Kage Baker liked the beautiful little city of Santa Rosa. We have friends there – the noble Skolds, Steve and Carol, and their amazing daughter Neassa – who have given us shelter in every kind of disaster and holiday. Sometimes simultaneously, like the night our journey to their Thanksgiving dinner was interrupted by our getting trapped on the railroad tracks … I will tell you all about that tomorrow, Dear Readers.

But today and tonight I am at their gracious house, playing with their dog and mooching off their laundry facilities (as usual) because the bookish rounds this weekend have left me half-dead.

The usual nonsense will resume tomorrow!