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From my travel journal: Tuesday 5 April, 10 pm
Flagstaff, Arizona Apparently the time here is the same as it was in Nevada – no idea what those signs were about then. Leaving Las Vegas (hmm, wasn’t that a film?) took a lot longer than we’d planned., Firstly because we all slept in after our night on the town, but also because the crack…
Meetup and Halloween releases
Our regular last Sunday of the month Breakfast Meetup was this morning. As usual, we met at Trattorie, where Libragirl has set up an OCZ. Not a huge turnout today, just me, Lytteltonwitch, her ex-husband (who’s acting as her chauffeur at the moment), and Awhina, but we had a nice breakfast, swapped a few books,…
I'm alive (and old)
Just in case any of you saw this news item – yes, that is just around the corner from my place, yes, I am still alive, and no, we weren’t evacuated – in fact I had no idea it was even going on (although I did hear what sounded like gunshots around 9.30, but assumed…
More pretties
I seem to be getting worse and worse at actually updating my diary lately. I blame work. I seem to spend more and more of my day staring at a computer screen, which doesn’t exactly inspire me to stare at a computer screen for fun when I get home (which is saying something for this…
Easter here we come…
It’s been all go on the convention front for the last couple of days – at the meetup on Tuesday night, Cathietay and her husband daveytay volunteered to help out with the convention organising, and we sat down together with lytteltonwitch and worked out a few more details. We decided to go with one of…
What do you call a meetup that isn't?
I went to Trattorie for lunch on Saturday, to drop off the books that freesia had left with me: Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus Hooray for Hellywood by Esther Friesner Dreaming of a Stranger by Sheila O’Flanagan A Reader’s Digest Condensed Book What She Wants by Cathy Kelly…