I'm working at Ireland's Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) until early December, where I'll try to contribute to the relaunch of the SemanticWeb.org community portal. I actually planned to maintain a list with entries about Murphy's Law hitting me, but didn't expect that I'd have to start with it directly at the airport:

• My suitcase didn't make it to Galway. They found it a couple of hours later in Dublin
• My hand luggage was too big, so I had to put one of my folders in the suitcase. I smartly picked the one with the printed campus map of NUI Galway. Now I couldn't direct the taxi driver to DERI, where the key for my place to stay waited.
• The extended taxi ride got close to a sightseeing tour (EUR 25) and I had to pay another EUR 15 for the bring-in service of my suitcase in the evening.
  

A good start ;)