It's too early for five. You get two things.

[mrissa]

markgritter and I are about to decamp for five days in sunny Southern California, which, if you know how much I adore Minnesota in October and how little I think of sunny Southern California, will strike you as something which must come with a pretty powerful motivating force. And it does: my godfather Dave (the younger of my two godfathers and the one I talk about more) is getting married. Were it not early in the morning and were I not Scandosotan, this would come with a quantity of exclamation marks: he and Hsin-Yi have been together some time, she seems really good for him, and I am so glad to have her in the family. So consider the exclamation marks implied.

(markgritter is still not entirely well--that's since Labor Day, for those of you keeping score, and he developed a secondary respiratory infection that finally seems to have cleared up leaving only the first problem--and then there are my own health concerns--so this travel is not entirely un-fraught. Wish us luck.)

In other news, I seem to have sold "Entanglement" to Nature, so yay for quantum mechanical short-shorts. Again: exclamation marks promised for later in the day.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Luck!

[msisolak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm hoping it clears, the rain vanishes, and the weather *is* sunny for you all. Even if it is SoCal.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have been to SoCal several times in my life. It has not been sunny any of them. Or warm. I'm beginning to think it's me.

[hbevert.livejournal.com]

May you have a trip that makes you feel wonderful, not worse, and and congrats on selling your story!

[ellarien]

Travel well, and congratulations on the sale!

[redbird]

Yay for book sales, and I hope you enjoy the trip (weather notwithstanding). May the travel be relatively easy, and may any difficulties be of the sort you can handle.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Everyone get well soon! Here's to smooth travels.

[aedifica]

Congratulations on the sale! (It's late enough in the day for exclamation marks now.) And I hope the travel goes well.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Safe travels and congratulations!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Luck and easy travel.

I have been to SoCal when it was warm and I have been there when it was freezing cold. Both of those were in the course of the same day. (We were at a rowing clinic in San Diego, so we were either outdoors or in an open building all day - within one day I've worn everything from multiple layers of fleece to rowing shorts and a Coolmax top.)