Travel Woes

I booked my trip to the US for AC's wedding well in advance, but due to staffing issues, changed the dates, so I could help acclimate the new guy to the payroll. That part worked well, but the rebooking had some oversights in it. Like, I changed my return date from Buffalo to Wednesday, but didn't change my Buffalo hotel departure or my flight from Buffalo to O'Hare. This meant that I landed in LAX a day after I was supposed to and had to rebook the flight. American, the code-share partner, couldn't help me with any of it. So I increased my costs fairly significantly. Even better, the flight from O'Hare was cancelled, and the rebooked flight following was late, so I landed in LAX about an hour after I was meant to depart Sydney. This, then, entailed living at LAX for 24 hours - waiting until seven a.m. to tell Qantas customer service my tale of woe. They were going to put me on any earlier flight into Brisbane with a connection to Sydney, but the timing was bad and I wouldn't have made the connection. Thus I ended up on the 22:05 flight. Which was delayed, because the American connecting flight (not sure from where, maybe O'Hare) was late. I ended up in a middle seat in a row of four. I guess that's better than a window seat in a row of three, as there was only one person to bother over the course of the 15 hours we were in the air. The only good things? It was a very nice wedding, full of loving and supporting friends and family. And the next day there was (to me) a surprise christening. And it was great to see all my family again for the first time in something like four or five years. Yeah, I'd do it again, but I'd stick to my plans next time or do a better job of dotting my T's and crossing my I's. Measure twice, cut once as the saying goes, which I often seem to get backwards.