greetings from beautiful downtown Madison

I got here with no trouble yesterday, or at least no external trouble: more than the usual amount of travel fret, slept badly both Wednesday night before travel and last night here in Madison, but have had some pleasant conversations with far-flung friends (as well as the inevitable meeting, while waiting for the airport shuttle, with someone who lives near me and I haven't seen in over a year--hi, Piglet!). Am typing this on an eee; it is a computer, but I miss my desktop machine with a proper mouse and no tendency for the focus to jump randomly to different lines while I'm typing. So, expect intermittent presence until Monday.

ROOO reading was good: Geoff Ryman was his usual upbeat self, Ellen Klages read a very sweet short story, and they explained how we could tell them apart. Geoff: "I'm funnier than Ellen" (audience laughs) and, later, Ellen: "I'm the homosexual."

Yes, very much a first-world problem, and one for which longitudinal thinking helps: I used to send email on a dumb terminal via a 2400-baud modem. So, breakfast, a bit of shopping (for exciting things like soap, and maybe look at clothes if things are open once I've eaten). And a lunch date with oursin; I hope I will be more alert than when I ran into her and truepenny yesterday.

DW crossposting may not happen this weekend, btw.

Wiscon--Friday afternoon

I still post to LJ by mental default; DW entries may be sporadic.

I have somehow wound up with an odd assortment of either new or new-to-me clothing; established that men's clothes aren't actually sized in inches either (a measured 35.5 waist should not fit better in a 34 than a 35, under the prevailing theory); had a brief, useful massage at the Gathering; and talked to a bunch of people, most of whom do not live in New York.

Tired, persevering, debating the relative merits of a nap or going to programming at 4.