another late night of travel

SO..i'm not sure why i do this..but took the old 10:45pm departure (CO 295) from IAH to LAX. Of course, the inbound from LGA was running late (flying around the hurricane), and THEN the idiot savant gate agent didn't think to have a cleaning crew ready when the flight arrived....SO...we pushed back at about 11:45. I fell asleep as soon as I sat down (in front of the very scary middle aged gay man who shops at international male). After about 30 minutes of REM slobbering, I woke up to enjoy some water, food, and promptly fell back asleep. Our approach into LAX was a first - we had an "expedited" clearance - to land as fast as possible at about 12:50am. And why? Because at 1am LAX had a scheduled power outage due to high demand. So, I had to PEE, but had to urgently exit the terminal before the electronic doors stopped working.... Imagine, standing on the curb, trying to decide whether i could make it to avis on the bus, or whether i should just whip it out and pee there. I made it to avis. Another lovely, glamorous business trip begins.

OF course, avis let me down. Instead of a properly outfitted grandpa mobile (the old TAN Buick LeSabre with slick leather seats), I got a silver chevy impala.. so instead of looking like a premature senior citizen, I look like a drug sales rep driving a company car. I think I prefer the former.

Oh well..this is kinda fun.