I was a little worried you were still stuck in Chicago, and would be, for perpetuity.

My entire body hurts from lack of sleep and running a mile through O'Hare in an attempt to make my connecting flight Sunday night. They let me board the plane, but the seat was occupied. O'Hare held my checked bag hostage, so I spent the night in the O'Hare Hilton with no toiletries other than what was in the hotel bathroom. They rebooked me first class, which was nice, but my flight yesterday got delayed 5 hours for mechanical problems. I now have $600 worth of vouchers from United.

I really don't want to go back to the airport tomorrow. Guess who I'm flying to Atlanta? United. Ha ha. Ha.

Oy, shrift.

That's so awful, Cass! I don't have any idea what could be done, but if there's any way I can help I will.

In me news, it seems pretty unfair that I did so well getting through Monday at work and now I have to do it again. Whose idea was this?

O'Hare was the airport we connected through when we flew home, after retrieving lots of husband's childhood artifacts when his parents were preparing to sell the house. So we had two checked bags each, full of pictures and stuff.

Flight was delayed a good 8 hours or so. When we got to baggage claim in Houston, our bags had somehow not made the plane.

Half the men in my office do not wash their hand after they use the bathroom. They are in the bathroom like 10 seconds and are exiting while the toilet is still flushing. They gross me out, I just had to share.

Better than being in there 20 minutes and not washing their hands?

OMG, shrift, good luck flying tomorrow!! Let this last trip have used up all your bad travel experiences for the year.

Half the men in my office do not wash their hand after they use the bathroom.

A surprising number of the women in my office don't, either. I think mostly they use the antibacterial stuff, but that almost grosses me out more. The sink and soap are right there! Don't you at least want to wash your commute/lunch/general world off your hands at some point in the day? Possibly I have come over to the weird side of this, as I do wash my hands when I come inside, in addition to all of the million times a day I go to the bathroom.

I also want to give a shout out to those offices that have nice smelling soap. Seriously, there is no reason to buy the pink chemical stuff. There are much better options.

If anyone doesn't wash their hands here I don't know about it. A fair number come out of the restroom and wash their hands in the sink in the kitchenette because the temperature of the water is controllable - the faucets in the bathroom are motion activated and generally cold water, which I just kind of accept but some people do not.

I don't feel as much need to wash my hands frequently these days as I did when I handled money all day. So grimy and so easy to imagine there's worse that I can't see.

That reminds me - we had a cabin our first night at Rock Creek, which didn't have it's own bathroom, and the nearest restroom didn't have a sink. We got in around 2 am and discovered that we hadn't packed any soap, so the next morning after breakfast we bought some Dr. Bronners at the camp store, all good. After we'd been backpacking we ended up in the same cabin and discovered that under the sink was a washbasin, dishrack, bottle of Dawn, and a pump of lemony handsoap. No one opened that cupboard the first time we were there. @@

I usually forget when I am not in Florida that cold water can be really cold.