Smog PASSED! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO! (The numbers even say my car is "very clean", better than the average that come into smog check stations. Phew: that means it's probably good for another year!)

And yay for airline tickets. It's wonderful that we live in a world where it's perfectly feasible to go visit someone on the opposite side of the globe. Every so often I step back and think that's just amazing.