My outbound flight, by the numbers

Number of airports on Friday's original itinerary: 3
Number of airports I actually saw on Friday: 4
Length of my scheduled layover in Las Vegas, in hours: 3
Amount of time my connecting flight was then delayed, in hours: 1
Number of minutes before the rescheduled departure time that they announced the flight to Sacramento was being canceled altogether: 20
Number of remaining flights leaving Las Vegas for Sacramento that day: 0
Approximate number of passengers rebooked onto flights for SFO and thence bussed up to SMF: 55
Ground transit time from SFO to SMF, in minutes: 121
Number of books I had with me: 4
Number of books I ended up reading en route: 2
Total delay from original scheduled arrival at SMF, in hours: 4.5
Total travel time from my door to Mom's door, in hours: 18
Number of bags I had checked, for just this sort of reason: 0
Number of times I anticipate flying America West ever again: ...

In other news, here safe and sound, and having a good time. May see my brother tomorrow if we can convince them to drive up.

Happy Father's Day, Dad.