Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

So of course the attractive round trip fare from LaGuardia to Madison for Wiscon would require me to be on a 6:30 a.m. flight Monday morning, which is just not going to happen. (They'll match that with any number of different flights to Madison on Thursday, but that doesn't actually help.) For added annoyance, Northwest's Web site--which I'd prefer to book with directly rather than Travelocity--doesn't even seem prepared to admit they have any other flights out of Madison that day, though Travelocity and Orbitz both show them. Time to look at united.com and see what United is willing to offer. (O'Hare. Extremely modified rapture.)

I am just going to remind myself that I'm spending peanuts on all those trips to Boston, not that that actually makes this cheaper, but it may be somewhat reassuring. And Wiscon is almost certainly my only con this year.