I am sitting on the floor in the convention center lobby, World Fantasy Con happening all around me, while I (and a bunch of people who managed to snag chairs) are enjoying the free wifi the con offers, rather than paying $10 per computer per day in our already-spendy rooms… 🙂 One must be frugal, […]

Busy day today! Fun stuff, but, busy! Got up reasonably early and commenced The Watering of the Orchids, then the Marquise and I got ourselves ready and in the car, and drove out to Multnomah Falls to meet Ramblin Phyl for lunch. visual aid: it is a darn big waterfall A delightful time was had

It’s fun to have out-of-town visitors, you get to show them all the sights you haven’t gotten to see yourself, yet…plus old favorites. Today the Marquise and I went to Chinatown: And then of course Powell’s. 🙂 I was…um…not restrained. Well neither of us were. She signed stock, but I couldn’t persuade her to sign

Marquise retrieved from airport; filled with wine and food; and put to bed. All is well.

Mark and I have very similar Subarus, as it happens. Mine is a few years older; his has more miles. His has a CD player, mine doesn’t; his windshield is crappy, and his air conditioning doesn’t work, but my dash lights are almost gone. His car is used for storage, and is full of stuff;

Got home late last night, spent today organizing and whatnotting and making ready to send Mark to California…I will follow in a few days. Meanwhile, it’s nice to have someone around the house who can do heavy lifting. 🙂 Because I’m not exactly needing the air conditioner-units upstairs these days, not so much… And there

Oh good lord I slept ten hours last night. Ten! I can’t remember when that’s ever happened, when I haven’t been sick. I don’t think I’m sick…but damn, was I tired last night. Yesterday evening was fun–clearly too much fun! Mark and I met up with the Bournes and Scarlettina, had a delicious dinner at

World Fantasy posted its schedule today, and I have a panel! 9:00 PM Thursday Pacific 1: Out From Under the Bed: Monster as Protagonist Writing from the perhaps less than sympathetic point of view of a true monster is a unique challenge. The writer is asked to bring the monster out into the light, and

Box of books arrived today! Detail of cover (fuzzy, sorry….) Very cool! In other news: progressing apace on Hogboblin edits, and finding more trouble on every page, sigh; swimming up a storm; the squirrels are digging thousands of holes in my back yard; I had a very good meeting with a realtor yesterday; a lovely

I slept marvelously last night! And woke up and there was sun everywhere! Everywhere!! So, yeah, I feel better. At least for now. 🙂 I searched all my photos, and I apparently have never taken a picture of that side of the gazebo. Well, I have now, here’s the mystery chimes: It’s very pretty. I