Doing it the Hard Way

Because BayCon is in San Jose, a 45 minute drive away, I've gone down yesterday and today, and will go down tomorrow, to attend the con and do my assigned panels. Yesterday this meant a panel at 11:30 am on World Building, and an 11pm themed reading (weird sex. Of course). After which I drove home. Today I drove down for the SFWA meeting at 10am, then an 11:30 kaffeklatsch. Tomorrow, one more panel. Next year I am very much hoping that that I can arrange things a little more compactly.

Still, it has been a nice con: saw many people, talked to some, saw the paperback edition of Petty Treason (The Other Change of Hobbit sold out of the copies they had and have ordered more, which is a nice thing to hear--unfortunately this is evidently not the case at Barnes and Ignoble) and had a really good dinner last night with many of the members of my writer's group. Other than the wear and tear on the car (a borrowed car at that) it's been swell.

Now We Are Eighteen

As of about 11am PDT (2pm EDT) the Spouse and I have been married for eighteen years. We went out to an excellent neighborhood restaurant for dinner (without the young, who stayed home and ate pizza) and took a walk, then came home to watch X-Men United on TV with the younger girl (who, having seen the new X-Men movie yesterday is rabid to see all the movies and partake of any scraps of X-trivia I can dish up--she is so impressed that I published an X-Men story some years ago!). I have to say that, for all the drama, a nice long marriage to a funny, smart, empathic and energetic person has a lot to recommend it. Happy anniversary, sweetie.