I’m back – online that is – I’m nowhere near back as in London. As some of you will know and many will not life kind of got away from me from around Thursday last week until around an hour and a half ago when I flumped on to a bed in a hotel in Washington DC.

I’m in Washington on business – a web analytics conference, actually the web analytics conference, this represents the more intellectually stimulating side of my job if the less creative. There are some real heavyweights here for this one including Avinash Kaushik and Jim Sterne.

I have flu and have lost my voice so I anticipate I’ll just be doing a lot of listening, writing down what other people say and nodding profoundly in agreement. Should be fun.

In the evenings, as I have no voice and feel like a pineapple has been shoved whole down my throat, I’m going to sip lemsip and write.

Right now I’m going to eat but if you missed any of my fiction this week my friday entry is here and my fire alarm inspired story went up here. More importantly you should check out Paul Raven’s top offering Harvest For The Gods or Martin McGrath’s Another Funny Thing Happened in Hyperspace. And finally Dan has his second story Great Old One Ex Machina up, check it out.