On Monday I woke up laughing. No recollection of the dream, I just woke up with a big smile and a chuckle. And it felt great.

I've never experienced this before, but I must say that it is the best way to start the day. If I could do it again, I'd do it everyday.

Drove down to the White Rock overlook and watched the sunrise, and then took the long scenic route to Albuqerque via highway 4. On the way, I came across a large collection of deer and elk. I'd never seen an elk before.

Let's see. What else. F-16s at Albuquerque airport, taking off four abreast. Found a "speed humps" sign near the airport that I found humorous.

The flight to Cincinnatti was uneventful. They wanted to charge me $5 for headphones to watch some bad Nicholas Cage movie, so I just turned up the volume on my armrest and made a funnel earhorn out of my airplane safety card. It was definitely not worth $5.

In Cincinnatti, they put us on the plane on time, then left us at the gate for 2 hours. There was a storm between there and Boston that was so bad that they couldn't fly through it, so high that they couldn't fly over it, and so large that to fly around would put the plane beyond fuel capacity. So they waited.

Finally, they pulled away and taxied down to some remote part of the runway, where they waited for another two hours.

Then they rolled back to the gate, let us off, and herded everyone onto a bigger plane along with the contents of the next Boston flight which was also very late at this point, and we all flew around the storm in a big 767-300.

Getting home at 2:30am, I realized what three weeks of incapacitation had done to the state of my room. Wow what a pit.

Oh, and to add to the fun, my laptop has now totally stopped recognizing its extra RAM. I'm sending it back in this morning for another repair. @!#*&#%!

And more badness, Professor Parker hasn't graded the midterms from 22.62, and therefore I have no gague for whether or not I should drop the course. Did I mention that taxes are almost due and I haven't started working on that??

Everything was so much more pleasent in New Mexico...