I am just going to apologize here, because it'll make me more likely to behave in the future:
My thread with Brendon has been all over the place with tense shifting. I'm usually better than that, but I've been juggling a couple of games, and not realizing how badly I was sliding until right about now. It's obviously too late for me to go back and edit what's there, but I swear that I will pay better attention and stop doing that.