The new phone book is here

My wife’s voice floated down the stairwell, jolting me away from my exciting task of filling out a matrix showing how OCS compares to Exchange. “Honey, the FedEx man left about a dozen packages on the front porch!”
Now, you have to understand that the arrival of the FedEx lady at our house is always a time of celebration. The best times are when she unexpectedly brings some kind of goodie, like a piece of review hardware. Next-best are when she brings something I’ve been anticipating, like salmon chowder or a copy of iLife. (I’ll have to tell y’all about the 50 pounds of candy some other time). When I grabbed the boxes to bring them in, I was greeted by a curious sight on the address label: “AOL Time Warner Book Group”.
This worried me; I was briefly afraid that I was the victim of a drive-by AOL CD dropoff. A glance at the side of the box, though, revealed that the boxes contained my author copies of the book! O joy! Sure enough, when I opened the first box, two copies were staring right out at me. That means that my contributing editors and reviewers will be getting copies over the next few days; the rest of you, alas, may have to actually buy it.