The Return

Well, I'm back in Los Angeles after a month away.  Happily, the elves kept it in good shape.  But it feels a bit odd entering the place.  Lots of unpacking to do, since I'm bringing back an extra full-sized suitcase with "stuff."  (And more to come when the movers arrive in a couple of weeks, with more "stuff" -- and furniture.

The hectic part is over, though there's still quite a bit to do.  Mostly paperwork, and mostly things that the attorney and accounts and such can deal with, albeit in a convoluted way.  And I'll still have to get involved and coordinate as much as I can -- and can hopefully understand the gobbledygook.  

The flight on American Airlines was a little screwy -- mostly in a variety of pre-flight things.  Not worth going into them all (a bunch with customer service when I had to change my flight a couple days ago), but here's one small event at the airport:  I had that aforementioned additional full-sized suitcase I was checking.  It turned out the be three pounds over the limit.  Okay, fine, no problem, How much is the extra fee?  Well...it was $100.  For three extra pounds.  No thanks.  So, I had to open the suitcase, rummage around and take out three pounds worth of things and shift them to my carry-on.  Now, the odd thing about this, of course., is that I didn't lower the weight of what I was bringing on the plane.  I just shifted it from one bag to another.

(Alas, I had removed a bag with some thing from my folks.  And I didn't check what was in it -- it just felt like it would be three pounds -- and when I got to the TSA checkers, it turned out that one of the items had a small fold-up blade, so they had to confiscate it and throw it away.  Happily, it wasn't any even remotely meaningful or even important, and even was something I could easily buy here, but it was useful and theirs.  My fault for not checking, but...$100 for three extra pounds?  Why not pro-rate it.  Especially since I was just shifting weight between two suitcases.)

Also, no classical music channel on the in-flight entertainment.  No problem having 12 channels of overlapping kinds of pop music, but no classical.  Ah, well, they landed safely and a couple minutes early, and that's the only thing that really matters.

​Now, diving back to unpacking and collapsing...