I have the best coworkers! I was sitting at my desk near the end of the day on Friday (I’m a software developer) when I got an instant message from the Office Manager saying there was a meeting in the conference room. I assumed it must be someone’s birthday and we were having cake. But when I walked in I found the table decorated with color prints of the Fortune’s Folly cover, beautiful flowers, ice cream (they know me well) and a tablecloth to match my cover!

(you can also see my very shiny new silver sneakers that I purchased that very day and was breaking in, on the lower right side of the picture)

They are a great bunch of people, and I am so grateful that they even thought to make a big deal about this. I mean, it’s a big deal to ME, but I don’t expect other people to get excited about it in the same way.

It was a great start to my “release celebration weekend”. I am not doing an official release party, but this is my weekend to have fun and celebrate the release. Tomorrow some of my local friends and Bob and I will be going over to a bookstore that (supposedly!) has Fortune’s Folly in stock, so I can see it on the shelves and my friends can buy a copy. Then we’ll eat pie and visit the botanical garden and take Charlie for a romp.