Omigod! How cool is that?! Congratulations and now I know what book to read next! Thanks for your notes and good luck with the book's promotions! Stay warm!

Aw thanks Kim! You too, for staying warm - I think we're both in for a cold winter this year. Let me know if the book makes for a good way to start a fire ;)

Actually, I was wondering if getting it out in Japan would be a problem and then I saw this: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595284582/ - gotta love Amazon.

I read "Memoirs" a couple months ago and really enjoyed it. Being a geek who spent his formative "nerdling years" in the same communities you frequented, I saw many amusing parallels to my own life growing up. (I especially enjoyed some of the pseudonyms... "Fairchild Prep"... yeah, right...)It was a lot of fun to read it and recall the past. I look forward to the sequel.

Great job, Randy!

Thanks Kevin! The question I would have for you is what you might think is fiction and what isn't (in honest a good part of it is fiction... it was *inspired* by the past rather than based on it which why you went to Fairchild Prep and not the *real* place.) Thanks again for the review!

Is your book available in ebook format anywhere? I am a voracious reader but have not read a hardcopy book in four years.

Sadly, no - the publisher wanted $99 to assemble an eBook version, which I balked at. First because it would have taken then 4 clicks to do it (which means $99 is a ripoff), second because it's easily copied (although great to carry) and lastly because it's going to be another 14 years until I break even for what I had already paid them :)