I’ve spent some of the day in San Diego. I flew down for an interview (whch seems to have gone well, but we’ll see). The weather here is nice, but a bit humid. The traffic, however, is lousy! Many of the streets around the airport are under construction and there is no way to get to the airport except over city streets. It feels like really bad traffic planning, actually.

The bad news is that Robert Jordan, my most favorite author, died yesterday afternoon without having finished the twelfth and last book in the World of Time series. Oh bad karma! There’s definitely no joy in Mudville today! Rest in Peace RJ and my sincere sympathy to his family and to the millions of fans worldwide.