booking my flight to London… or not

I was just at the point, this morning, of confirming my reservation to fly out of New York to London on Tuesday, January 18, when the British Airways Web site crashed — it’s apparently under heavy load from everyone whose travel got disrupted by the snow in England trying to rebook, or get information, or whatever. Gah!

I’ve had a horrible day…

…of near coulda-been disasters — a gas leak in my building that had been ongoing for at least 12 hours, probably more like 18 or 24 — and then, after the firemen and police finally left late this morning, an Internet outage.