Fire and fleet and candleight

Wrong night for this, I know; but I have wills on my mind:

"fire and flet (corruptly fleet): 'fire and house-room'; an expression often occurring in wills"
1539 My wife to have ... fyre & fleete in my haule & kechin.

This above all has been Year One of Jarndyce & Jarndyce.  I have, shall we say, learned a great deal about human nature in its less attractive aspects.  It goes on.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln ...

Oh yes, and I orchestrated a memorial service.

I have been slowly clearing attics, cellars, and closets of sixty-odd years of Stuff.

I dealt with a nightmare set of proofs (they typeset the Wrong Draft!).  All praise to fjm , chilperic , and the Cambridge University Press for patient help with the surgery and life-support.  You can't tell that Humpty-Dumpty was shattered.  And it will be a beautiful book.

I got to Arisia and Boskone, and away to Readercon and Farthing Party.

I wrote a story.

My friends are ever-glorious.  Long life and all happiness!

Nine