DEPARTURE DRAMA & STUFF

A two Part Report

First: The STUFF.

HE sets the Scene.

It’s the day before blast off and HE is still poking around trying to figure out what is missing.

“Unhhh, where’s the makeup bag?”

“Still not finished.”

“As Pope Julius cried often to Michelangelo,

‘When Will IT Be Done?’, or sumpin’ like that.”

“‘When IT is finished’, was his and MY response.”

And so went the final stages of the Packing Ballet.

Which, for the most part, was not much of a Ballet as in the past. 

Truth be told, SHE, thanks to Pre-sort and several trip experience’s, had it all on the bed, he had it all in the bag, and just 2 items went back, until… he realized she was sooooo good this time, he had room for more.  

“Oh no Joe… say it ain't so.” 

{Baseball buffs get that one}

So of course, she obliged with a small pile of :

“Por si Acaso” {Translation: Just in case} of which he obliged half.

Soooo, Monday night, a day ahead of schedule, just because they were both getting antsy, they eased into the routine and VOILA they were DONE!!!  Including the Fabled Blow Dryer.

Well… almost.  You just know he had to tweak this and re-arrange that and… well, it all fit…Sorta. 

The test will come when they get to TSA PreCheck and the lovely TSA agent says,

“Unhhh sir, please place THAT bag in the sizer.”

{Since this is written as a two in one post, we'll just have to wait till the DEPARTURE DRAMA to see the results}

Oh… and one minor DRAMA issue occurred Monday morning when he logged into his Outlook to check email and stuff.  

For some reason, his Personal email: clmerc... was not receiving, which is VERY important because all his other Alias’ forward into it, including the Gmail he uses for travel notes and NOWAT***ALERTS***, to keep the incoming email noise down, because believe it or not, sometimes ATT Mail hiccups on the ship and some places in Europe. At least it did prior to their dumping Yahoo-Mail as a general server.

This incurred 3+hours on the phone with AT&T

NON-tech service

Including 7 dropped calls and agents plus 3 different agencies, to straighten it out, a story Waaaay longer than we have room, or patience to repeat here.  Suffice it to say, HE got it fixed for now…They just bumbled around.

Well, it seems that this got longer [gee ya think] than planned so we guess that the DEPARTURE DRAMA will actually get penned on the Plane. Which was the plan all along, HE just thought he could get a jump on it.

Besides, the Scotch is getting low in his glass, just another excuse to stretch and head to the Kitchen for a refill before heading to join the Dragon Lady in Nonny-Nonny land.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day… no Doubt.

Ciao 4 Now

Uncle Chuck & The Proud of her sorting skills,

Dragon Lady