Eeek...
The taxi driver just rang to confirm that I really, really intend to take a taxi at 4 AM to Schiphol to catch my plane to Malaga. My suitcase is packed, my laptop snugly in its bag (I hope there are power points in Paris to recharge it -- it should just about survive on a single battery from Amsterdam to Paris), the 16 bit cmyk, grayscale and XYZ colorspaces are committed to svn, as are some UI improvements, and I'm nervous as hell.
A I said before, I hate traveling. Flying terrifies me, but the constant worry that my tickets won't be in order, my passport vamoosed and all the rest -- and I don't know the language! -- keeps me even more tense, as tense as a bow string.
So, I decided not to take another look at KPresenter (my presentation is fine, but KPresenter refuses to show the text I typed in the font I choose, and keeps bunching glyphs up like they're really friendly and want to make little glyphs when running the presentation, it's unreadable), but watch Erol Flynn as Robin Hood again. The tense-as-a-bowstring motif, get it? (Got it? Good! -- time for the Court Jester with Danny Kaye!) Goodness me, what a glorious movie that is, and what an excellent idea to put an entire Warner's night at the movies on the dvd -- trailer, news, muscial performance, cartoon, feature film.
So... Did I mention I've got a horrible cold, too? I can't believe I don't need to pack cardigans, jumpers, sweaters, coats, long-sleeved woolen underwear, macintoshes and duffels. Rain, sleazy rain and snuffles.