Writing from the lobby of the beautiful Holiday Inn Elmhurst, IL whilst waiting for the shuttle back to O’Hare. By the numbers:

• 70 – the number of standby passengers on the delayed plane last night
• 200 – the number of minutes the plane was delayed
• 90 – degrees F the temperature on the airplane (AC broken)
• 12:20am – the time I made it to the hotel
• 3:30am – the time the bogus wakeup call rang in
• 2 – the number of hours of sleep in the past 48 hours of time

Suffice to say, I’m grouchy.