Delayed

My flight taking off from Albuquerque was delayed by 3 hours and 37 minutes. My layover in Los Angeles was supposed to be 4 hours long. I got into the gate at the far end of LAX at 12:45, and my next flight was at 1:15, with one minor glitch: since it was an international flight on China Airlines and I had paper tickets, I needed to check in at the front of the International terminal 45 minutes before the flight. Do the math, and if you guessed that I didn't make the connection, you win.

United has been pretty decent to deal with, except for the hours. Their ticketing and customer service was closed when the problem popped up; I had to wait three hours to talk to someone, and I hadn't yet found a spot where I could get free wireless here at LAX. But, the agent there rebooked things for the same time but a day later, and gave me a couple of meal vouchers and a hotel for the day. But, China Airlines and Malaysia Airlines (with whom the reservation was booked, so they have the final say) will not be open for customer service type stuff until noon. I have to talk to Malaysia to make sure that I'm not going to get screwed in some creative new way--if they try to go that way, I can sign over control of the whole thing to United and get a 1-stop, 1-plane flight from here to Osaka. I have to talk to China Airlines because they have my bag. It's 9:45 now; I've been awake for almost 28 hours and I'm drooping badly, but I have no intention of leaving the airport or going to sleep until this is sorted out.

I have been taking pictures here and there; expect a gallery link highlighting the journey to Japan sometime after I get there.