ARGHH

Just wrote long post about Kzoo.

Stupid benighted Detroit airport wi-fi burped, kicked me out (though I paid for 24 hours) and the post is GONE.

Laptop battery is just about dead. Plane is stuck in Chicago. No decent food to be found.

Can I get a do over??

Comments

[Dr. Moonbeam]

Oh, how annoying! :-( Hope at least all your planes are on time...

[Seeking Solace]

I call a mulligan.

[T.E.]

Argh! What a pain.

Can I just say, though, that the new blog look is fabulous? It must have been ages since I clicked through from bloglines. The picture is perfect and the look is very clean and spiffy. It makes me want to tinker with my template again...

[Neogrammarian]

oh no! I hope you get this comment and that it helps! I am wily in the ways of Old Orchard. Midway down the E or F concourse (they branch off each other- I can never keep them straight) is a really really decent Greek deli that serves (among other things) spanikopita as big as your head. Also, just before B concourse fizzles out in a dip right, there's a Great American Bagel.

So, nu, not great food, but for airports, very very good food. And easy to reach if your flight is on the ground & not going anywhere- you've got the time. Then take said food, then go to the tunnel between B & C concourses & camp out on the floor and eat your food in one of the niches the walls make & bliss out while the walls change colors and the soft music plays.

[meg]

Dude, you shoulda called me! I'm in Chicago with nothing but time on my hands until tomorrow night.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

I realize I was unclear in my anguish... my plane was stuck in Chicago while I was in Detroit! So meg, sadly, I was nowhere near you - and no, my flights were NOWHERE near on time (I was supposed to get home at 8 pm, and was leaving the airport to drive home at 11... and THEN they were doing construction on the highway home which turned it into a parking lot, AND they had closed my exit so I had to take a circuitous route home through industrial-warehouse-middle-of-nowhere where everything I've heard about carjacking kept running through my head.)

(That said, it wasn't like the process was that much of a disaster - it was just sloooooooow!)

Neogrammarian, I wish I'd read that sooner - after I posted I had to put the computer away unless I wanted to find an outlet. I'd forgotten about the tunnel - it would so have improved my mood! Thanks for the effort. :-)

And thanks about the template, T.E. - it's actually brand new, the fruit of sitting in Detroit airport, bored, with wi-fi. :-)

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Although I wonder if the header picture is too tall... you guys would tell me if it was, wouldn't you?

[Dr. Virago]

I'm no designer, but I don't think the header is too tall. I'm capable of scrolling down! :)

But more to the point of commenting: I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to see you again during the conference! I hope the rest of it was good for you.

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Same here, Dr. V! (I did "see" you waiting for a table at Saffron on Friday night... a friend of mine from grad school and I had got there early enough to be seated right away and the wait looked atrocious!) Hope that your paper went well!

[Thoroughly Educated]

The header looks perfect here on my mom's 14in ibook. I can see the header plus the start of the first entry before I scroll down, which is just about perfect, and aesthetically I think the proportions are nice. (I need to fix mine but haven't been able to conceptualize the fix.)

[Neogrammarian]

lol, no, my mistake NK! I thought you were in Chicago too (ORD = Old Orchard), so my suggestions wouldn't've helped in Detroit.

Glad you got home at last.

[Notorious Ph.D]

Count me as another vote for the new template: it's great!

And it was fabulous to meet you. And to have you come to my paper. Thank you.