I Met You Today

Bookstores are my favorite places in the world. Usually I go just to relax, browse, and occasionally pick up something that looks interesting. Yesterday, however, I was on a mission. In a long and boring story that will be of interest to no one, I was forced to move my home office into a different…

You have the potentially dubious honor of being the first new person I’ve met IN person since the recent reboot of the Love Bomb project. Truth be told, we very nearly didn’t even meet today. Going out to public events is difficult for me for a number of reasons, and I had almost convinced myself…

Today I walked over to the Redondo Beach pier for lunch, something I’ve done many, many times over the past 25 years. This was the first time I’ve ever done it for work, however. It’s interesting, sitting in a spot you know so well but looking at it with a different perspective . . .…

On the plane yesterday I was in full “ignore everyone” mode, on my way home from a conference where I had been bombarded by people and noise nonstop for the whole workweek. Headphones in, eyes closed, the flight attendant had to yell at me to listen to the exit row procedure, and you had to…

I sat down to lunch today at a conference in Reno with a group of people I had never met. The first thing I noticed was your shirt: a cartoon Halloween(?) scene with a couple kids, one of whom had a facehugger from the 1979 film “Alien” wrapped around their head. I knew then that…

I had the idea for this project about a decade ago, and had never done anything more than kick it around with Jay for a couple minutes every few years. But then this morning, in the most unlikely of scenarios, I was finally prodded into action by . . . you and your Space Force…