No, not friends visiting, at least not in the physical sense. But I am attending an MCDBA class in the city (San Francisco) so I'm taking the bus there and back since I refuse to drive in commute traffic. Anyway, I'm experiencing this strange sort of split personality snycope. Usually I can compartmentalize DBA stuff and writing stuff, but not right now. Strange. Oh, back to the lab... More later, but it's unclear who will be posting. (bwahahahaha). The Rake is coming along nicely. I'll get the chapters out to read and to my agent and see. Then back to Shift and then working up the elf thing. Plus that other historical I was thinking about.