That was a long day!

With the 2.5 hour delay in Chicago (waiting for a plane from Lexington, where apparently there'd been thunderstorms), I ended up getting to my hotel around 1:30am, about 25 hours after I got up in Dublin. Unfortunately, I didn't sleep very well -- this was late enough that my body was back into "waking up" mode, rather than sleep mode. I think if I had gotten in on time, I'd have switched timezones quite smoothly. We'll have to see how tonight goes, I may be ok with a moderately early night tonight.

Though, I will saying being back awake again did make it easier to drive to the hotel without falling asleep -- if I'd been in the shape I was while waiting for my last flight in Chicago (nodding off in the airport seat, not able to keep my eyes open), it might have been a dangerous drive.

And, they tried to give me a Mazda 5 (micro-van) again, but I asked for something different. Contact a Pontiac G6, boring but seems acceptable.

This hotel is, also, in a new area. The street doesn't exist according to my GPS, though a close-by one with a similar name (avenue instead of circle) did exist, and seemed to be in the right area, and did get me to the hotel. Yay. The customer's street, similarly, must be fairly new as my GPS doesn't know any street numbers on it. I think I will find them today, when I've got lots of time, rather than tomorrow when I need to get there.

Marriage

gabriel_le asked me in trans-Atlantic IM on Friday, and I said yes. It wasn't the first time we had talked about the possibility, and I had told her that if it was going to happen, she would have to ask me -- and she agreed with the reasons for that. But, we're not ready to be engaged yet, so we've decided that we're "engaged to be engaged". At least partly, this is because we don't want a long engagement, but there is a lot of stuff to be cleaned up and organised before we're actually ready to get married. And we have no idea when the actual date will be. While I don't want to predict the future, I would say that we'll probably start the official engagement when we decide on the actual date for getting married.