You know where I've gone, I won't be coming back; That day is done

We woke in agony Monday morning, because alarm clocks inspire agony or they're not working right. Also it was an unfamiliar alarm clock, even after three days of use, so it was a pretty shrill thing. We'd showered the night before to save precious time before getting ready but still, it was a 7:30 flight so we were getting up before 5 am to make sure we had the time to get there. chefmongoose was, as ever, an incredibly good sport about this, getting up as early and driving on top of that.

( What greeted us at the airport? What did the pilot say to give us reason to fear the worst? What went wrong with our plan to use the tram inside Detroit's airport? The answers may surprise you!  )

And this brought us home, ready to prepare for the workweek, and to see whether Hurricane Sandy would actually turn out to be that big a deal.

Trivia: One of the witnesses at an 1861 inquiry into the failure of the 1858 trans-Atlantic telegraph cable reported a major cause of lost time in operations was quarreling between the telegraph operators, with staff becoming so irritated with one another they could not work. Source: How The World Was One: Beyond The Global Village, Arthur C Clarke.

Currently Reading: Manseed, Jack Williamson.