I came home from Toronto Wednesday afternoon, very glad to set foot in Colorado again (and glad for thin cool air after the weeks of the humid heat wave that had followed much of our tour).  Rebecca met me at the air port—a very welcome sight!—and we picked up Cheesecake Factory salads on the way home for dinner.  The cats pretended not to remember me for a few minutes, and then they remembered they were attention starved (especially Linus, our half-feral cat who won't let anyone else pet him).  It was great to sleep in my own bed, use my...
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We fought early morning traffic in Ottawa to get to the train station in time for our trip to Toronto.  This time, fortunately, the air-conditioning worked in the train, and Brian and I each had room to spread out and work on our laptops.  I edited four HELLHOLE chapters during the ride, so that I had nearly caught up with my typist, who had e-mailed me more files the night before. Directly after we disembarked in Toronto, we caught a cab and went straight to a booksellers' and librarians' event for the Indigo bookstore chain and HB Fenn book distributors....
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We fought early morning traffic in Ottawa to get to the train station in time for our trip to Toronto.  This time, fortunately, the air-conditioning worked in the train, and Brian and I each had room to spread out and work on our laptops.  I edited four HELLHOLE chapters during the ride, so that I had nearly caught up with my typist, who had e-mailed me more files the night before. Directly after we disembarked in Toronto, we caught a cab and went straight to a booksellers' and librarians' event for the Indigo bookstore chain and HB Fenn book distributors....
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On the long train trip from Toronto to Ottawa, temperatures outside reached nearly 100°F, which strained the compartment’s air-conditioning abilities.  As we traveled across the Ontario wetlands, we attempted to do a last-minuted radio interview on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which they had set up only an hour earlier.  The interview was live, on our cell phones, with the background noise of the train whistle and the conductor’s announcements; we got partway through the show, but then we permanently lost the signal.  I hope the host made appropriate excuses. The train was half an hour late, which gave us a...
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