So I had to go from my home base in Jersey off to Columbus, Ohio for the week. Business, of course. No one goes to Columbus for anything except insurance or football………and I wasn’t there for football.

Such is the life of a software designer. Sometimes we need to leave our warm, game-console-filled bunkers and head out into the real world to make sure that the paychecks keep coming in.

Luckily, I had a review copy of Lumines II in tow, which turns out to be every good and addicting as the original…which is to say, it’s freakin’ great. Naturally, I didn’t get to play it as much as I’d like (all-day meetings followed by dinners and drinks with clients kind of get in the way) but I did get plenty of airport and airplane time with it.

I was supposed to come home Thursday, but US Airways decided to cancel my flight as well as the next one out. So they told me I could come back for the 5:30 AM flight on Friday to get home. So the alarm got set for 4 AM, I headed to the airport, and was promptly told that THAT flight was also cancelled.

What the hell!?!?!?!?!?!

I finally made it home (thanks to Southwest Airlines, now my favorite), exhausted and angry, late on Friday night, to a very unhappy pregnant wife and two cats whose litter box was rather, um, in need of attention.

It’s taken me the better part of 2 days to get my wits together. It’s starting to happen. By Monday I may actually be myself again.

We’ll see.

In the meantime, death to US Airways. They will never have my business again. Jerks.