I just spent three days without it.
Thank goodness I had beer.
Beer is useful. Anoreth’s been without internet since mid-June, and no beer either. Only another week and a half, though. The base responded to my question about her stuff: the trainees will have a lecture about moving their stuff this Thursday, and she can sort it out with her dad and grandmother and then email me after the graduation. I’ll just send her extra underwear along, and her iPod if we can find it.
It is definitely August here. Warm and the brownish-orange sunlight that in California comes from wildfires; not sure what does it here. The first spiderwebs have appeared too, soon they'll be everywhere.
And... today I've begun planning the fall travel season, now that all my expense reports are in. First up, Las Vegas and Strasbourg, followed by Atlanta, then Santa Fe, then... I forget. Atlanta again somewhere in there. Think I'm missing something somewhere. Oh yeah. Moscow in December. Maybe. If the invitation comes.
Mess-up on the last trip and the airline was very apologetic that a platinum elite flew coach class when an upgrade was available. (My fault, their software, the woman probably needed the seat for some reason -- I could see she was dealing with a problem of some kind, no biggie). So they gave me more miles. Elite qualifying miles, even! I'm only ~1200 miles from platinum for next year. Not sure that's a good thing.