At first my plan was to go to Rudi and Jenny’s for the night. But they’re all the way down near Colchester, so especially after talking with Janet I thought I’d better rest instead and stay put, because I was exhausted after having to be “on” so much. But Karen Raimbault and I are doing a project together and it has to do with sending big MPEG files my computer couldn’t send, and Jenny had told Karen that she could help us out with that if I showed up there, so before I knew it I was on the road again.

Wisdom did a battle on that one, rest vs. practical necessity, and the latter won. It was hard leaving Janet. We have such a great time together. She has been so wonderful to me, and she and Marcellus were such great hosts. But then again, there I was heading off on a bus to stay the night with the equally wonderful Rudi and Jenny.

Despite my exhaustion they did help me out enormously with my project (which I hope will eventually turn into the [working title] “The Raw Jack Pransky Reflection Tapes,” which are various musings of mine talking into my voice recorder mostly while walking along a beach last summer when I was preparing to write my new book, and which were never supposed to see the light of day, but I listened to a few of them and said to myself, “Hmm, I think people might be interested in some of these.” Karen is editing].

Plus, Rudi helped me with my files for the Somebody Should Have Told Us! audiobook I’m doing (thanks to Ken Matzner and my publisher). And people wonder why I seem to be so busy all the time…