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So yesterday we did have a SFOHA meeting and more people showed up than I expected. I was very pleased that Jean Barnard came out for the meeting and it's also good to know that she lives nearby. I should give her a call and get together with her sometime, help her search her house for SFOHA stuff. :)

I also went to the Book Discussion of American Gods. Couldn't find my own copy, but Janann didn't make it anyway, so that was okay. Chad and Jean and Howard went, and BJ and his wife Paula were there, and Rikhei showed up having walked there from the dorm! I took Stitch along and he was admittedly distracting but he was also very cute and fun to have around. We discovered a few of us had read things differently (esp. as per the ifrit cab driver story and whether or not the man who meets him is transformed into an ifrit), and Chad realized that the Sheriif character in the town by the lake is named after Chad Mulligan, the sociologist author in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. Which would actually make a really good choice for a future book discussion (and one to have the dearborn library get for book club bags, Chad)

after the book discussion I gave Rikhei a ride home and went home. Bill had already claimed the couch for a nap so I poked around the house slowly, with lots of breaks for sitting watching TV. I emptied the dishwasher and refilled it, put away stuff from the meeting, mixed up a batch of biscuits and made dinner, then woke up Bill. He was very pleased by the biscuits, which I enjoed as well. He lit the little lamp for dinner and we had a nice visit. Then we laid down and watched Housesitter, which I like too much to fall asleep to it, but watching it was good too. Today I've already upt the garbage and recyclables out, washed the bathtub and finished sorting through the mail from when I was gone. On to doing some bills...

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What, pray, is this SFOHA magic of which you speak? From context, I would guess the SF is sci-fi, and at that point, I'm at a loss. The rest sounds like it was fun (I haven't read American Gods, but I loved Gaiman's work on Sandman and his collaboration with Terry Pratchett for "Good Omens" is one of my all time favorite books).

I gather your a writer and reader of speculative fiction, so... if there JUST HAPPENED to be a couple of crazy journallers (say, here or at OpenDiary.com) trying to get an online writing group off the ground... Would you be at all interested? Speaking COMPLETELY hypothetically, of course. :-)

I'm sorry I wasn't able to make it. Silly me--I had planned to get online days ago to let you know that my brother and his fiance had asked me to babysit for them at least two weeks in advance. Then I didn't get online until last night. Sometimes, I don't know about myself.

Sounds like you had a fun, full day.

I'm glad you liked Jean, you two really should talk... you know that when she came out of her bad experience with surgery, stroke, and was wishing she'd died, the first thing she saw which convinced her to come back to the land of the living was a big bouquet of flowers from Lynn Rivers. I was just thinking I need to find some way of getting the next discussion book for her... if you want to participate in my evil plans, I'll fund any expenditures necessary... though she'd prefer if we could find it from the A2 public library for her.

I just sent a long email to the librarian at Dearborn, and Zanzibar was on the top of the list. Thanks! You and stitch really were wonderful.