Well, I acted like the perfect idiot today. They said be back at the gate at 8:30am. So I grabbed a bagel and found a seat a little ways away from the gate.

I never heard a thing. Maybe I was concentrating on the laptop...maybe the annoucements weren't heard all through the terminal. But when I returned at 8:05am to check progress...the plane was taxiing away!

The good news is that I'm on the noon flight. The bad news is that my roller is still in the overhead of that earlier flight. The only thing somewhat valuable to me is a little London Underground bear I bought for my nephew who's having open heart surgery tomorrow. (he's 2 1/2).

We'll see if the bear makes it. At best, he'll get grabbed in MSP and stuck on my new MSP-MCI flight (1020). At worst, he's appearently going to Disneyland! (flight 584 continues to MCO).

Steve