Let's give it a while, and I'll post here when I get it - if it's not here by the time it's your tomorrow morning, then send it again? Silly computers preventing me from finding out what happens next.

Also, Natter, but seeing there were e-mail problems, I want to make sure - did you get my response on your lovely invitation to SF, last week?

Nilly, nope - not a word. More details in the one I just sent you.

Boo! This is cranky-making. OK, it's now morning for me and I'll send again. And (nattery but Nilly is one of my beta readers, so not really) I can put you up, and I know how to cook kosher food and we do have some kosher butchers here and depending on when you're here? I may have either a galley or an ARC of "Famous Flower" for you to take home.

deb, it just arrived!

[Edit: OK, how is that for an x-post?]

[Another edit, Natter-y: I'll see if I still have the answer for the last e-mail somewhere, but basically I was delighted, most of all by the prospect to meet SF-istas, and I would love to try and make it happen]

Woot! First or second attempt? The second one has Second attempt in the subject line...

edit: I wonder why it takes so long to get there elctronically? Maybe the data stream had a layover in Barcelona, or something.

There's no 'second attempt' - so it must be the first. Silly computers.

[Edit: and it takes long for an e-mail from the computer that's on the next table from me to get here - there are network problems in the university for several months now, lots of viruses that slow down the system and aren't filtered properly, too]

I'm concerned that your reply to the invite never reached me. Always assume, s'il vous plait, that if I don't respond to something, it's because I never got it. I always respond to your email.

The funny thing is, I wanted to say the same to you.

(grinning at Nilly)

Ha, Deb has *another* mutual admiration society.

Babe, I've got a few of them - I'm apparently strange among the Buffista crowd, in that I'm genuinely social and gregarious. I very much enjoy interacting with The Humans - I enjoy feeding them even more.

But I'm only married to you and Kat Perez (and Nic, of course).