Okay, okay. I know. Some of you have sent me emails this week wondering if I am sick or something.

No — just trying to get settled into the new not-yet-too-comfy confines of the new PlaneBusiness Branch Office in beautiful Las Colinas, Texas. (For those of you who don’t live in the DFW Metroplex, Las Colinas is just the fancy name for “North Irving.”)

But you know how it goes. There is the matter of insurance. The matter of internet connectivity. Then there is the phone. And we can’t forget the basics — like a place to sleep until something better arrives. So that means an air mattress. And then there are the things you forget about. Trash cans. Coffee maker. Trash bags. A knife and a fork. Not to mention a spoon. (Yep, fingers can do in most cases, but it just gets so messy.) Which reminds me. Paper towels.

My thanks to Kroger, TJ Maxx, Target and other fine establishments. They helped me to make my own contribution to jumpstarting the now dead economy a rousing success on Thursday.

Then — there was the matter of Halloween. More on that later today. Meanwhile I have to go get some work started on this week’s PlaneBusiness Banter. This year Holly was a celebrity judge at the Southwest Airlines’ Halloween Event. So…..that means I got no work done yesterday. None. Zilch. (Which, I would say, is about the same amount of work anyone who works at the Southwest headquarters got done as well.)

While I’ve heard stories about Halloween at Southwest for years, I had never experienced it.

It defies a simple one sentence explanation. Much less two.

Like I say, more on that later.

And……I’ll also tell you the story of the great unintended consequence of my Halloween attire that now has me sporting some rather colorful hair.

Talk to you later. Go watch some football in the meantime.