I know science takes patience, but…

I have not noticed any cataclysms in Sunset Valley all day long. According to this Web-based time zone finder, the time has now reached 6 p.m. or later at all longitudes from the International Date Line all the way west to Brazil. There are only two possible implications:

(1) Sunset Valley must be even further west than Brazil, or

(2) There is a bug in the End Of The World, and it isn’t really happening today.

Neither of these is very encouraging. If Sunset Valley is west of Brazil, we can rule out a lot of very lovely places like Australia, Fiji, the Philippines (which I had been rooting for, because it is warm and there are mangoes and, according to wikihow.com, our Simlish language has a lot of borrowings from Tagalog); also India, Spain, Ireland (a bit drizzly for my taste, but oh the music!)… and very soon we’ll have to start ruling out even the Americas. Yet, everything has to be somewhere, doesn’t it?

The other possibility — that the world is not ending today — is also problematic because the people who predicted it will be real sourpusses, and I don’t need that while I’m still coping with the failure of my own experiment.

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