Current mood:

excited and just a tad nervous

I'm off on a jet plane...
Be two days 'fore I'm back again...

I'll be off at 5:30am tomorrow, in a taxi heading to Bristol International Airport. From there it's a 2-hour plus flight to Palma. In Palma I will check in at the Hotel Saratoga (4 star! The room's got a balcony and a frickin' minibar! I can't believe I'm staying somewhere so posh!) then spend the afternoon aboard a cruise ship, helping Dad survey what he'll be doing for the next week, and getting a guided tour of the vessel to boot. Then, probably after supper, I'm on my own until Saturday, with another early start to catch the flight home. Somebody pinch me; this can't be real...

I'm surprised at how calm I am in the face of this potentially fantastic experience. There's an undoubted undercurrent of nervousness there, yes, but not the all-out quaking I was expecting. The only mild concerns I have are feeding myself, being the quirky eater I am, and the whole getting back home thing on Saturday. The flight's at 10:10am local time, so I'll be moving by 8:00am at the very latest, I think. I'm not taking any chances whatsoever, cos I'm paranoid like that. Knowing my luck, though, the only taxi I'll find won't be driven by someone who can speak English. :-p

Changing subject, my WebRing account is now gone. I did delete the FurryMagic ring, but just as I'd expected the system brought it back to life almost instantly, now under the management of - surprise, surprise - 'deleted'. The guy must be running over 2000 rings by now, and very likely there are considerably more than 2000 up for adoption, yet the powers that be at WebRing don't seem at all concerned. Besides, if, as seems highly likely, one of the main aims of the new membership system was to cut down on excess rings, than why on earth are so many of the ones being deleted getting resurrected? It makes no sense at all...

Still, I'm shot of their lunacy now, and comfortably ensconced at RingSurf. My two rings are up and running, complete with home page on my website, and already two of the people who belonged to my WebRing ones have joined the furry one. I'm hopeful a lot of the others will follow suit, and that I'll find a nice stack of 'submission to ring' e-mails when I return on Saturday. If anyone knows of a good way to publicise a ring, by the way, feel free to tell me, as I'm determined to make a better fist of these than my previous ones.

Right, if you'll excuse me, I have to make myself some supper and quintuple-check everything's ready.

Later days,

The Foxy Fellow