Live From SeaTac Airport.

.....We're here. We made it. We're at Gate S2 awaiting our 4:45PM flight to Salt Lake City. If you'd have asked me our chances of actually making it here this morning, I might have given you even odds as I was NOT motivated to get moving at all.

.....Mainly it was the mind doing loop-de-loops over handing off the Seneschallate to Oliver last night. It was tough, and still is. He is entirely competent and a great diplomat. He'll do a fantastic job with the office, especially since he has far more time during the course of a normal week to actually devote to it. Which, of course, is one of my regrets, all of those things that are loose ends that I will not finish.

.....It's tough to let go though. I thought last night at the Business Meetings things might have gone worse for me on the emotional side. But it was a quiet night and that helped. I stayed in the rhythm of the reports and made it through the night without thinking, really, that it was my last Business Meeting. It still hasn't really hit, except as a vague notion of loss. But things are already getting incredibly busy and I just need to let go.

.....Enough with the whining. I think I'm driving friends away with it. hopeful_archer took me off of her friends list yesterday. I hope my whining isn't driving friends away. I may have to ask her about that.

.....Disneyland! I haven't been there since 1976. The last time I was there they hadn't broken ground on Space Mountain yet. My mother, brother and myself had made the two hour drive from Outer Mongolia (otherwise known as Weldon, CA) to tour the Bicentenial Train. They shuffled us through there so fast that we had toured and were done by 10AM, so Mom decided, 'What the heck, let's go to Disneyland!' Of course, my brother and I weren't going to argue with that one. :-) It was a lot of fun.

.....The place is like doubled in size now, with lots more to do and see. I'm looking forward to it. The weather looks nice as well. The hotest day will be 87 degrees, the others being in the upper 70's and lower 80's. I'd still like to make the drive down there sometime. Maybe this December. I have almost three weeks of leave to use up then. That might be a good time for a drive.

.....But only if my 'to-do' list is caught up! Between scroll texts and ceremonies and planzzzz, things are already hopping and will hit warp speed when we get back next week.

.....Actually, I think that TBT picked a good time for this. It is like a nice exclamation point and separation between one life and the next. I think I'll work on that as my mantra.

.....TBT wants to log on to LJ before we board, I suppose I'd better let her on the computer now. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Hey! It's the Great Salt Lake!

.....It was actually a beautiful site. The sun was setting over the lake, with the clouds reflecting on the waters and the horizon turning all kinds of reds and yellows. Quite a nice welcome. :-)

.....The Salt Lake City International Airport looks amazingly like.....almost every other airport in existence! :-) But it is still fun to be traveling. Although I think Rhys is already done with the traveling part. He just wants to be there. :-)

.....Delta keeps a tight flight schedule though. The flight leaving the gate before us to Oakland left and at least a dozen people came running in from various other Delta flights, hoping they had made their connection. One by one they were sent to the Courtesy Phones to make arrangements for new flights. Having a layover of an hour or so seems boring, but I'd rather have the time to make it to the next gate, rather than running my hind end off, hopefully making it, and being directed to the Courtesy Phones. Just sayin...

.....TBT wants the computer. Guess I should let her have it. My computer fix is done for the moment. I'm sure Ralph is chuckling in glee. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.