home free

Well, I made it back okay. We basically started at 2:30 am (Alaska time), and ended up at 7:30 pm (Alaska time, again) for you folks in KS, it means we got up at 5:30 and finished the flights at 10:30. Once we hit Anchorage, we got back into snow.

I like traveling with grandma. I would have been lost in Seattle if she hadn't needed a wheelchair. As it was, there were no available wheelchair's, so we rode in one of those annoying little tour carts...Zipping around the holiday traffic like they were standing still (which most of them were). It has to be a Murphy's law that no matter where you land, your departing plane will be located on the other side of the God forsaken airport.
We hit Anchorage at 5:50 and had to be on the flight to Kodiak before 6:10. By calling in a TON of favors, we made it, but our luggage took the leisurely route and came in this morning instead.
It didn't really bother me, I have an entire apartment that I can scrounge up clothes, but Grandma was getting a bit testy about not having anything too clean in the morning.

The first person I saw when we landed in Kodiak was my friend R. (He works at the airport when he's not recovering from something or another. (this last bout was staph infection) I waved at him through the window, and he ended up helping Grandma down the stairs to the wheelchair we got her (it was icy, dammit. I wasn't going to chance it!). I'm blessed with wonderful friends...All over.

I ran into R.'s brother S. Today. S., Mel, (you know, ;) ). He gave me a hug 'cuz he finally was let out of the "Dark side" <-- his name for the back rooms of Safeway, where some doubt they'll ever see the light of day again. He's working all the time, or working on a relationship. The relationship is with a girl he hooked up with when he first got back. More power to him. He's still someone I like to see.

I didn't like Vicky when she first started being around Toby either, but they seem to be doing okay, and Vic turned out to be a person I kind of like in her own right.