Hi Syd, Glad you made it home safely! I think I would change your subject line to “return trip misadventures”, because I would not call it a fail to have arrived at last at home to sleep. Cheers— and I hope you will consider adding just a spot of explanation about removing <time> from att.dimensions and att.measure as I suggested during your flurry of ticket activity. I suppose all in good <time>...:) Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Director, Center for the Digital Text Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601 USA E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu | Development site: http://newtfire.org Typeset by hand on my iPad

On Nov 21, 2017, at 9:29 PM, Syd Bauman wrote:

I was scheduled to depart YVH on a lovely floatplane Sun 19 Nov 10:00, have some long and dreary layovers, and finally land in PVD Mon 20 Nov 01:25, which is a mere 12:25 later. (James scoffs! Magdelena harrumphs! The Scholgers start to sneer, but quickly suppress it; Peter is too hung over and jet-lagged to notice that 12.5 hours is a bit excessive[1].)

Floatplane was canceled due to high winds in Seattle. I spent a panicky hour at my AirB&B searching around, and found a flight that would get me into PVD Mon 20 Nov 11:49 (I think it was) for only ~$550. But 2 minutes later, when I went to buy it, Travelocity announced the price had gone up. It was now $1002! So I looked some more, and found another @ ~$560 that got me in Mon 20 Nov 13:56. That's > 2 hours worse (they left YYJ at the same time), but certainly the difference did not seem worth $500 of TEI's money. So I took it.

I then went and had lunch at a diner (Pluto's on Cook -- I recommend it), and then took busses (the 14 to the 72 to the 88) to the airport, arriving almost 2 hours after I left the diner.

After being grilled quite thoroughly by security (why are you asking me for the 3rd time if I packed my own bag?), the flight from YYJ to SEA was largely uneventful. (Pilot predicted landing a few mins early despite departing a few mins late, but we had to circle around due to reports of bad downdrafts near the runway, so ended up a few mins late. No problem.)

After an ~5 hour layover, the red-eye flight from SEA to ORD was no problem, although I got almost no sleep. Flight from ORD to IAD boarded exactly on time. Then we sat there for almost an hour due to same maintenance documentation delay. Given that I had only an ~50 min layover in IAD to get from one terminal to another, there was no chance of making the connecting flight to PVD.

So I was re-booked to a later flight,[2] and had another ~6 hour layover. I was scheduled to (and did) arrive in PVD at ~19:00, ~17.6 hours late, missing a (minor) medical appointment. I then had to take busses to get to my car (which was at the repair shop), and got home at ~20:40, which was over 3.5 hours late for my EMS shift. And, of course, I was completely exhausted after essentially doing nothing but traveling or planning travel since Sun 19 Nov 08:30 (11:30 ET), i.e. ~33 hours. Sigh. (BTW, that "nothing" included almost no sleep, but at least lots of work on tickets. :-)

I got to bed circa 22:45 and slept for nearly 13 hours.

Notes ----- [1] The usual is around ~11 hours; I've done it in as little as ~7.6, and as long as ~13.9.

[2] One thing I will say that United did well in this, is that on landing at IAD I went to the customer service desk, and they had already re-booked me on the next available flight out, and printed up a boarding pass. They just had to print my (measly $10) meal voucher and hand them to me. Very efficient, although I would have preferred the efficiency be applied to getting that maintenance report to the flight crew. -- tei-council mailing list tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council

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