Here's a nice thing

[desperance]

Having had a conversation with Peter S Beagle kind of made mere earthly delights slip my mind, when I was considering what was best about WFC; but in terms of touching Chaz'z life more nearly, probably the best thing is this. I'd caught sight of m'friend Mike, whom I must have known for twenty years or nearabouts, coming and going in the halls; but at the mass signing, there he was with his wife Paula, whom I have known almost as long as he has, and their nearly-seven-year-old whom I had not met before (they're London people, so we only tend to meet at cons). And they stayed to talk, and we utterly startled each other: me with my news of marrying Karen and moving to Sunnyvale, they with their news of no longer being London people. They're living in Santa Cruz, just over the mountains from here. So yay.