If you haven't read Martha Wells' GoH Speech from Wiscon 2023...

[alfreda89]

...you should go over and read it.

Because she says the things we have been thinking for a long time. But there wasn't any point in speaking about it. Because we knew exactly where that got us.

"We" being all the people NY Publishing didn't acknowledge read SFFH. (My mother turned me onto SFFH. That "only 14 year old buys read SF" crap has been going on for a long time.)

Martha's Dreamwidth--

https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/620264.html

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[martianmooncrab]

thanks for the link...

I hope to see Ru and Doug thursday

[alfreda89]

Give them my love. I don't know how well they are, they don't use FB much for communication. I think R is having trouble with her older computer and browser--I've been there. I am currently on an older MacPro but the browser is updating. My PC I think is down for the count.

Remembering that R's mom had Sundowners. I don't know if she is showing signs of it, or has had a re-occurrence of the abdominal stuff and doesn't want to talk about it on social media. (I talk about maybe 5% of my medical, so totally get her POV if this is it. Hence coding on them and things.)

I hope you are doing well.

[martianmooncrab]

R doing better, yes to computer problems, and she did get her corneas replaced, and yes, she had problems there and an eye infection prior.

I am selling my Focus to them, her poor Draco finally died a few months back

so, they both doing better and once she has her own wheels... they were down to one car at this point, she will be doing better. she is talking stories and ideas.

[alfreda89]

Great on the Focus sale. Thanks for bringing me up to date.

They surfaced on my birthday post at FB. Looks like Doug is taking good care of her, as she did him when he tried to take off his leg with construction machinery--or the botched surgery they had to rerun for him.

I think they are lucky in each other.