So my buddy Nate from Los Angeles is coming to visit for a week. He was supposed be to arrive this morning, but yesterday's British Airways crash at London's Heathrow Airport has delayed all sorts of air traffic in and out of the airport - and that's where he was flying through.

Luckily this is the 21st century, so he emailed me from the airport last night and again this morning. I guess now he's in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, and will be to Dubai by 11:40 pm tonight.

It actually might be a blessing that he's late, though, for I forgot today is the Dubai Marathon. Oops, sorry, the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon. Anyway, I guess a bunch of roads are closed this morning until noon. Not that even any of those roads are in the path from the airport to here, but as we learned this week with the rains and George W. Bush, any road closures in Dubai equals mass chaos.

In happier news, it's sunny and 60 degrees right now. Quite pleasant.

As long as you don't have to drive anywhere ...