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I’m here! I’m in one piece! I have the smallest hotel room known to man! I mean it, I’ve never actually seen a hotel room that didn’t have a dresser, before. But it does have a very deep tub. Not that I put my clothes in the tub, but you know what I mean.

It appears that using my regular email is going to be way, way too much of a pain. If you want to email me, please use mizkit AT hotmail DOT com, and Laura, I have not received your edits. Possibly the file’s too big to go into my mailbox? I’ll email you in a minute.

The flight down was very nice, actually. I upgraded to first class and it was probably the most comfortable flight I’ve ever had. I read 6 books, which is always a plus. :) Oh, and they’ve finished the BART terminal at SFX, so it was really really easy getting from the airport to my hotel! I was all, “YAY! I can do this Sat–oh. Doesn’t start til 6am and my flight’s at 7. Damn.” Snif. So I’ll have to take the shuttle or figure out Caltrain, which is less convenient but cheap. :)

San Francisco is all different! The SKY/GROUND building has been knocked down, and the giant hole in the ground on 4th is now the Moscone West convention center! I was walking to work this morning and I went by the building and I was like, “…hey. That used to be a giant hole in the ground!”

Getting to work was like old home’s town with seeing everybody! *laugh* Some people have different hair, other people look exactly the same, everybody’s making big buggy eyes as they talk about What’s Going On. Not that anybody *knows* what’s going on, which is, y’know, most of the reason for the buggy eyes. We had a 90 minute coffee break meeting with Barb this morning and talked about, well, all sorts of things, from the company to gossip to what we were going to do this week, so that was cool. We’ll be going out to lunch with everybody, where ‘everybody’ is, I don’t know, HTML and Caia, at least, in a while here. :)

Veronica cleverly set up a remote desktop for her home computer so she can just access it through the desktops they’ve set up for us here. I might have to call Ted and see if he can do that for me, because it’d be way less of a pain than trying to get this thing configured the way I want it, and I don’t have any idea how to do it myself. Next time I come down here (if there is a next time) I’ll have to do that preemptively.

I went through a bunch of Dad’s edits on the manuscript this morning and have another um 150 or so pages to go, so *almost* done there. And hopefully I’ll get Laura’s edits. Wretched email.

Uhm. Seeing Sarah tonight! Yay! And, um! That’s about it! I’ll write more later. :)

miles to Rivendell: 453 (Rivendell in sight now. Looks suspiciously like San Francisco. Who knew?)