Meeting and dinner out

Got a good nights sleep last night so I feel much better. I did get to sleep somewhat later than I would have hoped because the new Lois McMaster Bujold Penric and Desdemona novella dropped on Barnes and Noble so I was able to download it to my Nook. So I did that before I slept. But I did resist the temptation to start reading it.

Anyway, I got up at 9"00 feeling much better and had breakfast and coffee. I showered and dressed and took the 16 bus to Bowne Park, because the church we meet in now is being used for early voting, so we had to meet in the park where we used to before we got the church. I got there quite early, but G was already there so we sat on a bench together.

The meeting was unusually heavy and deep. But it was good. Afterward I got a ride fro S to the diner.

I took the bus home, and dropped into the Starsky and Hutch chat. I didn't stay long though because I texted mashfanficchick to ask about having dinner with Elyssa, and ze said if I wanted to join them I should come right over. So I said goodbye in the chat and took the 44 bus to Flushing where I discovered what I should have remembered, that the 7 train isn't running between Main St and Mets/Willets Point. Instead there's a shuttle bus. So that took extra time.

But I got to mashfanficchick's before Elyssa got there, and hung out until she did. Then we went and picked up Liz G who was coming too.

By weird coincidence they settled on having dinner at the same diner we go to after my meetings. I had a regular dinner though, the brandy rigatoni. We had a good time talking and then Elissa drove us all home.

I Teamed the FWiB for a short time, a little over half an hour, and then I got a text from mashfanficchick to give zer a call, so I did and we made some plans for Monday.

Then I started here, and soon I'm going to bed to read my Penric and Desdemona.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. Nice weather so it was comfortable in the park.

4. Got a little time in the Starsky and Hutch chat.

5. Dinner out with friends.

6. New Penric and Desdemona novella.

Starsky and Hutch chat

Last night I read the new Penric and Desdemona novella on my Nook, the whole thing. It's 114 pages. I was up til 3:45 and then I turned out the light and slept til 12:30. It was very good, as good as the rest of the series, but rather melancholy.

I got up, had breakfast and coffee and went to the Starsky and Hutch Creative Work Session, and chatted. Had a very good time, and got some writing done, a new story for Halloween, not the Advent Calendar.

We chatted til about 6:00, and then ended. I heated up the leftover garlic naan from the Indian food we had on Thursday. Then at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.

We talked til 8:30, when we ended, and I called Middle Brother. He's fine, nothing new, Of course he's looking forward to Halloween.

Then I had dinner, and called the Kid, who of course didn't pick up.

I puttered on my phone in bed, mostly playing solitaire, and then got up to feed the pets. I did that and then started here. And that's all.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The new Bujold novella.

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. Did some writing.

5. Middle Brother is well,

6. Halloween is coming soon!