Travel Doom!

[firstfrost]

harrock and I have managed to return from the Frozen Northlands, after many attempts by the weather to keep us there forever. Our flight out of Madison on Friday was cancelled due to fog, and we were rebooked onto another flight very early Saturday morning, which was also cancelled due to fog. (As it turns out, that flight would have been out of Minneapolis, so it's good that it was cancelled, because they seem to have neglected to clarify that.). At that point, Northwest said "well, we can probably get you to Boston Monday night or so", which was a little later than the original plan. In the end, we ended up driving to Chicago and getting a plane from there to Detroit to Providence, where chenoameg rescued us (yay!), though for a while it looked like we would be trapped in Detroit instead, when the plane broke and had to be replaced with a new plane.

Also a new sort of travel irritation - most airlines will either force you to choose seats when you make the reservation (JetBlue), or will assign you vaguely sensible seats. Northwest seems to have chosen a third option, that being to give you random seats, such as splitting up two tickets travelling together. One gate agent was nice enough to move people around to reseat us; another said that the flight was full so there were no empty seats (well, we weren't asking for *empty* seats, we were asking to be switched with solo travellers... but anyway).

Um. Yes, Christmas was good, other than the travel. Was there Christmas? I mostly remember the travel, at this point. :) But here are some nice pictures of Fog.

Something that I have noticed: at home, there is my side of the bed, and there is harrock's side. When travelling, there is also an obvious My Side and His Side, such that we both know who has what side - but it isn't that left and right match the bed at home, it's that I have the side closer to the door and he has the side away from the door. I don't know whether this is because I'm lazy and cannot be bothered to walk all the way around the bed, or because he is worried that ninja will attack in the middle of the night and they can get me first. It isn't something we think about, it's just obvious. I'm wondering how it works out for other couples - do you sort by left and right? Door and not door? Near the light? Something else? Or do you have to figure out who gets what side as you go?

Comments

[bakedweasels.livejournal.com]

We are "owner of alarm clock on the side of the bed w/alarm clock" people. Which works out because the clock has 2 "stations", and the "slave station" can go next to me so I can turn it off at 4:30 when my alarm goes off.

[twe.livejournal.com]

An alarm clock that you can reach from the bed is a dangerous thing!

[bakedweasels.livejournal.com]

Given that I now get up when I used to go to bed, you'd think so. I think for me it's a real interest in my work that gets me up in the morning, which is a nice thing to be able to say.

[twe.livejournal.com]

That is a really nice thing to be able to say, so congratulations on that too!

I mostly just don't get up enough sleep. Upon being woken up Christmas morning, I'm pretty sure my response was "but it's still dark out."