Me: coding fast, hard, and heavy for techops & security. Realizing that I now de facto answer to three dragon*con directors. Amused I got myself into this mess.Jeff: still in San Francisco. What was supposed to be a three-day trip morphed to a Sunday-Friday trip, culminating in today's flight home … and today's phone call telling me he must be back out there on Monday for next week, with about a 50-50 shot of having to be out there for a third week.

Us: Still haven't managed to see each other since our anniversary, which was on the 25th. We'll get to that anniversary dinner Real Soon Now. Honest. Promise!

Cats: meow meow MEOW MEOW PET ME!!!!!11one11one!!111!

Just wanted to let you know that I wasn't as dead as you thought I was.