What did I Forget.. Always something.



Check, Recheck and Recheck again. What did I miss that can tank the trip.   This is now something that's on my mind every time it goes idle.
- We always make a printed details booklet that I will need to copy on the last day.  Gannet charts as the summary page.  My associate Bill calls this "The SpreadSheet" as if it has a life of it's own. Reservation: Hotel,Car, Tours,  Tour info, Copies of passports, Copies of everything I can think of.  There are always last minute entries so this is the one thing that can not be packed until the last day.
- Because I'm on FF miles I take a different route back to Houston from London.  This means we will need to be at the Airport much earlier than expected to sort out Grace and the Kids. Once they are ok I can depart to my Terminal... Not Gate, Terminal as in bus ride for 10 min or so.   I leave 20 minute before they do so I need to get this right the first time, so glad I researched it.
 - Pwr is 240 in Egypt so a last min check of all the gizmo's is in order. Yes we found a few items that would have not passed the smoke test.  Kyle found an international transformer for both of his handheld gamer boxes to prevent that ever so disastrous pop that occurs when you just plugged a 120 device into a 240 outlet.
- Traveler checks for both Grace and I are signed and packed.
- I broke my spare pair of reading glasses the other day during an executive meeting. Was I wigging out or just spinning them too fast. For those of you who know me, both are possible.  "Grace please run to Costco. for another set",  she gave me the look and mutters something under her breath like
"Destructakon strikes again".  Needless to say I ended up with three new pairs a few days later.
-My back has been killing me.  I don't know if it's the stress, excitement of going or the fact that I have not been able to exercise lately.    Based on passed experience this is really really not a good thing before a plane ride.  My life long cure has always been, Aspirin to reduce the swelling then Swim and Bike for 30 to 45 minutes followed by stretching. Today was the swim and I hope to bike before we leave.  A good pressure point session always helps, thank you Kyle and Dad.
- Well with all the bags packed and details in order I guess we are off in a little under 19 hours.  Things will get crazy from here until departure so I'm hoping that the details go something like this starting in the morning.
- Get up early and play last minute catch up on emails and projects. Set up all the required notification on the various systems.   Grace will pack the luggage with last minute items and then pull the kids out of school at 1:30. I will show up around 2:15 ish  if all goes well.  We hope to make it to subway to pick up dinner for the plane ride at 2:45 and then to Diebold at 3:00 so Stuart can drop us at the Airport.  (Thanks Stuart) I have missed a few flight in my life due to gremlin's or would it be just poor planning.

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