean.

To my Sunset Valley readers: I regret that I cannot supply an equivalent in the familiar form (e.g. “Week 1, Day 3”) because Outer time does not have a fixed relationship to our own. In the Outer world they have a concept called “time zones” which I am still struggling to grasp. The basic problem seems to be that there are so very many people that they cannot all use the Sun at the same time, so it has to sweep around the Earth lighting up different parts of it in turn; as each part is lit, the people in that part say “oh, this is the morning of such-and-such day”; and they just can’t all be right. I will post more about this puzzle as I get it figured out.