Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Phone American Airlines, check if not being able to print my e-ticket will be a problem - check (it won't)
Sort travel insurance - check (dirt cheap deal online, all sorted)
Decide, once and for all, how I'm getting to and from Heathrow - check (sorted, see below)
Decide how I'm getting to apartment in New York - check (cab - £26 from JFK to Manhattan is a good deal)
Find out how I'm getting in to apartment - check (Mary emailed me this morning with key info)
Get keys to cat feeder - check (doing that this evening)
pack - check (just gotta decide what books to take for the plane)
tidy flat - check

Re: Heathrow. You may recall me wailing because there was a bus replacement service on the return trip, adding a couple of hours of travel time onto my journey. I was all set to leave my car near adelpha and kelemvor's place and bus it to Heathrow from there, but last minute collywobbles about finding a strange place for the first time, navigating to a strange bus stop and catching a bus, all on the day of the flight, made me rethink that option. Plus coming back there was a good chance I'd miss the bus and have to cab it back to the car, as there wasn't much time between my flight landing and the last bus leaving. So after talking it over with a buddy on AIM, and looking up the parking costs for on airport parking, a third option presented itself. Why not catch a train back to Stevenage and not Welwyn Garden City? Bypasses all the bus replacement service crap, it's the next station after WGC, so it won't take significantly longer and a cab from there to my house costs under £15 ( I've done it before). So that's what I'm going to do :) Takes all the stress and strain out of the whole thing. Hurrah!

Now I must go and do something relating to either packing or flat tidying or even both! Or I could have lunch. Oooh. :D

ETA: Check list complete, last minute details sorted and written down. Reckon I'm ready to go :)