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I know this post is going to show up as Monday back home, but it's Tuesday 5am where I am. So you get it as Tuesday's post. Deal with it. The trip was insane. I got to the airport around 5am Sunday morning. Still had no word on my upgrade. As I am literally walking down the gangway to board, my phone dings that I was upgraded. The last seat in first. Score. The gate agent came down to move me but I was already in my new seat. We laughed that I got the ding already. DFW here I come. No problem getting to Dallas. My UK flight however kept getting delayed. I didn't leave until almost 6:30pm Dallas time. I was in a decent but not great seat for the next 10 hours. I was stuck in coach but had no one next to me which was nice. I slept sporadically but not solid. I even took a sleeping pill but I just couldn't get comfortable. To summarize - PDX 5am Sunday to 11am Monday is how long it took me just to land in London. THEN the hell of Heathrow immigration. An hour standing in line for someone to stamp my passport. My driver finds me and we then spend 90 minutes getting to the hotel.

In the car on the way to the hotel I have a freak out moment in my head when I remember I didn't bring any power converters. They didn't have any at the hotel so I had to walk 20 minutes to hit Tesco. It was okay as I wanted to go there anyway. Got that taken care of and then arranged morning car service for each day. I may not use them every day but I need them today as I don't know where I am going. On the way home tonight I plan to take the tube. Wish me luck on that.

Got back and ironed. Blew the power circuit in my room doing that. Fun times. Had to have maintenance reset my room. Got that all done and then just hung out. Around 6 I went to the lounge to have 'dinner'. I wasn't super hungry and they had an assortment of meats and cheeses which worked fine for me.

Came back, watched tv, went to bed at 9:45. Slept until midnight when the room was just way too hot for me. Had to open the balcony door but even that didn't help. Finally fell back to sleep around 2 and got up at 4:40.

Day one of teaching today. Let's see how it goes.