Day 1: Saturday, May 31, 2003, 6:50AM, HST Aloha from Honolulu!! I am writing this from the balcony of my hotel room. When I look up from my iBook’s screen, I can see Waikiki beach. To my left, I can see NAME OF BAY, which currently has about 30 surfers riding the beautiful Hawaiian waves….

I spent all day yesterday and most of today packing and preparing books for shipment. It’s so much fun, sitting at my dining room table with Anne and the kids, listening to the New Wave station on satellite, getting things ready to go. And check this out: today, we passed 800 orders. Holy. Mother. 800…

Today is Fark-tacular: I got a link posted, and just read this one about my friend Max. Max is the lead singer of the band Eve6, and I live my Rock-n-Roll lifestyle vicariously through him. I think I’ll sit this one out, though.

J.D. “Illiad” Frazer, who does the insanely brilliant User Friendly has this to say about Dancing Barefoot: For quite some time, the name and person of Wil Wheaton were equated with the Star Trek:TNG character of Wesley Crusher. Wesley was, by all accounts, deeply reviled by a significant portion of Star Trek fandom. This vilification…

Yes!! Around 10 this morning, UPS arrived with a shipment of 366 copies of Dancing Barefoot from my printer! I nearly cried when I opened the first box, and saw “By Wil Wheaton” right on the cover. My wife took pictures while I signed the UPS thingy, which I’m debating putting up, because I had…