Journal-Type Updates Department: I am finally back in San Francisco, back in the office -- a newly spacious, still-under-rearrangement office -- with a new desk (er...table), feeling like a new, well-rested person (even though I didn't get much sleep last night, I got so much in the Dallas suburbs, I caught up on a serious deficit). Yesterday, on the way home, I fell into one of those SFO weather-delay, chain-reaction nightmares, and it took all day to get home from L.A. (Note to self: Perhaps start buying tickets to/from Oakland. They also have BART!) But Dana Carvey was on the plane, so he entertained us. Well, the people in first-class maybe. Texas was good. Meeting my new niece was cool. I gave her an orange and green duck-billed platypus. I have no idea what to do with babies, but I think they're pretty cool. This was the kind of vacation that, unlike most (of mine anyway) was actually relaxing, instead of just tiring in itself, so I've come back relaxed and refreshed. Meeting Jessica and Billy was a pleasure. The friendliest folks you could hope to buy you lots of drinks. (I was going to write something further here about web people and San Francisco versus Dallas and such, but it doesn't really fit in this post, and I'm not sure there was anything worthwhile in the thought anyway, so I'll instead write this rambling paranthetical meta-thing about it and perhaps save it until I have my pictures of J and B to post.) I still don't have my pictures downloaded, because I did start to pack my download cable when I left, but instead put it someplace, probably in my bedroom, where I seem to be storing all the extra crap (that will fit) that's hanging around from the on-going apartment improvements, like extra big-honking coffee tables. But I think I have some good pics of Jessica and Billy on there, which they said I could publish and which, unlike myself, there doesn't seem to be very many of on the web, so, ya know, exciting. Anyway, now I have a zillion things to do, and I'm rip-roaring to do them. But, of course, it's Thursday already, and tomorrow I'm going rafting and camping for the weekend with lots of friends, which I'm very excited about, but of course that means I can't work. But hey, it's summer. And life is good.