How many authors does it take to design a rail line?

Over time the weekly meetings of the Hard Lemonade Science Fiction Society have morphed into game night, as we spend less time reading and critiquing each other's work, and more time talking about publishers, contracts, figuring out pre-book publicity and the like. Last night we got together at jennifer_dunne's since she has airconditioning. To return to the spirit of our group I brought hard lemonade to go with the pizza, and we played two rounds of the train game (aka "Ticket to Ride European Edition"). I lost both times.

Came home and was excited to find my author copies of Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets! had arrived. Read Jim Butcher and PN Elrod's essays this morning with my coffee, and they reminded me again why I miss this series. Hard to believe that it was five years ago that I discovered Farscape. Five years seems like no time at all, and yet a lifetime ago. It was before I'd sold my first fantasy, and before I started going to SF conventions, something I hadn't done since college. Now, five years later, Farscape has come and gone, I'm in the middle of my second fantasy trilogy for Bantam, and SF cons are once again a part of my life.

Wonder what the next five years will bring?