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What a day yesterday turned out to be. I was up for 23 hours with only a 1 hour nap in there. Took me forever to get home. Here's the adventure and timeline (all times in PST for simplicity sake):

11pm - got up, got ready, packed everything up

12am - got bored and drove over to the airport. Dropped off the car and was in the terminal by 12:30am.

2am - Security finally opens about 6 minutes late. This causes me to stress but only a little as ICT has like 9 gates and I had 24 minutes to go about 500 feet from security to my gate. The pre line was more crowded than the regular it felt though.

2:30am - board my first flight. Don't get my upgrade as it's a tiny plane and there's only 9 seats. There's like 10 of us on the list and I started at 4th but ended up at 7th. No big deal. It's an hour flight. I can manage. Barely. It's an RJ plane and the seats are more compact than a normal flight.

4am - We arrive early but have to wait a little while until there's anyone to take us to the gate because we're 10 minutes early. As we were coming in, I noticed a whole lot of lightning. I was worried we were going to get struck as we went through the cloud layer but more importantly I knew it was about to fuck up my day. My flight out was scheduled for for 7am. Yeah right. Changed terminals, got cozy in the Admirals Club, and then the notifications started coming.

10am - Three hours after we were supposed to leave my flight finally boards. I have been stressing the whole time because at noon, the tickets for the concert go on sale. Originally I was supposed to land at 11am and I was going to sit and wait to buy the tickets at PDX then come on home. Now it looks like I am going to have to buy them mid-flight. Which also meant I can't sleep until I have taken care of the purchase. Had breakfast, which kind of pissed me off because I figured they would have switched to lunch but whatever. At noon I purchased in flight internet and ended up having BETTER internet than at the hotel. Got my tickets. 2 VIP Weekend Passes. We are going to Aftershock 2017!! WOO HOO! I am excited about this.

2pm - Land at home. I think the worst is behind me. I go to get on the train, let B know I will be home in about 90 minutes. Four stops in they tell us all to get off the train. Stations ahead are closed. WTF? Turns out someone left a backpack on one of the trains and they shut down the station where it was discovered and the ones before and after the closed station. We end up getting shuffled on to a shuttle bus like sardines. I can't breathe or move. I have no idea where I am supposed to go.

3:00pm - They drop us all at Lloyd Center (like not as far from where we started as you might imagine) in the rain and tell us to go back on the train. We have to run two blocks to the train station. We are shoved in worse than on the bus because all the delays caused mass backup all over with people. B is so frustrated she tells me to get off a certain station just because. She will pick me up.'

4:30pm - I get to the station where she plans on meeting me and just barely manage to get out of the train due to the number of people jammed in there. We decide to eat dinner as there's an outback there and fuck it, I'm hungry.

6pm - Finally home. Unpack, start laundry, realize I need to go to Best Buy. I wanted to buy a NIC adaptor just in case something like what happened in Kansas with wireless happens again. B also needs a couple of things at Target.

7:30pm - Home again. Start to do timesheet, bills, expenses. Don't finish any of them, but set myself up to be ready this morning. Finish laundry. Repack to leave again Monday. By the time I get everything done it's almost 11. Going to bed.

11pm - Collapse in bed finally.

What a day, eh? I want to do a whole lot of nothing today. I have to go to the store this morning but otherwise, I am going to relax dammit. Need to do timesheet and expense report. I will get those done shortly. I did manage to sleep for a good 7 hours which was nice. No same luxury tomorrow unfortunately. Oh well.