[tei-council] 35.3 hours

[Martin Holmes]

Oh Syd. You looked so happy when I last saw you hacking at XSLT in 
Terminal 2 at Heathrow. This sounds worse than our ice-storm saga last 
year (but not quite as long).

My first plane was an hour late, but I always expect delays so my second 
was booked with that in mind and I got on it no trouble. Got home to my 
house at 3.15 pm my time (I guess about 6.15 pm yours).

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-07-04 11:27 AM, Syd Bauman wrote:
> That's how long it took me to get home. I left 37 Wellington Square
> at ~05:48 +01. I got home ~2.2 hours ago, at 12:06 -04. Highlights of
> this comedy of errors include 1 delayed flight, 2 cancelled flights,
> several bits of mis-information from United staff, what little free
> wireless there is at EWR not working, > 4 hours of waiting on various
> lines at EWR, ~1.5 hours of waiting on hold for United phone
> assistance, listening to a 20-something year old princess headed to
> West Palm Beach tell the United desk agent that "I have to be on that
> flight -- it can't leave without me ... tomorrow is my birthday and I
> can't be traveling in my birthday", a power failure in EWR terminal
> C, lightning over the runway, inability to get food while at EWR for
> fear of losing place on line, both Amtrak trains from EWR to PVD
> already full, connecting with a very nice fellow also heading towards
> Providence while on line to get assistance re-booking (which we never
> got), being told it would take a minimum of 2 hours to retrieve our
> luggage (which I not only haven't gotten yet, United hasn't even
> found it yet), renting a car with said fellow and driving as far as
> Groton CT, staying overnight in a hotel (~4 hrs sleep), and (when I
> finally got to my car) finding that I had left a door ajar, and thus
> the battery was stone dead.
>
> I hope others had better travel experiences than I.
>