Prepare for takeoff

Yes, I’m still here. Things were busy at the office–we’ve been trying to get a bunch of work done before the Thanksgiving holiday. And we succeeded for the most part. But I’m done thinking about work. I am now officially on vacation! I leave for the Bay Area in a few hours–National to SFO via Detroit–and still need to get ready. Isn’t the day before Thanksgiving supposed to be the busiest travel day of the year? Oh, great. If you remember my little air-travel debacle this time last year–I don’t have all the earlier blog archives up yet–my outbound flight was delayed, making me miss my connection to the last flight of the day, and so I spent Thanksgiving eve stranded in Newark, N.J. I arrived in San Francisco on Thanksgiving morning, with almost twenty hours elapsing since I’d left my apartment in Washington. Anyway. I’ve since learned, and now choose flights earlier in the day. Knock on wood.

There are a few bits and bobs to catch up on, like the Rufus concert last week (which, for now, I will say was awesome), but further bloggage will have to wait until I’m out there on the left coast, where I’ll be, resting and relaxing, through next Monday.