{"id":943,"date":"2009-12-13T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=943"},"modified":"2009-12-13T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T17:52:01","slug":"happiness-is-a-warm-parka-and-friends-i-didnt-know-i-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is a Warm Parka. And Friends I Didn’t Know I Had."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have my coat again, along with most of my personal effects, thanks to the selfless efforts of Let’s Call Him Ray<\/a> who drove six hours and across a border (now closed to me, barring court appearances) to retrieve my stuff.\u00a0 My computer, flash drive and notebook have apparently been moved to an Undisclosed Location until Homeland Security is through with them.\u00a0 I hope they have fun with my financial records, draft manuscripts, and bawdy jpegs (none of which portray naked children in compromising positions, to their probable chagrin).<\/p>\n

And since I don’t seem to have done this publicly yet, thanks also to Dave Nickle<\/a>, Karen Fernandez, and Caitlin Sweet<\/a>, who drove seven<\/em> hours through a blizzard in the middle of the night to rescue me from the edge of Mordor.\u00a0 Thanks to Cory Doctorow<\/a>, John Scalzi<\/a>, Patrick Neilson-Hayden<\/a>, Neil Gaiman<\/a>, Ursabelle<\/a>, Richard Morgan<\/a>, and others far too numerous to mention (although I will try, folks, believe me; in future posts, I will try) for spreading the word.\u00a0 Thanks to the anonymous author who donated the proceeds of his story in Jetse deVrie<\/a>‘s Daybreak<\/em><\/a> to\u00a0 the cause; thanks to Subterranean Press<\/a> for their \u201cJudge Sn Goes Golfing\u201d campaign; thanks to the good folks at Bakka-Phoenix<\/a> for passing the hat at their Christmas party.\u00a0 Thanks to the hundreds of you who have engorged the Kibble Fund for the upcoming battle; people who’ve given everything from one dollar to a thousand to help me out (I honestly don’t know which of those extremes touches me more).\u00a0 Thanks even to the various souls who regard me as a pointy-headed whiner who had it coming and who belongs in jail; I approve their (generally misspelled) posts here as quickly as I approve the others.\u00a0 Let them speak.\u00a0 Let them summon their best arguments.\u00a0 Let everyone compare the eloquence and substance of both points-of-view; my guess is that the inarticulate splutterings of these trolls will end up helping<\/em> my cause.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much to all of you.<\/p>\n

Daily points of clarification:<\/p>\n