A sort of return to posting

First, go read the comment made on my previous post. It's the e-mail I sent yesterday to a few people that someone was kind enough to copy and paste in. That will give you a good sense of how things are going at the moment.

I spent a couple hours last night typing up my trip yesterday for real, but I want to finish doing Wednesday's description, as well as Thursday and Friday, and get those posted here (hopefully tomorrow) so you have things in pseudochronological order. I have to figure out how to do that, though, since getting my laptop online again seems unlikely.

Right now, I'm finishing a now lukewarm cup of tea, trying to cough stuff up so I have more of a voice instead of my larynx (pharynx? trachea?) being glued in my chest, and I have to get offline and call Air New Zealand about my bags... Yes, I flew Qantas, but somehow I ended up filing the claim through ANZ. Don't ask. I don't know. I just want my stuff back.

It's good to talk to Glen online, though. Makes me feel a little more grounded and a little less alone out here. Except we keep losing the connection. And I really need to get off the computer and get on the phone.

More later, I hope...