I’m finally in Colorado Springs and checked into the not-so-luxe Embassy Suites and am online via dialup on the job’s ISP — and Big Brother is watching … or at least has filters that are. Three of my regular reads (Mighty Girl, B-May and Defective Yeti) are blocked; all I’m getting is:

Access to this web page is denied by [Parent Company] corporate policy. If you need access to it for business reasons, please contact the [Parent Company] Legal Team.

I guess it makes sense, because those are three of the most offensive sites on the web. I’m glad Big Brother is making the web safe for me. I need the help, obviously.

…when your flight is delayed.

Stuck in DEN with my connection to Colorado Springs delayed until two hours, so what else can I do but be a geek and post from my beloved Shibby internet kiosk?

And… Well, hell, I don’t know what else to say. Plenty to talk about, but not appropriate for here. Timer tells me I’m on a two-minute drill now, so I guess I’ll stop here.

Another stellar entry. Woo.

I’m off to Colorado Springs tomorrow morning. The conversion spans Thanksgiving this time around, so the plan is for me to fly home on Thanksgiving Day and then back out to Colorado Sunday. The weather report out there calls for “Holy shit, that’s fucking COLD!” with a high of 19° and low of 9° to greet me tomorrow. It’ll get warmer throughout the week but dayum, 19 is COLD.

I just hope I make it out there. I recently discovered that my drivers license expired on my birthday last month, which in the eyes of the Powers That Be magically transforms it into an invalid form of ID, and I haven’t renewed it yet. All it’s going to take is one eagle-eyed rule junkie to keep me off my flight tomorrow — or even worse, off my flight back home Thursday. I don’t even want to think about how ugly things are going to get at work if I can’t get on that plane tomorrow…