Gathering Momentum

The story is still cranking away, complete with strange ideas injected as characters discuss the history of the far future, the last recorded years of several planets, and what the archaeologists just dug up.

Ancient data storage devices may one day be used as an archaeological source, in much the same way that shards of pottery, arrowheads, bits of preserved clothing, and mummies do in the present. Imagine a future society digging through the ruins of America, what would they did up?

Maybe a stack of "floppy diskettes," or better "records." The archival properties of plastic or vinyl may not be the same as clay or stone, however. I wonder if any data about our culture would be able to survive centuries or millennia required to become an archaeological find. Will the Earth as we know it even survive that long?

My word count has topped 18,250. I'm actually over quota (despite that nasty loss the Buckeyes suffered against the Fighting Illini), so I could decide not to write for a day and still meet my deadline. I'm quite proud of that. Usually my creative juices start to run down as winter approaches, so I'm quite happy that I'm still producing this far into November.