klwilliams

This afternoon I called up

hrj and we went to Borderlands Books in San Francisco for a reading by Katharine Kerr, whose latest Deverry novel just came out. This is the second-to-last book in a very long, very good series. The reading and Q-and-A were both interesting.

I spent the whole reading with Ripley, the store cat, asleep in my lap, which is notable because this is the first time in a very long time I've been able to hold a sleeping cat in my lap without sneezing. How is this possible? Because Ripley has no hair. (Since I'm allergic to cats, of course Ripley had to come directly to me and insist that my lap was the one for her.)

Afterwards, Kit, her husband Howard,

hrj, and I all went out for dinner then over to their place for more discussion. Kit and

hrj discussed linguistics, and I got to see a book that lists all of the known Gaulish names. Very cool, in a geeky way.

Then I dropped

hrj back at her place and so to home.