Well, I might not have time to get this site all gussied up before I take off for Spain. For the time being, it will have to stay the way it is, as plain vanilla as it is.

The trip to Spain is coming along fairly smoothly, in most respects. Air France tickets in hand, no nonsense about having to first get the tickets at the travel agency counter at the airport and then going to the airline counter. As if security and SARS will not be enough of a hassle for the airport experience.

Air France seems to have a much nicer Economy package than the U.S. airlines I’ve been using to go back home every Christmas. They claim to have “personal videos” in Economy, but the screen is applied to the back of the seat in front of you–I suspect that it will simply be a video version of the radio sets we’ve always had. With any luck, there will be more than one channel, and one will have flexibility in what one wants to watch.

In the meantime, I got my tickets, my neck pillow, my gauze masks, my drinking water, and sleeping pills if needed. Close to all set.