Sorry, all you folks in the Fort Lauderdale area... Tonight we'll not be holding the last-Wednesday-of-the-month Open House at the JREF. We're looking into holding those meetings at the local public library, which hosted the first few such get-togethers when we first got started, but the job of emptying out the JREF office has been just too much for us, and though the building is pretty well empty now, we don't have much hospitality to offer you...
The Isaac Asimov Library is currently being moved to my home in Plantation, Florida, and we're working out a schedule whereby it will be available to visitors, of course. It's all very complicated...! I miss meeting you as freely as I did before, of course. The new official headquarters of the JREF will be in Los Angeles now, and I was just there -- to attend Michael Shermer's highly successful conference at which Bill Nye and Mr. Deity appeared, among many other stars. Bill and Mr. D. will also be appearing at TAM9, which I believe is about to stop taking applications due to a full house...
While in L.A., I was shown several venues being considered for the new JREF headquarters site, and if a certain one of those is chosen -- no hints, sorry! -- I'll be VERY pleased indeed!
And so, back to the fray. My office is now set up and functioning, paperclips and a stapler are already busy, and I'm now a bit happier than working out of cartons, as I was for the past few weeks.