I is About Ready.

Well, all my papers are in order, I'm 99.44% packed.  The only thing left is my removable backup drive, so that I have a copy of my desktop environment when I get there (just in case). Naturally, the backup system decided to act up earlier today when I tried to synch (and ate my earlier backup to boot) so rather than doing a 10-minute synch which is what was planned for this evening, I'm doing a full blown backup. It looks like it has another 3-5 hours left to run, so it should finish well before I need to be awake tomorrow morning.

The plan for tomorrow is to wake around 9:00am, and get to the airport by noon for my 2:45pm flight. This is all because of the tremendous number of unexpected delays last time such that the 90 minutes I had given myself before takeoff was nowhere near enough. This time, I'm sure, Murphy's law will dictate that I zoom though everything and be waiting at my departure gate from 12:15 onwards. So be it. I've got a book and I've got a humongous collection of crosswords that azrhey gave me at my send-off party, so I'll have something to do, should that come to pass.

Now, I just have to conquer the nervousness and excitement of the adventure, so that I can get some sleep tonight...

The Big Day.

Well, this is it, the big day. I want to thank everyone for all the well-wishing. With any luck, my next posts will be from me either en route, or in California.