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Sunday September 13, 2009 Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup at the Uptown Lunds. Smaller than most MnSpec Meetups; the date had been chosen late and therefore announced late.

There were a couple of newcomers.

Agenda: readings by members. As usual, the problems writers were concerned about and the problems listeners saw didn't always coincide.

***Afterwards, I went to the Uptown Rainbow supermarket and picked up this week's flyers.

Took the #21 bus to East Lake Library. Took out Denis J. Hauptly, _Something Really New: Three simple steps to creating truly innovative products_. Worth reading just for the horrible examples. My favorite: a cell phone for the blind and low-sighted which included a camera.

Then to Cub Supermarket.

Leaving Cub, I found myself more aware of my surroundings than usual. Took me a few seconds to figure out why. There was a woman whose high heels clicked audibly, and I was "seeing" with echolocation.

Stopped in at Target to pick up their weekly flyer, and then home.