Today has been all manner of awesome:
1) A few days ago I traded my 6-yea-old cel phone for a new model. Which was good… the old one was buggy, and the battery was bubbling outwards, I had every expectation of it bursting into flames one me. But this morning I discovered that the alarm on the phone does not go off every day, only Monday through Friday. I of course discovered this an hour after I was supposed to wake up.
2) The effort to install cats into boxes for transport to their boarding location resulted in bloodshed. Fingers knew something was up right off, and put up a valiant struggle.
3) ULTIMATE BETRAYAL: That, I believe, was the look I got from Fingers and Raedthinn as I left them in their temporary steel cage accommodations. Fluffy was just a terrified black dot in the back of the cage; Buttons, as always, was excited for a new grand adventure.
4) Checked in and got through security no problem. My flight was to stop in Houston before transferring to another flight to Reagan Intl near DC. There was only a 35 minute layover between flights; I was assured that this would be time enough. However: the flight to Houston has been delayed by forty minutes. Do the math. So, I had to get another flight. A grand total of *one* seat was available, on a different airline going to a different airport (Dulles). I’ll get to Dulles at 11 PM, then have to take a shuttlebus to the motel. I expect, if *nothing* *else* goes wrong (I’m fully expecting that my checked bag will go to Sydney, Australia), that I won’t actually get to the motel until well into Sunday.
I’m glad I thought ahead far enough to put some buffer here. Losing part of Sunday doesn’t cost the expedition too much, but losing part of Monday would be biting into the point of the exercise.
At least this terminal has free WiFi and numerous power plugs.