The Beginning of the End

This has been a decent weekend. Went out for drinks and a late dinner with a couple of friends Friday night, lunch and some errands with Mom yesterday, and a mix of napping, watching Marvel Anime, and reading a couple of Free RPG Day adventures today. Not chock-full of excitement, but I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Received word today that Iain Banks has died. He announced his terminal cancer to the world in April, in a message that was equally brave and humorous and sad. Banks was, by all indications, a heck of a good man, and I can vouch that he was a terrific writer. And he was proudly a science fiction writer - when once asked if he wrote SF just to pay the bills while working on non-genre books, he assured the questioner that it was in fact the other way around.