Seems like just a week or so since we got back from worldcon.  Nice city, Seattle; I hadn’t been there in ages.   And worldcon was a lot of fun.   Low key, friendly,  a nice mix of old friends and new ones.   (And ghosts, too.   Too damn many ghosts.   Every time I go to a worldcon, they haunt me.   Ed Bryant, John Miller, Howard Waldrop, Gardner Dozois, Phyllis Eisenstein, so many more).

After worldcon, I drove home with Janice Gelb and Stephen Boucher, through Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah,...