We just attended RadCon over the weekend where we saw familiar friendly faces like Bridget and Marti McKenna of Scorpius Digital, the Swensons of Talebones and Fairwood Press, and Jay Lake and Deb Layne of Wheatland Press. Dean Wesley Smith and Kris Rusch were guest of honor and it's always nice to talk to them. Others: Steve and Chris York, Frank Wu, Harold Gross and Eve Gordon, Patty Briggs.

We also met Ken Scholes and his wife Jen. Ximena and I plan on getting up to Portland to visit sometime, perhaps to see a couple of local attractions in the the city with them. Ken's story is in the latest Writers Of The Future volume with Stephen Stanley.

The writing track at Radcon keeps getting bigger every year. It was fun to hang out in the small press room and party Saturday night. Probably stayed up too late and drank too much since we got a late start on the road on Sunday, but I made great drive time with only two stops the entire way back. One of them being the Holstein Coffee Co. in The Dalles where they had some Kenya coffee. Mmmmmmm. Holstein is the place to stop for coffee on I-84 along the Columbia River Gorge. Before we left Pasco I bought a coffee at a gas station, some stuff marked as dark roast but it was still lightweight swill. Why do I even bother? I only took a few sips and the mug was still full when I reached Holstein in The Dalles over a hundred miles later. After getting that great cup of Kenya coffee, I drank it in twenty minutes with Eugene still hundreds of miles away. I wish I would have had a thermos! Long drives need great coffee.

Now Monday back in Eugene, I need to make great progress on the novel this week, because next week I go back to work full time.