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Full disclosure: I am sleeping with the instructor.

Last year Lori got a AeroGarden from my mom for Christmas (psst! thanks mom!) but we were afraid to use it due to the fact that the cats get a little too curious. Having less cats around now, Lori decided to try her luck.

It’s not much, but it’s growing nicely, plus I have confirmed the cilantro is as evil as I have always suspected as it’s hiding in the dark rather then showing itself in the light.

So with that in mind, Lori has accepted a job offer in Kelowna! 36C (97F) today, not quite as hot as Texas, but close.

Still some details to arrange, but she’ll be starting in a week and a half, I won’t be moving for a couple months or so, with the goal being to let her decide if she likes the job, and take a bit of time to find a place before we uproot and move.

One of the big perks of working remotely is that I can move without having to do the find-a-new-job thing. When you’re already 2000 miles from your office, what’s another 250 miles?

It’s interesting people watching, especially watching how people react as they find out the flight is late — I think I’ve seen six stages of grief so far, but we’re waiting on the inbound flight before stage seven.

Okay, in fairness not too much disbelief, this *is* a commercial airline afterall.

No sir, there isn’t any way to connect you through another airport and arrive faster then a direct flight that is only expected to be 45-60 minutes late.

One guy was rather irate, he’s been sitting in the airport since 7-something in the morning. Why so long? Well, from what I overheard, he was booked on the 7am flight, slept in and didn’t quite make it. hah. oops. I’m unclear as to what he thinks yelling at the gate staff will do to get the inbound plane here faster, but since I’m on the same flight, I suppose I’ll benefit too if he manages to talk the gate staff into building a new plane out of whatever spare parts they might have kicking around.

At this point it’s pretty calm, although it would be nice if Susan Bdukchkkcuaktrk would “present herself” sooner rather then later, it’s getting pretty scary listening to all the different ways the gate staff has tried to mangle the name.

Ahh well. An hour delay in the airport isn’t bad, although if you ever have the opportunity, don’t make the same mistake I did: When Harvey’s asks if you want fries, for the love of $DIETY, say no, it’s a trap! They’re only offering you fries because they’re desperate to get rid of ’em. I cannot stress this enough, they’re horrible.

On the plus side, I have free access to the Calgary airport hotspot as part of my EVDO service, so that’s a nice perk — I not only work from home, but I work at the coffee shop, the airport, and anywhere else that has EVDO or wifi.

I tucked Lori in my big suitcase so I could bring her with me since we don’t have the spare cash to book a seat, they’ve got all the suitcases out in the sun so at least she’ll be nice and warm for the wait.

Life is good.

So at the crack of 2pm I got up.  Hmm, not quite the plan… So instead I spent the night going through a few bins of stuff I’ve got kicking around in my office, throwing out about half the junk, getting the rest up for sale.  Once I get the bins cleaned up, I’ll attack my desk, then I might actually declare my office clean.  ish.

That’s 43 new items up for sale.  Sweet!  You should buy stuff!

I also took the time to clean up my WordPress tag list a little, combine some tags more logically, plus I’m now using the Simple Tags plug-in, which is, quite frankly, awesome.

Another bonus, Mah Lori will back home today!  She’s been off in Vancouver for a coaching thing…

As it turns out, Lori will be busy from 7am through 11pm straight, plus she has this weird habit of sleeping… Not much time to sight-see, or even share a dinner.

I’ll probably make it out to Vancouver this summer instead, we’ll see how it goes.

For whatever reason, since I’ve been down in Texas I haven’t gotten more then an hour of uninterrupted sleep, and only once did I get more then three hours of sleep in a whole night. I do *not* function well on less then three hours of sleep.

I also suspect American Airlines thinks I need more exercise, as very consistently when I check in at DFW, I get pointed to D27/D28, then the flight gets changed to D38/D39/D40 — I’m thinking it’s AA’s way of telling me to go for a walk more often. Either that, or they’re telling me to take a vacation as the the plane parked at D28 when I started this post is going to Mexico, and the next one is going to Costa Rica…

Quick update… I make it over to D40 just in time to get a gate change notification on my Treo, we’re back to D28. Spanky.

On the plus side, in only six hours from now I’ll be with my Lori again.

Even better, it has a swimming pool with waterslide, much to the delight of the girls. Having spent a good 15 minutes in the pool, they’re back, decided that the mall has far more appeal. Damn kids.

We’ve got a few hours to kill between now at the party, Lori is having a nap, I’m enjoying the unreliability that is the hotel’s internet connection, and the girls are walking out the door as I type this. We still need a card, and a lint roller, but otherwise we’re more or less set.

Oh, and did I mention the amazing view from the balcony?