My Alabama Sojourn, Part I
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klwilliamsYesterday, I called a cab to take me to the airport. The cab was very late, and I got to the airport four minutes after the flight was closed. The nice airline lady told me she could put me on the next flight to Houston. "I'm going to Huntsville," I said. She checked, and the only flight that would get me to Huntsville that day was the flight I was originally booked on. She called to check, and the flight was delayed because of weather in Houston, so they'd wait for me, but they told her to check me in using the electronic ticket fast check-in machine. I knew what would happen. Half an hour later, after the electronic check-in machine wouldn't check me in, and a supervisor had to come check all sorts of things and call people to make sure I wasn't the person with my name on the "No Fly" list, I went through security and made it on the plane (in the very last row in the window seat), and thought things would be fine.
In Houston, I got off the plane to find that my plane to Huntsville left in twelve minutes. I ran to the train that took me to the other terminal, got there hot and sweaty, and found that this plane was delayed an hour because lightning had hit it on the way in and they needed to replace its lateral stabilizer. I finally got on, we all got buckled in and ready to go, and the pilot told us there was a two hour wait for take-off. But then, before we could push back from the gate, a lightning storm blew in and the gate crew had to stay inside until the lightning passed. In the meantime, a tornado came by and the tower was evacuated. Finally, all that passed, we got in line for take-off, made it safely into the air, took the long way to Huntsville, and I got in at 1:10 a.m. after getting on the plane at 8:30 p.m. All of that had meant that I'd missed the tornado that touched down near Huntsville, but fortunately no one was hurt or anything.
Today I spent most of the day (after I woke up) playing with Benjamin, who walks and talks (and knows an awful lot of words for a nineteen-month-old). He kept pushing the limits to see what I'd let him do, and after he climbed up on the stool and fell off a couple of times, I told him not to climb on anything. So of course he climbed on everything. I put the stool in the other room, and won the "don't climb on the back and sides of the couch" war, but we're still not finished with "don't climb on top of the coffee table". Also, Benjamin loves his trucks, so we had some fun truck games.
I got to see Dad this evening (his nursing home only has visiting hours after 4:00), and he looks really good. He's awake, alert, and is starting to walk (though he still needs a lot of help). He's going to get out of the nursing home in three weeks (because coverage runs out), so he'd better learn to walk by then.
The rest of the evening I went with Pen and Benjamin to a Thai American Thanksgiving dinner, with a delicious turkey that Pen cooked and lots of very good Thai food. I was stuffed.
And so home, and eventually to bed.
In Houston, I got off the plane to find that my plane to Huntsville left in twelve minutes. I ran to the train that took me to the other terminal, got there hot and sweaty, and found that this plane was delayed an hour because lightning had hit it on the way in and they needed to replace its lateral stabilizer. I finally got on, we all got buckled in and ready to go, and the pilot told us there was a two hour wait for take-off. But then, before we could push back from the gate, a lightning storm blew in and the gate crew had to stay inside until the lightning passed. In the meantime, a tornado came by and the tower was evacuated. Finally, all that passed, we got in line for take-off, made it safely into the air, took the long way to Huntsville, and I got in at 1:10 a.m. after getting on the plane at 8:30 p.m. All of that had meant that I'd missed the tornado that touched down near Huntsville, but fortunately no one was hurt or anything.
Today I spent most of the day (after I woke up) playing with Benjamin, who walks and talks (and knows an awful lot of words for a nineteen-month-old). He kept pushing the limits to see what I'd let him do, and after he climbed up on the stool and fell off a couple of times, I told him not to climb on anything. So of course he climbed on everything. I put the stool in the other room, and won the "don't climb on the back and sides of the couch" war, but we're still not finished with "don't climb on top of the coffee table". Also, Benjamin loves his trucks, so we had some fun truck games.
I got to see Dad this evening (his nursing home only has visiting hours after 4:00), and he looks really good. He's awake, alert, and is starting to walk (though he still needs a lot of help). He's going to get out of the nursing home in three weeks (because coverage runs out), so he'd better learn to walk by then.
The rest of the evening I went with Pen and Benjamin to a Thai American Thanksgiving dinner, with a delicious turkey that Pen cooked and lots of very good Thai food. I was stuffed.
And so home, and eventually to bed.
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