Drive-By Recap

The Tucson Book Festival was great - let me just get that out of the way, lest anybody wonder. It was big and crowded and a bit messy at times, but the panels were smashing, and I had a wonderful time catching up with Sam Sykes, Maria headley, and Kevin Hearne (among others - but mostly those guys).

The weather was beautiful. And now I'm back in Seattle watching a very wet, wholly unattractive blizzard billow through my neighborhood.

*sigh*

In other news, my Apartment of the Damned continues to punish me for some unknown karmic infraction. Yesterday during a routine faucet adjustment in another unit, a decayed pipe collapsed inside a wall - and we had no water for hours. (No hot water for significantly longer than that.) The plumbing in this place is 70 years old if it's a day, and we've known for quite awhile that there were plans to replace it ... but Jesus, I'd hoped it could hang in there just another couple of months.

I predict that it won't. I predict that this building will make sure I get one more round of obnoxious, protracted maintenance in before we move. I'm a terrific optimist, yes.

Anyway, now I'm eyeballs deep in Inexplicables line edits, and I'll remain that way for another couple of days. But I did want to poke my head in and update, lest it look like I'd wandered out into the desert and never returned.