Today in brief

I... sorted maybe a hundred papers, picked blackberries, watched the last two Doctor Who season four episodes with R, and went on a long creekside walk in my neighborhood, beneath big-leaf maples, vine maples, and alders. Now it's halftime in the Oregon football game, and I'm looking forward to talking to fractal9091 at Dragon*Con in a bit.

Update. When fractal9091 called, he was on top of the Marriott, 47 stories above the con, looking down at it. (Yikes!) Not possible to see costumes from that far up, but he said he could make out some lightsabers.