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lol  Well, you may have heard the expression, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”  That’s good advice, especially when things seem to go wrong all at once. 

Quick Lemons Recap

My flight was scheduled for 11:52 this morning.  I needed to get to the airport (where I’m typing now) an hour before that.  As we were preparing to leave, the doctor’s office called to say they were packed today and could squeeze in Meridian’s cast appointment (see “Broken Bones”) twenty minutes from that moment.  That meant Dawn had to leave immediately and I’d have to find a ride (my truck died last week; I haven’t needed it because I’m working from home, so it’s just sitting in the driveway for now).  I had been talking up the airport experience for Meridian — “Papi fliegt heute auf einer Flugzeug” [“Papi is flying in an airplane today”] — but now she wouldn’t be able to see me off.

I called my sister Suzanne, who was happy to drive me.  Sweet.

Watching Dawn and Meridian leave, I noticed some flowers on the porch outside our house.  They had fallen from the hanging plant, which served as a nest for a pigeon and her two babies that Meridian and I had been watching for days.  Dawn had spotted a cat on our porch railing last night and shooed it away — but clearly, the feline had returned.  I hopped up on the railing.  No babies.  The mother pigeon was pacing back and forth in the grass, not twenty feet away.

Suzanne drove me to the airport.  I checked in to pick up my e-ticket.  Unfortunately, no e-ticket was listed for me.  The lady behind the counter was great — tried all sorts of alternative avenues to find my info — but nothing turned up.  I found an empty bench, fired up the wi-fi, and logged into Travelocity.  No e-ticket.  Dawn had researched an itinerary and found a terrific price, but hadn’t actually made the purchase.  :-p  (To her credit, Dawn has apologized profusely and repeatedly.  Ah, life.  Just gotta roll with it.)  The cheapest ticket today, on the spot, cost twice as much, but them’s the brakes.  I’m leaving much later and consequently arriving much later this evening.  On top of that, my return flight on Friday leaves at 6:30 in the morning!  (It had previously been a comfortable 10:40am.)

Lemonade, Please

In spite of this hassle, I’m still heading for Flashforward!  How cool is that!?

The fellow who’s meeting me at the airport, a friend of Chris’s and presenter, Todd Sanders, is at a dinner meeting until 10:00pm tonight, so my late arrival is actually more convenient for him.

I get the chance to go through my bags one last time and make quadrupley sure I didn’t forget anything. 

Oh, and Meridian was able to see me off.  And I got to see her cast.  It‘s purple.

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