Marv Albert and the Tiujana Brass Qunitet

I flew on American Airlines this weekend to San Antonio, TX for a scholarship conference, at which I led the music. I checked my guitar as baggage for the first time, and it safely made it to Texas with me. However, while en route to Springfield from San Antonio, our first connecting flight was delayed and we had to run to our flight home, most-likely beating our bags to the plane. Needless to say, there was not ample time for the ground crew to sort the bags and get ours on the plane departing for Springfield. So....our bags got lost, my guitar included. I now have two possible outcomes for this scenario:

1) The airline tracks down my luggage and delivers it to my P.O. Box in the morning or sometime tomorrow, and all is saved.

2) The airline never tracks down my luggage and are then liable for up to $2,800 (I read it on the claim ticket)! This means that I can give them a rounded-off estimate of what my guitar and belongings were worth, go buy the same guitar or slightly better model, and make out like a bandit with a pocketful of compensatory cash!

I'm hoping for option 2!

I should go visit Robert back at home. He's probably lonely by now. I bought him a postcard, but didn't have stamps. I'll just give it to him anyway. It says "Don't Mess with Texas" and features a very intimidating long-horned Bull. How Texas is that?!

xoxo,
nathaniel

oh yeah, I almost forgot: 12 days until Thanksgiving (and 13 until SHANKSGIVING!).

Also, I just put a new link to some new friends I met at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX. They are travelling the world, taking pictures of a Lord of the Rings book. It's pretty silly. Check it out here or look to the right side in the links menu for LOTR Travels or something.
I'm out.