Flying is no fun, but at least stay-on-the-grounds can follow the flight's progress. With an iffy fridge, it's best to spend all weekend cooking, on the perhaps questionable assumption that an over-20-year-old cooling appliance does better with the cooked than the raw. Going to the dentist by taxicab really helps as a distraction. The driver is from Seguin and says that there's a steel operation and a textile plant of some kind there, both news to me. Texas Lutheran was the only association previously.