Leaving...on a jet plane

A little John Denver anyone?  I'm sitting here in the Denver Airport thinking that thus far, my luck has been really good.  No weather issues, no flight problems -  Even a situation that would normally spell disaster for the wayward traveler was victoriously avoided somehow.  

In Cedar Rapids, 2 minutes after boarding they decided they needed to "Reboot" the plane.  The captain even made a reference to CTRL + ALT + DEL and the jet we were sitting on.  My stomach rolled over and I hunkered down for an 8 hour marathon of plane sitting.  The thoughts of a windows 3.11 (because this is the airlines after all) machine, sitting in the first officers lap humming away as the chicken-scratch sound of the hard drive wafted back to our waiting ears, filled my head. 

Amazingly enough, they did basically just what they said they did.  They rebooted the plane, the lights went off for a little while, the air stopped blowing and the plane got a little smelly and kind of hot, and 8 and a half minutes later they were starting the engines again.  The rest of the flight went without a hitch.

So on to Las Vegas for DevConnections.

I just got a really funny look from the gate attendant because I jumped up to "knock on wood" and couldn't find any.

See you all there!