i'm in an airport

now i am in a different airport

IN YR AREA, TOMBOT

i'm on a train

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
and it is harry belafonte's 80th birthday

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
which i found out because i was listening to "...at carnegie hall" and i had this weird hunch it was harry belafonte's birthday so i looked it up

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:57 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
oh god delay from hell

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 2:43 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

true story!

i was in an airport in PEI this morning. very early this morning.

Hello from Dubai. Only two hours to go before my connecting flight, but fortunately I have an excellent buffet not ten yards from my chair. I have been at the mini pittas and halloumi. But my body clock is fucked.

back in an airport

I am in an airport as well. JFK. It is well air conditioned in here. Thank you for the internet, JetBlue, it seems helpy.

phoenix, i bought a gq and the cologne ads were killing me. being the worst smelling thing on a plane is quite an achievement.

i'm in an airport

and i'm headachey

lax, frontier airlines, sleepy

I miss the days of being able to just wander around an airport. Each time I go through LAX, I get "locked" inside the international terminal which is basically just one long hallway with a newstand, a duty-free shop, and a Burger King.

Hi, JBR!

LAX does have some of those caged in smoking areas that you can access even after you have been locked down. which is better then most

hi laurel! i'm sitting in a corner of the terminal and a couple of cute australian kids are playing with matchbox cars in front of me.

St Louis has smoking fishbowls, too! They're actually better than usual, b/c they're not completely enclosed so the 4th side is open to the terminal, they must just have really efficient ventilation systems (b/c you can't smell any smoke outside 'em).

The best is still Minneapolis, though -- the smoking section is attached to a honest-to-god BAR, and it's just around the corner and down the hall from the best used bookstore I have ever been in.

I liked Minneapolis with their tiny little escalators.

memphis has a bar you can still smoke in. in terminal c i think, i know it's not in the same terminal as american airlines.

Nice BBQ place, too.

I will be in two airports today. Except they're Orange County's and Oakland's, and therefore there is nothing to say about them.

I am eating bbq in a terminal.

I'm not in an airport, tho.

I remember standing outside Oakland's airport, trying to work the machine that gives you a bus ticket to the BART station at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It ate all my quarters and I just stood there wondering what I was going to do when the bus came. (It finally spit out a ticket saying that I still owed a dollar.)

I got on the bus and sort of spazzed out trying to explain to the driver that I had put in the full fare into the machine, but it had short-changed me.

She responded by saying "It's cool! Relax, man. Have a seat." That was the moment that California won me over.

ill be in little rock airport today but not going anywhere. just dropping off.

anchorage airport is pretty sweet at midnight in december.

where is jbr going?

my favorite airport in the LA area has got to be Long Beach. that place is great

Little Rock's cool since they added the video screen showing weary passengers stomping up the departure corridor.

oh that is awesome!

I walk like a monkey, staring straight into the camera, when I'm walking through there.

my favorite airport in the LA area has got to be Long Beach. that place is great

long beach is awesome, burbank also awesome. lax = not awesome, except for the encounter.

where is jbr going?

jbr -> nyc

I almost just asked where your layovers were before remembering that those some cities have direct flights to places.

my layover was in denver (frontier's hub). it was fine; i was able to get some edible food at a sitdown "bistro."

See any Masonic wonders?

i dropped off a friend at the Little Rock airport last night. it looked pretty cool. i didn't get to see the aforementioned screen though.

It's in the new waiting area since you can't go into the actual terminals anymore.

Another Little Rocker?

nah. I was over there for work for the last couple of weeks. Little Rock is OK! I'd never spent any time there, other than passing through going to TX. Perhaps a little on the sleepy side, but they seem to have done a lot of things right that Mem got wrong.

Tomorrow I go from SNA to SEA. The best thing about SNA = the "FAA approved" takeoffs for reduced noise. Basically wind the plane up hard on the tarmac, release the brakes, zoom sharply up to a couple thousand feet, then cut the engines and coast out over the ocean. Eventually the engines get kicked back in and away you go.

LR copied Memphis and put a damn trolley downtown that nobody ever rides.

We also have a submarine that the mayor desperately wants everyone to see. Maybe when Raggett comes to town.

LR copied Memphis and put a damn trolley downtown that nobody ever rides.

yeah it's dumber than shit (as is ours), but at least it's more or less confined to Markham(?) in the downtown mall area. they extended ours (which is embarrassingly empty) off of Main, through the medical district where it finally peters out in Midtown, for no other apparent reason than to completely muck up the traffic flow on Madison. The way I go to work. Brilliant.

i am not in an airport yet, but will be soon. i just checked and my flight appears to be delayed approximately an hour. should i go later than i planned, or just sit through the delay in case it somehow ends up leaving earlier?

My dad recommended I go on time. Now it's even more delayed and I'm drinking a pint glass sized gin and tonic at the airport chilis oh my

that's like 100% of the fun of getting delayed

I love giant fuckoff adult beverages at airports

I am getting drunk and watching people get wanded cause this place is right by security

Hey guy in flight crew uniform: are you about to order booze then fly a plane? I'm watching u!

Hispanic waitress calling me mami and singing rockin' around the christmas tree: you are quite a lady

Ok the novelty's worn off. I just want to leave now ugh.

i'm in an airport.

and i'm stranded.

at least you have internet. what airport?

o'hare.

never ever try traveling on two separate airlines in the same day. especially around the holidays. if one fucks you over the other couldn't care less.

i honestly might be here for a day or two.