the long travails of July 2

I'm posting this retroactively, as I only managed to chronicle the day on my phone's notepad function and have been too busy to post it until now (August 10) ... let's just say things did not immediately improve following the broadcast debacle of Thursday, July 1.

my intended plan for Friday, July 2, was to fly from Toronto to Houston (YYZ-IAH) with the team. Then I would go home, change, get some stuff, and fly from a different airport to visit RBG in San Antonio (HOU-SAT) and help her move to Houston.

Here's what actually happened:

1 flight to private airport in College Station (note: NOT our intended destination. bad weather intervened after some circling)
2 arrived in Houston after 5+ hours (note: NOT supposed to take that long YYZ-IAH)
3 last one off The Parking Spot shuttle
4 self-serve lane closed
5 guy in front of me in check-out line must have tried three different credit cards before one worked
6 Will Clayton Parkway (main road to highway) flooded and closed
7 Detour onto winding, two-lane Old Lee Road, which was bumper-to-bumper
8 Decide to go directly to other airport in hopes of making flight to SAT
9 Finally got out of bumper-to-bumper traffic, stopped to get gas, which was running low
10 First ramp to Highway 59 closed (of course)
11 Traffic on Highway 59, I-45 actually not bad (rare bit of GOOD news)
12 Traffic at Hobby Airport, on the other hand, not so good, filled with people trying to pick up visitors on delayed flights
13 Park in expensive lot, rush inside shortly after flight scheduled to take off; therefore no boarding pass provided
14 Get behind ponderous guy in security line
15 Once I get to the machine, security officer decides to re-run my shoe, because it has a cell phone in it (note: I do this on EVERY flight)
16 As if that's not bad enough, other security officer doesn't get the memo and re-runs it with phone inside AGAIN (note: I may have been extremely rude to these security officers.)
17 Speed-walk to gate in time to hear gate change announcement
18 Speed-walk to new gate, beating people who had been in line, and get boarding pass B-53 (B-60 is last)
19 Quick flight to SAT to find huge backup of cars in arrivals lane at 11:30 p.m.
20 Finally meet RBG at drop-off level
21 Go for Mexican food
22 Go to bed