Good Trip Omen?

I'm now in Hong Kong, exhausted after 24 hours of traveling and thankful that the enormous time gap got me here at night so I can sleep soon and tackle the city-state tomorrow. Before leaving this morning before 6:00, I checked my email and found something that started my trip off very nicely indeed. Over at the Sports Literature Association's Arete (which used to be H-Arete) The University of Maine's Scott D. Peterson, whom I can assure you I have never so much as met, gave a very kind and gracious review of my book Bleeding Red: A Red Sox Fan's Diary of the 2004 Season

I'll try to recount the first day or two of action tomorrow. Right now I plan to go fall asleep in front of World Cup coverage.