When I woke up this morning, I found an email from United that they’d “noticed I’d made some changes to my flight” and that if there had been “significant changes” to the schedule, I might be eligible for a refund. I thought cancelling the flight qualified as a “significant change”, so I decided to call them after Torah Study.

“After Torah Study” became “after Torah Study, lunch, and a walk”, but eventually, I sat down to call the Premier desk (I’m a lowly Silver, but I’ll take whatever help I can get), prepared for a long wait on hold. The system asked me for my Mileage Plus number, then it made me answer one question, and ten seconds later, I was talking to a human being – I was shocked.

She looked at my record and said she’d forward the request to the Refunds Department and that I should expect to hear from them in a couple of weeks. Here’s hoping!

I spent most of the day sitting in front of the new MacBook Air, migrating programs and data from the laptop I am replacing. I had to move the old laptop elsewhere to put it on wired Ethernet because its WiFi is incredibly slow for some reason, so I’ve also had to screen-share into the old machine from the new one. I’m giving the new laptop a good workout in the process, and I think I like it!

While I was doing that, Diane was removing weeds from the front yard; we don’t have a lawn, so the weeds are growing in the gaps between stones and they’re hard to get out. Our old landscapers went away a few months ago – it’s hard to find new ones, and even harder now!

I got the cheap microphone I’d ordered to work with the improvised webcam – I think we’ll be audible on calls, but it’s less than ideal. I’ll find out tomorrow at Torah Study.

Shabbat Shalom!