Month: November 2004

If you were traveling on Monday, November 22nd, there were only two places in the US NOT to be. San Antonio and Houston Texas. Why? Because it’s now 1:27 AM, and I am sitting in the “E” terminal at Houston International Airport after missing my 8:50 PM flight to Seattle. Next flight to Seattle? 7:40 AM. You see, the Houston airport closed down due to severe weather issues, and that messed EVERYTHING up. Yes, I mean EVERYTHING. So now, I’m suffering. Do you realize how tough it is to sleep in an airport chair? I mean they give you these stinking airplane blankets and pillows, which are made of the cheapest most flimsy materials. They turn the television (playing CNN and the Weather Channel) up way too loud. The maintenance crew is polishing the floor, emptying trash, and being overly noisy. There’s more of course, but that’s all I can bare to type out at this hour. Yeah, there’s WIFI, but it costs money…crap, I’m miserable.

And I have a middle seat for the flight home at 7:40 AM, and a two hour drive once I get to Seattle.

Could it be worse? Yes. Do I care to think of how it could be worse right now? No. I’m at fricken capacity right now.

I HATE TRAVELING.

For the next day or so, I’ll be mostly unable to blog. Tomorrow is my last day in San Antonio, then it is the travel back home, ending sometime around 2 AM pacific time. I should be able to pick things up again on Tuesday. For those of you who stop by regularly…thanks for reading, and I’ll get back to the normal double digit postings soon.

GO COUGS!

                        

This is just one of reasons why I think George W. Bush rocks. No other president would have stopped, walked back, and rescued one of his Secret Service agents after he was being hassled by police in a foreign country.

…is to know who’s Governor. Although, we’re looking more red every day.

Do you hear crickets chirping?

It couldn’t have been that you were a bad candidate right John?

A major no confidence vote on Annan coming?

UPDATE: Nice try wimps.

Here in San Antonio, the weather is overcast but the temperatures are in the 70’s. Being from Washington State, this is unknowable in the month of November, so I’m enjoying the “Summertime” warmth.

A few observations – WIFI is hard to come by, so it seems. I couldn’t get a decent signal in the San Antonio airport, and the WIFI at Houston International is highway robbery. Highspeed access in the hotel room makes up for it though.

If anyone knows of a cool (meaning, free) hotspot in downtown San Antonio, please, let me know.

There will likely be no posts today. Well, other than this one of course. Yes, I am really leaving for San Antonio today, as opposed to the threat of leaving a few days ago. I’m going to be in that purgatory we call “traveling” – freeways, long term parking, check-in lines, boarding gates, cramped seats, long flights, bad weather, delays, connections, late arrivals, taxi cabs, hotel check-ins, then finally, to bed. But, only for a few hours, because everything starts at 5:00 AM! And I’ll show no sign of jet-lag or travel irritability now will I!

Heh. I hate the “travel” day.