Let's try that again.<\/p>\n
The past couple weeks have been kind of a blur. Or a daze. Or a dazed blur.<\/p>\n
Last week was rougher than I'd expected. Also more social and busier.<\/p>\n
After the difficult day<\/a> a week ago (thanks again to all the Facebook folks who offered sympathies and such), I spent two days at the annual gathering of tech writers at work, known as Burning Pen. What I attended of it was fun, but I missed most of it because (a) I had a major deadline impending, and (b) laptops aren't allowed.<\/p>\n Friday night I hopped a plane to LA. Stayed with Jay & Holly and my niece. Saturday, had lunch with Jessica & Matt (who sadly won't be nearly so easily accessible soon; makes me wish I had visited them more often while they were this close) and attended a lecture on Greco-Egyptian magic<\/a>, which was interesting but I kept drifting off, due to not enough sleep the night before.<\/p>\n Had dinner with Jenn & Chris, who fortunately came to J&H's neck of the woods because I probably wouldn't have been awake enough to drive back from their place if we'd met there.<\/p>\n Good to see all of you, of course. And sorry to miss other LA-area folks.<\/p>\n Sunday I helped J&H pick out a new computer; then Gabrielle & Ethan & Phoebe and Gabrielle's mother Penny came over. Which was also very nice. It's not every day that you get to meet your half-sister's mother for the first time.<\/p>\n