It was a busy day. After the good news about my surgical pathology I went straight to the airport. I was anxious, as my flight had a layover at Seatac which had an ongoing cybersecurity incident. The flight was full, as they always seem to be these days, but the flight was uneventful.
Seatac was a hot mess. The annunciators were all down. The place was packed with people trying to figure out where to go or waiting for delayed or rescheduled flights. There was no place to sit. Fortunately, I did not have to wait long, as my connecting flight boarded right on time. In a first in my recent travel experience, the plane was only about half-filled so I had a pretty comfortable place to sit for the 45 minutes it took to get the plane away from the gate.
I arrived on the island about 1am by my biological clock. The caretaker was there to give me a ride back to the island place. It’s still beautiful. Even though it was now after 2am by my internal reckoning, I was anxious to get the email server running so I plugged it in. There was some further delay due to a glitch in the router, and I fell asleep. I awoke at 3am local, worked around the glitch, and got the mail flowing again.
The caretaker has worked wonders, fighting back invasive vegetation, clearing the land where the array of solar panels will go, cleaning a few decades of accumulated grime on the interior, and putting in fencing so that the place will be safe for Luna the Big Dog™ when she arrives tomorrow.
The garage is being framed up as I write this and I think I’m going to try to catch up on sleep.
—2p