abby and my dad are back from russia. they took nine rolls of pictures and brought back many many fine things. i now have a copy of podkayne of mars in russian. i can't, of course, read any of it, but it's still very cool. also, a fine tea glass holder and an amber dragon. (oh, the cuteness. honest.)

nathan and i went down to austin this weekend to check out a hotel for supercon, and to have dinner with his parents. this went pretty well. it's a very fine looking hotel, and dinner was yummy. we brought pirate, who played (fsvo "played") with their dog, aaron.

today our fine cleaning ladies come. hurray! if you are in minneapolis and want the names of some fine cleaning ladies who will clean your house and play with your puppies, let me know.

last night, denae and i went over convergence artshow stuff, and got one step closer to being able to write the checks to send out to artists.

i am currently reading the second foreigner trilogy, by c.j. cherryh. reading them all in a row helps with understanding the atevi-- it takes about half a book to figure it out, and if you just keep plowing through them, they make more sense (in that cherryh, too many weasels in a too small barrel sort of way).

perhaps i will post something amusing soon; i am sorry that this was not it.