yeah, better.

Corporate meeting this morning. I took advantage of the downtime to read half of Michael Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel, a. . . companion volume, I suppose, to The Iron Dragon's Daughter. Then I came home and read the other half. Been way too long since I just devoured a book like that. It's pretty good. Definitely better than IDD. I don't have the same feeling of having missed something (which doesn't mean I didn't), and I have an active desire to read it again at some point, instead of just "i think i need to reread that to understand it."

Remade the maple pound cake, too, with a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon and a touch less flour. It's not as dry or dense this time and the bitterness around the edges seems gone.

And according to email the writers' group will be meeting tomorrow, and there shall be Plans and Excursions and probably Da Marco for dinner on Friday, and a houseguest on Satyrday for two weeks. It's too early to really say but I think the week may be looking up.