Well, AFAIK it was the first Bay Area barfly get together that wasn't a con or a book signing since... ConJose? Finally wound up kicking everyone out around 2AM. So I figure it was a good party, overall.

Kelly and I are doing all right. In the "could be better, could be worse" end of things. The mortgage nonsense is creating tons of business opportunities, 95% most of them crap (sure I want to buy your overmortgaged, undermaintained piece of crap house in a part of the Valley that's suffering 15% valuation slides from when you bought it 3 years ago on 100% financing). That being said, there's a small # of gems in there - found 3 last week that I need to follow up on. Ghods willing, we're going to buy a crack house and turn it into a nice development for teachers, fire & police, etc, and be done with the whole thing before DragonCon. ;>