(I just realized that I had posted this and the next entry)
Today started out fun by waking up nice and early to finish packing. You see,
the lovely wife and I are travelling to the corporate headquarters for the
"2005 Kick-Off Gala." I guess that means that we get to party on the company's
dime ;). Anyway, the alarm starts being annoying around 6:45--I know, some of
my faithul few think that this is sleeping in, but not for me. I finally roll
out of bed around 7:15, SSS, close up the suitcases and wait for the friendly
chauffeur (i.e. one of my cow-orkers that happens to have to go right past our
house to get to the airport).
Thanks to the ancient miracle of 2 day old snow, and stupid drivers, it takes
Poppy about 15m longer than normal to get to our house--couple that with him
leaving a little late == UGH!! Tick. Tick. At 8:20 we finally head on our
way to the airport--normally a 15-20m drive. Riiight. 8:50 sees us pulling
into the parking lot. We get parked just to see a tram pulling away. Great,
we get to wait. Oh. Did I mention that our flight is at 9:38? And we're
checking baggage--more on this later... The next tram is running behind and
doesn't show up until 9:07
We get to the terminal, and sprint for the e-checkin only to have it tell us
that because it's within 40m, we need to see an agent. Oh boy, that line looks
long. Thankfully there are some really nice people that let us cut in front of
them in the line. Too bad there are signs everywhere saying that baggage must
be checked no later than 40m prior to the flight. Guess what this means? We
get to catch the next flight--4h later. Suck.
Well, I guess someone wants us to spend more quality time together. Or me to
not work as much. I feel like I wasted the entire morning waking up early so
that I could be tired the rest of the day for nothing.
Bah Humbug.
