Ok, drained tranny and torque converter. Removed pan. Spied up 3 little phillips head screws and thought "oh, this is too easy!"
Premature celebration: could only budge one of the three. I tried everything I could but with just the front end up on ramps I couldn't get enough behind the screwdriver to budge the screws.
Well, I finally gave up and just put the new gasket in and screwed the pan back up.
It's not that I had any transmission problems, it was just my goal to change it and I wasn't able to get it accomplished.