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.
They like you.
They really like you.