Today's Happiness

Pratchett knighted.

Actually I knew yesterday, but my joy was mitigated by someone being oafish about it at discworld. What tips it today is learning that Robert Plant is knighted too. Sir Robert Plant, earl of Red Gloria, as he always was.

She considers the year past

I'm very sorry so many people seem to have had a frightful year last year. I had a wonderful year, in keeping with my habit of having wonderful years in the midst of rampant death, doom and chaos. Last red letter year was 2003 which from an objective standpoint sucked mightily, even for me. But I was writing dragons and almost didn't notice SARS, Iraq invasions, bicycles being stolen and the AC going off for three days in mid-August. Give me enough crack and sufficiently charming young companionship, and I am very happy indeed.
( Thus 2008. )