Travel day

 Welp. 

       At the airport waiting on my flight to, sigh, Newark NJ... just in time for a nasty storm to be waiting for me. Seems like it's always shit westher for travel day... still, I've mostly got a lot of patience and sitting to do. Should be ok, and this is better than working in it. 

        It's a bit surreal, though. Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife and I left the house at 5am. It was a perfect 68 degrees in the predawn dark, dead quiet, and the crickets were in chorus. In a few hours it'll he 39 and raining, and there'll be car horns and yelling foreigners rather than pleasant and innofensive fauna. 

I will say, boarding on a Newark-bound flight is pretty low stress. The Depends 500 Miracle Race was only 4 people- the magic healing properties of aviation being what they are, and expat New Yorkers being what THEY are (awful), NY/Palm Beach airport boomers will line up in wheelchairs, usually 15-25 of them, to get to be first to sit down, and as everyone knows, modern air travel is so pleasant, refreshing and comfortable, all but 2-3 of the boomers will walk off the plane under their own power, no chair needed! 

 Miracles happen every day! 

 But yeah, Newark has fine, more honest people apparently, although a disconcerting number of them travel in pajamas on morning commute flights. 

      My 2 weeks off were mostly spent on home maintenance. I got a bunch done at least, but it turns out I am no pro with a commercial paint sprayer. Between drawer fronts and cabinet doors I have about 50 pieces to spray as part of painting my kitchen cabinets, and I kept fucking up the topcoat, and expensive AF urethane paint at $85 a gallon. I either starved the sprayer or overshot it and got a sag. 

 So when I get home in 4 weeks I have to reset up my garage for spraying and sand and 3rd coat the fancy foofoo topcoat. Sigh. 

 Still, it was a great 2 weeks. I got plenty of time with my wife and my kid has figured out finally that every acquired skill set is one he will have in his own pocket, and this got him through the drudge work of sanding, taping, priming. 

    Off we go. 4 weeks to go.