October 2024
If all goes according to plan, Donald and Kristin will be in Japan en route to Japan by the time you read this. (All did not, in fact, go according to plan, and the trip now includes an unexpected overnight layover in San Francisco due to mechanical issues with the plane that was supposed to fly us to Tokyo.) We're planning to go for two weeks: the first time since our honeymoon that we've gone anywhere together for longer than a week except to attend a science fiction convention or visit family. We do hope to make use of the reportedly good wifi on bullet trains to read Mysterion submissions on our phones while there, so hopefully this won't delay our progress in responding to them. Much. After a few years where we didn't travel much at all for some reason, we seem to have a lot of trips planned (even apart from Donald's very extensive work travel for his day job, which has been going on since March 2023). In early September, we visited Kristin's mother in No
