IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER....

Bad start to the morning so far — I did get a good night's sleep (having gone to bed around 9p.m. and having awoke to my alarm at 3:30a.m.) but found I hadn't transferred my wash to the dryer!  I'm "patiently" waiting for my travel clothes to get dry enough to wear before I take a shower.  I had planned to take out the trash and run up to check the mail and withdraw some cash from the ATM before ordering a taxi but that's all been delayed at least an hour.  At least I still have plenty of time before I need to be at the airport...

While waiting, I decided to do some last-minute checking of e-mail and reading of weather forecasts, etc. on the computer.  But my main computer decided to be temperamental with Windows XP refusing to load.  It took almost twenty minutes of frustration before I got past the first splash screen and then it decided that it didn't like my password!  To make a long story short, I'm now working on that computer but I'm not certain it will start up again (I'll try a restart in a moment).

Ominous beginnings to this trip, but — hopefully — nothing else will go wrong.  The only other mishap I can imagine occurring would be to miss my connecting flight in Las Vegas; I book flights so that I do usually have enough time to account for short (less than an hour) delays so I should be okay....