A Travel Delay Seems a Kind of Thing This Year

Home again, home again, jiggity-jig.  Yes, the writer has come back from a visit to family, nieces and sister, in the Washington DC area to a computer cave much as it had been before.  No exciting new news, no exciting bad news, one rejection when the time came to check email, another story advanced to a publisher’s second round, but not yet (if ever to be) accepted.  And one comes home late:  It seems a thing, this current year of traveling adventures, that there will be a delay of some kind connected with airplanes.  Stokercon in Providence last month (see March 6) involved a flight cancellation, finding a new flight out of Boston, a $60-plus ride via Uber (still cheaper than an extra hotel night) and finally home only three hours late.  This time the plane left the gate on time, but an “issue” came up regarding equipment and back to the gate to replace a part.  But they did feed us snacks.  And then a new takeoff and home again, home again only two hours late.

So life in the computer cave resumes, a happy and healthy Triana welcoming me last night (now resting behind the couch, enjoying a little alone time).  This night’s supper cooking, and so it goes.