Are you telling the full truth, that Iceland's trolls tried to eat you? Or just going with "Oh, I fell down a volcano on vacation".

When I walked up to the desk, the manager called to me, "I'd hate to see the other guy!" I replied, "The other guy was a mountain," and he laughed and I told the abbreviated version. The man driving the shuttle came up and asked me what happened, and I told him I lost an argument with a mountain, and the manager gleefully said "A volcano! " Iceland seems to be a GoT fantasy place of ice and snow in most peoples' minds. I get cred just for going hiking there, bonus points for breaking off a body part.

I'm just waiting for him to get here and discover that the entire website is in an outdated version of Sharepoint.

AHAHA oh god. Are you going to try to warn them or just bask in their consternation?

Jesus, I'm at baggage claim and there's two breaking news stories about Trump.

What? Fuck, I was only gone an hour! *runs to Twitter*

Is this the "Trump is even more of an international embarrassment that we thought" stuff?

WP editorial: [link]

Timelies all!

The Ontario Science Center was our destination today. We let Mr. S run around the kids area for a while, which we thought would burn off some of his energy. Not enough apparently, as he's getting into everything in our room.

Ooh. Mueller has set up a grand jury and is issuing subpoenas regarding the Russian thing.

He had a grand jury in VA for Flynn, so this is a second grand jury which seems to imply larger scope.

Ooop.

And there's a bill in Congress that would make it impossible to fire Muller.

Local radio announcer :"chance of isolated pop up thunderstorms" as an apocalyptic storm descends, hail and wind warning popping up on all my devices.

Get that guy a window. Or an internet connection..

You know, lightning strikes don't sound so bad at this point ....

It was the grand jury thing. I saw the transcripts before I left.

I have made it to the hotel. Storms closed the airport in Chicago for a bit, so we circled and the pilot freaked us all out about possibly not having enough gas. But we landed on time. Then we had to wait almost an hour for the bags because it wasn't safe to unload them. Then there was insane traffic on what is normally a 10-minute shuttle ride. I had breakfast at 9:30 and no lunch, which was a mistake on my part. My back hurts. shrift is delayed.

I ordered me a damn quesadilla from room service.

And I put on pajamas.

Now I have had a couple of pieces of quesadilla, which will tide me over until shrift gets in and we figure out what we want for dinner.