OPENING MESSAGE Hello Card  -  Volume 15  -  John Card Number 0  -  Wed, Aug 1, 1990 01:14 AM Somehow, as unlikely as it seems (and believe me, I am AT LEAST as surprised as any of you), I find myself almost *busy* this summer. The big wedding was a smashing success and I had a lovely time with Zoey the Atomic Physicist. (See Vol 15 John 6) Mom's new house is going up (or rather down, it being almost an underground house) with breathtaking speed. There are now pipes and ducts and wires and stairs and a bathtub and actual windows and doors and a cathedral ceiling and most of a fireplace and a trap door leading to secret places and men in space suits spraying cotton candy insulation and giant cranes lowering huge tanks into a pit that wasn't even there yesterday. Incredible! Work is progressing nicely on the big personality test project. I am really enjoying working with these two crazy Mac guys, Bill and Jerry. Programming in Helena, Montana is kind of like working Off Off Broadway. When we're a little farther along I may want to use you guys as beta testers! There have been some curious developments in the local dating scene. One involves a real-life fairy tale (a Cinderella who has suddenly acquired the closest thing to a fairy godmother I've ever seen, along with a subaru, a gold lamé evening gown, and a corporation. I'll tell you about it later, but I doubt if you'll believe me). I was allowed to see Sasha after more than a year (THAT was quite a reunion) and I had several non-violent encounters with the evil Joe. And tomorrow night I'm scheduled to have dinner with a woman I haven't seen for fifteen years. None of this translates into any actual romance for your fearless editor, but it has been an interesting month. I'll keep you posted. Last but not least, I was FINALLY accepted to the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference and will be California bound in a matter of hours. After the conference I intend to impose on Suzanne for a few days and, if I can catch them at home, visit all the other Bay Area Archipelagoans. So LOOK OUT! Open up that Golden Gate! California, here I come!