I don’t sleep well before I travel. Even though I’m mostly packed and ready to go at 9:30 for our 12:40 flight, I’m still wide awake and ready for action at 6:00 this morning.

It’s really quiet here as I sit on the sofa bathed in the blue light of my laptop and the the city-orange glow of the still dark morning. I can hear the fridge whining and the server in the laundry room is doing something with its disks. John just coughed and I hear his feet padding down the hall to the bathroom. My keypresses are explosions.

To pass the time until everyone else gets up, I will blog, check my mail, maybe read news until the sun comes up. It’s really nice to be alone for a few minutes.