I'm too old

for sleeping in airports. At least, it feels that way right now.

Swiss Air lounge doesn't do as good a job on breakfast as Lufthansa does, but they are all still better than United lounges (which are crap).

skip=750

I am almost up to date on LJ. Except, you see, when you reach skip=750, LJ won't let you skip backwards any further. So I am missing some posts between July 18th and 21st.

Thursday looks reasonable for taking the bike to Montreal -- well, env Canada says it looks good, while the weather network says it looks ok. Monday coming home looks more likely to be wet, but that doesn't matter as much.

So. it looks like I'll have a bike in Montreal. I expect I will pay for hotel parking -- I wonder if it they will charge less for the bike than for a car.

I am SO looking forward to a shower that has more than 1.5 minutes (approximately) of hot water.

3 hour delay in Geneva

Gah. 3 hour delay in Geneva. Apparently the plane inbound was very late. May cost me my Montreal-Ottawa bus ticket that I bought in advance. We'll see what Greyhound does.

At least I get to wait in the nice lounges.

Maybe I should start catching up on my webcomics? Or try to check work email again.

I screwed up

I missed my flight out of Geneva. It was late, and I didn't understand how they were posting the flights, so I screwed up. Extra night in Geneva, probably back to Montreal midnight or so tomorrow. Ugh.

I am teh dumb.

showered...

Had my first long, hot, shower in over two weeks. I'm feeling a bit better.

This isn't anything life-critical, just expensive in time and money. It won't break me financially, and it will eat in to Worldcon which sucks, but that is how things are.

Doh!

Last airport -> Ottawa bus. 10:55pm. My arrival at airport: 11:03pm. Doh.

At least I already have a hotel in Montreal for Thursday night. :)

I wonder if the hotel has a shuttle bus? More reasearch...

I can, maybe, stand-by an earlier flight... that would work better. Won't know on that until tomorrow, though.

Helpful friends...

commodorified is going to make sure that some fresh clothes make it from Ottawa to Montreal for me. w00t! Still not sure how I'll get me & everything else home after the con, though.

amazing, but true

Before this trip I purchased a sleeping bag liner and a thermarest at MEC. Both came with little carrying bags they were nicely tucked up in. In a major miracle, when I came to repack to come home both of them FIT BACK IN THEIR LITTLE BAGS. I was utterly shocked. The sleeping bag liner took a bit of a fight, but thermarest went easily.

Found a belt

Apparently a previous inhabitant of this hotel room left a belt (I think I'm reasonable in assuming his) belt in the room. Unfortunately it is too long to resolve my problem with my jeans. I'm sure when I bought them they weren't too big -- they were comfortable -- but now they are way too loose around the waste. As in I can easily fit a fist between the waist band and me, that is, with room to spare. I need a belt with them, but apparently this belt, at its smallest hole, is just about the same size. Oh well, I thought I'd had a problem solved.