Home, home at last! New definition of “home”: The place you don’t have to check out of. We still have a little travel to do. Up to Peter’s mum’s for…

In Toronto now. I have one more function, tomorrow, and then I’m free! Free! And I’ll see Peter within the next 36 hours…. Meanwhile, a happy hour (hmm, a Happy…

Depressed…I’m depressed. Ryoh-Ohki has gone in for service. A sad, sinking feeling, to hand the inseparable companion of nearly a year over to FedEx, no matter how much insurance has…

So I arrived in NY and checked into the Drake Hotel (only because when I made the booking there were no rooms available at the Regency), and behold, the room…

Heading back for NY today. At this point there’s only one “official” function left, the Books For Kids brunch in Toronto on Sunday…and interesting and fun as it’s probably going…

Later, in the Polo Lounge again: Surprising how otherwise-charged a piece of real estate, familiar to those of us who work in TV and film and from the occasional TV…

So now I’m in LA. Last night I felt strangely as if I was in a Randy Newman video, as all the familiar sights poured by the cab on the…

Down in DC now, after an exciting day. Thanks to the kids at Doyle, and the group who came to see me in Haverford; you all made my day! Or…

After a short hiatus, here I am in Philadelphia. The short hiatus includes: (a) Many more hours of watching Beemer and Bubble attack each other happily. (b) Going to Dublin…

So after some initial growling and posturing, Beemer and Bubble have decided to be friends. They’ve spent the entire morning chasing each other around the house. Squeak has retired to…

“One thing we have that he doesn’t: three cats.” Uh, how quickly fact overtakes report. Four cats. She ran in the door past our ankles as we came in from…

(Especially when, by accident, you anticipate it.) In the “Is Nothing Sacred” dep’t: the gravitational constant may be a variable. (Gee, and I used that in a book not so…

The fish seem to have handled the move just fine: they’re all moving around at their ease, as usual, except when someone comes over to the pond, at which time…

So, an exciting afternoon spent in piscine maneuvers. That is to say, we started the process of dismantling the old fishpond and installing a new one in the front yard.…

Tsk, tsk, tsk… Judge Throws Out ‘Harry Potter’ Copyright Suit It always looked like a dumb suit. To find that Stouffer was faking evidence as well… (eyeroll) For those who…

The other day I upgraded this blogging space a little to allow for image storage and other such things. One thing that also becomes available when you upgrade is BStats,…

“Like something out of science fiction.” Don’t you just love that phrase? And the way it’s almost always used as a perjorative in the media? If something sounds crazy or…

Does this sound familiar? “First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and ‘top secret’….” (sigh) Yet…

Quiet, quiet morning. Gorgeous and misty outside: the east is all vaguely peach-colored. Let’s hear it for the weak high pressure system that’s sitting north of Ireland at the moment.…

It was a lovely convention. Delighted to see that there’s going to be another one in 2004; we’ll be there to wrangle the writers’ workshop again. Meanwhile, home life has…

Now we’re at the Discworld Convention in Hinckley. The convention hotel itself is set about a quarter mile from a major freeway / motorway access: a handsome complex of restaurants,…

…So after finally seeing “Not In My Back Yard”, which I wrote three years ago (it must have been…), my initial response is vague disappointment. The director seems to have…

Well, the upgrade to XP seems to have come off with relatively few hitches. It seems that the cause of all earlier difficulties was that GoBack was still running. Disable…

Today’s mystery question: why have the Irish “terrestrial” channels (RTÉ One, Network 2, TV 3, T na G) suddenly gone missing from Sky? Are they having transponder problems? Or are…