I'm totally baffled here.

I've got a timer that keeps spawning monsters as long as there are monsters left in an array to spawn.

Obviously, if the player pauses the game, I want this timer to pause. Pausing physics was cake, but now that I've come back around to cleaning some stuff up... I can't get the timer to pause/resume?

Basically in the onTouch for the pause button this happens:

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if gameIsActive then
        gameIsActive = false
        if monsterTimer then timer.pause(monsterTimer); end
        physics.pause()
else
        gameIsActive = true
        physics.start()
        --resume everything
        if monsterTimer then 
                print("resuming monster timer")
                timer.resume(monsterTimer)
        end
end