Heading back to Texas...

A big thanks to jeliza for this morning's ride to the airport. It isn't crazy busy here yet, but there are a fair number of people waiting for flights. There is fairly heavy fog, but hopefully it will thin out sooner than later. I suspect today is going to be a long day, particularly having to fly through DFW.

BTW, it seems that which wireless service you can access at the airport depends on which freaking terminal you are in. I have a Wayport account, but it only works in the Alaska terminal. Here in the American Airlines terminal, I had to use T-Mobile Hotspot. I freaking hate the state of wireless service.

Musical Chairs

The flight from Seattle to DFW was of course packed. There were families spread all over the plane and people keep exchanging seats for most of the time other people were trying to board the plane. I was lost in a sea of kids until a few exchanges later I'm sitting in a row with a young couple on my right and a prep area on my left. I barely made it through the first DVD for the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King special edition, and I'm not sure my battery will recharge enough here to finish it on my flight to San Antonio. At least I'm almost at my destination.

San Antonio

After a long day of travel, I'm in San Antonio at my folk's place. I'll be heading up to Austin tomorrow afternoon and staying through Wednesday or Thursday. Actually looking at the calender, I see that I'll need to plan to be in San Antonio through the weekend to do Christmas with the folks and I head back to Seattle on Sunday. My brother Todd gets in Thursday late and my parents both work the first half of the week anyhow.

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King special edition is pretty cool. There were a lot of small scenes and subplots cut from the theatrical release of the firm and it was great to see them on film: the breaking of Saruman's staff, the afterman of Eowyn's death blow on the Witch King, a bit of the courtship between Faramir and Eowyn, more detail for Aaragorn's trip down the Dulmalt road and taking of the coursair ships, and so on. Be warned: if you felt the original release was too long, don't bother!