Dark Spires

I am still too wrung out from trying to recover from food poisoning at OryCon to write that much, but briefly let me refer you over to Cheryl's web site where she talks about Dark Spires, the first book for sale from Wizards Tower Press.

Besides the fact that it should be an enjoyable read, people who wondered what they might be able to do for Cheryl after hearing the screwed-up way the US government treated her when she tried to visit the USA should know that buying stuff from WTP (including Salon Futura) is right now one of the best things you can do for her.

Slowly Improving

It still wasn't a very good day today, but my appetite came back mid-afternoon. I hope to be more mobile tomorrow; at least well enough to go to the office rather than working from home.

Checking Amtrak's web site, I see that had I been willing to toss out my return ticket on Horizon and shell out $313 for a roomette (had one been available), I could have caught a train from Portland at 2:25 PM (about twenty minutes before my Horizon flight actually left) that would have arrived in Oakland at 8:40 AM this morning. (I actually got home a bit after 7 PM Monday after a painful but not excruciating flight. I probably slept better than I would have done on the train.) Still, it was quite tempting.

The Doubletree Hotel sent me a standard "thank you, any comments?" e-mail, and I replied with a complaint about the food poisoning, including our guess that it had to do with the sausages (or possibly the bacon). I don't know if anyone else got zapped or not. The symptoms wouldn't have turned up until many people had already gone home, probably. And there's always the chance that we've mis-identified the source.