Home is the sailor…

We had a great time on our cruise, and I strongly recommend Scenic.  I was enormously impressed by the work that has been done canalizing the rivers of Europe–between Amsterdam and Budapest we passed through 68 locks, some of them 25 meters deep.  After we came home, I had only two days to get ready for V-Con, in Vancouver, and arrived there in a sort of mental mist.  When I tried to excuse myself by explaining that I was suffering from jet lag, people gave me odd looks, asking if that was caused by my trip from Victoria (which takes 15 minutes).  Anyway, both King of Swords and The Runner and the Wizard were successfully launched without me, and seem to be doing quite well.